joey

by nick nelson

what can you tell me about joey? joey! oh man, i don’t know where to begin. fucking joey! well, can you give it a try? oh man, fucking joey - he was like, the craziest son of a bitch that ever lived, you just couldn’t believe some of the shit he pulled. for example? oh, there’s just no words to describe it. joey, man, i just start laughing every time i think about him. the things he did, you just wouldn’t believe in a million years. would you say joey was popular? oh, man, like you wouldn’t believe, like you wouldn’t fucking believe. the girls all loved him, the guys all wanted to be just like him? yeah, but it was more than that. way more than that. he was just, he was just the craziest fucker that ever lived, like you couldn’t begin to describe. did he have followers? followers! no, nobody could follow joey. he was one of a kind. he went where no one has ever gone before. all right, let’s move on. what can you tell me about the williams brothers? was joey connected to the williams brothers? the williams brothers! the williams brothers weren’t shit, they weren’t in the same league with joey, anybody who tells you different is full of shit. would you describe the williams brothers as crazy bastards like joey? i would describe them as assholes. what about darren smith? a lot of people the joey had some connection - that’s all lies, man, all fucking lies. joey had nothing to do with what happened to darren smith. that’s all lies by people who don’t know the neighborhood, who never lived one day in the neighborhood in their lives, who never knew joey, who don’t know shit. and since joey isn't here to defend himself, they spread fucking lies. do you miss joey? oh, yeah, man, i think about him every day. well, maybe not every single day, because i got troubles of my own, you know. but i think about him a lot, especially when someone like you comes around. i just think it’s a goddamned shame that joey is gone and some two hundred year old asshole like district attorney miller and the fucking media are still around to pulverize his name and spread lies about him, that’s all. well, thank you for your time. you’re welcome. are you going to write a book about joey? maybe. right now i’m just making notes. you should, you should write a book about joey. because he was the craziest fucking bastard that ever lived. you couldn’t begin to describe him.