The Fugue

The man nick –name is wild turkey. He lives alone. In June, after summer-rain, he recollected his past. When he was in junior high school student, his teacher name was Mrs. Budnitz. He realized he woke thinking of Mrs. Budnitz fetid scent from inside her dress on tendril of air in the summer. They did not have air conditioning installed in their classroom yet. It was distinctly sexual. He’s been finding the declensions of that experience in his life ever since. These sensate allusions are always whiffs or pale imitations of the original, in the same way that the rainy light breaking from the clouds as the morning regains its heat. He has psychogenic fugue, he is dissociative disorder. He could not remember his childhood clearly. later, he is the marine recruiter. He’s been home from his deployment for two weeks. His body around Jeanie in-turning fetal position and called out, “Jeannie in a bottle!” The twenty-fifth times.

How Wild Turkey got his name. Wild Turkey can’t see who it is speaking, but it doesn’t matter as the story is now collective accessed by anyone on the team. Or some call him Jive Ass Turkey.

His brother is minister, they grew up together until the age of thirteen, when their mother died and they went group home. Wild Turkey needed to eat. His brother’s wife hated Wild Turkey. She called him “drug-head” Wild Turkey doesn’t want the money. He brought back from Iraq enough pills. Sometimes he eats with Jeannie, he eats at the shelter, or he doesn’t eat.

Last paragraph story was very sad and horrible. He’s in his position, last in the tactical column, crouched against a low mud wall in a residential compound in Ramadi. Wild Turkey and Freidel entered wrong house. The four rooms are clean. One female was there, the girl in her crouch seems almost feral. Wild Turkey, in his real-time to struggle to age her, distracted by her child face, her dirty thighs. After her resist, they killed her. They wrapped her with bed sheet and burned it.

Wild Turkey is also victim. When his was thirteen years old, his mother died. He went to group home but he could not bear to go along to the better group home, the one that required adoption by church or some family in the church. Unfortunately he could not meet good environments. Financial situation and physical conditions that affects the behavior and mental development of Wild Turkey exists.