Are You Experienced?
“ I DON’T NEED NO DOCTOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1969 “Heroin, huh?” Jimi asked, very quietly.
“Yes.”
“Eight weeks?”
“From Friday. I’m pretty sure he used it for the first time last night. He has this plan to get out of going to Vietnam. He’s supposed to report for his physical in October, so he’s going to shoot up a bunch of times between now and then. He thinks the army doctors will see the track marks in his arm, and he’ll be all high and messed up, so they’ll reject him, and he won’t have to g...o.”
“Man, doesn’t he know people die behind that stuff?”
“Yeah, but he’s desperate.” Lowering my voice even more, I laid out the whole scenario about my grandfather, the stuff my uncle had heard him say, and the reasons why my uncle couldn’t stand to leave my brother alone in my grandparents’ house.
“So he’s going to overdose right around the time of the physical?”
“Yes.”
“But you haven’t told him yet?”
“I haven’t come right out and said it, no.MoreLess
“Yes.”
“Eight weeks?”
“From Friday. I’m pretty sure he used it for the first time last night. He has this plan to get out of going to Vietnam. He’s supposed to report for his physical in October, so he’s going to shoot up a bunch of times between now and then. He thinks the army doctors will see the track marks in his arm, and he’ll be all high and messed up, so they’ll reject him, and he won’t have to g...o.”
“Man, doesn’t he know people die behind that stuff?”
“Yeah, but he’s desperate.” Lowering my voice even more, I laid out the whole scenario about my grandfather, the stuff my uncle had heard him say, and the reasons why my uncle couldn’t stand to leave my brother alone in my grandparents’ house.
“So he’s going to overdose right around the time of the physical?”
“Yes.”
“But you haven’t told him yet?”
“I haven’t come right out and said it, no.MoreLess
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