Jeremy Hammett - In The Pines

Stock photo of a gray Koala bear hanging in a brown tree with green leaves.

Australia

How Not to Lose Your Virginity in Australia (Vol. 2)

It was just as miserable as my buddy had warned it would be and I was glad I wasn’t hungover. It was only then, as we were flying away, somewhere over the Pacific between Australia and American Samoa, that someone gave me the bad news.

An orange, black and white tiger with yellow eyes stalks through long, green grass.

ICU

3rd Floor Tigers

From my bed I could see into the hallway, and out to the nurses station where a pair of bored looking women in colorful scrubs sat typing away on aging desktop computers. But there was something else. A shadow. Something stalking.

My father's American Flag folded and displayed in a light colored wood box on a white mantle.

Patriotism

On The Flag

One fine summer day I was driving down the highway with the windows down and Waylon Jennings turned up when I saw a big, black, truck barreling toward me in the oncoming lane. Now I was born in the Deep South. I’m not a truck hater. Hell I’ve

A white man in blue jeans, a blue and white striped shirt and a blue and red baseball cap is hand feeding a wallaby

Australia

How Not to Lose Your Virginity in Australia (Vol 1?)

Sorry mom.

An old photo of the USS Arizona Memorial, a white marble structure over water.

nostalgia

Paradise and Dashboard Lights

Beside my bed is a notebook where I jot ideas that come to me in the moments before sleep. On the last page I have written, “THE HOOK IS YOU DON’T HAVE THE FUCKING WORDS TODAY JUST LIKE YOU DIDN’T HAVE THE WORDS 26 YEARS AGO!” It’s true I guess.

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It's Not Happening Today

I’ll walk Jack and take a shower and I’ll figure it out. It'll be so clear in my head but by the time I’m toweled off it’ll be faded away like the steam from the shower, gone.

A young soldier in blue pajamas sitting in a hospital bed. There's a feeding tube in his nose leading to an IV pump.

ICU

Cold, Dark, Comfort

I knew with a cold certainty I’ve never experience before or since that if I chose to quit, if I closed my eyes right then I would slip back into the cold, comfortable darkness. I wouldn’t feel a thing ever again.

A black mutt with white on his chest and paws sits in the sun on a dirty back porch.

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A Black Dog in the Sun

I couldn't help but shake my head. "You motherfucker..." Jack just looked at me with big sad eyes and wagged his tail. "Whole goddamned world is falling apart and you're just sitting in a sunbeam." If a dog could shrug Jack would've.

A pair of blue jeans and black, pointed toe, western, cowboy boots on a light brown hardwood floor.

On Pearl Snaps, Cowboy Boots, and Fascist Pricks

After a long hard winter in Massachusetts and in need of a break from the weather I took a trip to Austin Texas in May of 2024 to spend time with friends, eat tacos, drink beer and catch a Drive by Truckers concert at Austin City Limits. I wrote this

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I Don't Want to Do This (An Introduction)

So here I am. Blogging. Like some pretentious Brooklynite with a trust fund.