Rick Bass
The Watch
1989
The Watch
1989
As you know, there are no more Coca-Colas in Mississippi. There aren't any cokes anywhere. They
changed them, they did away with them, the fuckers. Except at my farmhouse. I have approximately two thousand
seven hundred and forty-four of them in those little wooden flats that they used to ship them around in, faded,
red and historic.
When I have a bad day at work I will go home and throw three or four of them against the rocks in
the back pasture.
--- from "Mississippi"
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