all my mom has to do is withstand a three hour timeshare pitch to get us a deal

to meet luke in myrtle beach     luke has a white pontiac and a boa constrictor now    while my mom and sister get a tour we hit a gun show we saw on a billboard     

there was a hole where the o in show should be       donew/ bootcamp luke can  

talk the talk now     he handles guns and throws around words that i don/t know 

i don/t want to kill anyone and i/m not going to start hunting so i look at nonlethal  weapons     they/re cheaper and more practical i think     brass knuckles razor rings  pepper spray tactical pens expandable batons defense keys     things to get you

out of trouble fast     there are tables of xeroxed underground books w/ titles like

how to eat in the woods     beginner/s guide to self sufficiency     and bodyguarding  the complete manual     luke buys me brass knuckles for my sixteenth birthday     

« spray paint them black he tells me     and don/t use them unless you really 

have to »      for five dollars i buy a book called 100 ways to disappear and live free  inside the grand am luke points out the skinheads the army does nothing about   skinny guys in boots w/ bright laces and bomber jackets too small for them

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[at the end of 100 ways to disappear and live free]

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at the end of 100 ways to disappear and live free the writer finally gets on a topic 

he seems to really know about     he says all correspondence should be completed 

w/ typewriters since they are more impersonal and harder to trace than handwriting    electric machines are even more impersonal than manual in that the striking pressure  is uniform for all letters     manual typewriting can show that you have a weak b 

or a strong k or c for example     careful of allowing the keys to clog to the point 

that the enclosed portions of letters begin to fill in     when the e and the o 

look alike it/s time to get out the gum cleaner     typewriters w/ new carbon ribbons  don/t have this problem     as an added layer of protection consider a xerox copy 

of the letter     there will be enough distortion to make tracing you mighty difficult    as i near the end of the book i begin to imagine the anonymous author as a typewriter repairman in a remote idaho town     i haven/t counted but there/s no way there are  

100 ways to disappear in the book     and the life he describes doesn/t sound free

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