Rich Inner Life © 1998 by Jeffrey Rodman

I was just in town for a couple of weeks,  and walking down the sidewalk, I saw a guy with a briefcase  and he looked a whole lot different than anybody back home, and my friends said he's a big shot in this city, and I thought, wow! Looking like that! "He's a credit to his race", I said, "he's a credit to his race. There aren't a lot of people with a race like his who can do what he does, who can be what he is." And he stopped, right there in the street! and he looked at me for a moment, admiringly, I thought, and said, "You know, you must have a rich inner life. A rich inner life." The next night my friends took me to a place where there was a lot of women dancing and singing. But I looked at the poster real close, and they wasn't really women, they was men!  Men dressed up like women!  But I got a open mind, so I went in with my friends.  And I watched awhile, and the music went way down low,  and another one came out, and started to sing, and I said, "You're a credit to your sexual orientation", I said, "A credit to your sexual orientation. There's not a lot of people with a sexual orientation like yours who can do what you do, wearing all those hot furs" And she stopped singing,  and walked over to where I was sitting and took the drink out of my hand, and set it on the table, and she sat on my lap with this coat, and this slinky red dress with all these long sequins, and she slipped one gloved hand around the back of my neck, and holding the microphone between three fingers,  she lifted it to her lips, and whispered, "You know, you must have  a rich inner life. A rich inner life." So I went back to the mechanic  to pick up my truck after they fixed the transmission, which I kind of blew driving out here and I got there just as this cute blond was  sliding out from under my truck and saying "It looks OK. Should run fine now."  And I said wow, a blonde! A blonde mechanic! "She's a credit to her gender", I said, "a credit to her gender. There aren't a lot of people with a gender like hers who can do what she does, it so often deters." And she looked at me for a moment, and she said, "What are you, nuts?" And I said, "No, I just got a rich inner life. A rich inner life."