A Mixed Metaphor

Posted on April 8, 2004 in Journals & Notebooks Writing

From a notebook, written while I was waiting for my truck at a car dealership:

I [couldn’t] stand being a cashier in a place like this. Did it once and never again. [This] brain works hard and fast — redeciding, revising — not the kind of perfection they want — they want the final product coming out at the first stroke of the pen — I’m not like that — you don’t get trustworthy cursives from me — I’m for the early creation, the revision, the last ruin of the final monument — writing’s like that — it’s for “ruining” the final product as far as the get-it-right-the-first-time perfectionists are concerned — it’s about the coffee stains on the carpet which happen anyways — but it holds up better because the props have been cut to precise fit for the odd configuration, tested and retested, – they hold.