Another RIP
Shit, last night I was doing my usual bed-time conversation with G, I was tired, told her goodnight and hung up, rolled over and went to sleep. A half hour later, the phone rings again, and wakes me up. This is a little after midnight and I’m exhausted, but I thought maybe she had a bad dream so I answer it…
It’s my friend Danny calling to tell me that Blockbuster Rich is dead. They found him in a room up at the Mohegan Sun casino. They don’t know what happened, but they found drugs in the room, so it will probably end up being another OD. I know he checked himself into a facility for depression a couple weeks ago, but he just left on his own accord this week. Then one day his wife came home and his bags were packed and he was gone… She had been talking to Danny worried about him, wondering if anyone had heard from him.
It’s kinda freaky, but when Danny told me yesterday he was misssing, the first thing I said was “he’s probably in a casino hotel room with money and drugs spread all over the bed”. And then he calls and tells me someting almost just like that, but now he’s dead. Damn, another one, the longer you stay clean the more people you see die. Or maybe now I just notice it, before I didn’t really want to know. In any case, we’ll miss him, and God bless his wife and his two small children. I can remember so many times talking to him, bullshitting at the diner, and I can remember his laugh and his smile like it was yesterday, even though he hasn’t really been around much this last year or so.
Shit, this is just getting me bummed out, I’m gonna go call Danny and see how he’s taking it. He was real close to him and was trying to help him get straightened out this time around, so he’s pretty upset about it. K, I’ll write more later I guess. If you believe, please say a prayer for his family.
Thanks
