Home Alone – A home has been found, but at the cost of being forever alone. And you thought a mortgage was expensive? Turtle’s home is a reflection of the turtle’s poverty. After all the turtle lives in a mobile home. And so do many humans. And too many are homeless, they have neither mobile homes nor shells. At least they have hearts. The rest of us with roofs and bathrooms and spare bedrooms are heartless. And I see homeless in the city and my heart goes out to them, but that is all. No money, no help, no words for them in their loneliness. They have my sympathy and my apathy. Stoke, who has no shell and no home and no mortgage and no heart and no sympathy and no one to stave away the solitude and nothing but apathy, who is better than me, at least isn’t blind to the world. Stoke can elucidate the foibles and futility of existence for us and for the turtle. As for the turtle, the turtle who lives alone, well at least the turtle can beat the hare in a race home. – Zachary