"The Story of My life," by Octavius Junior Clancy

By M. Francis Patterson

Copyright © 2007 michael f. patterson

I am Octavius Junior Clancy and this is the story of my life:

I was born somewhere in Alabama on Dec. 5, 1935, or so they tell me. I was a baby then and don't remember any of this, so they could be lying.

I picked cotton a few times when I was a teenager and didn't like it. I grew up, married a succession of three bisexual women who all had issues with their fathers and screamed at their children--none of which were mine--a lot. In the process I learned a lot about what the old folks in the neighborhood used to call "crazy folks." Eventually, either the women left or I did. In any event, the result was I escaped eternal disaster on the level of Sisyphus. Anyway, those were strange times and sometimes it was even fun.

It has been 27 years since I've seen any of my ex-wives. So, I went back to Alabama.

That is my story and the moral of that story is, "It is what it is."

-- Octavius Junior Clancy, September 3, 2007, Phoenix City, Alabama