October 28, 2018

The choir of Holy Communion, Charleston, joined us today. The basses around me were magnificent, one vast and rumbling- like me but bigger–one high and clear and silvery, like a tenor with a baritone range. It was enlightening to sing with people doing it right. Simone clutched my hand as she went to communion. Maud is confused and goes to the bathroom in the wrong place. I screamed at her, and her dismay and confusion were palpable. Then I held her in my arms and wept bitterly. I prayed to Artemis, who gives the innocent painless death in good time.