Most people use the word, “idiot,” and do not know it is a compliment. It means “self,” in Latin. An idiot is someone who is so totally unique that no one has ever seen the likes of them before. I call that a compliment!
I hope that people see me as an idiot. And if you, yourself, have ever felt like an idiot, The Dave says, “Good for you!”
When I paid my bill, Friday night, my server asked me,
1) “What are you DOING here, if I may ask” and
2) “May I?” look at THE FOUR ELEMENTS: Seasons Bleeding into Existence.
I was stupefied that they read more than the first three sentences; my writing style is quite idiomatic to only me.
Then, I asked them what they were doing for the remainder of the night. What followed was a stupendous, spectacular free-style slam verbal improvisation that riffed off of my story, mentioned tv by pixels and being pixilated (The Ghost and Mr Chicken, Don Knots), in short, going home and chilling. Chilling never sounded so stupendous.
I was stupefied, again, and sat silent with a stupid look on my face trying to process it all. I hope they felt idiotic, in a good way, because I assure you, I’d met a Realized Man, in the generic use of man, as German Mensch, which is a non-gendered noun. Girls can be Menschen.
Unfortunately, I did not have my poetry book on hand, LINES DRAWN AUTHENTIC: A Realized Man. But my server took the flyer for THE FOUR ELEMENTS, so they know how to reach me.
No way to work Jack Reacher into this.
For us, it’s not a matter of fitting in. It would do us damage to be the commodity that fits in–damage our oddity. We need to be Ionic, in the sense of Plato’s Ion, the artist. We need to be Ionic magnets and attract the likes of us to our own society, social structure. Let THEM fit in with US; if us and them is what it comes to.
ENIGMATIC DR DAVE ENTERPRISES, PRELUDED–Sole Proprietorship.
David Fekete 