The Real Drug Store Cowboy
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows, he walks through a wall. -Bernard Malamud ___________________________________ I'M RIDING THROUGH Ocean Springs, Mississippi it’s four-am, and sixty-four degrees and the Sun will be up soon. Tony’s Discount Drugs in a strip mall next to an abandoned grocery store looks like an excellent place to break thru the cinder block wall in the utility closet and tiptoe over to the pharmacist goody drawer. My buddy from New York living next to me on the beach in Biloxi, the next town over, told me this pharmacy was fat because it was so big and everything on the shelf was stretched out to take up space, they must be doing a booming pill business. Were they ever! I cased it a time or two and wound up parking down the road and doubling back to it on foot and behind it, ...