"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
β Kurt Vonnegut
It happened. Simultaneously, all over the globe, it happened.
Zip! Chunkle! Spat!
The "witty" sportscasters on ESPN were about to cum down each other's throats, when it occurred.
Oprah had all two inches of her flaccid, drippy dick embedded in the bleeding asshole of the populace, as it took place.
Some forgotten celebrity was on his knees, preparing to deep throat corporate cock, in hopes of resuscitating his "career," at the moment the feed...stopped.
For 3.7 seconds, all television sets β everywhere β deluged the mind-drugged masses in a whiteout of video snow, followed by a brief injection of blackness, replaced by:
"The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. [...}
Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question, 'Is this real, or is this just ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, and they say, 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride.'
And we...kill those people. 'Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.'
It's just a ride. [...] It's just a ride."
β Bill Hicks
"I hate Vegas!" the liquored up lady spit forth, between hits off her lukewarm, Steel Reserve tallboy. Most of her gulp splattered across my face.
For Number's sake, I pretended I didn't care.
"Why would you hate this town?" I motioned to the backyard of the local swing club around us. "There's so much to do hereβ!"
Mid-swig, the woman slammed the half-full can on the table, as more of the tankard's contents erupted from its opening like clear, tepid lava. "Yeah, if you got money!" she interjected.
Saliva launched inadvertently β or at least I'd hoped inadvertently β into my eyes.
If she'd been a guy, I would've left 20 minutes prior. Due to the fact she had one extra hole in her body than men, I continued to torture myself.
Breath the flavor of a working landfill, she berated everything about Sin City, and all those who loved it. "Back home, I get $23 an hour for the same $9 an hour job I have here! I'm starving to death! I got evicted because I couldn't pay my rent, and I had to move in with my daughter." Jerking the beer can β spilling yet more of its guts β she motioned to the 20-something to my right.
"It's okay, ma'." The younger woman leaned in, consoling the distraught female β who was obviously her mother. "You know I don't mind."
With that, the maternal figure wept.
"Ma', c'mon. Darren has a good job, and even with the kids, we'll always have a bed at the house for youβ"
"I know; I know! It's just that your father β God rest his sole β is rolling over in his grave right now, watching you taking care of me!"
"Oh, ma'β"
"No. No! That isn't the way he would've wanted it. It wouldn't be this way, if he was still here."
Nervously, the progeny of the two glanced around, to ensure her distressed mother wasn't attracting attention. "Mom, Dada would've been proud of youβ"
"Oh, dear God!" the woman clawed at the heavens, in a last ditch plea for divine intervention.
None came.
I have less game than a 97 year old midget eunuch, but somehow β some fucking way β I was able to grab hold of the rudder on this Titanic, and steer her to port. I'm still not certain how it happened, but β at some point β mom became horny, during her reach for the razorblades, and asserted she wanted large cock.