Moleskine Spread by Ruben Fletcher

Ruben Fletcher has been “Starbucks drawing” on moleskine for years. But he thinks he has wasted an awful lot of time doing so because feels he should have spent it  on something more worthwhile. But what that worthwhile pursuit is, he has yet to discover as he plods on.

In my years of Starbucks drawing (Jesus! “In my years of Starbucks drawing”! What a colossal misuse of my time, which could have been allotted to whatever it is I should have been doing with my life, and it should be painfully clear that I still don’t have the vaguest notion what that might be. The old saw “Many are called but few are chosen” may be an old saw, but it still has sharp teeth, because apparently I didn’t even make the “called” cut. The celestial equivalent of Simon Cowell didn’t even see fit to let me get to the next round. Not that I sat by the phone or nothing, but it would have been kind of nice to have been awokened by a beam of light from above and a Leonard-Cohen like voice intoning, “How about EG-155429a, Exotic Aniimal Groomer? Care to give that a shot?” No, either the Heavenly Host lost my number or else decided to let me fend for myself, and if that’s the case, They have no one to blame but Theirselves, because this is just the way I fend)…

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