The Interloper by Antoine Wilson

Author:Antoine Wilson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Adult
ISBN: 9781590512630
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2007-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

17

Lily

Moses said he sent you a letter but I didn’t hear back from you yet. I was out-of-reach there for a while because of some incidents we don’t need to get into. My biggest concern in life at this time is whether you got rid of Mr. Clancy yet because if you didn’t I can see where this boat is going and I’d rather stay on shore.

As a matter of fact if you didn’t get rid of Clancy good riddance stop reading right here.

If you’re reading this now you got rid of that jerk and that’s a good thing. I might seem rough around the edges but a lot of my actions are as a result of my having a bigger heart than most people. Some people say “Control yourself!” and I say to them “Don’t you have any feelings at all?” because it seems like their whole lives they’re trying to have NO feelings. That’s who I am and your heart which I’m sure is plenty big does not have room for me and someone else. Trust me on that Lily.

As you probably figured out I was in the hole again. One of Stewart-Know-It-All’s friends tried to settle the score in the middle of Group while I was talking. Group is stricter than other places so they put me away good for beating on him. He didn’t get punished even though interrupting someone in Group is a punishable offense but with shrinks whoever cries loudest wins.

The whole time I was in the hole I thought about you and when I got out the guards said I seemed calmer in there than before. I used to scream and yell but they weren’t shrinks. The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the nail that stands up gets hammered down.

I wrote most of this letter to you and then I was flipping through the poetry book and right there on page 86 Walt Whitman said it better than me:

As if a Phantom Caress’d Me

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