Yvonne Rice tells all!
FATHERS’ DAY EXCLUSIVE: SONG OF THE LUKEWARM POTSTICKER |
| Published: June 13, 2008, 10:30 am |
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The following is an excerpt from our upcoming memoir, Song of the Lukewarm Potsticker. It is about the father shared by both Matt Ufford and Spencer Hall: a poet, a madman, a city bus driver, a man fond of grooming himself with a soldering iron, the color orange, and the man who made us who we are today. For the first time, we share excerpts from the intensely personal story of our father, who is currently fighting a mail fraud charge we are sure he is innocent of in every way. My father would drink. He liked to drink. When he became drunk, he became mean. He would curse at only the brown tiles on the floor, because he was a racist, and would slap my mother until she bled. And by my mother, I mean my father. He would slap himself. It was indescribably brutal. To please him, I played sports. At first, I tried diving. I remember my first diving match event. My father screamed at me from the stands. Where's your helmet? I tried to explain to him that in diving, you didn't need [ Full article ] |
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