Patience

Although I was in a neighborhood that is that supercool Brooklyn, I entered none of the charming places, instead I went into Dunkin Donuts. Although it was a full sunny day and I had had a perfectly restful and productive morning, I hated everyone and everything, and I had decided the only thing that would […]

Yours

Today a kid asked me what my religion was, I used to dodge that question, today I just told him. I don’t know why. Episcopalian. I mean Christian. Episcopalian. Did you, like, grow up in the church? Yeah. My family’s very religious. He’s Catholic. Other kid nodded. He’s Catholic. I’m nothing. I mean, I’m a […]

Raft

I went somewhere I could see the sky, they talk about sky in Montana, I have been there, we have as much. Sky. The stairs up, up two stories, metal stairs, open, a little scary, and the High Line once I’m up there makes me a little agoraphobic. It makes the city zoom up around […]

Baltimore

From an interview with James Baldwin, just after the death of Dr. King: Baldwin: It is not the black people who have to cool it, because they won’t. Interviewer: Aren’t they the ones getting hurt the most, though? Baldwin: That would depend on point of view. You know, I’m not at all sure that we are […]