*LIFE PRESERVE* (in progress) mural design by Ben Harubin with artists Nick Anvil, WCool, Pepe Paban, MattG, JohnM, Worth

 

 

In the city:
to be an "expert" you must never
tell the truth,
or get to the point.

There’s one of those street corner philosophers
Who likes to think of himself as, "Socrates revisited"
(Or as he sometimes refers to himself, as a freelance main man.)

The title of one guy's latest book is,
"A Thought Above Stupid"
a nd although it's a best seller he refuses to go out and promote it;
f or reasons, HE says, that MUST be quite obvious.

A fan asks for clarification,
"Dear Sir:
In some of your stories you'll refer to a certain 'god' saying this or that,
and at other times speak of a 'reality' thinking one thing or another, and I'd
like to know exactly what distinction you're drawing between these two?"

Dear Fan:
Can you picture the difference between a keyboard and a misspelled word?
(Don't get hung up over thinking how a keyboard must have an operator,
and don't ignore the fact at the other end, to wit, that there is a need for misspelled
words. Should you ignore this advice and push too uncomely at the opposite
ends of my comment-cum-question, you run the direct risk of straying outside the
acceptable bounds of reasonable, civilized thought. So, if you feel vulnerable to such
possibilities, IGNORE, YES, WIPE FROM YOUR MIND, my asking if you can grasp
the difference between a keyboard and a misspelled word
..... [Tis' indeed foolishness, my good man, just forget all about it, I say.]

After many years in search of what he had ca11ed, "inner peace,"
one guy says now that half his life is gone he’d settle for some external
version of same.

This one king gauged his success by the fact that no one in the kingdom would any longer speak to him.