Formative Years

Sequence Initiation: October 1968


Gestation: 
• 9 mos
• 192 beers (Lucky Lager with the "Concentration"-like puzzles inside the bottlecaps)
                    cow + saw minus the 
                    s + windmill
                    equals... equals?


Year One: 
• 12 mos
• (qty unknown) fist fights
                           car crashes, 
                           emergency room visits,
                           hospital stays, 
                           slaps, punches, missed 
                           dinners, lunches, what is this, 
                           love is?


Years Two - Seventeen: 
• 180 mos
• 3000 beers (all $3 - $5 a sixer)
• keeping up appearances
• arms bent back
     - making her
     - forcing her
     - the mother crying out
     - blind and falling and
     - mother of your children
            1. and your only child
            2. watching you
            3. be drunk and violent