Gruul Dirtbag

Texts From Superheroes

Well I’ve never actually tried to DO that, so Im on my way home from work and I stop by a gallery and walk in

And like. The… boss? Curator? Who looks like a very polished and professional Real Adult is there, and she says i can look round. And I do, and there’s a bunch of cool stuf

And then finally I nut up and go over to her like “Hi. Don’t know anything about anything. Would you please tell me me what gallery is please. Like how do I gallery like real artist”

And she tells me where I can go to start getting my work out there and meet other artists, and she’s being very kid and supportive and adds me to their newsletter mailing list and it’s finally feeling like I’m not the most shrimplike loser as human being alive, and I’m getting ready to leave so she can s lose shop so I thank her for her time

And then as I’m about to go I add, “I’ll have to come back to see more”, gesture to a particularly enjoyable piece and say, “I have no idea who (insert name here) is but I like her stuff, I’ll have to look her up and did out who she is”

And she sort of looks at me for a beat, inscrutable, blank, just a FRACTION of silence longer than I was expecting, at which point my anxiety medication wears off, and I hear her go “That is… me, actually”

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