lighter fluid

there is only so much anyone can say about what has happened to our country in the past 24 hours, so I'm just going to say this:

yesterday felt unreal. as the election results started to tally up and all the networks were predicting a gwbush win, I started to be numb. I needed to feel something - I wanted to be cold and tired and excited and angry. I went down to the stone arch bridge and sat down in the middle of it, 20 feet above the river and 50 feet from downtown Minneapolis. I wanted to see the skyline burst into flames, I expected to see a dark cloud descending over the city. Where were the rioters? How long can we be expected to sit by while our own neighbors steal and lie? I wish I could let go of the feeling that someone will do the right thing - something will change and make everyone see that living in fear is killing all of us. Fearlessness, setting the sky on fire with my own match, seems to be the extreme sport of the future. Fuck. It.