September 22, 2006

• as I lay dying

  “As I lay dying the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”
  –Agamemnon to Odyssius; Homer, The Odyssey

  Are you a grown-up?
  I don’t ever feel like a grown-up.
  I look like one.
  I don’t always dress like one
  but sometimes I do.
  You can look old
  be old
  but not truly be grown up.
  When you eat your vegetables
  not because you like them
  not because you should
  but because you finally realize
  colon cancer is a Real Thing that Could Happen To You
  and that while Living Hard and Leaving a Beautiful Corpse sounds really cool
  you may actually have other shit to do in twenty years…
  then maybe you’re starting to grow up.
  Even if you still kind of think vegetables suck it.

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