Status Updates From Heartbreak: The Political M...

“The shock of being unable to control what happens, especially the tragedies, overwhelms one. Someone dies; someone leaves; someone lies. There is sickness, misery, loneliness, betrayal. One is alone not just at the end but all the time. One tries to camouflage pain and failure. One wants to believe that poverty can be cured by wealth, cruelty by kindness; but neither is true. The orphan is always an orphan.”

“I went to her but was determined not to say I had been beaten or I was running; I couldn’t bear one more time of being told it was my fault. Still, I said it; it fell out of me when she saw the open sores. “That’s horrible, ” she said - about the beatings, not the sores. I'll never forget it. “No one’s ever said that.” I told her. No one had.” she breaks my heart

“The next day he’d point at me in crowded rooms and screech, “She wants to put me in jail. ” I’d say, “No, Allen, you still don’t get it. The right wants to put you in jail. I want you dead.” MOTHERRRRRRRRRRR