Tue, 31 July 2007  Wrestling camp folklore of piss pills traded with girlfriends who had Rx-level PMS; of Rufie the Iowa superheavyweight; and of Coach Joey's disgraceful feeling even when others bragged of him overcoming prejudice from hicktown fans and refs. Joey admits he got better at wrestling after high school, but to Paco the dark Sagittarius is like Jupiter with lightning quick headlocks and his message for boys about destiny and self-actualization. After the mini wrestling camp, the season begins, and the Pony Boys (Joey's pun on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) win their first matches. One coach would call Elias, John, Chad, and Paco Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and Paco's mom thinks of them as her medicine wheel: Elias the white, John the yellow, Paco the red, and Chad the black. While Paco knows he loves his friends, he's feeling the pressure not to admit he's IN love with them. Chad's flashbacks, sexual acting out, and depression resurrect in math class. Chad refuses to go up to the board and announces he won't walk up in front of everybody with a hard-on. Paco details skipping dinner and water and sleeping with grumbling tummies and drymouth, cravings, nerves, tossing, turning, the wind rattling the panes, dark nights of the soul, waking up before dawn to run in the winter, the sweet summer apples now frozen rotten. Paco remembers the racism of the fans against Joey and thinks of it as child abuse not just against Joey but also against their own kid, for teaching him to be a monster. Then Paco recalls he doesn't exactly like the other Native boys he's met. To him, his tribe is his team. While running, lust for bananas brings the image of bruised bananas and the bruised yellowish color around his friend Taco/John's ribs. He runs hard enough to get to eat breakfast and down a gurgling fountain of ginger ale, the nectar of the gods to a parched throat. Paco has won his first match, and his report card is up! He even gets kissed . . . by the girl who says she's going back to live with her mom and won't see him again. In spite of losing the girl he COULD have liked, Paco claims things are getting much better for him and his friends--really, they are, he insists! The picture is Paco's park in winter when he runs in the cold to make weight. Comments[0] |
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Paco the Great Podcast
The fictional works of Adam Apellasios introduce you to the Thunder Boy wrestling team though not every character takes you to the mat. Adamapellasios.com carries your ticket to the bound editions where you can join the lives of Paco, Jeremiah, Elias, Chad, John, Eric, Adam, and Trevor. Come ready to wrestle, counsel, struggle, cry, recover, laugh, drum, sing, and strum! Email adamkapellasios@yahoo.com to interact! Letters to characters welcome and appreciated.
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