Authors: Moshe Kasher
Kasher In The Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 (36 page)
I laughed. “Yeah, probably. But you aren’t going to snitch on me, are you?”
“Not if you leave me the fuck alone, starting… now.”
“I gotcha. No problem, man. Sorry to bug you.”
I smiled to myself.
The door opened.
The kid stepped out.
As I saw that kid walk away angry, attitude in his step, I saw myself in him. Saw myself back then, pissed off, young, shattered. The elevator closed shut and I looked at the reflection staring back at me from the mirrored doors.
It was that kid again.
No. I shook it off. I looked again. I saw the real me looking back. That big wound had sutured up. It had healed. All the pain was gone. I was whole. I wasn’t all broken and bad like the last time I’d stood here staring at myself, wondering what I’d become. But then, maybe I hadn’t been so broken. Maybe I wasn’t such a bad kid back then after all. If I was, how had I turned into what I was looking at now? A good guy.
A good guy, that’s what I’d become.
Moshe Kasher is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer. He has been featured on Comedy Central, NBC, Fox, MTV, E!, VH1, Showtime, and a million other places. He makes his living telling jokes. His mother loves him very much.
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Copyright © 2012 by Moshe Kasher
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