"I spend my days a tryin' to never be caught lyin' But sometimes it's just so hard. I promise to help with the struggle while my people desperate muddle I'm a Social Democrat. Oh, I can tell you why you should be taxed until you die. From my view I see that You don't know how to spend it so to me you should just send it. I wile away the hours thinking how to take your powers and stack them up for me... Oh, you'll never see us coming but by then you'll be running from the Social Democrat..."
What awakened me was the same thing that always ended sleep: the intense, real sensation that I was choking to death. Gasping, I plunged forward from where I lay, stuck two thumbs underneath the thing strangling me and ripped it from my throat. For several moments I sat chest heaving air back into my lungs. In a few minutes, I lifted the object which almost killed me...again. It was a tie. The sort of thing any guy might wear. But, I gazed around; the other accouterments were there...again. A pair of leather shoes, a briefcase and a suit bag with a note attached. That was different. I reached over, grabbed the bag, dragging it to me. Already the shock was setting in and even though I had moonlight enough to read by, my mind could barely read the words. After several tries, the message made sense: ‘Pick up dry-cleaning.’ Frustrated, I threw the suit bag to one side. My head hurt, eyelids heavy, I crashed back on the forest floor and stared up at the stars. God, I needed help.