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Thirty-three observations about life. (1/13) 1. Life is a series of dropping something, cursing, and stooping over to pick it up. 2. Life is a series of moments in which we wonder what to eat. 3. Life includes intervals between meeting dogs and getting fur and/or slobber all over you.

Thirty-three observations about life. (2/13) 4. Life is looking for your keys again. 5. Life is feeling alive when we listen to songs by musicians who are now dead. 6. Life is a series of burps that remind us of what we ate. 7. Life wonders if it should get bangs, and it wonders this a lot.

Thirty-three observations about life. (3/13) 8. Life is moments when someone you love smiled at you. 9. Life is what you make of it or what it makes of you or some awkward compromise thereof. 10. Life is a chemical chain reaction that often involves hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon.

Thirty-three observations about life. (4/13) 11. Life has its little secrets. 12. Life includes planets like this one that has improbable objects like hymnals and fishing poles and rhubarb pie and wheelchairs and paper clips that are shaped kind of like hearts.

Thirty-three observations about life. (6/13) 16. Life doesn’t rhyme but it just sort of vibes to the beat. 17. Life isn’t fair, and doesn’t pretend to be. 18. Life is trying to remember why people used to use so much ammonia and now hardly anyone even talks about ammonia anymore.

Thirty-three observations about life. (7/13) 19. Life is a series of movies in which there is a close-up of some text we are supposed to read but it’s too small and too shaky and too fast and so to hell with it, whatever. 20. Life is waking up and doing stuff until we can go to sleep again.

Thirty-three observations about life. (8/13) 21. Life involves soldiers standing post and either nothing happens or something happens. 22. Life borrows stuff from you and never intends to return it. 23. Life often involves poking the campfire with a really good stick.