We all know what it means to compensate. When we can't express one emotion, we express another in its place...
I hate you
(I love you)
Get the f*** away
(I want to hold you)
FUCK YOU!!!!
(I need you)
Bastard, I wish you'd just f***ing die!
(Please...Don't leave me)
Stupid ass mother f***er!!!!!!!!!
(I'm scared of being alone)
Whatever...
(Yes, I f***ing care. What's it to you?)
Get out of my face
(Because I can't kiss you)
Touch me and die
(since you won't hold me)
So what if I'm cold...
(...I can't be me.)
I met Jerome on a busy city street in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was forty-five years old. On that particular day, I was out and about, enjoying a much-needed day off from work.
I wanted to purchase a sukiyaki sub. I parked my car in an area of
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