In the morning watch the end of “The Last Days of Pompeii’ (1935). Drive to the Monroe County Courthouse. Go in for a sentencing hearing. Everyone calls my client a “monster”. I plead for ask for everyone to have hope for him anyway. Client is maxed out. Life in prison. Drive back to Milwaukee. Walk up Prospect Avenue. Walk out to Capitol Drive. Walk to Culver’s. Eat a cheeseburger and drink a strawberry malt. Walk back home on the Oak Leaf trail.
