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Rock Bottom

Rock bottom.   Rock bottom is a place or event in a person's life that is inevitable.  At some point it will come about and like getting the chicken pox, once it happens, you're in the clear for the rest of your life experience.  Rock. Fucking. Bottom. Been there, done that, got the t shirt.  Right? My face was numb, and I was glad the repetitive cheese-grater effect the asphalt had on my cheek was no longer painful.  I stared past the assorted tires lined up in the parking lot of shadows and streetlights fighting for dominance.  Wishing my entire body would quickly follow suit and perhaps even somehow find a way to stop my involuntary breath or heartbeat, I continued to feel the burning and ripping sensations of being forcibly entered over and over.  Hands were everywhere all at once.  They pressed into my shoulders and back, crushing me under the weight of their owners, they pulled at my hair, gripped my ankles, and clawed at my skin.     Every once in a while, I could s