HeyJaredA Ranger's Journey: Adam Seeley
Essays and poems on manhood, cruelty, and the under appreciated work of staying human. From a father and stroke survivor.
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A Beautiful Deadzone (opens the original)
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The tires on the rented Altima sang their one-note song.I lifted my left arm and checked my watch.“One hour!” I spat.“Only seven more to go,” I told the empty rental.It felt like twelve had already passed. I’d just white-knuckled through Buffalo, and my shoulders were still sore from the drive up to Ontario and a week of training. I didn’t want more of that pain.Seven more hours of highway. Then home.A week in a sketchy part of town, in a foreign country, without my family or the security I norm
Mid-Swing (opens the original)
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The Superduty is trying to power up the hill, the RPM is dropping and the ticking is getting more pronounced. Now it is more than a minor inconvenience, I’m losing boost through that manifold gasket leak. I apply more pressure into the accelerator as if it’s going to magically produce more power to crest this hill. The putter of the leaking manifold is grinding my nerves.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s_oD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres
Desolation and Benediction (opens the original)
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Light spills out from the kitchen’s doorwayCoffee bloomed,Maillard pyrazines,Scalding to the tongue.Sweet and acidic.Cellulose-carbon sealed, resinHardwood floor gilded gold.The light endsabruptthe shadows begin.Accretion disc.Grief—Coffee gone cold.Failure—Steel decarbonized.Sorrow—<
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