BUT I DIDN’T PLAN on the routine shakedown coming down the hall. I seen her coming for ten cells, she was a real short Mexican woman trying to tear down the glass ceiling, door by door she had to get up on her tippy-toes to look in the little window and using her sniffer like a lost Chihuahua at a Fiesta, on whose little world to examine. Some of them open your little Master Lock with their key, pull up a chair and spend the day reading your mail. Spend all afternoon inspecting every inch of your cell like the Pentagon wanted to know what was in there…. I JUST GOT BACK with the three balloons of pot, two Red and one Blue, and had eaten all the Ice Cream because I just knew I was home free. But I didn’t see this coming until I looked up and seen her coming down the hall like a trained German Sheppard Dope Dog, OD’ing on Red Bull and maniacal focus. She might spend one minute or five minutes and down the hall she came, I just knew she was going to ask me to step out while she shook my house down… IF YOU KNOW WHAT A “Terry Stop,” is, you know that 90% of a Cop’s contact with you is determined by how you act. If you’re nervous, they want to know why…. well, the “Smooth Operator” knew not to panic and act natural and/or try and swallow all three of them balloons….she had come out of a cell just two doors away and I just knew my number was up, when I dropped my drawers to my ankles and sit down on my bed and started picking imaginary fleas from my groin area….. “What are you doing?” Rolling Stone NOLA SPIN Los Angeles Times The Fingerprint Thief by Mark Anthony Given New Orleans Saints New York Daily News Mark Anthony Given The New York Times Rodeo News Shannon Newth The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The New Yorker New York Magazine WDSU News The Kelly File The Throw Down by Mark Anthony Given Sun Herald Las Vegas Sun Miami Herald The Boston Globe Poets & Writers Gods Love Homeless Shelter Helena Montana Housing Division - Montana Department of Commerce Creative Writing University of Montana MFA Creative Writing Creative Artists Agency Helena Independent Record KXLH Helena The Montana The Weekly Standard Stanley Kubrick Films reallifeheist/2013/07/the-stand-up-count-by-mark-anthony-given.html#!/2013/07/the-stand-up-count-by-mark-anthony-given.html
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