We also notified the larger trucking firms in Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland of the closure.

I?m looking at probably either Columbus, Ohio, possibly Richmond Virginia, or Baltimore or laurel, Maryland.

I e-mailed the guys the article from the West Virginia newspaper when West Virginia beat [Ohio].

In the false American imagination, West Virginia is a joke or else it's a charity case; but more than anything it is unseen, an invisible architecture of labor and struggle; and incarceration shares this invisibility, hidden at the center of everything; our slipshod remedy for an abiding fear, danger pinned to human bodies and then slotted into bunk beds you can't see from any highway.

There's a document that is by statute in all three jurisdictions-—-Maryland, D.C. and Virginia-—-that can be prepared and executed. A body disposition document gives whoever you choose to make decisions at your funeral. It's legally enforceable and that's the document that everybody should have.

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.