the power cord out of the tower to
shut the thing down. Then the cops
started firing tear gas into the
crowd.
The tear gas had nothing to do
with me or the music. Tear gas is
just what the police use to shut
down parties in black
neighborhoods, like the club
turning on the lights to tell
everyone to go home.
I lost the hard drive. Even
though the cop shot the monitor
the explosion somehow fried the
thing. The computer would still
boot up, but it couldn’t read the
drive. My music library was gone.