7.
You and Gibson are walking around the neighbourhood. Gibson is peeing on trees and romping through the grass. You pass the same houses you passed before September 11th but now they look sinister and evil. Everything looks evil. When you take the subway, when you walk anywhere and when you see people you think, They could kill me. Anyone could kill me. You knew this before, of course, but not in the same way. You have trouble near tall buildings now, which makes life awkward because your bank is on the ground floor of a tall building. Your lawyer’s office is way up high, on the twenty-second floor of a building. And your psychiatrist. There are many things in tall buildings that you struggle to do. You certainly will never fly again. You’ve promised yourself this. You will never get int
