The Righteous Gemstones
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Hes opened up the new bread before finishing the old because he likes his bread fresh.
Thats wanderlust for you.
But Stephens new bread has suddenly turned moldy.
The tour is over and so are the road rules that allowed this affair to happen.
You have a wife, she tells him.
We dont even shit in front of each other.
Hes not the pop in she can send out the door with gas-station snack money.
Theyre entertainers, performers, charlatans.
Hes learned a thing or two from them.
They dont seem to have any strategy going on, so when Kelvins attempt at improvised sloganeering (We!
It turns out to be a shortsighted strategy: The Gemstones only have six shoes to throw.
They dont stand a chance against a roomful of ministers.
Jesse wants his desk and chair on a raised platform.
Daddy be straight up relaxin.
Youre a hell of a wheelman, Gideon.
