January 2010
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Sticks & Stones
The fire alarm in the bedroom begins chirping after a morning shower. Funny that water vapor hits the very same spots as fire vapor, seeing as the two are such opposing elements. Anyway. I put down the coffee cup. I grab a hand towel on my way through the kitchen & use it to fan the nervous device - the alarm saying ‘hey I’m about to freak out man’ -...
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On Care:
Sometimes to win the argument is to lose the battle. This occurs to me. Lose enough battles & you lose the war. If you lose that, you’ve lost everything.
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“This weather is so post-communist.”
– OVERHEARD in SF
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Eating An Orange Incorrectly
If time reversed, sunsets would sunrise & sunrise would set, & we’d wake up so tired, we’d fall asleep full of rest.
But still there’d be dark, there’d be light. Thunder, then lightning. & room after room of such waiting…
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Parable For The Bored
I recall the child… the way he ripped open wrapping paper to get at a present, while I ripped the rind off a Clementine to get at a fruit. & you said, ”time is a death sentence for such wonder… I am proof,” the way we hold out a pretense to get past the truth.
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EARTHQUAKE, CALIFORNIA (1.7.2010)
The small or far-off earthquakes come on like windwaves at a dock on the lake… the shake is more of a numb drumming at the heel, a vibration felt first in the cobweb wheels of awareness & noted only in the melodies of reflection.
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