Hibernation and Other Problems

Fragment #1

We are angry at the snow. Answer: Much tongue-swallowing, frost on the eyelids is a button purse for many mouths.

Fragment #2

Ginger, I saw you naked, and now I am scared for you. I am also scared that you are a young woman saying, “I believe it is wrong to expose your private parts.” I remember at 12 you wore a sleeping mask to bed and that after your mom died your dad almost had Charlie, your brown, scruffy poodle, put down. Your mother was a “Baylor beauty” and had dancer’s arches.

The problem is peer pressure has mutated into pressure exhibited by seven-horned, sewage-breathing, identity-gouging, cash-defecating mega-superstar corporations. And they parade around with irrestistably appealing names–like America’s Next Top Model.

When I saw you displayed on the podium atop that skyscraper, I wanted to put a blanket around you.

Fragment #3

Art is Necessary.

Art is Necessary because it is Self-Actualization.

Problem: Not everyone agrees with Maslow that Self-Actualization is Necessary.

Solution: Some people (the neat ones) need Self-Actualization.

Therefore, to some, Art is Necessary.

Fragment #5:

Society is not convinced that the Arts do anything but piddle their thumbs with exorbitant effort. I do not believe I can convince them otherwise.

Fragment #6:

Hello Diana, hello Leah, hello Kathleen, hello Meg. I am very fond of graduations and the degradation of final sentiments.