The Darkness of His Day

Brian Hathcock

"For the man whose luxuries are the ordinary, the inner.
For those who abandon the common, extraordinary joy."

Larron's favorite poet was a normal man. This quote is from one of his most frivolous works—lots of adjectives and long words. But the poet usually rested on gutter language, pulp vernacular, base English, and even made-up words. Larron especially liked the quoted poem because it was a big risk by his poet: he played around with electricity without warning. It was a surprise.

As Larron lay in bed, counting flowers in one of three hotel paintings, he remembered the poem. What did those two sentences mean? Live without unnecessary stuff? Rely on your innards for a purpose, or inspiration, or the modes of creation? What if I am cognitively destitute?

Thank God the lamp is off.

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