{"id":1336,"date":"2018-09-30T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2019-06-07T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:51:14","slug":"lazy-annoying-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/lazy-annoying-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy, Annoying Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

I\u00a0<\/span>need an idea, I say to me<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lie<\/p>\n

The truth is they are everywhere<\/p>\n

Summer gnats boring through screen holes<\/p>\n

Surreptitiously biting the most tender skin, right at the temple, where I yank my irreverent hair out of my eyes and scratch at my noggin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I swat at them weakly, scrawling notes in journals I can never find<\/p>\n

Sometimes I smash them into a slightly bloody, unreadable carcass on a calendar page nearby, left behind when the page turns to tomorrow, and tomorrow becomes today, and again<\/p>\n

In the shower, there\u2019s a brief flash, causing a jab in the eye with the washrag, perhaps a memory cue that will stick<\/p>\n

The back of an envelope I didn\u2019t want to open from the bank\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Has a scrawled note about the genesis of a bestseller which will no doubt heal what the bank has to say.<\/p>\n

Aha, the joke of the day came easier.<\/p>\n

But time now to sit, the best part, the hardest part, the only part.<\/p>\n

I still think I have nothing, grasping that lie, one lazy, annoying bug. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hey, look, over there, under that book, there\u2019s that envelope, I remember that now<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t read it all, but there\u2019s a single, bereft word, barely legible, a tiny matchstick, sentry for a small flame<\/p>\n

And we are off, the matchstick, the gnats and me<\/p>\n

I said I had nothing<\/p>\n

Yet again, I was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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