journeymen
jordan weiss
after a man reaches his third decade, provided he ain't married, in jail or dead; that man is a journeyman. chuck,ivan and lem were the kind of men that knew about women, but had sense enough to steer clear of them, these men were not to be confused with role models. and we weren't talkin' about shaping any young incorrigible who would have ended up as some animals bitch in the big house anyhow. i joined their group and being the pup of the bunch, i wore my youth, the way a teenager wears a hard-on. ivan and chuck were on their way to sunnier climes; in this country, the u.s. of a., journeymen can follow the best weather around the calendar and one of the requirements to be a journeyman is you have to know how to do something marketable e.g carpenters make good journeymen and are free to roam the country as they please, because wherever you go houses are always being built and if you do end up in an area where there ain't any construction than that town is usually good enough for a couple of drunken episodes, which incidentally are mandatory so you can figure out where the next destination is. i drank my beer with the journeymen and even went as far as to say i did a little of my own scratch-n'-sniff in this big wasteland i affectionately call my country. and as i went to the bathroom to relieve myself of the digested beer that isn't welcome in the house in which i'm livin', i looked in the wastebasket and saw the adhesive strip that is found on a sanitary napkin and knew full-well where my destination was.
