“‘Introducing the dream we all dream, the cure we all prayed for. He’s the Voice of God. We know him, we love him, it’s the one and only Reverend Peterson.’ He looked back at me as I waited in the darkness between the float and the hedge, those that had come up from Yonkers cheering. I nodded to Jacqui as she sat in the cab to my right, watching me over her shoulder. She turned away and flicked on the stereo and the banks of disco lights that rested on top of the speakers, which had been angled ...towards the crowd, the generators chugging behind their concealment. Electronic clapping sounds issued from the speakers. A simple piano riff started. ‘We have, the chance to turn the pages over,’ sang John Farnham as I slowly rose up the makeshift steps that had been constructed with crates, Dodge clapping and whooping his encouragement to the crowd. ‘We can write what we wanna write, we gotta make ends meet before we get much older.’ I walked over to the mic and came to a stop before it, waving at the mass of people gathered before me as the song blared from the speakers, finding my nerves melting away now that the time had come.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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