You May Ask Yourself How Did I Get Here

Riffing off the Talking Heads song

Sep 09, 2025

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a person standing in the middle of a desert — Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash

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Jamais Vu
(An article originally published in Birmingham Magazine, September 2007)

And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!
—The Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”


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