Humpty Dumpty

Does anyone remember the scene in Risky Business where Joel's mother comes home and finds that her crystal egg has a defect? Just yesterday I walked into my study and found a faceted crystal dish and a large crystal egg laying on the floor. The dish, shattered, the egg chipped on the bottom edge. It seems that the I had some books placed upright on the bookcase, behind the crystal items, and the books fell causing the crystal to fall to the floor. The door had been closed, no pets inside, no maid service this week. My own actions caused me to lose two items that I previously swore that I treasured. Now the dish is in the dumpster and the egg is back on the shelf. Cracked edge to the back. You cannot perceive the defect unless you lift it. Probably no one will ever know. But I do. And I am not sure what is causing me more grief. The fact that my treasures are now so reduced, the fact that I caused it, or the fact that maybe they weren't treasures at all. Just expensive mollifiers from a life past.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

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[KURT]

I DID IT.