I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. - Margaret Atwood

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

</p>I am the horizon you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso</p> I am also what surrounds you: my brain scattered with your tincans, bones, empty shells, the litter of your invasions. I am the space you desecrate as you pass through.