Lunch With Otis Pike

“Things have changed drastically in Vero and change is not necessarily progress. Progress betters people, but change is just change…”

Now what would you expect of  someone with a novelistic name like that?

We are sitting across from each other at Harbortown Fish House in Fort Pierce waiting for lunch to be served, and I’m watching Otis and thinking how well his name parses.
O. Oh oh. “O say can you see…”

O-tis. As in  “My country ’tis of thee…” Patriotic without a doubt.

Pike, as in various entries in the dictionary:  “A long-jawed teleost fish; a hill with a peaked summit; a pikeman soldier armed with a spike with a sharp steel head…”

Read the entire article in the September 1998 issue