Around this time of year I usually go around climbing into the top of fast-food restaurant’s soda fountain machines as discretely as possible and contaminate everyone’s ice at the cost of my own comfort (which is priceless). But this summer I live in a apartment building that has a swamp cooler. It is physically impossible for a man my size to jump inside a swamp cooler (not that I tried), though I have contorted myself into some tiny soda fountain machines out of desperation. The swamp cooler produces beautiful breathtaking coolness, but the inside of the machine is full of gross sweaty cramped hotness.
I feel like a king in my accommodating studio apartment castle. On my demand I have my own personal jester to perform. I beckon him by changing the channel to 72 and he performs old reruns of Futurama and South Park. When I become bored with my jester I send him off with the effort of one finger and retreat to my personal library and surround myself with books. In the middle of the room I build a large thrown of books, which are similar to large stones, all the way up to the ceiling with a stairway leading up to it. Today I was comfortable for awhile until my personal message carrier notified me that one of my friends would like to meet at the local pub that very evening to imbibe copious amounts of ale.
I tore down part of my stairway scrambling to my personal message carrier, leaving the destruction for my many peasants to clean up. I returned a message saying, ‘Why go to the pub when a king can bring one to his castle?’ I did not receive a message immediately in return from my friend. Perhaps he wasn’t aware of my high social status causing him great confusion, but later that hour he returned a message saying, ‘Because many fair maidens will not be flirting about in your castle, but only our royal asses sitting about until we’d part ways with only our hands to please ourselves… I‘m sick of pleasing you :-p’ I returned, ‘You’re lucky you’re my comrade or I’d banish you to the dungeon for revealing my lack of intelligence right in front of all of me. I will have my servants dress me in lavish garments and I will meet you at the pub after the sun sets in the west. Good day sir!’
I snapped for my servants and posed waiting with my arms out so they could strip me of yesterdays rags. Being stripped naked by other people is my favorite part of dressing in lavish garments. I shook in stripped-to-nakedness-by-other-people anticipation. It built and built until I realized I sold my servants last week for a better jester and personal message carrier. I wanted to be stripped naked by other people. I still want to be stripped naked by other people. I flung myself into a royal whine, wailing my hands in the air as I ran in circles unto flopping into a snot-nosed face blubbering weep on my four-poster bed (behind curtains so it didn‘t really happen because no one saw me in that state).
After crying myself to sleep I had a vision in a dream. I visualized being undressed by hot fair maidens who imbibed copious amounts of ale. All I really needed was my daily three hour nap because I awoke refreshed and I new my vision would come true. I pampered myself to my annual bath (a week early) in a handcrafted large basin with rose pedals and a soap that came all the way from the Springs of the Irish. I just finished dressing myself in hand-woven lavish garments knowing the evening will bid me a fine passage to it’s removal by hot fair maidens. My personal scribe was nice enough to scribble today’s happenings onto a digital scroll as if it were me myself who was the scribe who scribbled on a scroll. You can tell the difference because I would have portrayed myself for the true greatness that I really am.
Thanksgiving
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