Is the whore hitchhiking to go somewhere or is there an assumption a whore is a whore is a whore. Is there anyone who doesn’t think this boy with his thumb out is not a whore.

Or does my merely suggesting it color what you think you see.

There but for the grace of…

Perhaps he’s simply working. Perhaps he is his work or by the subjectifying of his and our worlds through objectifying externalization, we are able, paradoxically enough, to share communally in the nature of internal experience.

Perhaps we know his pain. Perhaps not.

In every age there have been people who considered that an individual had one overriding affiliation so much more important in every circumstance to all others that it might legitimately be called his “identity.” For some it was the nation, for others religion or class. Many see themselves as a member of a family whatever the fuck that is.

Family is usually sacred within the context of societal structure. But one has only to look at the various conflicts being fought out all over the world today to realize that no one allegiance has absolute superiority. What determines a person’s affiliation to a given group is essentially the influence of others: the influence of those about him — relatives, fellow-countrymen, co-religionists — who try to make him one of them; together with the influence of those on the other side, who do their best to exclude him.

Why are we our work. Or is our work us. Why are we a last name of families or are our families us.

How many brothers and sisters do our second selves have. Why are you here.

For most of our species existence, leaving the tribe meant death.

Each one of us has to make his way while choosing between the paths that are urged upon him and those that are forbidden or strewn with obstacles. Boys cannot be whores. He is not himself from the outset; nor does he just “grow aware” of what he is; he becomes what he is. He doesn’t merely “grow aware” of his identity; he acquires it step by step.

Or chapter by chapter. Or book by book.

When you are done with creating these, you will become, gratefully, undone.