everyone was drinking like they needed to forget some horrible thing they'd done - Wright Thompson

"But, today, he listens to just a few songs on repeat, by singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, "Something More Than Free", and "Traveling Alone."

They're about loneliness and labor and the emptiness of being made to travel on a road not of your choosing."

Look at this place,” he says. “This big hotel, this town. It’s dust, all dust. Don’t none of it mean nothin’. It’s all only dust.

The most powerful four-letter word is home.