Things With A Past "what kind of man walks the pier when down and blue?" -one who lives close to the ocean "yep,so agree" "he has an old boat there? what is his line of work, you think" -yes, a boat. perhaps a fisherman. maybe a nightwatchman who comes to the pier after working long hours to be calmed "yeah? cool.he has relatives in the city?" -no, no he has distanced himself "right. friends?" -only the ones he drinks with in the darkened bar near his home "does he sometimes sleep in the boat?" -he sometimes does but not that he wants to he passes out and awakens feeling lost evenmoreso then normally "what kind of music does he listen to?" -he doesnt "right" -when he was young his mother and father were really religious and told him "mid-west?" -music was the way the devil communicates to people. he doesnt really believes this but he still doesnt listen. yes "what is that name of that town again, he comes from?" -they lived in a trailer park. oh let me think, what was it? "I think he likes children, and she would not have his child, abortion." -hes from Fon Du Lac originally. he found out too late. he wonders if he could have changed her mind it pains him that he'll not know "he has other scars on his mind?" -yes, dont we all? he saw his sister get hit outside the front of their house,trailer when he was 7 she was 5. he was told to watch her by his mother who was watching a televangelist while his father was at the bar that morning. she ran out onto the streetand an old man didnt see her over the dashboard. she wasnt killed instantly she spoke to him there, in the street, her voice haunts him still.
