I'm searching for the time when I
stepped out of the crowd even for a
moment
a guy was on a park bench and I was
watching this encounter through I was on
the sub in a subway actually I was on
the streetcar platform and there was a
chain-link fence that I was watching
this through and this guy was grabbing
his girlfriend and slamming her against
the bench and shrieking into her face
and I hollered at him
I hauled heard through the fence hey
what are you doing or something like
that it I shouted him to get him to stop
it because everyone was we were just
standing here watching because we were
behind the fence and he turned on me
like a pitbull and started to come
through the subway doors and the people
around me said he's coming for you miss
so I ran I actually ran over to the
little glassed-in ticket booth and
banged on the glass and said excuse me
can I come in there's a gentleman coming
and he's angry with me and they said I'm
sorry miss we can't let you in for
security reasons so he came at me but by
that time security had arrived
and he was terrifying he was so angry
and later on the ride home I was so
afraid that he was gonna find out where
I lived and he was gonna come and hurt
me
and I thought about him that moment Oh
Lord
it was instinctive its sprang out of me
before I could think I felt this anger
and yelled at him in an instant but then
I
just returned to my
the default of my own little world
I don't know why that is
maybe maybe it's because I spoke out and
I was loved feeling afraid and alone
and that's it I think that's the
difference about the day when I met
Faisal and the others the crowds on Bay
Street were large and there was this
transcendent moment of togetherness we
had taken over the city for a short
while
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