Status Updates From The Great Believers

“how could she explain that this city was a graveyard? that they were walking every day through streets where there had been a holocaust, a mass murder of neglect and antipathy, that when they stepped through a pocket of cold air, they didn’t understand that it was a ghost, it was a boy the world had spat out?”

“A handful of dead astronauts and Reagan weeps with the nation. Thirteen thousand dead gay men and Reagan’s too busy.”