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Interior Decoration

Brian J. Pilling

If God was an interior decorator named Brighid (which means Exalted One) how would you pray to her if you felt destiny push you to become more? If you aspired to be an avant-garde poet, could you continue to live in the half-basement of a four-story brownstone walk-up, even though the last two tenants who rented your apartment died alone, and the landlord expected you to clean the urine-stained carpet? Would Brighid reveal her plan for you? Would she command you to rip-it all out and put in factory-finished walnut, to throw down a white bearskin rug in front of the obsolete marble fireplace? What if this goddess of poetry and fire told you, “There are no absolutes in life, only clichés?” If your view of the world is framed by steel bars outside every window, would you pray to have fresco walls or hand-painted wallpaper? And what if you asked only for her mercy, happy to become a greeting card rhymer, because until now all your work went into the one porcelain crapper, and your dreams stir only in the metal hospital bed on loan from the Salvation Army? And what if you heard her laugh and tell you, “Darling, why not go retro, clean up the shag carpet, hang some black-and-white photographs and posters of the Rolling Stones and the Hell’s Angels? You know the whole sixties thing.” Would you be prepared to change the world?



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