saint of the broom

i never tripped wassup widdat? i want you to write the story of my life-- story of my life. how much you willing to pay? so there you were in a dream house with a nightmare spouse and two abused children i know that story intimately only the house was his dream. maybe it's a man thing. lost my career and life in less than a year. kept the house a bit longer. that's not all i tried to lose my ego in my twenties. omg that's so egotistical... * when i was a teen i had a bout of epilepsy. hospitalized for months. it went away but while i was under it i'd pass out when everything coming at me seemed like a spinning possibility, a standing waveform where i could collapse all of the choices into their own inhabitable realities. i think the electric storms were those universes colliding in a spacetimestanding wave, iow, my brain. i think i gave myself epilepsy to deal with the way adhd made the world feel like strokes of paint from van gogh's brush as they were about to be applied to a canvas . that or it was a hint of the acid to come. man, i never tripped. * martin deparres roams the boulevards of lima begging alms for the brothers in the abbey. he presents the day's takings to the abbot along with another poor sick soul he found on the streets. the father sighs, regrets just enough to score his pride, his own venial sin given penance by this foolish decision to let a black man become an acolyte in the roman catholic church . when the miracles begin to happen he's not prepared. alms fill the poor box isolated plague victims nursed and healed by mysterious entry through a locked door, diseases swept from the hospital ward with a broom in the hands of a saint. rrq places at once and he never left the abby today he's the patron saint of Mississippi, black people, hair stylists, innkeepers, lottery, lottery winners, mixed-race people, Peru, poor people, public education, public health, public schools, race relations, social justice, state schools, sweepstakes, sweepstakes winners, television, Mexico a good friend of my dad's gave me an icon of him while i was hospitalized. hey do you think you could give yourself a seizure and find out the winning lotto for this week? x