Reykjavík Grapevine - 11.11.2016, Page 68

L I F E , T R AV E L & E N T E R TA I N M E N T I N I C E L A N D
Issue 17 × 2016
Nov. 11 - Dec. 8
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Turns
It’s crazy how things
turn out sometimes. I
was supposed to become
a doctor. Well, it was
partly my fault. As a
pretty perceptive yet sly
little fucker I found out
early on that people liked
doctors. And that they
also liked it if I said that I
wanted to become one.
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So when asked—as kids for some insane reason
constantly are—I answered from the bottom of
my tiny lying heart that I was going to become
a doctor. And they’d pat my head and say that’s
nice. I liked that. Fast forward to junior college
and I’m flunking maths, flunking German, basi-
cally fucking up all over. By that time we all knew
that I wasn’t going to become a doctor. An MD
that is. So, now I’m going to become a historian.
Could get a doctorate in the humanities, right?
That’s not too shabby, even if it has everything
to do with dead people but nothing with keeping
them from dying. People seemed to be ok with it,
which was good enough for me. So I went and got
a bachelor’s degree in that.
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By that time I didn’t care too much what people
thought anymore though. And they didn’t really
seem to care either. “Oh, that’s nice,” they would
say. “Congrats on that.” And then: “So, what are
you going to do with that?” Fuck if I knew. Didn’t
have a clue. So I quit history. Did some odd jobs.
Read a lot of poetry. Wrote some as well. And I
liked it. Still do. Between us I think my writing’s
shit but some people still seem to like it. Which is
nice. So now, as if by accident, I’m a poet. And—
get this—Donald fucking Trump is the president
of the United States. It’s crazy how things turn
out sometimes.
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