I thought about this incapacitated older man she’d met. They’d moved in together to help each other and because they were lonesome. Then the church took her off their roster for living in sin. This was a couple who couldn’t even make love. I thought about the groupies who wanted to get close to me but never bothered to find out who I was. I thought about people who can move and walk and see, who have every advantage, but who just bury their talents. I thought about people who aren’t conscious of the most fucking important things around them. I’d left L.A. to get away from this disconnected
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