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Timelessness

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If you remember a time
when the Smothers Brothers
surpassed Bonanza in viewers
why is it that you remember?
Was there a heart of the matter?

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This is timeless, I think…

(johnw.hays) Sep 12, 2002 17:20

Sometimes I get the feeling that a nap is jumping up and grasping a fistful of eyelid in each hand and hangin’ all his weight, trying like crazy to be heavier than he really is. Suddenly, he gets flipped up and loses grip, tumbling away. He simply clambers back up over all obstacles, leaps for it again and grabs away for another set of handfuls, trying with all his limited might to pull down.

Meanwhile, his partner is wandering around randomly through the catacombs of my brain, purposefully dragging his feet to snag wires and cables, breaking connections, holding his arms in the air simultaneously to do the same. In his feigned lack of concentration he blows air through pursed lips as if to whistle, except just short of that so the sound is really only air. About as nonchalant as anyone with a hint of a purpose could ever possibly appear.

IF, for some amazing reason, any fragment of an intentional, productive thought were to be maintained for more than a few hundred seconds, he deftly stumbles hard against the nearest surface to render the focus suddenly askant and significantly altered from the previous depth of view.

Just for good measure, he then quickly begins plugging connections back in, though certainly not in the same receptacles from which they were yanked moments earlier.

Makes me tired just reading it.

Written by johnwhays

July 14, 2009 at 7:00 am

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