Eye for an Eye

Dear J⸻

You said, raising your voice, cracking the timbre, ‘At that moment they’ll lay down their guns,’ a response to my argument, well sourced in history, and, it seems, prescient, that, ‘Police will absolutely shoot peaceful protestors. Are you out of your fucking mind?’ We shared a lot of things—curiosity, conviction, and, since you were poly, sex with your wife—but we couldn’t agree on what it meant to be naϊve. That was five years ago. Anyway. I’m writing because I heard about riot police shooting your eye out with a rubber bullet on Saturday; if you couldn’t see it coming before, I don’t know how you’ll manage now. I do hope you get fuck-you money in the settlement. Sending love to you and M⸻.

Yours,

—BD

18 Oct. 2025