"Dry with the Threadbare Towel" - Issue Seven

Many shit words

hangover filled mornings

grabbing at the alarm clock 

shower with the empty shampoo bottle

wash with the thin soap

dry with the threadbare towel

no breakfast

coffee/biscuit

rice lunch

home to empty kitchen

cut off notices

more beer

stereo

more beer

laundry

can’t find a pair of clean socks

always had clean socks at home

What happened to meat and vegetables??

-Michael Wingfield

That piece comes from one of my favorite RS stories that was in issue number seven and is called, "Dry with the Threadbare Towel". It was born from a writing collaboration with my friend Michael Wingfield. Back when we were young bucks, we'd often spend nights hanging out in bars playing a writing game we called "Poetry Tag". Basically, we'd throw out some random phrases and both spend a few minutes writing something around it. We'd stop, read out loud what we had written, swap notebooks and try another phrase. Needless to say, a lot of bad crap was scrawled, but now and again, some gems would break through the chaff. "Threadbare Towel" was edited from one particular round. This bit, the combination of Mike's words and this drawing I did of him, is my favorite panel in the story.

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