February 28th 1968

A turning point with advantage of 20/20 hindsight identifies severe dislocation birthing emotional plight intervening years since psyche wrenched by rather innocuous event at first sight exaggerated haunting shadows sparred illuminated by dim backlight, now conviction hammered home startdate coffin unwittingly nailed airtight death of spontaneous bright eyed bushy tailed spunkiness extinguished gored me lifeless, asper bloodless bullfight all entrails left intact, and no obvious insight fledgling, negligible, tentative... flickering soon snuffed out light describing nascent ability to delight no longer extant within my then young featherlight undersized physical height complemented with familiarity of shyness, no recall red flagged a lad in capable to smite an unmanageable all consuming debacle in retrospect unable to coax forthright severe retrogression, retribution, retraction... unleashed nefarious sprite occasioned when father and mother aloft in their prime topflight ages buying dreamhouse did excite unaware psychological convulsions would forever roil sole son darkened to midnight impetus to live defeated with abandoned might nonverbal communication, would soon reveal, how expert playwright stymied to comprehend tote toll impact, and mortality craved, nee stole perky me overnight linkedin to poorly acclimating moving away from familiar digs right into the waiting maws of shipwreck forever stranded, where no searchlight rescued malicious conjurer's wicked sleight of hand prestidigitation rocketing me into infinitely far orbital spaceflight an untethered ball of skintight grateful dead lovely bones.