impossible imposter

[Bled Welder]

This is for the Rube, and the Rubix cube, in all of us.

This is my impersonation of William Hurt (has Bill ever harmed a soul?)
from The Big Chill.  For maybe a year when I was a wee lad it was a film I
filmed and have seen numerous times.  Like afterschool specials on the tube
(way before my time).

I enter the doorway where my closest old college friends are complaining to
each other whose the biggest prick and who's the nicest god.  Where I've
been, what I've been doing, we all know.  I am jittering a bit and have the
excited face of a child opening a present, but of course laced with
astonishing sarcasm.  I rub my hands together like a madman trying to show
the idiots how to cleanse themselves of perpetual happiness.  I proclaim:

"Let's go watch this *incredible* show!"

Arguments and debates and eternal et ceteras are over and my old friends
cheer and chase and pile on each other in the tv room to watch their best
looking friend's show.  He's an actor on some wildly popular early 80s tv
hero cop show.

Then later, I forget his real name or the characters name, but in order to
get the very real local police from arresting me, even though I just last
night mocked the holy fuck out of him, this real cop *loves* *that* fucking
show.  So all my good old famous actor buddy has to do to get the cop off
my ass, is to impersonate himself in his most beloved and cherished popular
maneuver--leaping into the heavenly convertible car--which in this case,
happens to be my silver Porsche, underwhich I stash a great quantity of
pharmaceuticals.

My handsome friend goes for it.  And naturally fucks it up.  Crash landing
into the gearshift of my fucking car.

But still impressed, yet suspicious that something isn't quite right, like *
that* actor wasn't the *real guy* in the show, the cop is defused.

I get off with a mild speeding ticket.  Fin.

That whole escapade may have some Fringe benefits though.  However those
are accessed.  Whom, does it benefit?  Fitness Inc.

That just came to me an hour ago as I was driving around in my gorgeous old
neighborhood.  The sun is currently setting, for a few precious clear
evenings before it transits beyond, at the peak of my hill, at the bottom
of which I reside now, and grew up, I'm back for a while and we're
remodeling, on the road up, before it curves back down to...which way?  God
you'd think I might know that, I was brought up here, and I just drove up
into it, with the sun sitting giant godlike at the very apex, an hour ago!
 Or was that 69 nanoseconds ago.  How many eons are in a nanosecond, again?
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