Before sleeping I worry that bricks are being stolen from my house and are
then sold for hundreds of dollars. I can hear the thieves dismantling my
walls one brick at a time: creating a new currency and going home to feed
their brick children with brick-bought food. I flail at my bedside lamp
certain that with the lights on I'll be able to see the fresh hole in my
wall and a gang of handsome men loading bricks into the night. My
pockmarked walls grow weaker each morning. I decide to hide bricks under
my bed to protect what's left of my home, but the situation doesn't
improve.