Thinking
of white-faced mimes today,
gyrating
their arms and legs, running
their
fingers over invisible panes of
glass
with nothing to say. Thoughts,
so
many thoughts today, of meteorolo-
gists
smiling brilliantly on wide-screen
TV
predicting 50% chance of rain and a
Nor'easter
ready to slam into the Atlantic
Coast
of Maine. What of the jockey who
tumbles
end over end on the track with
his
horse in race #5 at Aqueduct? Ever
wake
up from a dream suddenly thinking
about
frizzy-headed, bulb-nosed clowns
driving
those stupid little cars. Scary! And
you
get to thinking that the boring job you’ve
had
for the past seven years is going nowhere.
But
the vacation you have planned this sum-
mer
will give you a well-deserved break from
the
tedious routine of your day-to-day. You
consider
those college kids who dress up as
Mickey
Mouse and Pluto and parade for
hours
around the concourse at Disneyland.
You
hadn’t thought of it before, but on a
Parts
Unknown you saw on TV, Anthony
Bourdain
made a point of telling the viewers
that
the kids inside frequently fart in those
suits.
The world, even the wonderful world of
make-believe,
when you think about it, can be
in
actuality a rank and disgusting place. You
imagined
yourself one day base jumping off
a
mountainside in Peru in one of those wing
suites.
What a way to go. However, you do
have
a fear of heights, besides your passport
has
expired. You had the chance to major
meteorology
in college, and you chose IT
instead.
And here you are on vacation taking
a
selfie with Donald Duck and your kids.
Chris
Hanch 10-31-18
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