Before the war began, it seemed like it had been coming for ages. But once it started, we soon realized it had always been here, and we couldn’t remember a time we hadn’t been at war.
The big election came and went, and everybody went to bed that night like they were putting their dog to sleep. It was like that big game where we blew the big lead in the fourth quarter. Even the quarterback cried. It didn’t really matter in the long run, you weren’t really rooting for anyone. Still, we were so confident coming out in the first half.
They really blew it, that was the talk in boardrooms around the world, water coolers across the nation. No amount of power point presentations can explain it, you have to play all four quarters, or the fiscal year is over.
Next slide.
The Dow is down, Taoists are investing in gold and silver, and digital currencies. Investors are taking a knee.
Wildfires can pop up anywhere.
The debate over the second amendment continues, the dead don’t care anymore in the first place, as long as there’s legal medicinal marijuana.
Can I get a bottled water? I asked my server in my service economy, looking up from the feed on my phone.
Sure, he says. Sparkling or still?
But I’m distracted by something on the screen behind his head. A national news network is showing images of a forest fire, then cuts to a commercial advertising a new medicine for erectile dysfunction.
You really ought to try meditation, a woman tells her friend. They are sitting at the table next to me, talking a little too loud for me take anything they are saying seriously.
Sir?
Seriously, she says. 20 minutes twice a day will change your life.
I want to try it, I heard it’s great. I don’t know how.
Sir?
All you have to do is be –
Sir?
Still.
