Hi, my name is Cassie.\u00a0 You the new therapist?
\n…
\nWell that is good.\u00a0 Therapists come and go, though.\u00a0 So I won’t stick to the script.
\n…
\nYeah, I guess I can tell you about myself. I would usually start off by telling you that I am older than I seem, younger than I feel, and just about sick of the world I live in, but I know already that you wouldn’t care in the least.\u00a0 And that doesn’t bother me.
\n…
\nWhy?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 It just doesn’t bother me.\u00a0 I know the way things are.\u00a0 And how they will be.\u00a0 And how they have been.
\n…
\nDo I think I am crazy?\u00a0 You should know the answer to that without me having to answer.\u00a0 I am absolutely crazy. Otherwise I wouldn’t be here, right? There is not a definition of crazy that is large enough to contain my own special kind of the stuff.\u00a0 But it is not like I stand in corners asking the walls if they have seen my shoes or anything. I am not bag-lady crazy.
\n…
\nPessimistic?\u00a0 It is not my fault I can see the world for what it is.\u00a0 I call that being a realist.\u00a0 I can be positive.\u00a0 I like your shirt by the way.\u00a0 See?
\n…
\nReminds me of a circus event. Elephants and lions and acrobats. Just crap flying everywhere.
\n…
\nDo I like circuses?\u00a0 Who doesn’t?
\n…
\nWell I am sorry for you.\u00a0 Scared of the clowns?
\n…
\nBy the way, you should call home.\u00a0 Your son is choking on a carrot and your wife is downstairs vacuuming.\u00a0 She can’t hear him. If you call now you can save him.
\n…
\nYeah. I told you I was crazy.\u00a0 Of course you think I am kidding.\u00a0 That is what has made me crazy.\u00a0 “Sadness unto all those with deaf ears and blind eyes, for those that see and hear mourn you all and themselves as well, for you pay them no mind.”
\n…
\nSomething I heard somewhere.\u00a0 I am not sure from where.\u00a0 But in my case it fits the bill.\u00a0 Your wife is about to call you hysterically.\u00a0 Your son has passed on.\u00a0 But don’t worry.\u00a0 You will get up, turn around, and forget everything that I said.
\n…
\nOh yeah, go ahead, answer it.\u00a0 No… no… I don’t mind the interruption.
\n…
\nYeah you can come back and see me.\u00a0 It sounds like an emergency.
\n…
\nOk.\u00a0 See you later.
\n…
\nWell, well, just me and the walls.\u00a0\u00a0 Again.
\n…
\nHave any of you seen my shoes?
\n…
\nShit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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