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Gary
Gary
Collage, pencil and acrylic on paper
2009


Gary:

Gary worked a three-hour shift on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday nights at Sal’s. Conveniently these were the same nights that I worked. Gary was hired to sweep and mop the floors, and he would reiterate this fact if he was ever asked to take on any other task. “Hey Gary, can you hold the door open for this lady?” He would scowl, turn his head and mumble in my direction or whoever would humor his play, “I don’t get paid for that shit, fuck those granny motherfuckers!”

Gary is the Gary that slept with Barb as you could guess. Gary, for whatever liked me, or rather I found that I found myself listening to Gary way more than anyone else. Maybe it was because I was only 16 that Gary felt compelled to tell me of the ways of women. Or that is to say his interpretation on the subject, a subject I never brought up to Gary myself.

Gary was very vulgar and never censored himself in any way. In fact he would become amplified when departing his knowledge to me in front of customers. At the end of one of his “lessons” he would throw his mop into the muddy water bucket and moan a gross“mmmmmah”, and allow his eyes to wander to wherever Barb was. Gross.