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Which way is that thing I don't like?9bad memoryWell in a way I%u2019m just procrastinatingbut then againabout half an hour agoi sensed one of those little bursts of speed across my torsothat i can only describe as a message from godi don%u2019t remember what she saidThere is something important on my screenthat i dare not look in the eyeit%u2019s got to do with meand all the things i don%u2019t like about myselfi%u2019m trying to write a novelSomeone told me once,%u2018look at it in the light%u2019but they don%u2019t know that one timei saw a dying bug on a lampBut lamps are not an inspired topicand as I saidabout half an hour agoi was really onto somethingIt was just before I was kicking a tarty soccer ballaround my sister%u2019s living room,dazed out looping a chain of regrettable thoughtsi thought I heard her coming homeso I leaped onto the couchopened my bookand pretended to read.