3:30 A.M.:

a night on the drag.  lower end downtown fort worth.  near a project and a courthouse.  all black except some gays.  i am driving a small red  car, with Tex and  Jose, both in drag.  Need a hair cut.  Pull into D.J.'s on Saint Louis, no longer in business.  Another bar; i  know the owner.  He checks I.D.'s.  Jose does not have one.  we have to leave.  outside i go to get the car.  when I get back, they are gone.  i find them in the bar after much searching.  see people I know.  we have to leave again.  Leave in a convoy of electric wheelchairs, three of us.  go down a block to a park and the zoo. came out swinging up a path, smoking a joint.  i swallow a couple of roaches.  we are ok. .talk about dr. blanche, office down on pennsylvania, .  Her history.  Her heroism.