ill-tell-you

My buddy greg told me this story about his niece
she can’t really talk but she has one phrase down
she can say “I’ll tell you!”
and that’s it

What is she going to tell us?
I’m sure she knows something
It has to be important
The untapped mind, such potential

she’s probably the smartest person in the world right now
i’m here talking too much and trying to find words for people
i’m wanting to get everyone up off their butts with some itty bitty letters
how could that do anything, they don’t even physically exist
they’re not even ink on a page anymore
this is just pixels, it’s just data

i walked by staples today and there was a group of people telling me not to
buy staples
i don’t need staples
and paper is old anyway
they had some words for me
but staples are just dangerous anyway, i stay away
i remember a story from when i was a kid
my sister had accidentally stapled her finger
isn’t that terrifying? i was afraid, even now
i’m still scared!
NO I WON’T BUY STAPLES I PROMISE
AND I WON’T ABIDE BY OTHERS PUTTING THEMSELVES IN SUCH A BAD WAY
ok i’m tired, have to keep going for food now
sorry angry mob, i’ll join you guys next time
for now i gotta eat

I had a dream last night that was, again, way too involved
I was dating somebody, who it was is apparently not important
but her mom was basically an ex-girlfriend’s mom
who was super nice, all the time, i really liked her
but in this dream she was asking us-all to go see a movie
and by us-all, i mean the two of us and the other 40 people who we were suddenly with, despite it being 3 AM and rural Virginia
and so we all went of course because the dream had no other future
Anyway, these details don’t matter
what matters is that we went to the theatre but we were starving
but luckily someone had prepared taco fixins for everyone
and i wasn’t too far back in line but HOLY MOLEY IT WOULDN’T MOVE
and we had to eat, stat, lest we fall into despair and starvation like the first humans, forever wandering and eating weeds and hoping they aren’t poison
I walked around the table many times but couldn’t get at it without breaking complicated social norms
so I eventually died and woke up starving

Never sleep through breakfast.

There’s a stronger bit i wanted to get back to here
where greg’s niece Tells Us-All.
The point she’s making is that life isn’t meant to be told
it’s meant to be lived
she’s telling us that there’s nothing to tell, that we should wake up and live and stop listening for a reason, for an answer
the answer is within us
we already have it
if you look inside, you know you don’t need to be told
you’re all ready to go
just, get going already!

I’LL TELL YOU!
plays with toy
I’ll Tell You!
runs truck over carpet
i’ll tell you…
sleeps like a baby

show, don’t tell