Green and Orange Fish
©2008 Craig Ashby
Digital Photograph

Green and Orange Fish is a kooky self portrait. Extended shutter and lights blurring. Eyes split from inbreeding or just my creepiness coming out.

The green and orange fish seen in the mirror’s reflection. I won it for Ernie at a street fair. It’s a sign I am manly and can win carnival games involving guns.

I can’t remember if the guns were water pistols. I struggle to remember while Ernie sleeps. I hope they weren’t, it may say that I am less than manly and more inclined to watersports.

This is also a great picture from the long hair era. Those glorious days when I could be as fat and as weird as I wanted. Now I have to watch my weight and eat healthy and look decent for work.

Growing older is such a pain. The grooming regimen becomes more intense by the hour. My hair and nails grow so quickly I worry that I am already in the grave.

And maybe I am. Maybe this is just a memory. Maybe not even my own memory. Maybe just something I am watching at the very end of this all.