Chemical Inbalance
17 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
Using the bathroom. Spraying the room with a little air freshener. Washing up with liquid soap and rolling a little deodorant on.
Seeing a huge fly in the bathroom and dashing to zap it with the bug spray.
Getting the notion that the bathroom could use a good cleaning, and getting out the mop and bucket to wash it all down with bleach.
Heading to the kitchen to clean my hands again with some rub-on antibacterial hand sanitizer.
Going back to my room to relax with a snack, a cold can of soda, and an aspirin. Staring at the list of unpronounceable ingredients on their labels.
Spending a good minute of my life quietly pondering the chemical soup with which we all surround ourselves in our modern lives, wondering what the interaction of all these sprays, fumes, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, liquids and processed foods is really doing to us.
Spending another good minute thinking how cool it would be if I had somehow taken in just the right combination of chemicals that would turn me into some kind of mutant who could fly or become super-strong or take photos with little cameras growing at will in his fingertips or something.
Laughing at self and going outside to dump the bucket of bleach and take in some deep breaths of clean air.
Watching as a large truck drives by right at that moment belching black smoke.
Laughing at self and the world and everything all over again.
