“Seeing Eyeball to Egg
Yolk"
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the
consequences of avoiding reality.”
Ayn Rand
I did Step One of my 12 step recovery program and moved on. Denial left me and came back again disguised as an old friend who could set me free.
Can you remember being seven years old and being told
that your Aunt Alice was dying of consumption and you didn’t know what dying was
and you didn’t know what consumption was?
And do you remember being ten years old and finding out
that Karen, the seven year old Gallo girl next door had died suddenly and you
still didn’t know what dying was?
Or when you were thirty and Carl was forty and had a heart attack
climbing a ladder and literally dropped dead?
(Sotto): I can't
listen to him anymore, Vatchi. I wish he would just stop.
Ten years old: Walking
around aisle after aisle of clocks and watches, antique timepieces everywhere.
Shiny metal and glass cases. Grandfather clocks, Mantelpiece clocks. Ticking
everywhere. Pendulums. Gears, interlocked and clicking....
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 34)
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