Listen, I Create Me

"My father's impression on my life flashed through my mind rioting images; the five senses went sour. Cut grass on spring-fresh football fields, the sight of blue skies and red blood, belt lashes sting and whip burn, the itch of rough polyester blankets on soft skin, the stale fish scent of sex, piercing black eyes, hard callous hands, the reek of bologna breath and alcohol, tubes of crack cocaine, the bright-skinned man in a velvet suit, the pigskin grip of a football, a glass wall, my mother. What I felt at that moment, its intense and swift strain on my soul, stretched me across my life span, thinning me out to frailty. My father took trust and turned it into resentment, love and turned it into hate, a son with potential and made him into a young man confused and skeptical. This man, who put his life into my body, left me throbbing with the most ancient revulsion. I hated this man." 17 years old. The year 2000. Divorced parents. Sex. Drugs. Mutiny. A boy grows to a man while fighting the current of popular culture and his own raw introspection, until he finds the meaning of adulthood, freedom, and modern life's one great epiphany. Listen, I Create Me unveils a painful reality of modern American fidelities that will tickle your emotions just before it pinches and twists them. It is the voice of the youth, will you listen?