Be careful<\/p>\n
They are out there<\/p>\n
Everywhere you look<\/p>\n
Looking for loners<\/p>\n
Transients<\/p>\n
Drifters<\/p>\n
Thinkers<\/p>\n
You can hear the cop<\/p>\n
We got a suspect here<\/p>\n
A loner<\/p>\n
We’re going to bring him in for questioning<\/p>\n
Or a kid gets called into the principal’s office<\/p>\n
You’re not happy here\u2026are you son?<\/p>\n
Is that a question mister or a statement?<\/p>\n
You don’t seem to fit in do you?<\/p>\n
Do convicts fit into a prison cell?<\/p>\n
This is not a prison son although you may think it is<\/p>\n
Not every prison has bars<\/p>\n
Son\u2026it’s come to our attention that some disciplinary action here is called for. We feel that given time anyone can learn to adapt to some basic rules of conduct. It’s not rocket science to say you don’t punch one of your classmates in the mouth just because he looked at you a certain way. You have anything to say to that?<\/p>\n
I knocked out his front teeth. I guess my fists were not hard enough to get to the back. Ain’t that supposed to be where them wisdom teeth are?<\/p>\n
Son, we know it has not been easy. I talked to your mother<\/p>\n
She’s dead. How did you talk to her?<\/p>\n
What do you mean she’s dead?<\/p>\n
As far as I’m concerned she is<\/p>\n
Well, she is worried about you<\/p>\n
She ought to be worried about herself<\/p>\n
Why is that?<\/p>\n
Ask her<\/p>\n
Look son\u2026<\/p>\n
I am not your son. Call me by my first name. They even do that with the president<\/p>\n
Okay Joey…your mom said it has not been easy raising you<\/p>\n
Did she say why?<\/p>\n
Well she told me a few things<\/p>\n
Did she tell you that it is hard to raise a kid if you can‘ take care of yourself.<\/p>\n
Did she tell you that?<\/p>\n
Well no, she said some things\u2026that she also did not have it easy\u2026<\/p>\n
I guess not with men coming and going\u2026how many fathers does a kid normally have?<\/p>\n
Life is like that sometimes Joey<\/p>\n
Did she talk about dad?<\/p>\n
Yes she did<\/p>\n
Did she say that he was a drunk?<\/p>\n
She told me<\/p>\n
Did she tell you that I used to find his bottles buried in the ground and drink what was in them myself?<\/p>\n
No, she didn’t tell me that<\/p>\n
I thought if I did what he did I would be like him.<\/p>\n
You wanted to be a drunk<\/p>\n
No, I wanted to feel the pain he felt because he had to drink<\/p>\n
Listen Joey\u2026you know lately\u2026well\u2026not just lately\u2026there have been some incidents<\/p>\n
You mean shootings at schools<\/p>\n
Yes, well\u2026it’s the damnest thing\u2026it spreads like a flu or something. It pops up one place and a few months down the road it’s somewhere else<\/p>\n
What does that have to do with me?<\/p>\n
It has nothing to do with you. It’s just\u2026well, what I’m trying to say is\u2026some of the student body\u2026<\/p>\n
What do you mean „student body“ it sounds like a bunch of dead kids<\/p>\n
I mean some of the students have come in here to talk to me. They say it’s not only that fight you had last week<\/p>\n
It wasn’t no fight. I shut the lights out of that punk with one punch<\/p>\n
And that other incident<\/p>\n
Incident?<\/p>\n
The female student you forced into the bathroom<\/p>\n
I didn’t force her\u2026she probably had to piss<\/p>\n
We could have called the police<\/p>\n
You know why you didn’t?<\/p>\n
No\u2026tell me Joey<\/p>\n
You didn’t because you couldn’t prove it. It was her word against mine\u2026and like any good law abiding criminal\u2026I had the perfect alibi<\/p>\n
Okay Joey\u2026the kids say you don’t show up at recess in the schoolyard<\/p>\n
I got better things to do<\/p>\n
Nobody knows where you go<\/p>\n
I go to the library. Ask the librarian when I am<\/p>\n
She said you go there but she said you don’t read or anything. That you just stare out the window<\/p>\n
You want me to stare at the bookshelf. I’m not crazy<\/p>\n
Nobody said you’re crazy Joey<\/p>\n
Maybe I am crazy. I don’t really care. Some things just don’t interest me<\/p>\n
Like the schoolyard and games?<\/p>\n
Yeah, games never interested me<\/p>\n
Why is that Joey?<\/p>\n
Because that’s all my mother played<\/p>\n
How do you mean?<\/p>\n
With me\u2026was games against dad<\/p>\n
Let’s get back to some of your fellow students<\/p>\n
Namely?<\/p>\n
Well, I don\u2019t want to mention names<\/p>\n
Why not? Let’s start with Louise<\/p>\n
Why Louise?<\/p>\n
I didn’t give her what she wanted<\/p>\n
What did she want`<\/p>\n
She wanted me<\/p>\n
And?<\/p>\n
I didn’t want her. Now, she comes walking in here and probably says I am queer or something<\/p>\n
She didn’t say that<\/p>\n
What did she say?<\/p>\n
I’m afraid that’s between us<\/p>\n
Listen\u2026I got better things to do than to worry about what those kids have to say<\/p>\n
They’re your classmates<\/p>\n
I don’t know them and don’t want to know them. What is wrong with people just minding their own business<\/p>\n
Nothing is wrong with it Joey\u2026it’s just things can get bad and go from bad to worse<\/p>\n
You mean I might come to school one day with an automatic weapon<\/p>\n
I didn’t say that<\/p>\n
There seems to be a lot of things you don’t say while you are saying them<\/p>\n
You’re not dumb son<\/p>\n
I told you not to call me son\u2026Only my dad gets to call me son<\/p>\n
Joey I mean<\/p>\n
What do you mean?<\/p>\n
I’m afraid we are going to have to take some disciplinary action<\/p>\n
Do you mean a slap on the wrist or putting me in handcuffs?<\/p>\n
We just are going talk to some professional people<\/p>\n
You mean shrinks?<\/p>\n
Different kinds of people<\/p>\n
Cops?<\/p>\n
Just people that want to help<\/p>\n
People that want to help don’t put people behind bars or in strait jackets<\/p>\n
Joey…look\u2026okay\u2026I’ll give you one more chance<\/p>\n
It sounds like a movie<\/p>\n
What does?<\/p>\n
What you just said<\/p>\n
One more chance Joey\u2026then\u2026<\/p>\n
Then what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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