Assassins Anonymous

by Rob Hart

“The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness,” Kenji says. “Ultimately, it’s not for them. It’s for me.”

Some people think of recovery as a destination. Really, it’s a path you travel for the rest of your life, and the finish line is perpetually over the horizon. You have to learn to be happy with the journey. To be the journey.

Bunch of brown people get uppity, try to fight back, so they send in the white Terminator to take care of them.

Hey…” “What?” “…I killed a lot of white people, too.”

When I discover the positive pregnancy test inside, I fall to my knees and yell into the cold asphalt until my lungs feel scraped raw and there’s nothing left for my body to give.