Instalment One Hundred and Twenty One

You do not have many friends, so when given an opening you talk too much. You don’t talk to people, you talk at people. You talk about yourself mostly and why you are sad. This makes people want to talk to you less, which makes you sadder. So you talk to people about how sad you are more and more until one day there is no one left for you to talk to.

You get a tattoo of a zero because that is how much you feel you are worth. A stranger asks you what the tattoo of a circle means and you tell them, which makes you happy. You now get to tell more people about how sad you are. You get a second tattoo, and then a third. The more tattoos you get, the more people talk to you and the more you get to talk about why you are sad, which makes you happy.

You stand in a circus ring all day and talk about yourself. The spruiker cries, “Roll Up! See Moana, The Saddest Woman in the World, she is covered from head to toe in tattoos of regret but she does not regret her tattoos.”