The Witness Line
I do not regret it.
It is a marked grave and I chose it and I would pay it again, and it is still four thousand one hundred dollars that I did not have to spend and that I spent because a man told me a lie on a pavement.
Four months, from February to June, of a particular kind of frightened that I had not experienced before and that I now recognize instantly in other people.
About fourteen months of not being able to say the sentence I married a homeless man three weeks before he died out loud to anybody at work, because I could not get through the following twenty seconds.