hed been to Colorado Seattlewas in California where blowin a joint in public was no big deal  its legal

marijuanas legal  its overly-long-delayed legitimacy however grates him

he was for ithad been for it 

it was better than booze

if he had the choice hed opt for it

he just preferred it when it was illegal  loosely enforced

in Chicago the cops just confiscated it

sometimes they dumped it out on the dirt or gravel in front of you  and grounded it beneath the soles of their shoes then told you to beat it

sometimes they pocketed it  and it irked you to know they were going to get high on your dope

if they caught you with a big score  and arrested you  when you were arraigned you found that you were being charged with possessing half or less of what you had when you were arrested

whos gonna bitchinform the Court NO I had five kilosnot two

cops sold off the excess beyond what they wanted for themselves or their friends and family

hell when push came to shove he reached out to a couple of cops that were buddies of his cousin

it helped to be connected to be liked by particular cops

he had to side with the Blue they ran risks civvies didnt they had skin in the game

Mary the dentists daughterthen dentists gave you suckers or other sweets after they drilled your teeth  no Novocain  that cost a pretty penny  more than his old man was willing to shell out although to be fair he had seven siblings  pretty pennies added up and into that mix they all preferred to eat  what was a little pain to having food no brainer   

Mary he could never remember her last name

after smoking hashMary could afford hashshe was a dentists daughter they tried to roll a No. 2 Ticonderoga pencil with their minds

they gobbled psilocybintried to roll pencils they split pods of jimsonweed from trips she made to California and tried to roll pencils Man, the plants grow alongside the road. Free shit. Amazing. I love California. I’m gonna live there someday.

she didntshe died of an overdose just before he moved to Montana to become a dental floss tycoon she just couldnt dial back her enthusiasm or rather the way he saw it  she could afford her enthusiasm

Mary got fingered by several Jamaican prison guardspart of her patdown when she went to visit a friend of theirs Tommy  who pulled an armed robbery at a night clubhe fired a shot into the air to get everyones serious attention and the bullet ricocheted off something and killed someone really fucked upreally bad luck

she crawled into a low concrete bunker with a dirt floor at the back Tommy slept in one corner and in the corner diagonal from it near the rebarred steel door he relieved himself

Tommy told her as a matter of fact he wasnt getting out aliveno matter how his trial ended  his basic necessitiesif he wanted access to them he had to blow guards for them  Ain’t happenin. I’ll swearI’ll promise to get outget into the yard, but some poor dumb bastard is gonna have his cock bit clean off.

they wrote letters to Tommy when she returned

their letters were returned UNKNOWN

then they heard he was killed trying to escape

Mary scored some opium from someone in the city probably not a copshe ran with horse people who uniquelyto his mind went effortlessly around the world

they fired it up in a dark corner of the Snuggery a bar in Edison Park

the barmaid quickly made it over to their table You can’t do that in here. she told them theyd have to leave if they didnt stop or shed call the police

they ordered a pitcher of Half-and-Half gave her cash for two and told her when she returned theyd give her a couple of tokes

the gal ticked up the fan that turned over their headslaid a smouldering Camel in a tin ashtray at the center of the table served them and got high

he was really into Mary

shed give him head but she wouldnt fuck him

Why

Because you’re seeing my best friend Maureen.

We broke up months ago

No matter. She’s still my best friend and she’s not over you. You broke up with her.

I broke up with her because she wouldnt stop doing angel dust I cant care for someone who doesnt care for themselves Thats a losing proposition

She’s my best friend.

Then get in her head and make her stop

No. She’s welcome to do what she wants to do.

She is  But maybe you dont procure it for herhuh

None of your business, is it?

None of my business  

maybe that was friendship

he fucked his best friends girlfriend and two others girls at an all-girl party in a basement bedroom

somehow he was called in because they were bored when they was picked him up from his place he was pulled into a car with seven women who were dressed in pj’s yanking him in to sit in the back between them their breasts played under their tops like happy puppies    

she ratted on him because she felt bad afterwards

You didn’t think she’d tell me? his best friend asked

I cant see why she would She was the last to have mesloppy thirds

Are you trying to piss me off?

Piss you offYou ought to be pissed off  But not at me   I didnt go looking for her

You don’t think you owe me an apology?

Awright  Im sorry you found out

things are better when theyre illict

she told him she couldnt hold her tongue

she told him there wouldnt be a next time

he told her that must be a tremendous relief to his best friend

there was a next time

she showed up at his place

since she couldnt hold her tongue she said he said hed hold her tongue under his dick  and when she was thoroughly breathless he took her from behind she had a fantastic appleshaped ass  in the behind  because she also said shed never done that before

turned out she never breathed a word of their adventure to his best friend  or rather he never said anything to him if she did

a couple of years later while he was living in Montana his best friend wrote him that he proposed to her

she denied him

She told me no. She said I wasn’t adventurous enough.

he wrote him back Maybe you should have fucked her in the ass.

he wrote him back No. I wouldn’t do that. That’s disgusting.

he wrote him Sounds like she was right.

things are better when theyre illict

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