I know how bad it is because I know how bad I was.
And I wasn’t even trying to injure or offend. But, like so many before me, I was a human hard-on—all aggressive hands and unsubtle tongue, insecurities abounding and desires that were needs which, for men, approximate emergencies.
We know nothing else except what we crave, so we invade tiny towns and leave burnt buildings, broken glass, and blood in our barbaric wake. Subsequently, we send flowers—or tell secrets that, translated, sound something like concession.
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