Reckless Walking

I think I should be excused if I ever said the wrong thing here. I'm alone. I may be surrounded by hostile strangers. They try to steer me off course in my guesswork. It could lead to the occasional slip. I can only go by the evidence of my own eyes and ears. I'm doing the best I can. I don't set out to hurt others, I hope to please them. If an author's claim to his work hurts others, it's not the author's fault. From my point of view this has all been a horrible accident. But by writing my own work, I keep my vehicle well inside the yellow line. Those who took my work were the ones piled into the convertible driving all over the road and launching their empty beer bottles into the windshields of transport trucks. There may be others who hurt people who were hurting me. They make that decision on their own. Don't confuse me with them. I let God punish the wicked. And even if I wanted to hurt, how much harm could I cause? 'Oh yeah? Well you can subtract one listener from your audience of millions! Take that!' And when people get hurt it kills the party. How can I celebrate on a pile of casualties? When do works of music and comedy end up causing hurt? When bad people get their hands on them. They intercepted your love for my life and for my talent. Now the time has come to pay for it and they don't want to pay. They mustn't think your love was worth it. They want me to pay for their crime, but I didn't trick anyone by posting my own life in my own words. And I already paid for their crime with six years of poverty and horror. All I want is for everyone to believe me when I say that I write my own words from my own life. If others are punished for disputing this claim, it's their fault. Sometimes we need to lock people up for public safety. Such a measure is intended to minimize hurt, not to cause it. God will straighten this all out for me in the end. That's good enough for me.
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