Tight Ropes

"Circles of circles. When you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough. I wanted to fall along the spokes to the center of the circle, where there was no movement. I can't explain it, man. It was like staring at the ceiling, waiting for the sky. All this banging was still going on outside the door. Then hours of silence."

Reading day.