AUTHOR.CALHO: If I didn't write it, I would be hitch hiking cross country to Maine and then Alaska in that order. While taking frequent breaks to spread leaflets. And sit in diners. And write on things because I wasn't at a computer. I may still do that in a few years. Writing this also helps me forget about and better understand the limitations of being human, and keeps me busy enough to allow me no free time to burn the world down.

THEMATIC.ABOUT : Collapse often. The things that hold people together and hold them apart and scatter brains. The things that make thoughts go boom. The things that ooh and aah and [expletive deleted]. Sometimes poking around the margins where responsibility ends and the only one to look to is the Original Equipment Manufacturer and say "but, I already pressed 9 for more options and the menus are exactly the same. Can you just replace it?" The answer will be: "please hold." Sometimes hanging out in dark corners. Sometimes following the train tracks. Looking for ways out and ways in and all the while sharing the things seen and heard and done and drawn and written and scorched and healed and teased and caged and dreamed along the way.

2/11/17

Dear (______)

Dear bank teller,

don't wink at me while I am in line putting in things you have no idea about.  The first time was fun, the second time was okay, the third time was fine because I was having a rough day and it's always good to be recognized, the fourth time was fly, the sixth time you did it to someone else so: customer service is okay, do not cross the line anymore.

The eighth and ninth were not fine.  We've established our relationship.  You don't know kick about me and I don't know kick about you so can we stop pretending.  We can make this a business transaction.  You don't, well you may, let's play it that way, you may give one tick about me.

The order still stands and the next time you wink at me I will tell you: do not do that.  You know shit about me.  Every time you wink I want to rip your teeth out of your face when you lay your open joke afterward to entertain yourself.



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