Goodbye, Middle America

You can never go home.

Muncie, Indiana

I arrived back home to the farm in Texas around 2:30 in the morning, after just over a week away, a week spent in my old college town frantically trying to make repairs to my formerly beautiful house in Muncie, Indiana, in vain. It had been vandalized, most of the wiring torn out of the basement by drug fiends, the interior horribly filthy and neglected, stained walls and ruined floors, water…