Subject to Change. Draft 3. "Hope"
Still no call from her this morning. I got a letter. My unemployment got denied. So holds the hole in all the usefulness that I am meant to be. Far away in the distance, I am watching an old 1960s home movie about how I dug myself out. The person is someone who isn't me and the images are far away. I am thankful that I feel enough to want to perish. Past meets future in some quantum possibility where I am a boyish lout and have never heard of a suit. I could do it. I got an email this morning, too. From a woman I used to date. She made me a strange offer. I cannot tell it The hills are on fire, and she lives on one of those hills. It is our annual burnt sacrifice to the world here in Los Angeles. Luckily I don't live close enough to get the ash. This time. What we renewed seemed best. But the strange New Age chimes she left hanging from our entryway make frantic noise in this wind. I want to think of these as the flames of all that I falsely desired, though I don't kn...