The Ticking Is the Bomb by Nick Flynn

Author:Nick Flynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

mexico (the war)

I have a packet of photographs from when my grandparents were first married, before they had children, or maybe they’d simply left the kids at home. The photographs are of a roadtrip to Mexico, clearly from a time before everything fell apart. In each of the photographs they are smiling—maybe it was after my grandfather got back from the war, or else it was just before he shipped out. It could have been in the thirties. They had money during the Depression, they could have afforded a roadtrip. These few photographs reveal more about their early life together than anything either one of them ever told me. In one blurry photograph my grandfather is flat on his back on a hotel bed, a bottle of what I imagine to be tequila rising straight up from his mouth to the ceiling, as if a flower is growing from his face, as if he is going to finally fill himself completely. I imagine my grandmother took this photograph, and I imagine her laughing gleefully as she did, having just taken a pull herself.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.