Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

31. I SAW SOMEONE JUST WALKED BY:

It’s just like lights out in a coal mine or something of that nature wherein you can’t understand the ‘why’ of why something was done but it’s all history and they say history’s behind us so I keep packing up and looking back but the past isn’t half as much fun the second time around OR IS IT ? and in a way it is ! no snap-happy fact-checkers or buff-haired proofreaders telling you what is or what wasn’t and to Hell with all that so I keep my head down and notice the sidewalk or I lift my head up and notice the sky or stare straight ahead and observe well the whole world around me for EVERY PIECE OF IT is a piece of something else and the narrower the narrow-vision the farther afield it all seems anyway - so I walk unencumbered and unrecognized by all but little do THEY know I am their brother and their God their Savior and their pupil and the only glimmer of recognition occasionally comes forth from some young girl’s eye or some older woman’s gaze - like they KNOW something’s up but they won’t let on and in fact the feeling I get is that THEY ALL KNOW who I am but the joke is that I’m unaware and they’re just watching me do what I do all the while in full knowledge themselves of what it’s all about and about my ignorance of it - like playing dominoes with selfhood or solitaire with the present or some Russian Roulette with the man who makes the bullets.