Darl

DARL Darl is in a cage, in a hospital, in Jackson now, where he looks outside across the bars from his bed and thinks as he becomes mad. He is all by himself, tied down to a steel bed, in a hospital where no one wants him. There are doctors and nurses around him, but no one wants to listen to him or talk to him. He talks to himself but he does not listen …

…The world is so silent now that I can even hear my own laughter. The world is so silent that I can hear Addie. She is in Jefferson now, riding the horses. She is telling me to come with her on the horses. She is above the rest, on top of her big horse waving good-bye to everyone but me. Then she looks at me and turns. She gallops away with me into the light.