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.

2/8/18

Dear (_____)

Dear Santa,

I know it's a little early and we haven't exactly been best friends.  You ghosted me pretty hard and I didn't take it well and I do still harbor some ill feelings.  We can make it right.  I haven't seriously injured anyone in years and I've been pretty damn good to boot.  I know I've said some things about nuking the human race off of the face of the planet and lining the fringe of my future woodland compound with the heads of my enemies at three yard intervals and designing a super virus that will reset the planet.  That's just talking out of school.  You and I both know I'm not that ruthless and I do care for and can love people.  If you could see your way through to giving me a flamethrower this year, I promise it will only be used for good.  Not even just entertainment, because we both know entertainment falls into so many different categories.  Just one flamethrower.  Good can be entertaining, but entertaining is not always good.  If you can do that, I would be very appreciative and let the past be the past.  If you can't, I understand too.  The future can be fickle.  Just thought I'd lob it up there for you to think about, big guy.  Dig the beard too, man.  Mine is starting to go a little gray myself.

Have a good one,

Child at Heart

P.S. I'll build my own if I have to, but if I blow myself up it's on you
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2/1/18

That Instant

you burst into laughter sitting in traffic when you realize people pounding the table pressing merit and skill based immigration because they insist immigrants shouldn't be allowed into the country based on winning a lottery or because they are related to someone already here are completely blind to the fact that their current station in life has a lot more to do with the luck of where and to whom they were born and who they knew and were related to than it did any shining meritocracy or particular honed skill.
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