[inaudible humming]

[a man sits alone in his room talking to himself inaudibly]

FRANCIS (VO):
The first thing I have to understand
is what the word means to me
before I can ever understand
what it's gonna mean to somebody else.
We defined them for a reason-
to avoid confusion
but, man, some of us took to writing our own dictionaries.

We aren't angels.
We are not angels.
I need you to really hear that.
We speak in clichés too often.
The metaphors aren't helping.

My entire life has led up to this moment.

No shit. That's always been true.
If it wasn't, you wouldn't be here.

So, can I please leave my closet doors open
in front of you
without you judging the contents or
the way they're arranged?

And, yes, mother, in this instance
the closet is a metaphor.
That's where we hide our skeletons
like trees hide their roots,
we can't see the pattern
but we know where they're coming from.

[inaudible humming fades out]

04/11/2012

Posted on 04/12/2012
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