"Can You Draw Petey?" The who that I was—would you say I had "aptitude"? I don't know, but I do know strangers often referred to my stride as "traipsing," that I'd been convicted of many things: disposing of lab animal carcasses in barrels of hazardous waste behind the elementary school, hacking down a giant redwood on speed…But what comes, goes— lawd, don't cha know? I sang to her from my pool float as she waded in up to her neck brace, knocked me out cold, then carved a parrot in my forehead with a boxcutter I'd written my name on that has since been taken away as evidence. Jennifer L. Knox before or more