Psycho Wild

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“Psycho Wild” is a story that details the life of a dysfunctional family struggling to survive in the slums of their city. Our family includes a vagrant nicknamed the “Monster,” The bag lady he impregnates named Marguerite, her seven year old son named Armando, and the new baby that unites them all nicknamed “Psycho Wild.” The main character is the Monster. “He was a “queer fish”… an enigmatical cross between Charles Manson and Jesus Christ… With deep black hair and beard… He stayed even and cool and sad, for all but a few moments in the day, when he’d become unreasonably excited, in a disturbing and uneasy manner…” The second character is the depressed, pregnant Marguerite. “She was an over thirty, heavy set, freckle faced, long haired, ugly, ignorant woman… And, of course, nothing could bring more attention than a penniless, unwed, pregnant woman being evicted from her house… Every broken promise and unappreciated chore had swollen into a festering sore of broken spirit…” Our third character is the fatherless Armando. “Mondo had his own agenda… The hard months found him stealing the kitchen rug for warmth… Everything he pretended to own, was some unwanted hand me down… All made him what he was; inglorious… So Mondo faithfully worshipped the Monster… And for his reward, a huge hug lifted him off of his feet, and a wet sloppy kiss broke his heart with happiness…” And the final character is the baby “Psycho Wild.” “Psycho was defined by the conflict, the fight, and the war… Who fought like any man… He would blow his nose at opponents… Good people saw fit to nickname a child “Psycho”… Throwing rocks, waving his arms, getting red in the face, banging pots, tackling family members, head bashing, baby teeth marks… For the monster made his baby “Psycho”…” Our story opens by introducing the parents first meeting. “He was dirty and hungry, and slept under park benches… His pitiful existence was a torment to everyone… In the dirtiest corner of his slum kept a miserable, abandoned woman named Marguerite… Everything about her was disgusting and despicable… For no reason at all they got themselves together… And there was a quick, shameful togetherness… At the end of the month she knew she was pregnant…” The baby is born, and our hero gains a job, and a house. “The monster sank a million miles from any place he had ever been before… It was a relatively simple man, looking at his newly born son… A truly deep, religious feeling… So many new thoughts came into the monster’s head when his hands became busy with work… The only security in life is love and labor… A good heart and a strong hand… A white house… They were all going to move into a house and become a family…” And then the Monster invites his in laws to help with the house. “Marguerite had run away from her family… The last thing they knew, she had nowhere to live, and there was no father… With that invitation came a life-long fan of a mother in law… Not just to visit, but they were actually needed to help… They all cuddled around the willing infant… Marguerite’s spirit soared… And the Monster, somehow, had made it happen…” Our family then begins to briefly enjoy a life of happiness. “A woman’s patience paying off with a complete family… Happiness was so strange… It is ironically unfair that God does not let mortal beings know when they are experiencing the happiest moments of their lives… No doubt remained about them being perfect for each other… No millionaire had a relationship such as they…” Our story continues, but the ignorance, poverty, and crime of their environment produces discouragement and failure. And the toll is greatest on the growing baby. “He heard his son’s sobbing pleas to heaven, and it depressed him even more… “I want to go to hell! I want to go to hell!”… The Monster was all heartache and frustration, and he would not be able to put in words the reason for it. For “it,” was the making of his son. It was the misery, and not the

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