OK, now lie in it

The idea was to write this: I took the Vaseline that was meant for my pants and put it on my face.
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But so many things have happened since then that I find it odd that I remember this much.
Yeah. What a ride. All this introspection was burning my soul so I bought a tape on Living The Now as well as white clay. To purify.
I almost got caught up in thinking about the idea of not thinking. But I put that aside.
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I remember now one exercise in grammar school when Ms. Culverhouse wrote several words on the chalkboard and asked us to punctuate it so that it would make sense. I went up there like a flash and put all the commas, semi-colons and quotation marks I needed to make sense of the jumble.

And I did.
And for a moment, I was a hero.
What a feeling.
And now, I spend all my time thinking of ways to behave like a good boy.
It's so exhausting.