080923 pretending i’m normal isn’t a solution—keeping up with the joneses is deterministic and is you lose the joneses don’t gaf 081623 but see the thing is you DO live in a storybook if no one else is making it a good story, then it’s up to YOU if someone else is, you could choose to join them go for a ride for example, tom just said LET’S STOP AND SEE THE TEA LADY on our way to the lake, and this is real life and after he came back out he said remember this could all be vaporized at any moment 082623 i love all my shit typewriters fountain pens computers stereos desks chairs tables windows flowers shrubs trees weeds weird little animals even neighbors i love all this shit and i am so fucking grateful it makes my eyeballs want to explode sometimes lol in commemoration celebration honorification whatever you want to call it, i understand it’s fleeting, i understand the flame doesn’t stand still i understand each thing is broken, irreparable i understand, and still, nevertheless, i am in love (see typewritten esoterica, miscellany, & other desiderata for more from this time in my life) joy is more important than all of this joy is more important than all of this joy is more important than all of this joy is more important than all of this joy is more important than all of this joy is more important than all of this joy is more important than all of this