City Kid
City Kid
“I never ran and never will.” A cool sentiment but far from the reality of my life there. My father ran, and, in doing so, profoundly affected the trajectory of my life. Since boyhood my dealings with my father have been sporadic, short-lived, and not intimate in the ways that matter most. When I was younger that was his fault; as an adult, it’s been mine. That we share the same name save the middle one is obviously not our only similarity. When confronted with the unpleasant, emotionally challe...nging work of (re)building a father-son relationship, I’ve opted for avoidance over conversation, absence over entanglement.
My mother calls my father “a jack of all trades and a master of none.” In his life Nelson Elmer George has been (as far as I know) a postman, a merchant seaman, a short-order cook, a bartender, a taxi driver, a security guard, a process server, and a low-level cocaine dealer. In Nelson Elmer’s DNA there’s a hustler gene that’s been passed on to me. I’ve had a true nine-to-five job only once in my life and that was only from January 1981 to the spring of ’82.MoreLess
My mother calls my father “a jack of all trades and a master of none.” In his life Nelson Elmer George has been (as far as I know) a postman, a merchant seaman, a short-order cook, a bartender, a taxi driver, a security guard, a process server, and a low-level cocaine dealer. In Nelson Elmer’s DNA there’s a hustler gene that’s been passed on to me. I’ve had a true nine-to-five job only once in my life and that was only from January 1981 to the spring of ’82.MoreLess
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