Tell Me Love Is Real

In the winter of 2012 two famous American performance artists sat in anonymous hotel rooms on the West Coast waiting to take the stage and in a bizarre coincidence overdosed on the anxiety drug Xanax One survived one did not The two individuals are Whitney Houston who tragically died and the author of this piece who lived Incarcerated in a psychiatric ward the author began an arduous and experimental journey towards recovery What is life and why should we live it having had it thrust upon us like the assigned reading of a baffling mystery novel the chapters jumbled the text often incomprehensible In the thirtyseven years of life leading up to this event we find a simple but elusive answer Love