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At one really difficult point in my life I read Cat's Cradle. I fell in love with Vonnegut. He had characters that were people I had met, crazy people like the ones I grew up with. So after reading Cat's Cradle I read everything he wrote. Then I read everything that Kilgore Trout wrote. Then I read other science fiction authors and even tried to write a bit.

He was a true human being. He is not unaware of the cruel, and stupid in humans, but he is himself neither cruel nor stupid. He lets us sigh as we acknowledge the damage we have done as a species and laugh at our own folly as we stumble towards kindness. And laugh. And laugh.

Check out the Shapes of Stories a hilarious lecture on how to write a million dollar story: http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Dr. Suess made me want to read. Vonnegut made me want to write.

But I'm not succint. See I have a lot to say about this little poem. I think it is so sad and sweet and so perfect because that is what we do, we humans. We hang our tattered love out and hope for the best. Most of the time we don't even know what became of it.

But it is so hopeful and so selfless we can't but help believe in it though we also fear it will be just a joke for some.

In other news, young son got a job at Medivel Times as a trumpeter, not the greatest considering he has a brain the size of NEW YORK but enough he can continue to pursue his music and the cool downtown scene that goes around it AND NOT STARVE AND END UP HOMELESS!