The problem with storytelling is you need an ending. Closure. For the audience. But life is messy. Some (me) might even say chaotic. Beneficent, malevolent or indifferent (me again). I like to consider myself an optimistic nihilist. Like Maureen Ferguson, I believe in everything and nothing. It’s because I like to keep the slate clean, and I should hope that if there is a God he exists somewhere outside our grasp, certainly not the God here, in these mortals’ minds, telling you what to do and killing each other just to live. No. Not a fan of the plebeian mind. Simple truths are the best kind but the story doesn’t end until the teller takes his last breath.
I’ve had the title in my draft box for a long time. I don’t know if this post will do the idea justice, but, fuck it-I’ll have a go anyway, sitting here drinking tea in a dead Confederate’s palace in the Pearl of the South. Other titles in my draft box are Inner Critic, War and Radio Days. We both know I confront myself on this platform, because I’m a transmission junkie with an accountability problem. I’ve melded a need for self realization with the desire to perform. When I tore the fourth wall down and invited you in, I was able to write about wanting to be a writer-which is the biggest boon and most beneficial thing to ever happen to me. It’s unfortunate that the subject will always be me, but you see yourself in the work and I’ve built a robust readership for the blog writing about what I know. Maybe D.C. is right that”blogs are passe”-but the only problem I have with it is coming up with an ending.
Another week has blown by. The sands of time are wearing away the bulwark of me. I’m steadied in the storm of it but I’m worn away and getting closer to diminishing returns…All we are is dust in the wind and there’s something extremely important about that-there is no other time to come together and do work. This is it. We won’t know what it all meant until it’s over and even then we can spin it in any way that helps us go down to rest, gone forever but here to stay. What the fuck has just happened here? I’m scared to die but worse-scared I will have never lived. It’s our work that will save us. Every time. Our work that will connect us, free us, build us up and knock us down (ye tyrants take heed). I feel a grave need to get on top of these years, get my kicks in and make my mark. I want to be of service.
Ever since November 8 you’ve heard me say I want to be political. But I can’t even do my taxes without my eyes rolling back in my head. There isn’t a positive spin to the calamitous and grasping mind. Ain’t any closure here, really. Just some signpost between rage and sloth, a plumb line for us to gauge how far we’ve come, and how much monumentally more we must do. A slick 600 words like this keeps me from bloodying myself on the bars, helps me paint with all the beautiful colors of pain. It ain’t the end and it’s never over until it is. But see, if we do our work and put everything into it but the blood on the boards, then we’ll march on. From the blackest night we’ll yell down through the centuries. Love is stronger than death.
See you next year motherfucker.
Going for the Throat 
see you next year motherfucker
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