Sunday, August 9, 2020

Defective Parts ~ Sunday, August 9, 2020

Muscles? Not my forte. Irony? Sledgehammer. Silence? Soft as a mouse. 

Yet, conspicuously average for an Asian. An underachiever. 

Obviously, I'm smart...but socially inept. I get by like others. 

Very few Indians are charming and guileless. I am neither. My spouse? 

Enough about women. As a man I have failed too often to mention. 

Remember, I get by. Neither good nor evil. I am no believer. 

Cock-up from start to end. I was born a Rooster to four or five mothers. 

Obviously, I'm sharp...but slow, methodical. I'll catch up in a week. 

Muscles on other men make me look pathetic. I lack such pretension. 

Puerile since my childhood. Perhaps I'm simply stuck. Nobody notices. 

Everything has it's place. A place for everything. Still our place is a mess. 

Not that I lack all charm. I was a married man. Don't send condolences. 

Still, I wish I could be like others, but I can't. I can't even confess. 

As for the Church, I gave it up for Lent. Bad joke. I know. I mustn't speak... 

The dead? Like my father. Like so many old friends. I'm as bad as a louse. 

I lack humility. California swagger. My path? Good intention. 

Obviously, I paved the road to perdition. Perhaps I am a freak. 

Neither wife, nor children. No property. No car. No shotgun shack. My house... 

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