CHAPTER 41

Fetus

(October 8, 2016)

Someone left a giant ceramic red fetus on the roof of an abortion clinic in San Francisco with a sloppily printed note hanging around its neck that read: “A major university has just released the results of a five-year-long scientific study; the scientists involved have come to the conclusion that the deterioration of the ozone is due not to the burning of fossil fuels, but to the methane in cow farts.” It was as if Miss Malone were plugged into my mind … but not my mind now. My mind then.