Thursday, September 28, 2006

talking with lou

this is a story about lou. we met him outside a friends apartment. he was walking down the street, a skinny man about 50 wearing a captains hat. white with the gold rope, black brim. he had with him a jacket, and then after speaking to him and introducing ourselves he pulled a gun case filled with pot.

it was strange, he offered us some. it smelt like tea and i wasnt to sure about it. then he pulled out a pill case. then he asked if we had ever freabased cocaine. and that is really where the story begins.

behind the apartment is where we ended up and that is when he presented us with a red lighter and hollowed out bic pen, burnt around the edges. he then began to freebase, which was new to me, and scarey.

he offered. we refused.

he's abit of a hot head, he admits. which is a problem when you have submachine guns lying around the apartment. he tell us that if he keeps a machine gun fully put together around the apartment then he's likely to go off one something (somebody) with it. so in order to combat this hes desembeled the machine gun and had burried it beneath carots.

one night though, he had to pull up the carots. a friend of his had swaped out some cocaine with a bogus stash and to get back at him he took his machine gun and filled up the car with bullets.

hours later, in his apartment he was greeted by police who, "put guns in my ears and their feet on my head like they were budding out a ciggarette."

You know what they charged me for?, he said.

"Attempted murder and robbery."

he completely understood the attempted murder but would say that the robbery charge was bogus and arose from some loose change the was lying around his apartment when they hadarrested him. he ended up speding 10 years in prsion. you could see a story in his face and after we had first introduced ourselves i asked for him to tell us a story, and this was the story he told.

we also had a great conversation about keychains made of ivory from alaska, but i thought ivory came from elephants and africa, but now am unsure.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you can also get ivroy from walrus tusks, and from the sperm whale. Sperm whales are found in every ocean, and the walrus lives in the arctic ocean.

Anonymous said...

ivory can be obtained by both the sperm whale and the walrus. the walrus is found in the atlantic ocean, and the sperm whale lives in all the oceans, except in the high atlantic ocean.