A night out with my friends.
I
was standing out in the field at about 5:00 am surrounded by my friends. Jack
was chomping down on a stogie while Joe was putting a .44 magnum piece of lead
into the last remaining piece of unbroken glass on the car that was flipped
upside down in the mud. We; Jack, Joe, Sam, Chris, Tom, my dad... others I
can't remember offhand, had gotten together earlier that night and killed
somebody. It took for fucking ever for him to die. We wanted that car to flip
and crash... that would be the end of it, but the damn thing just kept getting
away from us. Finally we got it. BOOM, over it went... When the sun was coming
up, we watched him struggling to get out of the driver side window and then
start walking. Who knows where the fuck he thought he was going, but shit, he
was still gushing after two hours... How much blood did he have? I remember him
holding his neck, trying to keep the last couple drops inside his body, as he
walked away from us. We watched him clinically, staggering and dropping to his
knees, then face down. Finally he was dead.
We stopped rolling the camera and got him a new set of
clothes, then we all went home.
Originally published May 1st 1997
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