Sometimes when I pick up the pen I feel my 5 ft 7 and ¼ inch frame perk up like David at the sound of Goliath's slurs. I swear i'm 6'6" and ready to dunk the basketball straight over Wilt Chambelain's head made soft by the kisses and “**** yous” of the 20,000 he probably never called back. Sometimes when I start to write I believe that I am invincible like James Cameron's submersible in Titanic's C deck sifting through soot and broken china, floating over smoke stacks and rusted bedposts, or reaching out my robotic arm to open up the door to the radio room that once buzzed with hellogoodbyes. Sometimes I feel like the soldiers walking behind that little napalmed angel screaming down that dirt road in Vietnam, oblivious to the fire of my words. Her cries shrink me back down to size. But most times I feel like I'm hooked up to a lie detector test in the dank basement of an FBI facility, blood pressure rising while the polygraph line traces the outline of a mountain range no one has ever hiked.