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"I can tell you, boy," says the Vet, who lies in bed, reading Poe. His eyes never
shift from the pages when he speaks, nor, for that matter, has the Vet even so much as
made eye contact with Don for the entire month since Don started serving hard time.
"You follow my advice, and you'll most likely skate free of both them boys. I mean, Hell,
you say you only got five months left. But you gotta be smart and alert, you can't be the
stupid-ass your mama shit out and raised." The Vet turns a page and clears his throat.
"However, boy, the advice - the formula, so to speak- I give you will cost. The veins of
capitalism run strong through these bars and concrete. You'll have to suck me off, bitch."
The Vet lowers his book and drills his grey eyes through Don's. Don closes his mouth and
looks away from the Vet's menacing stare.
"Naw, man," says Don. "I ain't homo, I just ain't like that." The Vet begins
reading again. There's an awkward stillness in the air, and Don paces. The voices of other
prisoners and sounds of entropy hiss white noise through the corridors and into the cell.
Sounds of many feet on the floors. Sounds of cards and dominoes. An orchestra of
voices, dialogues, monologues. Rob and Dave bellowing like goats for Don's anus.
"Pretty White Girl"- that's the name they call him, the name they bellow while he paces.
Don shudders and wishes there was a window he could climb out of and be rid of his
current situation, his thickening dilemma.
"My cum will taste a lot better than those big old black VD cankered dicks will
feel tearing into your ass, Pretty White Girl," says the Vet, snickering afterward. He's a
large man, kind of fat around the middle, but his hands and jaw are strong, so he can
carry the weight. His shiny bald cranium crowning his thick, pocked face and neck make
his head look like an exaggerated foam peanut. Thick glasses magnify his eyes to fit the
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McConnell, Michael Constantine. Outer Reaches of the Palindrome, thesis, December 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4407/m1/8/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .