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adjust to that

if you wear your lenses upside down,
if you move away to a new town,
if you smile and really want to frown,
if you think that you're just hangin' round,
you can adjust to that

if you feel you have to change your job,
if you gave someone new a little nod,
if you change your style and clothes and hair,
if you think that you're going nowhere,
you can adjust to that

I'm walking down the street and as I encounter an unfamiliar person I'm making involuntary observations about their age and culture and gender, and through thirty years I still don't know how to handle new people and so I'm looking at the sky and the buildings and the ground and trying to time just the right moment to look up and make eye contact and issue a little greeting which never sounds right...

(now I'm acting unfamiliar... in a factory of fear... over there are people watching?... how I hope they don't come near...)

if you always tell it like it is,
if you speak in riddles or in hints,
if you skim the surface every day,
if you dive deep down right away...

you can adjust to that!

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notes:

one of my favorite psychology studies is the one where the guy wears special glasses which turn everything upside down. and of course for the first hour or so it's funny, then it's awful for quite sometime as he tries to go on about his daily business, and then, miraculously, over the next week or two, his brain just adjusts and flawlessly percieves the world from an upside down perspective as if it were regular. I've got this image stuck in my head of the guy on a bicycle, wearing these big goofy glasses. then of course when he takes them off, it's all weird again and it takes him maybe half as long to get back to normal.

humans are pretty fucking adaptable creatures, no? I started thinking about all the different little ways in which we are constantly realigning our concepts of our lives, and how we fit in with the rest of society, and what we choose to show and keep hidden on a day to day basis...

(on the other hand, they tried the same basic experiment with color-inverting glasses, with opposite results. after something like three weeks, the guy just couldn't stomach his blue scrambled eggs and cars hovering by on mysterious white discs. so, there's limits...)