I want to talk about lines, okay?

I'm not a geometry major, nor am I an artist. Both of which, I think, know a bit about lines. I do know that I can draw a straight line. That three of them make a triangle, and that curved ones make circles, sometimes. That we try to stay within them when coloring and driving. There is lithography and drawing and sculpture. Lines can divide territories and write hate mail and they created my favorite painting and they draw my name on the tops of all the pages. (and there is a point to it all!)

I read somewhere that parallel lines have everything in common and never meet, ever. And also that perpendicular lines meet once and drift apart forever.

They're both sad.

So maybe what I'm saying is that I KNOW THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO TEACH YOU MOTOR SKILLS BY KEEPING YOU IN THE LINES AND MAKING YOU TRACE OVER AND OVER AND OVER THE LETTERS IN THE ALPHABETS, BUT THEY JUST WANT YOU TO END UP WITH GOOD HANDWRITING AND THE ABILITY TO GET A COLLEGE EDUCATION AND A DESK JOB.

And that's pretty sad, too,  I think.

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Rothko

Current Thoughts:

• Why are social security numbers so important? They're too easy to steal. And I'm thinking that some very un-smart people probably keep them in their wallets, and then one day, you could just take it. Then they wouldn't have it, and you would have their identity.
• You never understood my relationship with my mother and I still can't finish my self-help book, titled : How to Forgive your Mother.
• I want to get on the whole tennis-shoe (but more specifically, the new-balance, tennis-shoe) fad. Its fashion meets function, really.
•  It takes me at least five tries to spell the word restaurant. (Lol, right?) 
• "Once I get a spray  tan I'll look Puerto Rican" -an inexplicable note left on my phone. 
• I had a dream last night that you broke up with your girl and I'm not complaining I just don't know what that means. 
• The batteries on this keyboard are 'very low' (says the little box in the top of my screen) so I just invented a key board that is powered by typing MORE TYPING, MORE BATTERIES MOFOS.
• I bruised the palm of my hand classic skating, so yes, it is possible.
• Rules about restaurants: no laminated menus, no happy birthday singing. 
• It really bothers me that Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio. It just doesn't make sense. (He had the money, obviously.)

XX

Rothko