Man, why. When I sleep well enough, words fail me. I’ve never seen so much shilly-shally nonsense fly by my brains as when I interrupt a good sleep at the four hour mark in order to wake up and drive the car to the auto shop. Wordigo hits: that gibbery swoon from rolling over too fast and tangling sentences in the sheets. I get up and verbal garlands trail off my hair like the strands of an old maypole. They’re cluttered with names and diseases and songs. Winsome and Loathsome. Loathsome Winsome. Ketylkedalmenia; don’t worry, it’s nonsense. That one just came to me four hours after rising. It’s nothing. “I’m still standing” in the shower. Elton John. Sneezing out the dinosaurs. Carfulcakylhadeous. Gesundheit.
Rondiculous, man, why. I’m not going to bend over and pick up the punctuation for you. Like a question mark. I’ll tell you why: we don’t risk offending with question marks. Especially our children. Do you know how offensive it is to put a question mark at the end of a question. Like really. They’re oppressive. And colonialist.
Tonight I have to get less sleep again. Why, you ask. Why. So that the words can fly out like Skittles. No, because I have to go to physical therapy for my vertigo. Waking up early, which causes fruity brain skittles to fly out, may be the cause of this wordigo. It’s a battle of the titans. Reticent clarity versus bloviating sleeplessness. So then I go to physical therapy and Dismantling Punctuation training to counteract it. Would you like to join me? I mean, me _
Hotspvrre
P.s., I have a question of those of you who use Substack. Does anyone ever see Substack notes or chats? (See? I’m still oppressing you with question marks. ???) I see other, bigger accounts’ notes, but I have no clue whether mine are seen or not.
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Haven't had time to fully check this out even with wakefulness between moonrises because I stare awake ramble-walking instead of being productive. But it seems like a thing one has to go look at proactively. But I could be wrong and I'd bet against myself every time.