She looks at me and says, \u201cEveryone, I think, is doing the best they can.\u201d<\/p>\n
By that she means herself, and me, and everyone suffering and hurting<\/p>\n
and grasping and struggling and trying hard and usually failing.<\/p>\n
It was a problem when the rays came, the pain, the electric shocks.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can you really handle such terrible inconveniences?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n
She thinks the best thing to do sometimes is to nail the windows shut.<\/p>\n
A thick layer of aluminum foil helps protect her against the worst of it.<\/p>\n
It seems unlikely to me, but who am I to judge? Her pain and mine are not the same.<\/p>\n
She a missing person, and I am missing, too.<\/p>\n
The missing people walk the streets, ride the subway, sit alone in the dark.<\/p>\n
The missing people look away, slip into the alley, avoid the crowds.<\/p>\n
The missing people were not invisible until we looked away.<\/p>\n
Am I doing the best I can?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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