his name was charles.

by marty

Posted to Utterances on 2002-02-21 06:27:00

Parent message is 126217
he was the janitor at the school where my mom taught.

when i was about 15, i came down with the sickness that most teenage boys that age catch. i wanted to be a rock star. bought a guitar. amp. everything.

i would go to the janitor’s closet after school and jam a little with charles. he had cut the tips of three of his fingers off of his left hand with a bandsaw, but could still play better than anyone i had ever met. one day he brought in an old photo album. there were all these pictures of him playing in all these texas honky-tonks with johhny cash and willie nelson. willie nelson was maybe 25 at the most!!



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