-cross section of a saturday afternoon-
the radio sings to me, hears the end of the world
between the stabs of needles and powder,
I have set sail on a river paved south
riding down a little notebook life
of ambiguity and fog.
flying down interstate five, I leave my life
to the ice pick tongues of dead men,
packs and bags, deadweights [...]
Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind or waterfall could stall me
And then came the rush of the flood
Stars of night turned deep to dust
Melt me down
To big black armour
Leave no trace
Of grace
Just in your honor
Lower me down
To culprit south
Make ‘em wash
A space in town
For the lead and the dregs
Of my bed i’ve been [...]
They breed in darkness, first in guise as outdated gadgets
Then slipping in amongst the stacks of papers,
Every time the gray feeling comes
They are there, rustling and dividing. They crawl out
And become dusty books, the ones I’ve never read;
I can hear them fornicating into ticket stubs, trinkets,
Into letters, postcards, an old forgotten shirt.
Last night they [...]
It’s a lot like writing a book, he said, a sheet a day until the shadows lengthen into graven grimness. I tell him that I seem to have buried my week with filler pages, caught in revisting what has been transcribed, wondering why the dialogue seems so stilted, how the plot drops off. [...]
Gold luck charm don’t always make good,
The metal in her hands rusted where the joints
Grate and scrape; I rub them, but she says,
The fire’s gone and her time is coming.
I was twelve when I pulled my first all-nighter. Up until then, I went to bed every night and woke at some prescribed time to the morning regimen of teeth-brushing and ritualistic ablutions. A certain number of hours would pass in between the moments when my head touched down on the pillow to [...]
Dec 28 Ray’s farewell dinner at Honda-ya with Anna, Jennifer, Jimmy, Jasmine, and Wilson. Work.
Dec 29 Work. Coffee with Brittany at the Gyspy Den, a stroll to round-the-corner Memphis Lounge, cheap wine, and long conversations.
Dec 30 Work.
Dec 31 Work. New Year’s Eve at Decos in the San Diego [...]