things used to be so simple

we used to think we had it all.  it all used to be so easy.

clothes dirty, walk down one flight of stairs, through the bathroom, then down another, fold your neighbors underwear, put a load in.  walk back upstairs.  sit in the window, listen to your music, stare at power lines. 

walk outside, nod at the man parking his Bentley across the street, walk up to the corner store and buy a chocolate bar and a cup of Tully's. 

it's not simple to eat a pigeon.  you have to wear gloves.  you have to get brutal.  you have to rip the head off and find the good stuff.  you have to dip it in pepper.  also crab brains.  it's a pick your own adventure, except with live food things, I will pass on the live water eel trying to escape their tank.  thanks.

just when I was getting really comfortable with my life, you go and do this.  you just suck. 

in other words tomorrow is my last day of being a twenty.  I will be working.  working out.  and reading this book my mom sent me, The Dangerous Book for Boys, truly amazing.  so in love.  i'm going to build a diorama of the Alamo. 

i think I'll pour myself a scotch tomorrow night.  it feels like it deserves a ceremony.      

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[Lee]

Happy belated birthday!