Even the thought of this puts us outside the inside of Time.

      The album by the Doors called The Soft Parade is perhaps the least popular album and most misunderstood album by them. At the very beginning, on track one, Jim Morrison declares something I, at age 17, found startling and puzzling. He shouts, "You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!" I had thought I'd bought a rock album, not a sermon (though I was not disappointed - the Doors were, as always, brilliant). Still, I misunderstood the premise of both the singer and the band. Until now.

     The deals you CAN petition Time with are different than those for which you might petition a Christian God, because we are on equal footing with Time. The degree to which Time controls us is always equal to the amount we control Time. Even the thought of this puts us outside the inside of Time.

     Life is organic memory.

     Having no memory is the sweetest of all, even though it is akin to death. No memory is the lure of opioids, even as it is impossible and a lie. No memory is life without the 'f'.

     Sex and society are natural opposites. When they overlap we have an imaginative story. If it's not too graphic with genitalia, if it's in the form of a fairy tale, we can even tell it to our children. We can make movies about it. Yet all the movies will have the same story, thematically. The theme, at its core, will be love, even, and perhaps especially, if the end is sad.