If by chance you should end up cheek by jowl with your favorite celebrity and get to see their humanity, your relation to them would be as toilet paper is to the human.
If I awake during a dream, the emotion can last all morning while the details fade away quickly.
Some note their dreams in a journal. I let them pile up like unread emails.
The bad cop and the good cop must work together. The bad cop on his own will be shot in the back; the good cop, in the front.
Both sides fear that if their opponent wins, they’ll be swept into concentration camps.
And will these camps be on the Chinese model: for reeducation, or on the German.
Assuming benignity on his part, is Time God’s way of gaslighting us so we’ll gradually surrender to his will?
You may be old but as long as you respond to texts promptly, you won’t be forgotten.
Eventually the doctor will say you’re too old for surgery and will proscribe the counselor to help you learn to live with it.
The honeymoon is the warranty period of marriage.
As the election draws near I grow adept at hearing all the dog whistlers.
I bite at the ankles of some and lick the faces of others.
Ask anyone who’s ever been pregnant about their experience of being brought to surrender due to the passage of time.
ReplyDeleteLove the political wet-face image, Joe.
ReplyDeleteCarl Jung encourages us to treat every dream as a completely unknown project, look at it from all sides, take it in our hands, carry it around, and let our imagination play around with it. Add all those unread emails to your to-do list!
Your Squib sets seem to be getting longer? My fav this week:
ReplyDelete"You may be old but as long as you respond to texts promptly, you won’t be forgotten. "
What about those, like me, who choose not to text at all and who still use a flip-phone? Are we truly already forgotten, or do true friends just use email, a handwritten/USPS card or letter, or better yet, drop in for a visit? A litmus test for authentic friendship. Call me old-fashioned . . . and fortunate to have such true friends.