Extreme Homecoming
I’m writing today from Manteo, NC, on the shores of the brackish Albemarle Sound! It’s 5:30pm, dark, and the little tourist town is deserted and sleepy save for the few teenagers who, like me at this time of evening so many years ago, are holding a candle-lit poetry readings on the marshy boardwalk by the aquarium. Or, like the ones who are not like me, attaching KC lights to their monster trucks so they can have light by which to cockfight. Manteo is a town of extremes. One might say, X-tremes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since I stepped out of the taxi at my Granny’s house yesterday morning, I’ve had the feedbag on. It is absolutely wonderful. I pause from eating shrimp ‘n’ grits and pea spoup and brickle cookies only to stand up and high-five Norman Rockwell. I spent this evening, no joke, helping my mom bake an apple pie. X-reme!!!!!!!!!!!
My parents are super great, and my sister is less passive agressive than usual. Just a moment ago she was admonishing me for not knowing how to type without looking at the keys. It took every once of willpower in my body not to wrestle her down and give her the Indian-burn of a lifetime. She is, in my opinion, a poop face. Sometimes.
Today I took a walk around Manteo’s quaint downtown, drank coffee and read Against Nature (I’ve got Huysmania!), saw a dog sleeping in front of the barbershop, killed sometime in the library, and pretty much hit Manteo like a Hurricane of fun. X-treme!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2005 at 4:12 pm
hoodie hoo! sorry to hear you got shit-canned buddy. it does make me happy that we are in the same state for at least a little while, even though it’s about 100 percent doubtful that we’ll actually see each other face to face. we will indeed reunite at a later date though, of this i assure you, so be as assured as you wanna be (slick 2-Live references are not beneath me). have a happy thinksgiving, and the sappy thought of the moment is that i am thankful to be your friend, even at great distances. (awww…)