fame, fortune, at least fame, strange beasts, stranger bedfellows, fear from that, scared, afraid, what does it mean, what does it portend, spent time watching, talking, reading, listening, hearing, wasting? no, not wasting, choices definitely, always choices, choose that life, faced with this decision, path taken and not taken, roads, streets, even goddamned on ramps, yellow lines, white lines solid, not like that broken colored one, puritans, buddhists, one in the same, just missing something, something so close, something so wrong right, this world and the next, one in the same, as always