“It’s a multiple of a lot of different things.”
\nThen somewhere down the line, you find yourself saying
\n“It’s a syndrome.”
\nYou’re giving 75\/25. Or 65\/35.
\nHolding back.
\nNot out of laziness but from some sense
\nthat things are finite and you don’t want to spend it all.
\nWhen the phone rings, you answer it on the fourth ring.
\nOr you go to an adult valentine-making class and you say “nice to meet you.”
\nBut you don’t make valentines for everyone. Just two or three.
\nYour basketball buddies don’t even bring it up.
\nThe way you’ve stopped saying
\n“That’s<\/i> what I’m talking<\/i> about” with your trademark vigor.
\nSo you head on out to a petting zoo — any petting zoo.
\nBecause animals can’t tell the difference.
\nExcept that maybe you’re easier to sit on nowadays.
\nThat goat is so heavy.
\nCome on now, you big old goat.
\nMove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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