Just Asking

I can be reached Monday to Friday between the hours and by phone, email, text, snail mail, carrier pigeon, smoke signal, yelling really loudly and by actually coming around and visiting me. I think therefore I spam. I once aspired to be the result of an algorithm. I’m a data point. I’m a consumer preference. I’m a niche market poised to be exploited by late-stage capitalism. At what point does a niche become too big to be a niche? And who makes the call? Just asking. My BMI is 12 per cent of the GDP of a small African country dealing in cryptocurrency. That makes no sense – like the rest of my life. If I climb Mount Everest and don’t tell anybody does that make me modest? Or insanely secretive? Just asking. The cost-of-living is a popular topic of conversation. If funerals rise in price is that counted as another cost-of-living increase? Just asking.

Bruce Greenhalgh lives in Adelaide, South Australia, where he has been known to suffer from writer’s block, imposter syndrome, and athlete’s foot. He writes about everything from vacuum cleaners to the cosmos.