The Witness Line
I was never going to disappear without a name.
I knew that better than almost anybody alive, and I said it to you anyway, on a Tuesday, because I had worked out that it would move you.
I got up so fast that the chair went back on the floorboards and made a noise that I can still hear.
And I shouted at an empty room.
I want that in here because it was ugly and because it was the truest thing I did that year.
I said: “What did you do?”