Jesus' Son

Multiple stories in Jesus’ Son demonstrate that F**khead believes he has prescience and can see the future before it happens. This is most evident in the first story in the collection, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” in which F**khead knows a car accident will occur before it does. However, even outside of this, F**khead has moments where he seems to understand what will happen, and this assumption extends to other people, as well. For instance, while riding a train, F**khead remarks that, “Right beside me was the little cubicle filled with the driver […] In the darkness under the universe it didn’t matter that the driver was a blind man. He felt the future with his face” (80). F**khead’s knowledge of the future seems to reflect the ecstatic tone of the book, with its quasi-spiritual language and imagery. However, this is another demonstration of the extent to which drugs infect this narrative—that ecstatic writing can be another reflection of F**khead’s state of mind and the altered states of consciousness that the drug use puts him in. Whether or not F**khead’s knowledge of the future is real or a consequence of drug use doesn’t seem to ultimately matter, because F**khead has no ability or inclination to change anything he sees: Just as his vision doesn’t stop him from entering a car he knows will crash, it also doesn’t stop him from taking drugs, which instead requires multiple trips to detox until he succeeds at the end of the collection.