I had this re-launch of me all mapped out. It took long enough. I have so many different versions of what I was going to say, all long winded and elaborate. It was going to be full of autobiography and cleverness so that people who came here by accident could understand where I come from and stay. It was going to be wrapped in old school hip-hop and urban myths explaining why my particular ghetto is better than any other ghetto. At one point I think LL was even gonna remind folks not to call it a comeback. And then I heard Joe Unger died. He was a 41 year old father of five in the best shape of his life and he died of a heart attack. Big Joe was the biggest kid in my JHS class at 187 and I was the smallest and he was my friend. And in missing the man I never got to know Big Joe to be I just can’t bring myself to write the look at how unique I am post that I was planning and instead am just going to continue my experience here the way I started it.
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