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Also From TxM6 Hyperfiction
http://www.txm6.com (updated 10/03/00)
http://www.txm6.com/enfer (updated 10/03/00)
http://www.txm6.com/lcfallon
http://www.farragher.com  (Poetry updated 9/24/00)

TxM6 is entirely a work of fiction for adults only.
Copyright (c) 2000 Sean Farragher.

0229XC Peter Jackson on the CJ Murder
The Sentinel: Bergen County's First Newspaper
Founded 1887; By Peter Jackson Campbell.

Raped, beaten, and left for dead, a reformed 
drug addict and innovative photographer, CJ 
Parker, clings to life at Englewood Hospital, 
another victim of the self styled "Genesis 
Killers, the self confessed but still at large, 
Abel and Lilith."

CJ Parker's symbolic "photo-grams" have appeared 
in several top line art magazines and this 
newspaper. The Sentinel will republish 
Campbell's feature story from last April 4th in 
next Sunday's Centerfold Edition). She had 
resisted the sharks that would lead her to a 
final precipice for burial. CJ had survived drug 
addiction, and all the other associated evils, 
and now, for her reward, she fights for life a 
second time. Life, as a late President said, 
does not seem to be fair. I first met CJ two 
years ago at a Sentinel seminar for college 
students working against drugs. 

CJ does not use her last name as a signature to 
her work. "My work needs no ID. It speaks for 
itself. Labels confine and enslave," she said.

Eight years ago she took the name, CJ, as she 
put it, as "the art of rebirth. Like many of us, 
CJ suffered physical and sexual abuse. Her 
childhood had been cruel and unwanted. Raped at 
seven by a stranger." A skinny man-boy passing 
through," she said. "I saw his demon and was 
worn by it."

Addicted to heroin at fourteen, the former Cindy 
Jane Parker (now simply CJ) hustled as a 
prostitute for fifteen years. She filled her 
skin and veins with the indelible ache she 
suffered as a child. Ten years ago her much 
younger sister (who had also become a 
prostitute) died of a heroin OD. Some deep agony 
lifted CJ, killed the demon pushing her away 
from an early death.

"I left the funeral," CJ said, "and I turned 
myself over to DETOX, methadone, and twelve 
steps later, I stopped using drugs and stealing 
myself short. I began to study myself and to 
know what I could complete."

Running five, ten miles a day CJ purged the 
poison. Now, she paints with a camera, reads 
Yeats, write poems, and studies the modern 
painters, Miro and Klee.

"I even drink mineral water, and I am not HIV 
positive" she told me during that first 
interview more than two years ago, at the 
methadone clinic. Her parting words rang 
positive. Predicted success. I'm not going to be 
stuck on this stuff [methadone] too, she tersely 
said. Fuck the doctors who would try and make 
me."

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