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INSPIRATIONS PASSING BY ON THE WAY TO OVER THERE
For every thousand or so thoughts or ideas that invade my brain, only a handful are scooped from the cartoon bubble hovering above my head, then retained for possible inspiration later on.
These out-of-nowhere glitches and doodads are piled high in a corner of my mind and sorted and possibly matched on word-laundering day.
A few examples of stuff that arrived from nowhere and for no good reason reappear on this page today:
A PEW THOUGHTS
Would you term a belligerent preacher a pewgilist?
Would a smelly boxer be a phewgilist?
If the phewgilist attended church, would the pew say phew!?
You tell me: where does this material come from? Another example:
DISLIKE
That disliker dislikes me.
Not only that,
That disliker dislikes the likes of me.
I dislike not so much the
disliker, but the disliker’s
dislike of me.
I dis the disliker, not
because I disliker, but because
I disliker dislike of me.
Where am I going with this drivel? I dunno. May I impose another example?
“I can’t get very far without my body.”
Hmmm…
” If my mind wanders, it can’t get far because it is tethered to the body bag within which I reside.”
Can’t stop my brain. There’s more:
“Wisdom imparted by the wind would be called a wind advisory.”
The question may now be asked, Is there a very fine line between bursts of wisdom and instances of insanity? OK, here’s another:
“My greatest hope is that Science will find Cheese Curls to be a sure path to a healthy life.”
Now, that is almost sane. Hmmm… Another:
“If you speak the unspeakable, it isn’t.”
And on and on:
“If you build it, there is no telling whether anybody will come.”
Either I’m losing it, or this stuff is beginning to sound, well, Sound—if not of mind, at least of whimsy. Can you take another?
“I’m so skeptical I’m skeptical about my skepticism.”
I’m not so sure I’m a skeptic.
Uh-oh, this is now becoming Zen-like:
“Why do people only have flights of fancy? Can’t one occasionally enjoy a sea voyage of fancy or a hike of fancy?”
Now, Grasshopper, this exercise starts to morph into quotable realms of ephemeral wiseness.
Why don’t I shut up while I’m still behind
© Jim Reed 2018 A.D.
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