hors t…e it is
for everyone to be together,
all smiles, under a roof, eating and drinking and talking
… and then there’s the kind of person who will die
unless they have the mental space and privacy
to be alone — yes, completely isolated, an individual unto themselves — for very, very long periods of time
this is the alien in a world that utterly abhors the notion of solitude,
this is the person who b…