I don’t know what to say. Sometimes I like to watch old episodes of familiar tv shows while I’m doing familiar things. I am thinking now of the ones that premiered in the mid 2000s, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, when I was blooming out of grade school and being carried to the older, greener fields of middle school. I hear the dialogue ring in the background while I’m cleaning or sleeping or crying about some new pain and I think, “This is the beginning. This is where I started.” Between fights with my mother and my first laptop. I think I crested there.

I think this is what came after.

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I was born As I Wrote One Day. But only almost. If you can call blind and blinking at 15 alive, then I guess I was alive. But sticking my hands in dark places to keep the feathers in is not really living. I only pulled on accident, I didn’t mean to. Existing was not a measured, calculated, conscious occurrence. Like everything else, living was an accident. I was pushed too hard and held on for life. Nothing could hold what I had. So I became a historian obsessed with living and then living was all entrails and guts. The result is nothing beautiful. But the insides came first. 

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