February Third Sunday Write Goes on Facebook Friday

And — talk about late — it’s already Saturday. Not to mention March. But February’s Bloomington Writers Guild’s “3rd Sunday Write” (cf. January 30, et al.) was even a bit late in its own announcement on the 24th, four days after last month’s actual third Sunday.

So, okay, then mine came two weeks and a day late even for that (and, again, this blog entry itself adds one more day), but better late than never, eh? Or maybe one doesn’t want to answer until one has read it, in this case based on the challenge’s first offered prompt.

1. “The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks or people look at reality, then you can change it.” Write a response to this quote by James Baldwin.

Thus, untitled, but on a day when the TV news was reporting that the Russians had claimed Ukraine was involved in chemical and/or biological weapons research for, it suggested, a possible excuse should they use these weapons themselves in their invasion:

Well, we certainly knew this from President Trump, whose evil Chinese disease-bio labs have been transferred to Ukraine by brother Putin. Trump’s brother, that is. While a bat in Wuhan says, “Hey, wait a minute!” A talking bat? Sure, that’s something that’s changed too, but the thing is the bat thought it was the one that birthed Covid-19. From an unfortunate sandwich sold there at the Food Fair.

We are what we eat.

So a handful of Tums for the Russian could ease the tumultuous Trump tummy and let the Ukrainians sleep better at night, but I doubt it. I doubt it. The problem here being that Tums Control follows a sort of logic. Skewed logic, perhaps, but still making some kind of sense.

While we live today in a world ruled by randomness. World leaders speak; things entirely different result. And then Facebook brings in its own interpretation. While Twitter still lags from its last bout of Crazies.

We won’t speak of YouTube.