Wore Down Trust incorporates poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, biography, vodka and the blues in an examination of desperation and perseverance. Utilizing a blues format, the narrative strings through the lives—pre and post death, real and imagined—of American country singer Johnny Cash and Canadian poet Alden Nowlan. Long haul trailers thunder past. Ice chimes in the glass. There is much in what we want that we do not know.