“ Gerry's friends, you see, had no confidence in the United States judicial system. “ By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.” His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.” When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. “ They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.” I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.” All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. “ All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.” When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. “ Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. "Scales," in Rayna Green, ed., That's What She Said ( 1984).“ I was sitting before my third or fourth Jellybean - which is anisette, grain alcohol, a lit match, and a small, wet explosion in the brain.”
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