Pay the price
|I never take yes for an answer.
What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
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Every day in Utopia is Clean Your Ears Day, said Leo. It’s a big deal considering ears are small and portable. They go everywhere you go.
The first time my ears were deep cleaned was in Chengdu. A woman worked at the open-air opera theatre decorated with gigantic red and black demon masks.
I watched her doing men sitting in bamboo chairs. Her tools and instruments were disinfected. Scaling, probing, curling out the wax. Cotton swabs.
It’s a great feeling. BUZZ. Today was the perfect opportunity to clean out the old ears. Bliss baby. Say what?
Aural chambers sing. The ear cleaning procedure removed debris and clutter as analyzed by auditory forensic experts:
1. cycle of cycles including life cycles
2. incessant trajectory of love and passion orators
3. hummingbird whispers
4. laughter
5. crying, whining, screaming children - many over 25
6. heartbroken lovers
7. distraught wandering tourists
8. dancing fools. you are a fool whether you dance or not, so you may as well dance
Vientiane, Laos
8a. crazies I love, fools are sheep
9. distracted kind idiots yelling at high decibel levels
10. minstrels
11. singers, dancers, hustlers
12. motorcycle cowboys, hookers, massage parlor slaves, rice slaves, rich/poor wage slaves
13. laughing sheep (volunteered slavery)
14. lonely philistine Filipino maids in exile from martial law and massacres hanging out in Saigon parks bothering travelers, talking about the weather, breaking their lonely ice lives discussing the value of shoes and jewelry on sale at discount stores
15. bored frustrated wives, husbands, lovers and mistresses with tresses in distress
16. unemployed vagrants, misfits, derelicts, amputees, orphans, storytellers
17. fortune tellers, employed or not, and prototype aliens filled with monetary motivations
18. nutritional experts and particle collider scientists
19. visions of a supreme creator laughing at everyone
20. people who say, I don’t have a listening problem, I have a hearing problem
21. your choice for $2.77 plus tax
Open your ears, open your Mind-At-Large, said Leo. Taking a risk is not fatal.
Yangon, Burma
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