Alabama Moon
Just before Pap died
He told me that I'd be fine as long as
I never depended on anybody but myself
I made Pap's grave just like
he had done Mama's.
All I had to remember her face
was one picture Pap kept.
but I can remember in the bed at night
keeping me warm from the other side
and came back as some kind of animal
that the old part of them would
float around like smoke
letters and talk to them that way
He said my momma was a
yellow finch now.
I mostly thought of her that way
I was 11 years old and Pap said he taught me
everything I needed to know
about living in the forest
When it came to fightin', he said he figured
I could whip someone 3 times my size..
but he mostly talked about the government
said they were after us
said they'd always be after us
and one day a war would come
and I'd have to fight them and be ready
to die for what was right
Pap look!
What's that Pap?
- What are they doing Pap?
- Making a road.
Why?
Who are they, Pap?
I don't know.
Fill up the canteen. I'm going into town.
Yeah. Bring some vegetables
for us to sell?
We don't have time for that.
Fill up the canteen like I told you.
Pa, I did it!
- How are you, Ali? Moon?
- George
- What you two have for me today?
- Nothing.
What's going on with the dozers?
I hate to tell ya, Ali...
Heard that a lawyer from Birmingham bought
up a big track from the paper company.
12,000 acres
- They're going to build a big
huntin' lodge. - What else you know?
Oh, not much, just what I heard from a couple
fellows come in here to buy coats and such...
Do I get to buy anything? Pap!
You keep up, you hear me?
Nothing was ever the same after
the bulldozers came.
Even though I watched his face,
I didn't know what Pap was thinking anymore.
Sometimes it was like,
he didn't know I was there.
A couple weeks passed before the
bulldozers grew silent.
We started hearing the hammering.
which made Pap even more nervous.
He got upset over the
smallest mistakes.
Alright.
We made one more trip to
Mr. Aberscotti's store
when the vegetables ripened in the fall
That was the last time
Pap left the forest alive.
Ahh, South America's Andes.
It and it's
...fringing islands...
- are basically a jagged...
- Stop reading out loud.
You're old enough to
read to yourself now.
Pa! Pa!
Help me!
Pa!
Help me!
Tell me again why we live out here.
Because you never ask for anything.
Nobody ever give us anything either.
Go on.
Because of that...
We don't owe anything to anybody.
Who it that thinks we owe them something?
The government.
I'm not gonna get any better.
What are we gonna do?
I'm not gonna make it.
You're gonna to die?
- When? Tonight?
- No. But soon.
This leg is gonna get infected
What will I do?
The paper company that owned this land
was too big to notice us out here.
But that new owner is gonna find you.
and he'll send the law.
You need to leave here, Moon...
and go find other people like us.
Most of them are out west, in
Montana, Colorado, Wyoming.
Alaska's even better.
A man can still homestead in Alaska
Find a place where nobody can find him.
You gonna have to find your
way up there, son.
- But how...
- You'll figure it out.
You can't rely on me anymore.
You just remember what I taught you.
And don't you trust nobody.
If you get lonely, you
But how will I get answers from the smoke?
I want to burn that picture of your mom
and put me and her both out of your head.
You'll feel lonely for a while...
but it will go away if you ain't
carrying things to set it off.
How will I get answers from
the smoke Pap?
You just do what I tell you, son
- I don't want you to die!
- Shut up my boy, you don't cry.
You hear me?
You'll be alright.
I don't want to hear anymore about it.
After I buried Pap,
I felt the loneliness he told me about
crawlin' up my stomach
and up into my throat.
It didn't seem like anything
that would go away anytime soon.
Dear Pap, I'm gonna start
for Alaska tomorrow.
Maybe you can talk to me soon.
Pap!
Pap! Wait, Pap!
Pap! Pap!
Easy now, easy.
I not gonna hurt you.
You're the boy the store owner
told me about, aren't ya?
Where's your father?
I buried him. He's dead.
When did that happen?
Yesterday.
- I shouldn't be here.
- Hold on, where do you plan to go?
I gotta get away from the law.
How about some food?
I've got a sweet roll that's
sittin' on the counter in there.
You stay right here.
I'll be right back with it.
Take it easy.
We're just trying to help.
You should've grabbed that boy!
Rabbit
Pap was right. The
law was after me.
I'll have to make to Alaska.
Where you think you're going, boy?
Where'd you bury your daddy?
You know you cant just go off burring
people without the law involved.
I know a thing or two
about trackin'.
I'll find your stick hut.
Ahh, reach for it and
see what happens boy
I didn't do nothing to nobody!
Ahh, quit bowing up to me
Now get in the car before
I knock you sideways.
- Get in the car
- No
Settle down!
Come on boy, get in the car.
Get in there!
Where are we going?
Where are we going?!
When will I get my things back?
When ready to give them
Can't help but think I'll be seeing you
in and out of jail your whole life, boy.
Don't need that in my town.
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