And so finally here we are, at the beginning of a whole new era. The start of a brand new world. And now what? How do we start? How do we begin again? There are some things you can simply look up, such as: The size of Greenland, the dates of the famous 19th century rubber wars, Persian adjectives, the composition of snow. And other things you just have to guess at. And then again today's the day and those were the days and now these are the days and now the clock points histrionically to noon. Some new kind of north. And so which way do we go? What are days for? To wake us up, to put between the endless nights. And by the way, here's my theory of punctuation: Instead of a period at the end of each sentence, there should be a tiny clock that shows you how long it took you to write that sentence. And another way to look at time is this: There was an old married couple and they had always hated each other, never been able to stand the sight of each other, really. And when they ! were in their nineties, they finally got divorced. And people said: Why did you wait so long? Why didn't you do this a whole lot earlier? And they said: Well, we wanted to wait until the children died. Ah, America. And yes that will be America. A whole new place just waiting to happen. Broken up parking lots, rotten dumps, speed balls, accidents and hesitations. Things left behind. Styrofoam, computer chips. And Jim and John, oh, they were there. And Carol, too. Her hair pinned up in that weird beehive
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