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Mickey Z
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Thoughts inspired by tumors
My mom’s continuing illness has lead me to re-work something cheery from way back in the Cool Observer archives:
As I gazed about the subway car the other day, I couldn’t help but wonder: which of these people have some incubating condition or disease and how many of them even know about it? I zeroed in on an obese man with the stench of cigarettes on his clothes. How could he not have a tumor somewhere? Then again, having spent my entire life in a polluted cesspool like NYC, who the hell am I to talk? (At least I can delude myself that by going vegan, eating mostly organic, staying in shape, and keeping the attitude somewhat under control, I didn’t lay out a friggin’ red carpet.)
I’ll take that musing a little further: You can never really know who the hell you’re passing on the street...or what they’re hiding.
*There’s the woman walking in front of me who is unaware that she’s pregnant.
*That old guy killed his wife in 1964 and was never caught.
*The younger guy to his left will be dead of a heart attack in 2 hours.
*The man with the sneaky smile stole the jeans he’s wearing from a public clothes dryer (an idea he got from Fight Club).
*The teenage male with a shit-eating grin just went to visit a buddy and ended up having sex with his friend’s older sister.
*That man over there is using cheap labor to build a small factory in the Bronx. This will result in a deadly accident in less than a month.
*What that pompous-looking woman with the large gold crucifix around her neck does not know: her 14-year-old daughter is on her way to meet a 36-year-old man she met on line. Her daughter will lose her virginity within the next hour. After having sex with that minor, the man will die in a car accident on the way home to his wife and kids.
*That other lady can’t read but has kept it a secret for all these years.
*Hey, that blonde in the tight outfit is actually still a virgin at 26 but in her pocket is tomorrow’s winning lottery ticket.
*Too bad for the man on the corner: Right now, his dying mother is telling her nurse that she never really loved her son and wishes he’d stop visiting her.
*The woman laughing with her friends is unaware that her younger sister is seriously considering suicide within the next 10 minutes.
*Mr. Pinstripe Suit over there will ask his wife for a divorce by the end of the week...but he doesn’t know it yet.
*The tired-looking man talking on his cell phone is a closet alcoholic.
*That homeless man fought in the Gulf War and killed surrendering soldiers under orders from his commander.
*Then there’s the one who just had an abortion and the one who lies to his father about being gay and the one who ate the last cookie but blamed it on his sister and the one…
Everyone’s got a story. Everyone’s got a secret. As Bruce first sang more than 30 years ago: “Everybody’s out on the run tonight/but there’s no place left to hide.”
Oh...I almost forgot: Have a nice day...
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