
I hang with them until the nine o’clock bell. Dana, Sue, Mary, Josh, Richard, Niko, Tara, Karl and Raymond sit on the grass in the ampitheatre. On campus I hit everyone for spare change, make a buck ten. One of the Metros looks over at The Wall and we fade. Metros get out of their car.īirds stop singing. An egg bursts across the hood of the cruiser. Glen, Tracey and anyone else holding split The Wall and make for the back gate. Metro pigs strike fear in the hearts of good children as they hurry to school. Unmarked brown police cruiser appears in a puff of mist. Cholos on the roof of an apartment building explode like a pack of mad apes. A rain of eggs explode in the street around Johnny as he runs for the back gate.

stands someplace obvious and acts like he’s writing down names. I mean, every so often a teacher comes across the street and makes a scene, or the V.P. Ciggs are okay though, nobody really gives a shit. Not safe to smoke pot this close to school, always cops.

Goodbye Johnny, good luck man, hope you find sanctuary. Always someone kicking his ass or pushing him around. He doesn’t feel safe close to the school. He never does.Īfter The Stairs, we go to The Wall. I keep hoping he’ll introduce me to his older friends. We don’t talk much, Johnny’s got a lot of problems at home with his dad, he can’t talk about anything without seeming like he’s about to cry. Johnny’s always got weed, so we go to The Stairs and get wasted before school. The only thirteen year old I know who can truly make that claim. He’s definitely weirder than most, but he’s actually fucked a girl. Everyone thinks he’s queer ‘cause of the patchouli and the flowered shirts and beads and incense and shit like that.

Waiting at the bottom of the hill for Johnny. Hate that place, like the dog though, the dog’s cool. I’ll take my chances, raid moms purse, take as much as I can, fifty cents, maybe a couple of bucks if lucky. Never changed, couldn’t eat at home anymore, rather roam the streets hungry. Eggs in the morning, peanut butter and grape jelly for lunch, spaghetti and a can of plain tomato sauce or a can of tuna for dinner.
JAVELINA KNOCKING AT MY DOOR FREE
Robert Redford wrote the foreward to the seminal volume on Mountain Lions, which is free online, if you care to read more about this interesting cat.Hunger was the main thing. And it eats anything and everything from insects to elk. It lives in almost every habitat throughout North and South America from arctic cold to equatorial hot zones, arid desert to lush forest.

They are the largest North America cat, and the fourth largest cat in the world.Maybe the cat saw a squirrel in the next enclosure, or maybe it really didn’t like the zookeeper over there, but something was ticking the cat off.įun facts about cougars (or pumas, panthers, mountain lions, catamounts) I’m glad this fence was here, because this behavior looks like a prelude to attack. Does the cat look upset about something, like maybe the lack of food? Note progressive squinting of the eyes, forward movement of the head level with its body, and backward deflection of ears in the bottom two photos.
