April 3, 2023: Picture This, Jiordan Castle
Picture This Jiordan Castle
I feel bad for the inventor of Comic Sans. I, too, have made mistakes. Like opening the bathroom door in a bar to a stranger rag-dolled on the toilet, her face closed for the night. I, too, wanted the impossible—to carve a hole in the floor, retreat into lost time. Earn someone’s forgiveness, maybe even my own. But, instead, I accidentally invented panic, then futility. I wanted to forget what I had seen, who I had been, so I turned us both into flowers. I invented bees and a yellow bird to watch over us, but it wasn’t enough. Others had already invented doom and repetition. I cut myself a break, fashioned a little more time—enough to learn which mistakes were mine to make.
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