7-19-19

A
We missed the beginning

B
We were five minutes late.

A
Something about a lamb?

B
We took the train but it hit another train.

C
I don’t think that happened.

B
No sorry it hit a person. A person dressed in a train outfit. You know how it goes.

A
We’re very sorry we missed the beginning.

C
I believe you.
Wait, no.
I believe in you.

A
We’re afraid

B
You’re afraid

A
I’m afraid I may never catch up, since I missed the beginning. What if I never fully get the significance of the sheep?

C
It was a lamb.

A
See???
What if I stop and I can’t start again?
What if being late and missing the lamb means that I spend the rest of my life thinking about what I missed at the beginning?

C
Just a lamb.

A
And I can’t stop looking at other peoples’ faces, trying to figure out if they know something I don’t know because they caught the beginning, or, worse yet, they also missed the beginning but they’re OK with that because they can intuit what happened in those first five minutes, OR, worse yet, they’re just not worried about it.

B
I wouldn’t worry about it.

A
Of course you wouldn’t worry about it.

C
It was really just a lamb.

A
I feel like that’s so easy for you to SAY as someone who bore witness to the lamb.
It would make me feel a lot less lonely and dumb if I just saw the lamb.

C
I can show it to you now.

A
I don’t want to see it now, I want to have seen it at the beginning.

C
Well there’s not much we can do about that now.

A
No.

C
What we can do now—

A
Don’t say it.

C
She’s right in the back.

A
No.

C
She’s sleeping.
In her pen with the…

A
Hay?

C
No not hay, they don’t sleep in hay.

A
Do you see what I mean????
I know NOTHING.

C
Well she’s back there.
The lamb can be seen.

A
Don’t use the passive voice with me.

B
The fan is being hit by the shit.

A
I’m not sure what to do about this.

B
The shit is being thrown at the fan, which is being hit by the shit.

C
The shit rate is alarming!!!!!

B
The floor is being crashed upon.

C
The floor!!!!!!

B
The lamb can be seen.