I’m not saying it’s a great time to be alive
But…
Every day for the next ten days is going tho be the same backwards:
5/20/25
5/21/25
5/22/25
5/23/25
5/24/25
5/25/25
5/26/25
5/27/25
5/28/25
5/29/25
I’ve never been a math guy, but I do like the symmetry of it
If that’s what it can be called
A palindrome of numbers
Vampires must be freaking out right now
That is, if they apex predators are real
I forget where I read that, that vampires were OCD and you could distract them for a moment with a palindrome
or a date that is the same front to back and back to front
Something about the repetition
An author used it, and my mind tucked it away to bring out for trivia
or interesting bar conversations
Should those ever take a turn to creatures of the night
Which is hardly ever
Most of the time, they evolve into two camps about Bigfoot
You can guess the divide
Those who know it’s real
And the disillusioned
I don’t know if I’ve seen a bigfoot in the wild
Though running all over this great big country I can tell you with 1000% certainty
That there are parts and pieces and places still unexplored
I was running a trail in the Florida backwoods, half an hour’s drive from five million people
and couldn’t see the trail head where I started after twenty steps into the woods
Couldn’t see the sky but in bits and pieces
Couldn’t tell you what stood beyond the trees ten yards to either side of me
But I’ve run in the dark
I’ve heard things
Skitters, and chirps and squeals and things that went scampering off in the dark
Wild boars sound a lot like bigfoot
So do bunny rabbits at 3 AM
At least, I choose to believe it’s a rabbit
Despite the skunk like smell
Despite the ape like utterings
Just like some folks choose to believe that a massive land ape never lived in North America
Or choose to believe in roads, and rules and only what their eyes can see
Never taking it on faith that there are more things in heaven and earth
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Or something like that:
If one chooses to quote a bard
like dreaming of big feet and vampires and quirks and peccadilloes of those same creatures
I mean, believing in stuff like that is crazy
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