NPC = Non-Playable Character – the name for a background digital character which fills out the imaginary world of a video game. An NPC could be a creature, or it could be any one of the background “humans” that you cannot take control of in a game.
Today and in this month of Valentines love we’re exploring the profound love of Mom-n-Pop street vendors. At the lower end of the economy, they are truly the object of Bon Jovi’s song “Living on a prayer”.
I have a happy book dedicated to writing nothing but comedy. But as we know, comedy cannot exist without tragedy as its reflection.
This is a poem about that.
I kissed a girl and I liked it
We all know the song
Or at least, we thought we did…
Any time I try to sit down and contemplate the “seriousness” of reality and all its demands (mostly made by people who want economic number-to-go-up all of the time), I fail miserably.
Reality
Existence
Being
In the face of, and in contrast to, not being
Is laughably absurd, and no matter how you try, you cannot intimidate me with it.
I laugh at every attempt and so it is a daily practice of mine to contemplate the various individual demands on me and my time and make sure they are sorted into the appropriate non-anxiety-inducing buckets in which they rightly belong.
This poem is a commentary on that.
Sometimes it’s a lot of fun to write pure comedy. Hierdie is een van daai komieklike stukke.
