text: Laramie sat on a tree stump. Laramie looked at the ground. Oh look, there's a spider, and there's a wasp, oh and some ants. Why did other people get to be so smart when all he got was stupid? Laramie didn’t recognize that he had a gift, being stupid. Laramie had the gift of seeing things for how they were. Laramie was a genius, but he didn’t know it because he was too stupid. That, however, was his genius. The insects crawling on his bare feet didn’t scare Leramy, Leramy didn’t really understand what they were. Laramie knew they were bugs, is a spider a bug? Yeah it’s small and it looks like a bug, so it must be a bug. Laramie didn’t see the danger in letting them move across his body like any other patch of earth. At some deeper level beyond Leramy’s understanding, he was a sailboat, but Leramy’s sailboat couldn’t turn its sail. It was being pushed along however the wind wanted. Everybody else's sailboat had a sail, some were bigger than others, faster than others, twisting and turning to a destination of their choice. Laramie didn’t know what his destination was, which made Leramy sad. This was how Leramy was created. What is the definition of this? Laramie was sick of the tree stump. Laramie stood up and crushed some ants. The wasp flew off his feet and so did the spider. Spiders can’t fly. What if they could? That would be funny, can you imagine a spider flying. Laramie walked back to town. Laramie had to cross a big road, with fast cars. Laramie looked both ways, nothing was coming. Laramie walked across the street and found a penny heads up. That’s supposed to be good luck, isn’t it? Laramie was hit by a truck. Laramie broke every bone in his body. Tall men, fat men, short men, all came to Leramy in the hospital dressed in fancy suits and asked if Leramy wanted a suit. Laramie told them he didn’t want a suit, Leramy said he couldn’t put on a suit if he tried anyway, at least until Leramy’s bones were fixed. But they told Leramy no, this isn't just any suit, it’s called a lawsuit and you have to be in a special situation to get one. Laramie got a suit, but all it got Leramy was into a stupid room with other people wearing suits and talking all smart and stuff. Since it was so boring Leramy guessed that was the reason, they gave him five million dollars. It was nice to have and all but Laramie didn’t want to sit in that room again. Laramie didn’t know what to do with so much money. Laramie bought a house, with a swimming pool, but Leramy didn’t know how to swim, so Leramy bought a raft. Laramie didn’t like getting wet so Leramy didn’t sit on the raft. Instead, Leramy paid to fill in the pool. They wanted to use concrete but Leramy wanted it to be filled in with dirt. So they did. Laramie wanted a tree put in there. So they did. When the tree was big enough Leramy chopped it down and it fell on his house. Laramie paid to fix the house. People told Leramy that it was stupid to chop down the tree. People really seem to like trees. Laramie sat on the stump but it didn’t feel like that other stump. There were no bugs crawling on his feet. Laramie went to the woods and found a wasp nest, some spiders, and some ants. Laramie put them in a bag but the wasps didn’t like that so much. They stung Leramy on his lip and his arm, and Leramy thought one got his leg, but Leramy wouldn’t know because Leramy couldn’t see the back of his leg. When Laramie got home he put the bugs on the ground. They were still angry and took out their frustration on his feet. Things seem to hurt less when they’re just a bump on a one-way road.