Bad Lawyer
“It sounds trite when I say it out loud. Like I should have understood it in tenth grade when I read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I can remember Mrs. Kaufman explaining the part about Mr. Hyde being in there all the time. Invisible—or at least unacknowledged—but definitely there, like an evil genie waiting for Aladdin to rub the lamp.
“But I never got it. Not until the very end, until I was holding the gun in my hand. It was heavy and hard, that gun. There was no give to it, nothing to let you off t...he hook. No lie you could tell yourself.
“I’d heard somewhere that guns have safeties on them. That you have to do something to make them fire. So I pushed this little bar on the side of the gun and the cylinder popped out. Byron thought it was funny. The way I jumped.
“He said, ‘Poor little Prissy. Life don’t wanna work for you. Must be something you did in a prior incarnation. Somethin’ you gotta work out.’”
“I remember the first time Byron hit me. The two of us were living on the Lower East Side and we didn’t have shit for money.MoreLess
“But I never got it. Not until the very end, until I was holding the gun in my hand. It was heavy and hard, that gun. There was no give to it, nothing to let you off t...he hook. No lie you could tell yourself.
“I’d heard somewhere that guns have safeties on them. That you have to do something to make them fire. So I pushed this little bar on the side of the gun and the cylinder popped out. Byron thought it was funny. The way I jumped.
“He said, ‘Poor little Prissy. Life don’t wanna work for you. Must be something you did in a prior incarnation. Somethin’ you gotta work out.’”
“I remember the first time Byron hit me. The two of us were living on the Lower East Side and we didn’t have shit for money.MoreLess
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