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Falling Apart

©2005-2008 David Boyne
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Almost everyone I meet asks me, "So what do you do?"

I usually say, "I'm a writer, and I pay for that self-indulgence by managing an ecommerce business." This is the truth, but not the whole truth. Were I to answer with complete honesty I would say, "What do I do? I spend most of my time falling apart and putting myself back together."

For as long as I can remember, I have been unable to travel more than five hours down the road of life without having to pull over and set off red flares and dive under my hood to perform emergency repairs on my psyche.

How do I return to getting my kicks on Route 66? I sing songs. But not Gregorian chants or endless rounds of Michael Row the Boat Ashore. I sing silly, ridiculous, nonsensical songs. I sing Wagnerian opera in the persona of Bugs Bunny or Elmer Fudd. Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!

Recently I wondered: Would I have made it this far in life without silly songs?

In the 1980s, miserable in my yuppie job of selling printing to Manhattan corporations…

You can read the rest of Falling Apart in the ebook, Happy Accidents.

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