Posts tagged ‘commute’
if someone offered you a new life for twenty-five bucks, would you do it?
the only way they find out is if you say something.
she was on top of her game, just as her parents always said. she was naturally good and practiced a lot to ensure she stayed good. but the one weakness she always had as a kid came back to haunt her that one day in September, as the summer and fall gave hugs to one another.
so, mr. smith, let’s just say you’re on a deserted island . . .
age has a way of creeping up on you but not in that i’m tip-toeing on a creaky floor with a knife in my hand. it’s more like a parade of drummers. as you get older, you keep wondering, wow this is a cool parade. and then before you start thinking too much about that parade, you start thinking of how it was just yesterday that you were in high school and you had zits and it was so cool to have your own car and do your own thing and that you had all these dreams and that you were genuinely different than everyone else because you are somehow unique and maybe you are destined for fame. then you wake up just like any other day, just like every day, and the drummers that are all around you, they’re getting louder and louder, and then you realize that’s YOUR fucking parade man, and that they’re playing drums for you like they’ve always been.
it all started with an ad in the sunday paper job section. it read, “tomorrow the sea moves east on a small boat.” he replied the following sunday, “workers needed for short-term labor job in long island.” we’ve been going on for months now, just like this. yesterday, he said, “make money from home.” so today, we are planning to meet for lunch at our favorite place on the upper west. i think i’ll have an iced tea and the soup of the day. i suspect he’ll have salad with croutons.
my own mail is full of bills and advertisements and invitations to things i’m not ever going to attend. but every so often i get someone else’s mail in my box. i read it, even if its a bill or an advertisement or a free coupon to Target.
when all is said and done, and the war is final, they will always be there, amongst the empty buildings and silent sky.
when you think about it real hard, we are all ones and zeroes, zeroes and ones. some of that makes hard substances like concrete. other times there’s a conflict between the ones and the zeroes and it’s in those spaces that you have to be careful because that’s where they can come out and get you.
that’s the one for me.
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