“The Day Shall Declare It”

“I feel like I can’t breathe. It keeps me awake. (pause) People will say you’re not like the other boys. It goes on night after night. I don’t sleep. I just lie there with that feeling inside me like a chest full of feathers. Take your place in the world. I need something that’ll help, that’ll get me some sleep. Grow up. Do you understand? I can’t go on like this, just lying there night after night looking up at the ceiling and expecting.”

“The Day Shall Declare It”

“Yes, I remember you plainly, I met you in the park in back of the public library or was it the men’s room at the Greyhound Depot. I met so many they sometimes get mixed up however you stand out plainly. You asked for the time, or a light, and we got to talking and first thing I knew we was in your apartment, drinking…I seem to have gone through a change which I cannot account for except that I am very disgusted with all of the world. I guess I stopped caring about what happened to me. That is to say, I have lost my self respect. I have had experiences which only meant money to me and a place to shack up for the night and liquor and food. I never thought it could mean very much to them. I have meant something very important to hundreds of people whose faces and names have slipped clean out of my mind. I feel as if I have run up a debt of some kind – not money, but feelings.”

Love it when a plan comes together. I love how this project has been turning out and the amazing people that have been a part of it. Shipping out all the @cathedraloftears orders this morning; get excited. Already at work on issue 4 with the awesome @brookeva_ and then a special issue 5 with my @juiceyj. Lots of fun stuff to come!