There Is No Way to Watch a Sitcom on a Moving Train but Let's Give It a Shot Benjamin Davis
My friend says life is a sitcom though I find it more of a train ride.
He has recurring characters and guest stars with a studio audience so even
alone he always gets a laugh. For me there are only other passengers.
Everyone is tired or confused and our laugh track is the whoosh-whoosh of
beautiful things passing us by. My friend is the star. Whenever he steps
through a door the world applauds while my unseen conductor pulls levers to
decide when we stop. I live in two-to-three minute intervals on
unrecognizable yet somehow familiar platforms. There is no place for sadness
on my friend's sitcom where heartbreak is a casting call. Where death is the
end of a contract. Where there are only well-lit gorgeous people doing
well-lit gorgeous things. I love when he takes the train with me and I get
to be a guest on his show, when the walls of my economy cabin open onto a
studio and I can see the other actors enjoying hot coffee by the snack table
with nowhere to go and nothing to be.
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