there’s a 70-foot crane outside my window right now. it’s getting awfully close as i type this. they’re doing something with the air-conditioning unit on the roof which is making the drop ceiling rattle something fierce.
\nas i watch the crane extend, rotate, lean in closer and hear the rattling get louder, closer, then stop all-together, i start to imagine catastrophy. what if the roof isn’t strong enough to support the equipment they’re moving about? i’m mentally preparing myself for a thousand-pound piece of machinery to come crashing down on my head. or what if the crane malfunctions and it comes through the window? would i be able to live with disfiguring scars?
\nthis is how my mind works. if i die while sitting here at my desk, i think, someone will find my keys and go to my apartment to dispose of my possessions. what will they find in that apartment? a week’s worth of undone (but rinsed and stacked) dishes, a purple vibrator, cob-webs, a dirty shower, a shelf & a half of un- or half-read books, two boxes of craft supplies, 13 years of tax returns, two ounces of vanilla vodka in the freezer, a jar full of dum-dums, handcuffs & a choke-chain, five watches, an un-viewed copy of bambi<\/i>, a large directory of pornography, seven half-empty bottles of shampoo, bowling shoes, dust, an un-made bed a video tape with yoga, half of felicity<\/i> and meet my folks<\/i> on it.
\ni really should do those dishes tonight. i’d hate for anyone to think i was a slob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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