I was sent to a boarding school run by the
for my junior year in high school.
The last two years of high school and the first two years of college.
I was expelled, for associating with bad companions. I went back home.
I had been in trouble there for running my mouth in class. Sassing teachers.
I felt like I’d been treated unfairly, but it was my word against theirs.
It was a kangaroo court. Summary justice. I liked it when Fletcher Christian
put Captain Bly in a small boat and sent him back to
I saw myself as Marlon Brando. In The Wild One.
Possibly Robert E. Lee Prewitt in
From Here To Eternity. Red could stay,
because he was not a bugler. But Prewitt
had to leave, because he wanted most of all to stay.
I was an idealist.