Shia LeBeouf came into
my bookstore one afternoon.
He purchased a cheap version
of a Nietzsche book.
It was probably only
like $6 or something.
He pulled a folded $20
out of his side pocket
placed it on the counter
then bailed immediately.
Didn’t even take his change.
We all had a laugh about it.
“I guess that was nihilism?”
That night he was arrested
at the Walgreens a block away.
2:25 in the morning
in the middle of some
fucked up episode.
The mugshot posted
in all of the newspapers
and on every morning show,
a former child actor in trouble.
“What happened to that cute
little curly haired boy” they’ll ask,
wincing at a hollowed out man
with the saddest eyes.
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Aaron David Gutierrez graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Creative Writing a very long time ago. His writing has appeared in Punk Noir Magazine and Nauseated Drive. A chapbook collection will probably come out at some point.
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image: MM Kaufman
Rejection Letters 