The inspiration:
A story:
At six he waits.
She comes into his life by way of spilled milk and tears. From that inauspicious beginning forms a fast friendship built on shared Bradbury stories and a love for peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.
At 25 he waits, telling her to breathe, now push, now breathe, now PUSH and marvels at the child their love has made.
At 55 he waits, standing with her as their son-in-law rushes into the room “It’s a boy!”
At 75 he waits, as she slips into his arms and they sway to their song.
At 85 he waits to follow.
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Now, your turn.
Damn, Darleen! Once again you make it impossible to top you.
It’s been three days since he got on the lawn mower.
“I knew we shouldn’t have bought so much land,” she mused.
‘I wanted a Japanese rock garden,’ she mused.
This is ridiculous, he thought. It’s hotter than hell, the sun’s moved and the shade’s gone.
I’m starving, my ass is numb, it’s too hot to walk around without sweating through my new shirt, these shoes are too tight, and my allergies are going crazy because of all the dust.
My elbow hurts, my fingers are asleep, I forgot my sunglasses and my head hurts from squinting.
I should have eaten before I left, and I’m thirsty as hell. Im chewing my last stick of gum. I’ve got twenty-six dollars in change in my pockets, so where’s the damn bus?
Greetings:
So, what ??? You didn’t think my weekend would be depressing enough on its own ???
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“And when she passed away,
I cried and cried all day.
Alone again, naturally.
Alone again, naturally.“
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an old man reflects about evil in this country after reading:
“At one point Dyer laughs about mailing out whole baby heads to her lab buyers in the mail. “They’ll open the box, go, ‘Oh God!’ So yeah, so many of the academic labs cannot fly like that. They are not capable.” She says lab technicians “freak out, and have meltdowns” when receiving whole heads.”
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