Good one! In addition, my hat is off to anyone who has the nerve to post a 22 minute read.

Do you identify with Joe? Is he you? Asking because I do that sort of thing. In my stories if there is a guy named Carl then that’s who I identify with*. Carl is the name my father wanted to give me but my mother would have none of it. Father was of German extraction — he probably wanted to spell it with a “K” — but mother thought it sounded like I “just got off the boat.”

*No one seems to have any trouble guessing this.

“Things Get Weird” by Old Quasimodo https://link.medium.com/p3ofqsPNZ3