Perspectives
Perspectives
Room With a View
December 19, 2020
Inside Man
Was the inflatable snowman really good? Or very bad? Perhaps extremely vulnerable. Or dangerous.
We ask because something got him moved from the front lawn into the house. The living room.
The house is on a very busy street and, possibly enhanced by the canyon-like parking lot across the street, powerful winds often blow through. So maybe the snowman was in peril of getting blown off its moorings and whisked away to hell.
Also, remember the vandals. The neighborhood has been attacked by them, villainous little punks who slash Christmas inflatables, topple snow people, or throw icky eggs. Mr. Snowy could have gotten hurt. Or worse.
Maybe the move was not planned at all. It could be one of those autonomous, self-aware snowmen whose fate is not dictated by mother nature or a flighty human and so he just decided to move inside on his own, plug himself in and sit there. Smiling.
Maybe he will stay there beyond Christmas, into the New Year, through winter, spring, summer, and fall. Never budging, forever glowing, a soldier of happiness and inspiration for all seasons.
Until one day he gets bored and kills someone. That’s always how these stories end, damn it. --TK
Saturday, December 19, 2020