The reason to be embarassed watching the white kid play the black kid is the reason to cringe when your daughter dreams of vampires & the reason you only put the words of others in your mouth & spent your best years chasing reflections of reflections which is the reason that builds nations of people not admitting that not even your best friend or your own mother or your very own partner can hurt where you hurt how you hurt & there isn’t a damn thing any of us can do about that.
Anything less tangible would lack the gravity to make our world so deliciously flat
Judge! Jury! Executioner!!
Sculptor of comfort zones
Architect of paradigms & status quo
The soft squishy world of Meritocracy shall be our foundation
The only remaining distinction being that of 1 & 0
Their lives will be like those hardly noticeable lines in the background of a masterpiece
They will want no more than to accentuate.”
And so on. The others were careful to control their facial expressions as they watched the man kneeling on the asphalt give the dilapidated building an impressive erection.
A*a* would describe scenes like this to people on the street but no one believed him. “When’s the last time you saw the horizon?” No answer. Stockholm syndrome he called it when the dark places in your head become part of the landscape. But no one listens when they’re comfortable. He didn’t help telling them he had apotemnophilia. “I am God’s little flower,” he said during his spot on Search for the Real. “He loves me. He loves me not.” **am was a working man after all.
Neither of her parents was thinking abt the other one the night that she was conceived. Everyone agreed that she had done well for herself after a childhood spent looking for the hand that wasn’t holding a cellphone.
S: “So you have a pretty unique success story. How did your spiritual quest lead you to being the host of Search for the Real?”
E: “Well, I met A*** in Nepal, where we were both doing a bit of soul-searching. We decided that, much like the tree in the forest, our search was irrelevant if it wasn’t being narrated.”
X: “?”
S: “Did you find what you were looking for?”
E: “Our show is less abt trajectory & more abt feelings.”
X: “?”
Off-camera, she connects the dots.
“It looks like soot. Only I can see it. Some of us are completely covered in it, while others just have spots here & there.”
She said it's like there's this sticky black film that covers everything & **am's ears perked up. He loved the way she sat on her hands but didn't bother to cross her legs. Her hands were calloused from carrying loads of bricks. "Brick by brick," the President had told them, "we will rebuild our nation." "They tell us," she said meaning the television, "that we're all equally as filthy. But it doesn't seem like we were always." A**m argued that the soap we use now is substandard & that's why no one ever gets clean. They talked abt the dark spaces that you never get out of & how knowing makes you even more alone. "Two. Twooo. TWOOOO..." Ad** exclaimed suddenly. "What do you think?" He was having money issues & had taken to trying out diff. neuroses. "The way we're always in each other's way," *v* continued. "but not even conscious of it. Like we're programmed to irritate the fuck out of each other." "TWO!" **am blurted out. But it was too late. They were already looking at one another suspiciously & thinking, "Maybe you're just as filthy as the rest." Luckily, the moment ended when the robots came. It was time to talk abt Race. They both knew from experience that the robots would not go away until they had spent exactly one hour feigning concern over the various ethnic issues that were believed to plague them. So, for the next 60 minutes, their dialogue was replaced by performance.
*da* got tired of picking up discarded paper towels from the bathroom floor at the store where he worked. Men would use towels to protect themselves from the deadly infestations of germs on the doorknob of the bathroom & then throw the towels on the floor behind them. **am's solution was to hold one hand over your eyes while using the other hand to open the door. Doorknob germs are only harmful when they are percieved. **am's idea made him a hero in the Green Movement at 1st & then, like a virus, it was applied to all facets of life. People would cover their ears while berating one another & plug their noses whenever the Gov't was addressing them. This was called A*a's Meme & it allowed people to live their lives more fully than they had in decades.
"Ohhh. Zat iss a nice entendre. I sink I may have one more just like it." "No, really. That's okay." "You know... Zee uzzer day, I was tossing a salad, no?...for a friend..hehe..who had just dropped zee kids off at zee pool..." "Excuse me?" "Are you sure you would not like one more entendre?" "I really just need the one."
