You & Me

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Somewhere between Bakersfield, California, and Jacksonville, Florida — we think spiritually nearer the former and geographically nearer the latter — two weirdly agreeable dudes are on a porch in a not upscale neighborhood, apparently within walking distance of a liquor store, talking a lot. It’s all they have. Things disturb them. Some things do not.

There’s about fourteen ounces of this left.

There’s a hair in it.

It’s okay.

If you said “lard-and-hair sandwich” to her, my mother would gag.

Was that a Depression food?

I think it was a joke, but I’m not sure.

I’ve heard of butter and sugar sandwiches. But that would hardly be a Depression meal.

I have no idea what the Depression was, or what the war was, or the wars after that, or before — I don’t know anything at all, you get right down to it.

So these codgers have something on us.

Yes they do. That is our cross to bear. Everyone knows shit but us.

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