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He learns
his
whys and wherefores,
his
causes and correlations,
his
logic,
his
fallacies.
His
body is in prison, but
his
mind is free.
So when he gives me
his
final paper, in which he argues that the categorical imperative is perhaps too uncompromising to deal with the conflict that affects our everyday and challenges me to tell him whether therefore we are condemned to moral failure, I say, "I don't know.
Some of you might know that, in 1990, Depp got engaged to Winona Ryder, and he had tattooed on
his
right shoulder "Winona forever."
And now
his
shoulder says, "Wino forever."
And as I looked into
his
eyes, I realized that for the hundreds of letters I had written for political prisoners, that I would never have written a letter for him, because he was not a 12-year-old boy who had done something important for anybody.
So he would come to the first bar, the second bar and then the third bar, and then really slowly move
his
head so he could fit through, and come back, third, second, first.
And I would lift him, and he would put
his
fingers through.
Or if they were dark cells, it was like iron corrugated, and he would put
his
fingers through.
He was born in a prison with almost nothing, no material goods, but he had a sense of
his
own heroic journey, which I believe we are all born into.
It's basically efficient brainstorming, and when I visited David to learn about
his
research, he used dancers to explain it to me rather than the usual method: PowerPoint.
Because
his
grave was exhumed.
And it turns out that
his
temporal bones were harvested when he died to try to look at the cause of
his
deafness, which is why he has molding clay and
his
skull is bulging out on the side there.
But Beethoven composed music long after he lost
his
hearing.
And the fact that he can play the piano like that is a testament to
his
brain.
He has turned off
his
cell phone,
his
laptop,
his
pager,
his
alarm clock.
There is a fat yellow cat asleep on
his
couch, raindrops against the window and not even the hint of coffee in the kitchen air.
He has forgotten to turn off
his
watch, which ticks, like a metal pulse against
his
wrist.
His
fingers find the pillowcase's sailing masts.
He turns on
his
side, opens
his
eyes at once.
Young, red-faced with
his
sleeves rolled up, fists of fingers like fat rolls of coins, he looked like Popeye the sailor man come to life.
He learned war like he could read
his
way home.
His
basketball hands learned the tiny clicks and slides of lens into frame, film into camera, chemical into plastic bin.
His
father knew the equipment but not the art.
My father learned the magic, spent
his
time following light.
Once he traveled across the country to follow a forest fire, hunted it with
his
camera for a week.
And the house near the park became a house under ash, so they escaped in backpacks, on bicycles to darkrooms But the loft of Wooster Street was built for an artist, not a family of pigeons, and walls that do not reach the ceiling do not hold in the yelling and the man with basketball hands put
his
weapons out to rest.
His
hands no longer fit
his
camera, no longer fit
his
wife's, no longer fit
his
body.
The sweet potato boy mashed
his
fists into
his
mouth until he had nothing more to say.
His
first time out, he followed the Christmas lights, dotting their way through New York City's trees, tiny dots of light, blinking out at him from out of the darkest darks.
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