*Al Pacino stare*

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

You’re asking questions. Why’re you asking questions. No, Benjamin, I don’t like it when people ask questions. Coz I don’t like it. I was havin’ a nice dinner, and he has to come in here and start with the questions. Jimmy. Come here. This is Jimmy Two Eyes. Thank you, Jimmy. Ask him why he’s askin’ these questions. Jimmy is very good with questions, aren’t you Jimmy. Go ahead. Go on and ask your questions, Mr. Questionnaire. Oh, now you don’t wanna ask no goddamn questions. You see that? You see that, Jimmy? Benjamin, you see that? No more questions. Now, why is that. I was just sittin’ here enjoying my fuckin’ dinner and suddenly I’m bein’ ambushed by Wolf fuckin’ Blitzer. No no no no no, sit down, sit down. Sit down. Sit. Down. Now ask your fuckin’ questions. What? You don’t wanna? Why? Coz I don’t like bein’ asked questions? Ten outta ten, motherfucker, ten outta ten. See, Benjamin. No need to worry. We have an A+ student here, a fuckin’ valedictorian.


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Fighting Words

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

Is that your real hair?
No, I shot it on my last hair hunt. This is my sanctioned trophy as the Ancestors decreed.

Why are you so emotional?
Who hurt you? Was it Mother?

Why do you care about these people?
Why are you a garbage person made of garbage? Look at you, a sentient trash can. A walking dumpsterfire. Gross.

 

*”Was it Mother?” is a quote IYKYK

11 pm texts

Who are your favorite people to be around?

*meme*

😆
*meme*

😂🤣
*meme*

Awful 😆😆
*meme*

😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣
*meme*
*meme*
*meme*

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
*meme*
*meme*
*meme*

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
voice note 5:37

voice note 4:58

😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
can’t talk rn
c u at 2 tmrw? 😘

👍😘

#friends #couples #joy
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If I had that power…

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?

…why am I only changing one law?

I am not overthinking anything, David. The parameters make no sense. No, I won’t just think about it. Why do I have this power? Who gave it to me? Or do I have it innately? Am I in a magical realm? Can I dissolve gravity, for example? Locally or otherwise? David, I mean it. What kind of power is this? Yes, David, these are viable questions. Why only one law?

Or: How I ruined game night. #humpday

Listen…

This space where
rather than converse
we talk write text
at each other
not to, forget with
one / another

masses of individuals
so many I-s so many Me-s
screaming soundless
endlessly into the void

hoping for a response
but all that bounces back ping-ping-ping
is the echo of our own voices ding-ding-ding
ricochets and rebounds
off of each other

over and over and over and over and over
(why am I so tired?)
and over again
until the onslaught of words
congeals;

that deafening silence.

In the distance
longed for desperately
written about once again
murmurs of actual conversation –

 

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