A horrific story about a wandering young poet who died in Billings. RIP Adam Davis

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http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_51edb20e-ba0b-11de-bcee-001cc4c002e0.html

"Maine poet was on way to work on farm in Oregon"
Man crushed by garbage truck recalled as thoughtful, artistic

"Friends of Adam Davis, the young man from Maine who was found dead in a Billings garbage truck last weekend, describe him as a talented poet with wanderlust who brought gifts to his high school English teacher years after graduating.

"I have a piece of Christo's gates from Central Park. ... I have a favorite handwritten simile from T.C. Boyle that Adam got for me at a reading in Boston," wrote the teacher, Alexander McLean, in a recent e-mail.

In the years after he graduated from Orono High School a year early, Davis, 22, would occasionally show up at McLean's kitchen table to talk about poems, adventures and books.

"He fell in love with poetry as a freshman and charged forward," McLean wrote.

But McLean said the adventure tales were often censored for his ears."

"(He) just didn't seem to have any moderating force in his personality," he said.

Davis was found Saturday morning in a city garbage truck in Billings, where he probably experienced a terrifying death after falling asleep in a downtown Dumpster on a night when temperatures dropped to 18 degrees. Police think he was trying to crawl from his sleeping bag and out of the truck when he was killed by the operation of the machine.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Oh god!

:cry:

[mitchum]

2. I blame "On The Road"