Work.
Mon 6:10 am start. Home at 8:10 pm.
Tues 5:31 am start. Home at 9:12 pm.
Wed 4:43 am start. Home at 9:36 pm.
Thur 4:30 am start. Home at 9:45 pm.
See any patterns here? Any obvious trend lines?
I lean my head against the window in the train car. Eye lids heavy, flap shut. Mind rotates snapshots of Freddie in Bohemian Rhapsody.
Mary: “Freddie you’re burning the candle at both ends.”
Freddie: “Yes, but the glow is so divine.”
No throngs of adoring fans.
No booze.
No sex. (Sigh)
No drugs.
And doubt. That ever-present black mist drips, and drips.
And the glow.
Oh, the glow.
Notes:
- Mary / Freddie quote from: Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018 film)
- Inspired by: “I don’t know what breeds obsession. I don’t know if it is hardwired into the body or if it assumes its role after the long habituation of practice. I don’t know if what we do becomes what we do or if it too just is. ~ Devin Kelly (LitHub, June 2017)
- Photo: Newthom