The Backyard

Jimmy Waverly is America failing its fitness test on a treadmill. His life clogged from aorta to amnesia, he steps into doctor's order's land - the lower half of Ameriggo Vespucci's renamed pride.

There he finds hope:
Hope, like a burning tire in a Detroit riot.
Hope, like a broken bottle in a Tacoma bar fight.
Hope, like an abandoned baby in a Chicago dumpster.

Yes, hope - but hope mixed with memory.
His body knows how to kill.
His drinks are filled with umbrellas.
His mind manipulates for ends he does not understand.
His shorts blind the eyes of mortal men.
His dreams float with the names and faces of the powers that may or may not be.

This then is the story of Jimmy Waverly's rampage, reconciliation and ridiculousness through the politics, drugs and money of South America. May the prescription fit the patient.