How the Lighthouse Meant Something

We can’t remember where we were going in such a hurry. Last I knew I was hearing one of my kids telling his friend, “I don’t know what’s worse, catching your parents having sex or smoking a joint.”

After that it was an old guy having dinner with his still-lucid wife. That would be us. What will happen next? Madame Tussaud, herself a wax figure, said beware the three crows – accountant, lawyer, priest – but I go further. I say beware Virginia Woolf and her hopeless clarity. She said she meant nothing by the lighthouse but I’ve never believed her. That lighthouse is the unknown shining back at us.