Boys get lost,

girls wait to get found. 

A theory

Maybe I'm lost on a road

wrong exit--   wrong street

easily corrected 

Or confused, late at night

wandering down strange streets without streetlights

knocking on the door of people whose names I forget  

waking from a dream:  a series of errors

houses that are empty

letters filled with words I did not write

a stack of books on a table with empty pages save one

Title page,  signed and dated

five years from now 

.

I am in the dark here. A man possessed by a DARK SPIRIT of an unkind man (Friend Behr).

Hi, I'm Dr. Peter Swilling. I am tired. I am so tired.

Do you get tired? Do you want to sit down and talk about it? Maybe over coffee at a sliding scale. I can work with most insurance plans. Sit down. Have a cup of coffee. We'll rap. We can call it a "session." How about that?

I'd like to put you under the influence of some kind of drug that will make it impossible for you to do anything…

^{"Children are almost... almost immune to this disease. I don't know how you feel about it, but they have much stronger immune systems than we do, somehow, for this. And they don't have a problem. They just don't have a problem... I had heard kids really don’t get it, if they do, they’re all going to be OK."}

^{-- Unknown Fox News caller, Aug 5, 2020}

"I want to decide who lives and who dies."