Goodnight January

So goes the notion that everything has been done before. Life is said to be reduced into a handful of experiences that all resemble each other, and its only the people and places that change to differ the circumstances. I've read similar accounts that only seven stories exists for us, and they're all the same. Someone loses love, someone gains it. Someone misplaces something, someone finds something. Someone dies, someone lives. The seventh is Matthew Kennedy plows you. Those are the seven stories that have been told over beers since Cain slew Abel and went to that sweet little Bahama themed bar at the end of the road.

I'm myself couldn't find seven stories with a seven-story locating device made of giggles and well wishes. I don't think we're fortunate enough to have that much of a variety. I think there may be only two; a stranger comes to town and a man goes on a journey. You might think that outlook as cynical, but I'm a bit more optimistic then my bohemian, dishevled good looks lead on. If on a universal level we only have two stories to tell, it's only superficialities that drive us apart. Sure, your God isn't as sweet as mine - and I may stab your chin for it - but it's all gravy.

For example, the following children are the product of:
A.) Bad Parenting
B.) Bad behavior
C.) A Failure By Some DeathSquad

In my book, only two things are responsible for this. 1) A stranger comes to town - and impregnates some white trash fourteen year old then leaves. 2.) A man goes on a journey - after impregnating some white trash fourteen year old in town.

Either way, someone abadoned these bastards. Wouldn't you?

I mean, this is failure, no matter how you brand it. I could place the strongly written words of an intellectual or professor who has made it their life study to understand the children in this type of situation, but I won't. I know the truth - Jake 'The Snake' Roberts nailed two cocktail waitresses in the same night to produce offspring resembling his BAC.

There may be only two stories in the world, but it's not worth a good god damn if you don't make it your story. People who refuse to do things because they've been done or heard of them as being done before before wind up like John Malkovich in every movie he's ever been in. World weary and uninterested. Have you seen Con Air? Have you?!?

You can read the books and watch the movies, but don't let that dictate how you see the world. Anybody can dispense a quote to fit a given occasion. It takes real courage to say something full well knowing more intelligent people have said it better. Or people have lived it. Or someone can tell it better. Idiots (as pictured) and geniuses (as written) exist, but let neither affect how you see the world. If you constantly think you're better than someone, a day will come when someone shows you up. If you continually think of yourself as a failure, someday you will move to Burlington and feel like a gloriously golden being among crippled church mice.

So it's no Chaucer, but my caption for this would be "Fuckups breed Fuckups" It's simple and its sweet, but flavors rarely call for the need to be complex.

Reminders for class: Is there anything more powerful than saying "Goodnight Moon" to anyone with good parents?