Frankie Rollins and I are working on a collaboration called “Sorrow for Beginners”, a kind of manual, or user’s guide. This idea seems to be related to that; I woke up the other night and wrote in the notebook next to my bed “write limericks about suffering.”
So the last few nights I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and written limericks and made a very small book of three of them. I might do more, or maybe this is all there is. I love that the cadence of the limerick makes me laugh before my brain has time to notice that it’s not funny at all, even a little bit. Even when I know what’s coming I still laugh.