SHORT PERSONAL CREDO
Here we go, I’m making all the speeches I wish I wrote and presented to a more appreciative audience. Maybe you’re the president of the United States. Or just anybody, with my book on your lap. I got screwed out of rightful ontology. You’ll understand.
I always had in me what everyone else did, and it was their job to turn me onto what that was. Self awareness requires a shitload of superlative individuals. They release their gasses and fluids into the atmosphere, and it collects in my liver like baleful lipids.
I guess that’s why I’m a writer. And an orator. I’m reciting speeches made by JFK, MLK, Maimonides, Jesus, Satan, assorted characters from Shakespeare, also I do a good imitation of Marlon Brando. I’m entitled to be like Brando. Same concept. He was conceived by his mom and pop to inform me of how I can shape my sense of self. It’s more. By writing all this to you, whomever you may be, in your slum or mansion, space capsule or submarine, I released my gasses and fluids. What you do with it may be the most important thing in your life.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bruce Reisner is an artist/writer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His poems, short fiction and visual art have been seen in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sledgehammer Magazine, Readthisplease (an anthology) and the Ranfurly Review.
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