Tell me a story. Tell me a story about me.

 

 

 

 

 

It’s so much easier to just…..forget.

 

 

 

 

 

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“Mommy, may I count these ducks?”

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Object 1: It?

What is ‘IT’ and how do I get it?

Object 2: What is talent, anyway?

Object 3: A lesson in calming the fuck down

Eagerness

Object 4: More questions

Where does unused talent go?

Object 5: Jules Jacobson, looking back.

Thirty years ago, I went to summer camp and I didn’t think I was good at anything. I was a run-of-the-mill kid: liked to be outside, didn’t like to go to school, didn’t have passions or talents of any kind. But then one day at camp they made me get up on stage and do some funny dance — some chicken dance or something…I was mortified. And — I can’t believe I still remember this, it’s been so long…decades…but I remember I heard people start laughing. And I could tell by the uproar that they were laughing with me and not at me… And then I got off the stage and sat back down… and thought, “Maybe, just maybe, I have a little bit of talent”. Back then, I made people laugh. But now? Now I’m a lawyer. Nothing funny about that. At all.

Object 1: The past

Who did we used to be to one another? I can’t remember now.

Object 2: A diagram of our love.

Object 3: Just maybe

Maybe we aren’t so different, you and I.

Object 4: Corinthians

Object 5: Fill in the blanks

I asked her not to leave me but she _____ anyway.

Object 6: Finality

Maybe ‘you’ plus ‘me’ doesn’t have to equal ‘us’ anymore.

 

Object 1: Three little birds…

Object 2: A belief.

Art chooses us.

Object 3: Googly eyes

Object 4: Big bird

Object 5: Death and the Golden Square

Object 6: Water in glass

Object 7: A love for things, not people.

Sorrow comes to those who love to deeply.

 

Object 1: What you find when you go looking..

What you find…

Object 2: Calling All Nymphets

Object 3: Bow and Hat Drive Away

 

Object 4: So the story goes.

A pre-pubescent particularly precocious pretty piques the interest of an imaginative and intellectual introvert.

Object 5 : Hotels Across the Country

Object 6: One version of the story

“Touch me”, he said.

So she did.

Object 7: The other version.

“Touch me”, she said.

So he did.

Object 8: Little pink bow

Object 9: You know…

Object 10: A man and his daughter walk into a bar..

Object 11: In Her Room

Object 12 : Socks Dance

Socks Dance

Object 13 : A Visitor

A Visitor

Object 14 : And the rest was rust and stardust.

Object 15: But…

But love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love is–

Object 16: Girl in Glass

Fish Bowl

Object 17: List

Shoelaces

Ribbon

Bubble gum

Licorice

Fingernails

Grass stains

Jump rope

Eyelashes

Lollipops

Hotel rooms

Object 18: Annabel Lee

Object 19: The playground.

Object 20: LL MM

Object 21: Motives by HH

I’ve taken her away. But not to worry, for I love her. And she, me.

Object 22 : Speaks for itself.

There’s some purity in perversion, too.