"Fortune (Your Home is a Pleasant Place...)" by Richard F. Yates

I was presented this motivational fortune by a cookie that I consumed a few days ago, and the message seems oddly appropriate to our current times (and to me, personally!) In this case, the fortune proves DOUBLE accurate. (However, I'm still waiting for the "handsome stranger," the "success," and the "great deal of money" that I will supposedly inherit from a wealthy relative, which have been promised by previous fortunes.)

Besides this message being true in a straight-forward sense, I DO enjoy being in my home, the ART-GUY in me sees a DOUBLE MEANING in the text. I also DRAW HAPPINESS in this home. Happiness for me, at least, if not at least AMUSEMENT for a few other people. (If you disagree, I am willing to fight you for the right to make this assertion in the alley. Fight in the alley, for the right to say my bit everywhere, not JUST in the alley...) (You should probably be aware: I'm short, but scrappy! And more than a bit unbalanced...)

(That degenerated quickly... I guess I'm about a half-a-bad-day away from MAD MAX.) And that's why I draw a lot---to keep my head on an even keel. I get the monsters OUT, so they don't take over!!!

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

[P.S. - Paper fortune cookie fortune on napkin with digital drawing, embellishments, and color. The creatures' images have been used with their permissions!]