Recent weekend debaucheries. Why bother writing it. Why bother reading it.
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AUG 24 Starlite in S.D.
AUG 25 Wake and bake. Del Mar Race Tracks and a Ziggy Marley concert w/ David, Wendy.
AUG 26 Superbad! Dinner w/ Grandma, James, and other strange events.
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AUG 28 Andy Caldwell @ Focus [...]
I started the letter the day yours arrived, addressing each pause,
Found how to break sentences with punctuation
Maybe if you were reading it out loud, your breath might
Pass here and I’d have taken it with guile, what was on your mind.
I threw away the letter I wrote, words were my pretention and
You could tell honesty from [...]
“Turn off your fucking radio.”
I am not inclined to do so. I poke at the dial, dropping the volume, raising it back up. He continues. “Every time I sit in your car, there’s always something playing. We haven’t had a moment of silence. It’s annoying.” He has a point.
I [...]
AUG 10 Belo in San Diego, paying homage to legendary Mark Farina.
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Nearly four weeks abroad on business; Washington and Florida tucked away to a kindling corner, a place where grimness waits to be contained before fires and summer lay waste to disconsolation. I was in a fouler mood, raised to clatter in [...]