Author: OoD

The usual memoir stuff; a child’s fascination with sound; playing a toy instrument; under the aspect of eternity; etc.

The flimsy self regard of aging professionals defending their worth in the marketplace.

Do NOT react.

Thoughts: semi-organized gibberish.

After 25 good years, the bill has come due.

First law of thermodynamics: any time a medication falls to the floor, it ends up in the most inaccessible space possible.

Throughout that troubled interlude, he felt this spirit, roughly translated as house wind, watching over him.

Your entire existence has been a fight not to die. When will you live?

If you were any good at this, someone would have noticed by now.

Empty page: infinity.

Whether nothing matters, or everything matters, it matters.

He led by example. Everything he did, I did the opposite.

A tree has more dignity in a single leaf than mankind in its entire history.

He needed to believe that their shared ordeal had brought them closer, but she wanted as far away as possible.

Help line
If considering jumping, press 1.
If considering overdose, press 2.
If considering strangulation, press 3.
If considering firearm, press 4.

Is any word more ominous than the word ominous?

He was what we called a “heel-stepper.” Every response started with “yes, but no.”

Birds invented music; flowers invented art.

Our moments together were uniformly unpleasant, but I was grateful for every one.

To become accomplished is to experience a great loss.

Outside: collar up. Inside: collar down.

Senses diminished but still delivering a convincing reality.

Every night you experience something far stranger than any drug.

You know you locked the door, but it couldn’t hurt to check. And that’s when the trouble begins.

Teasing an announcement no one is waiting for.

As with all art, whether it knew it or not, it was about god.

He stopped seeing them after realizing their kindness came more from pity than affection or respect.

Man was created in order to manage the litter box in order for the cat to fulfill its destiny.

If lost, see where it leads.

So far below an acceptable standard that it doesn’t even qualify as failure.

Whenever he spoke you would inevitably hear a faint muttered “cunt” off in the distance.

He was a bundle of damage, everything mixed around and put back in the wrong order.

I feel great sadness over my anger at your continued presence.

This incarnation wasn’t in the cards.

Their love still superseded their obvious mutual loathing.

Taking it on faith that the soul forgives the ego.

End Times, or Beginning?

God regrets to announce that he is wiping us off the face of the earth.

In this work I have struggled to maintain the proper tone of operatic self abnegation.

A single truth the mind has broken into many.

These are the facts. These are the trees. You are the wind.

The more complex the organism, the more putrescent in decay. Also, the more difficult to love.

The trail of wreckage he left in his wake conformed precisely to the contours of his inner damage.

He grew up with few expectations. He accepted tolerance in place of love, and survival as success.

I like to keep myself unbusy.

He had, without realizing it, absorbed the professional trick of imputing grave urgency to statements of no importance.

I was not cool. You wanted to be somewhere else. I didn’t understand this at the time, but it helps now.

I know where this is going.