the one sad drip from his daddy that made him wholly

      insufficient when scrutinized against the knot of bloodlines

      his Peruvian mother embodied. This is conceivably where his

women troubles began, with a sentiment that his mother

took something from him by virtue of being who she is.

      Thus, he marks himself Hispanic on his voter registration form,

      though in Florida the term links through exiles to a right-wing

angle on law and order, an adjacency putting him closer

to the truth in his heart that, indeed, he is a white man

      with white powers: underage drinking and domestic violence

      and criminal mischief and second-degree murder and free to

do them all again, if only he hadn’t auctioned off the gun,

what a real white man wouldn’t do due to its pricelessness―

      first for besting the boy’s body, then for making the man famous.