#333 Taped to the Sky- Luis Alberto Urrea
Hubbard is in a bad way. His wife, the woman he bought a car
and an education for, the woman he just helped get through an AA program, left
with her sponsor. He decided to take the car back and drive his troubles away.
South to Louisiana, West to Texas, North to Colorado, etc…“This
whole chunk of the map was written in poems and liquor bottle labels.”
His grief subsided with each state, each dumb roadside
attraction, each violence run-in with the local drunks. As the sky got bigger,
his head got clearer:
“There were patterns moving across the sky, high, where
small scallops of cloud shimmered like mother-of-pearl. He felt a part of the
great becoming, the revelation of the West.”
Sometimes when you feel abandoned, maybe you’ve really been
set free. Sometimes, you still need to be taught a lesson.
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