bitter coffee and red wine are all we needi think that what you mostly do when you find you really are alone is panic. you rush to the opposite extreme and pack yourself into the groups-- clubs, societies, types. you suddenly start dressing exactly like the others. it's a way of being invisible. the way you sew the patches on the holes in your blue jeans becomes incredibly important. if you do it wrong you're not with it. you have to be with is. that's a peculiar phrase, you know? with it. with what? with them. with the others. all together. safety in numbers. i'm not me. i'm a basketball letter. i'm a popular kid. i'm my friend's friend. i'm a black leather growth on a honda. i'm a member. i'm a teen-ager. you can't see me, all you can see is us. we're safe. and if We see You standing alone by yourself, if you're lucky we'll ignore you. if you're not lucky we might throw rocks. because we don't like people standing there with the wrong kind of patches on their blue jeans reminding us that we're each alone and none of us is safe.
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