Ellis Jones

Like, she was hot.

Maybe she's got some kind of fantasy, too.

I don't know.

Like, actually, when I was working at the tattoo shop in Largo, she came in with her mom to get nose piercings, and she still tried to give me, like, tough talk.

Like, staying out of trouble.

Like, well, she got kicked out of the...

sheriff's office because she got into some domestic thing with her husband or boyfriend and she was in the middle of the street honking a horn wasted behind the wheel of her car so she got you know disgraced from the pinellas county sheriff's office and she works for a title company dude because i believe that everyone who works in real estate is a scumbag right and i feel the same way about cops like but uh what was i gonna say oh about school so there was one teacher who also taught at gibbs high school in st pete which is a gifted school uh and

And the guards and the teachers started resenting me because, like, I would just get every answer right.

I would ace every test.

It was a stupid, easy curriculum.

You know what I mean?

Right.

And I remember one guard, De Palma, having it out for me.

Like, you think you're so smart?

Like, you wouldn't last a minute in the Marine Corps.

And I'm like, anybody could be a Marine.

And he's like, what the did you just say?

Like, like.

You were saying prison is somebody's whole identity.

This guy was in the Marine Corps in the 80s, and it's his whole personality.