05 July 2009
Simon's Philosophy (Grand Canyon)
)Published on July 5th, 2009 @ 11:30:29 am, using 283 words, 256 views
Simon: Man, get yourself to the Grand Canyon…
Mac: Beautiful, huh?
Simon: It’s pretty all right, but that’s not the thing of it. You can sit right on the edge of it, you know? I did that. I did everything. I went down in it. I stayed overnight there. But the thing that got me was sitting on the edge of that big old thing. Those rocks… those cliffs and rocks, they’re so old. It took so long for that thing to get to look like that. It ain’t done either. It happens right while you sit there watching. It’s happening right now while we’re sitting here in this ugly town. Yeah. When you sit on the edge of that thing you just realize what a joke we people are. What big heads we got thinking that what we do is gonna matter all that much. Thinking our time here means diddly to those rocks. It’s a split second we’ve been here, the whole lot of us. And one of us? That’s a piece of time too small to get a name…
Mac: You’re trying to cheer me up?
Simon: Yeah… Those rocks are laughing at me, I can tell. Me and my worries… is real humorous to that Grand Canyon. Hey, you know what I felt like? I felt like a gnat that lands on the ass of a cow that’s chewing its cud next to the road that you drive by at 70 miles an hour.
Mac: Small!
Simon: Oh, yes. It’s small.
Mac: My name’s Mac.
Simon: Simon.
(Grand Canyon)
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