Nixon in the margins

Nixon lived in the margins of the county of Kings.

He starred in elaborate pursuits that carried over from one dream to the next. He admired this about his dreamlife: that he needed to invent the world only to the extent that it suited the pursuit. If, in a dream, he chose not to follow a given road, he didn't have to draw that road, the rivers that flowed under it, or the seaport to which it led.

Similarly, in his daylife, he had moved out all the way to Gravesend. When the house grew too close, he began to walk. He discovered Avenues Y and Z. He began to inhabit the clutter of Brighton under the clattering Q train rails. He is out on the Boardwalk today, rehearsing its length. One day even that won't be enough, and Nixon will launch a campaign to reclaim land from the sea. He will steal it back from Neptune.