A Small-Town Tornado Gets Too Big for Its Britches

August 22, 2010

It’s not that I’m embarrassed of where I came from; I just think I’m ready for the City.

Like how many times can I knock down a barn, watch it get rebuilt, then knock it down again?

It’s fish in a barrel out here.

Nobody can afford steel, so everything falls like a house of cards. Even schools.

I used to think picking up a herd of cattle and scattering it across the county was a big deal–my dad only did that once.

But now I’m like, show me some tanks. Give me a suspension bridge to fuck up. Know what I mean?

It’s not that I’m bigger than lighting…okay, maybe I’m bigger than lightning.

Out here anyway.

I’m bigger than famine.

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