Year of Award
2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Degree Name
Creative Writing (Fiction)
Department or School/College
Department of English
Committee Chair
Boris Fishman
Committee Co-chair
Hiltrudis Arens
Commitee Members
Marton Marko
Keywords
riot, humor, Portland, antifa, Christianity, college
Publisher
University of Montana
Subject Categories
Fiction
Abstract
I left this morning for Portland, Oregon—could be for good. Told my dear mother I was taking a day trip then hopped in her dinged up black Audi and felt the thing hum alive beneath me. Her speakers were still good, so I threw on a playlist with Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and all of the ragged traintrack prophets and went roaring out of those gilded hills for hopefully ever. There was no traffic getting to Sacramento; it took me just twenty minutes to hit the I-5 North juncture and after that I went peeling up the central flatlands with 500 miles to fly in, each one of them cool and green. I’m realizing now this is the only way to travel: don’t expect to come back.
Recommended Citation
Bienvenue, Jacob Z., "No Answering Riot" (2021). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11731.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11731
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