I’m always amazed by the emotional and intellectual honesty of children.  A small girl was fussing over a card game.  Her older sister said it was just a card game and her father reiterated the fact.  The small girl made clear the card game was irrelevant and that the card game was the method in which she felt slighted, in which she felt she was being overlooked and underappreciated.  Sir, I hope you listen to the words she speaks and encourage such honest outbursts.

In writing that last line I became extremely emotional, chocking up with tears.  Strange.  Physically uncontrollable.

Also:

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This more palatable version is missing the following lines:

“I wore the exact same clothes for five days;
the bail bondsman gave me a smile;
I was thinking of only my sins all the while.”

Anyways, they are playing on August 9th, 2009 here:

Williamsburg Waterfront
East River State Park, 90 Kent Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11211
United States