Not Tonight

Posted on May 30, 2003 in Book of Days

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: If I could do it over again.

This topic fails to interest me because it’s not the way I like to enter the past. What if — the age old question — is a rust-calloused heavy bolt key that I prefer not to pick up. I’m more concerned with the feline triangle forming in the living room, the sound of the automobiles revving their engines down on Santiago Canyon Road, tomorrow’s trip to Red Rock Canyon. Not for me is the hardness of the blood marking the form of my skull with its thump thump thump. The blood rushes to my head when I consider what might have been different when I went to graduate school or when I picked my major in the first place. I’m becoming what I want to be now. It’s the what if of the future which occupies my attention.

Or do I resist just because it is Friday night and I want to get to bed early? That kind of self-examination tires me. I’ll just fetch another notebook and write in there.

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Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: You hear a siren.