liz, sixteen
"I believe in something, but i don't know what it is. It's either the future or the end. It's every reason that I do or don't get out of bed. We live in the unhappy shadows of skyscrapers freight trains and malls to a soundtrack of nuclear warheads and bombs. Addicted to power, addicted to authority, money, and success ... so far gone, without our addictions, do we even know how to live? The sun is shining through distance, bitter clouds that make me choke and cough and scream. Sitting here alone watching acid raindrops fall, this is not the life I want to lead."