Page 151 - "Mississippi in the 1st Person" - Michael James Stone (Demo/Free)

Just as fast as I could go
at a slow steady walk, I

moved everything I
could find and placed
them in camp.

Starting the fire was easy
and I let it be a big one.

I was wet, I was cold, I

made hot chocolate and
because I had found a
flask at a used store that

looked cool. I put a shot
of rum in the hot choco-

late that I had filled the
flask with, because while
not a drinker, except for

Pepsi, you learn the bet-
terments and detriments

of alcohol in the cooler
northerner climates real
fast if you live there.

In Alaska, everyone
drank a little, most too
much, but everyone

some.

3 hot chocolates and al-
most living in the fire I

warmed slowly.

Though I was subject to
bone chills easily be-
cause of poor circulation

and Crohn’s I had lived
ten years Alaska so I

knew I would warm up
soon enough and I did.