BOOM! by Ricky Garni

I have a copy of BOOM in my bag pack. It’s all about the ‘60s and the Weather Underground and Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King and the SDS and stuff and about LBJ and Sirhan Sirhan too. On page 142 of BOOM there is a mention of Malcolm X and that’s where I keep my car registration. It’s a 1992 Honda Accord and it’s kind of grey colored. I use it to show to the dealership because I lost my key and Charlie who works there said they would replace it in five minutes but it took like fifteen. When Charlie asked for it I took it out and said “BOOM!” and dreamed I drove away in my Accord like a molotov cocktail doing little ballet twisty movements in a burning building with BOOM under my arm for what seemed like eternity and then I woke up and Charlie waved BYE and said SEE YOU LATER and my car went VROOM and he laughed and laughed and his belly was like jelly.

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