Yes. Yes, "Salmon Season," you are correct. Zak's childhood is a wreck. For the celebration of his existence, his mother took him to a greasy, dillapidated, hole whose very attractions are the bottom barrel remnants from soulless stretches for money from a decade ago. But there is something you are wrong about "Salmon." Zak is not on the floor of his trailer eating garbage which he has stepped on. Zak is the garbage and daily you trod on him, carelessly, and you continue to prod and pick the undamaged pieces of him to fulfill your hunger. This is all true, but, Zak is not a fat imbecilic weakling to be pitied in one breath and scoffed at in the next. Zak is far from weak. Zak is all around you. Zak is not only the boy, but Zak is the clown, the mother, and the drained dry man in the back who is plotting his revenge between turning the burgers. Zak is all around you. Zak is a limp hand wrapped gently around your throat. And one day, years from now, when Zak is sitting on the floor of his trailer, eating the fast food which he paid for ten times as much as he was paid for making it, Zak's grip will start to tighten, and then "Salmon," you will know where America's forgotten children have ended up.
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(sung to some tune) *I hate to find typoooooos*
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