hard rain's gonna fall

My old friend Reid caught up with me last night.He got my number from another old friend of mine that I have not heard from since sleeping with him earlier this year (after managing not to sleep with him the entire 1st 16 years of being friends) Reid is a throwback from when my life was very very chaotic.He's just passing thru on his way to the west coast,But he had some sad news.I found out that one of the guys that we used to travel with,Jericho,was killed in the jungle somewhere in Venezuela.He was a really strange creature,conflict followed him around.He had these insane ideals and he was a crazy activist way back when.He just got more and more radical over the years,according to Reid.He apparently had gotten into some trouble in the gaza strip and had to be spirited back to the americas.Things must have gotten out of hand,because he was shot execution style (kneeling) and this was two months ago according to Reid.

I guess that I kinda expected that Jericho wouldn't exactly die of natural causes,but he was one of those people who really really believed in what he was doing.When I met him,I was living in the youth hostel here in Memphis.I was traveling alot and I hooked up with Reid and Jericho when I was in Arizona.They were very kind to me and we traveled for the rest of the summer together.We had some good times.I really thought that one day I would see Jericho again.I guess that won't ever happen.He was a rather charismatic creature and I am sad to hear that he is gone.

It is weird.I have actually known three people (now) that have died that way.Both of the others involved drugs.The first was my friend Joey.He got into a bad situation with some really really fucked up people and they killed him in his house.The second was a woman named Chiann whom I used to know way back.She used to live below me when I lived in the most haunted apartment I think I have ever lived in.She was a tattoo artist and worked with friends of mine later.She had been thru so much shit.I thought that she was doing better,but then I heard from my Korbet that she got killed in a shop,about a year ago, over a deal with some pills.Now Jericho.It probably had nothing to do with drugs and everything to so with his Isreali affiliations.It's just sad to think about the fact that they had to kneel there and know that they were about to die.When I go,I hope that I don't see it coming.