For Hyuks

# 1

Last Wednesday I was ill, down with the flu and asthma and my body telling me I am beating it to a pulp without any consideration for its feelings, so now it retaliates, saying take that, bitch!, so I text my nutty boss: "I am sorry I cannot make it to work today. I am a walking sac of viral infections."

To which said nutty boss replies: "Classic signs of leprosy. It's called nighttime leprosy, so better make sure you use you fingers before the fall off during thenight. Good luck, or should I say, good fingers!"

# 2

And during my normal correspondence with the knife thrower, I tell him about the rain:

to say that the rain threatens to drown us all is an understatement. as of this writing, ten have died, three are missing and 23,000 people were displaced by "Florita" (the storm).

the sharp, slicing winds that are heaving horizontally across the landscape, bending trees backwards, uprooting shrubs and drowning rats and other vermin in their own filth - all of these things are beautiful to watch from inside the warm confines of one's room, but can you imagine what it would be like to have to go outside in that kind of weather? how about all the hundreds of others who have no homes, who have to sleep in the streets, under bridges, on sidewalks, and makeshift houses made of boxes and stilts?

poets have praised rain as that which cleanses everything, but in my country, where the drainage systems don't work, rain only manages to bring to the surface all that which should be left buried.


And he replies -

THE WEATHER IS EXHAUSTING. IT'S HUMID AND HOT ALMOST EVERYDAY.
IT'S NASTY!!!! I AM STAYING IN FOR THE MOST PART.
IT'S JUST NASTY. I DO WISH I HAD A SENSUAL FEMENINA NEXT TO ME SINCE I
AM SPENDING SO MUCH TIME INDOORS.
WE CAN SPEND SOME PASIONATE QUALITY TIME.

# 3

And today, I ask a friend how I look and she says: "You look like you're about to go to a gala ball then your date called to cancel but then you found a cute guy to replace him with at the last minute and now you are super super happy."