Must a Violence

Attention Span

86 Attention Span A cupcake will not solve this. A shared ice cream treat with hot fudge will not solve it. Things are accidentally spilled, toppled, my contempt grows. Finish one motion before you begin the next. Have an attention span that brings you to the end point of an endeavor. Solve a problem and incorporate the solution into your daily lifestyle until it becomes habit. It’s not “natural,” I know, but is learning “natural”? Is choosing to do a difficult thing “natural”? I see you’re looking forward to the next time the trough will be filled with slop 87 and not much further forward than that. One slop bucket to the next, potato peels and runoff. Oh feast table of the wealthy innovators and seers, successful entrepreneurs, could you give us a lesson that will stick? Could you teach us a hard lesson? The same dog comes and the same dog goes, running, sometimes holding a Frisbee in its mouth. The babies expand in number. The din of babies interrupts the atmosphere. Their strollers take up the thoroughfare, pushing the rest of us into the road, into the bike lane, oncoming traffic. There’s a skunk on the road too. It gets flatter and flatter each day, ground in with the 88 tarred-down macadam, into the finite cracks. Even its singular defense, its stink, is dissipating in the air as the body lingers. Soon it will somehow be gone, absorbed into the mundane pores of the surrounding materials. ...