Samples
I still am not sure how everything in the past two days has worked out, but until recently it has been a wonderful two days.
I feel bad for the people at the mall who have to hand out samples. Seems like a boring job, and it’s filled with rejection.
But much more I feel bad for the piece of sesame chicken that you ignore on the side of the sample dish. The one who gave you all those gifts. Who spent so much time with you and so much unconditional and devoted effort on you. The one who spent all that money on you, for you, to make you happy.
Guys, most at least, are notorious for not having emotion or being cold. I think very truly that the opposite is the case. We do have feelings. And to trample on those feelings as if they were just another sample, to sit there and lie through your teeth to me about your feelings, all the while having a ticking clock in the back of your head, is quite painful.
I suppose the clock is going off.
Sorry I’ve wasted seven months of your life.
Sorry I tried so hard.
Sorry I gave you everything I had, everything I am.
I guess I was just another piece of sesame chicken.
No, it’s my own fault for thinking that I meant something? It’s my fault for thinking that I had any worthwhile purpose…
I thought you were the end of this. I though after Dana, that things were looking up. I was blinded by my own optimism to think that anything mattered. I can see know how wrong I was.
The end is inevitable. To quote a song you like, “even the sun sets in paradise.”
I just had hoped it wouldn’t end this way. Samples…that’s all I am? I’m a sample to you. Just one of those guys amongst a million. A simple piece of meat, free for the taking and subsequent devour.
So go on. Get another sample.
Meanwhile, I’ll just lay here on the tray like I did seven months ago, pretending it didn’t happen, just like I did seven months ago.
Sorry