Orange Juice for Breakfast
So, I don’t know. I have no idea what it means. Why ask me?
We do things, don’t we? We stumble along, we’re blind.
I am a 5 foot tall man, standing in a 6 foot deep rushing river.
So, don’t ask me why I do things. Don’t try to interpret through the rapids. I don’t do anything because of anything.
I am sorry right now for so many things. I don’t know what most of them are, but I can hear them scraping at me like birds on a roof. I feel them staring at me from behind bushes and through one-way mirrors. I have tried at various times to seek them out and to beat them into humiliation. They are much more clever than that.
I have tried drinking orange juice for breakfast.
I have sipped from the well of knowledge.
I have sought to simplify.
I have run faster than anyone ever has.
I have pretended I knew what is important.
I have admitted to knowing nothing.
I have danced.
I have slept deeper than the dead.
I have lied about everything and denied everything and hid everything and refused everything. I have betrayed everyone. I have ignored every bit of advice I have ever received. I have blamed my father and died for his love.
Sometimes it feels as if I have already done everything, and there is nothing left.
Sometimes the orange juice tastes incredible.