Shopping for crazy. I’ve become aware that – during some time periods, it’s mandated that there be one bat-shit insane person per subway car — and that, if there are more than that, they need to spread out evenly and give the stage to one among them — a Car Crazy Champion, if you will. After riding in a car with a urine-drenched crack addict who paced the length of the car eating (and sloshing) some pungent food from a Styrofoam container, I realized I should have been in the next car with the very nicely dressed and clean-cut man in what seemed to be a self-created and self-imposed uniform reading aloud from the Bible. I no longer concern myself with what car gets me closest to the appropriate exit, rather I shop around for the least objectionable crazy.
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PROMPT: Cities
As many of the ones that aren’t war-torn or underwater as I possibly can.
PROMPT: People Say
I hope they say, “He was kind of loud, never kept to himself, and we always thought he might be a serial killer.”
PROMPT: First Day
Today is the first day of the rest of this week.
PROMPT: Performed
Performed? Not yet. (Unless you count “Crowd Member Milling About [with No Lines] – #7” in an Elementary School Christmas Pageant.) Given a speech? Yes. Unless it is completely impromptu, it is nowhere near the top of my list of horrifying life events.
PROMPT: Physical Activities or Exercises
I never met a one I didn’t like.
PROMPT: Admiration
Have intense confidence that they can achieve anything, but only when they’re not an ass about it. So, have humble confidence or cool confidence?
PROMPT: Cartoon
Currently, probably Rick & Morty. In my youth, I was Looney Tunes over Hanna Barbera, especially Roadrunner, Yosemite Sam, and Marvin the Martian.
PROMPT: Less of
Contemplating the unknowable.
PROMPT: Positive Events
Positive? Negative? Who’s to say? Like the Taoist farmer, I’ll withhold judgement.
