This Is a Story

This is what happens when nobody died

When everybody is gonna be OK

Sometimes the wagons are circled and the unceremoniously burned to the ground

It makes a ring of ashes

The grass doesn't grow for a while

And then there are glaciers and erosion, shorelines change, species emerge, the sun arcs

If there are two things, there is a time in between them

There are spaces for learning

There is growth

There are plants that consume sunlight every single day, and that's crazy

There is organic chemistry and the history if the universe and even things we can depend on

There will be things that are equal and you will find them

The day will come to an end and you will sleep

Beyond that, breakfast

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

One Two Three-and-More

Stilton. No pressure. Longer words amid accents.

Midship. The Last Sailor. Moonlight. Monday night.

Charging feet first. Margarine before morning. Migration meant well.

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

Ways of Seeing Something and Then Saying Something

Ways of stringing together a couple days and calling it something

Ways of sitting back and measuring a bunch's worth, bunching after bunching

But I'm really thinking buckets and wanted to try and keep you with me a little better, for once



Fabric. Brick. Surface and material, but I've never found time to sweat the science of donuts and tubes. It just doesn't get me going.

Breakfast. Health. Finances. Sunshine. Thinking about other people's future, too.

Some hard work.



Meeting all kinds of people again and it's been a while.

All kinds of loud and it's been a while.

An entirely separate something could grow here, but won't under current conditions.

Remembering how many choices there are out there to be made.



If I could pick a superpower, photosynthesis would be high on my list.

And to think how late grass evolved.

Aside: the placebo effect is still an effect.

Location:S Fremont Ave,Baltimore,United States

It Would Be Easier If You Could Trust Everything To Be Dead in the Dead of Night

Don't make a habit of surrounding yourself with terrible things

Avoid swimming in pools of acid and/or lakes of fire

Study the necessity of sadness

Mimetic, pathetic, pipette

Prince of pearl

Stop meaning for me

Stipulate your surrender

There will be his judo where digital code -- which is driven through language-based instruction and calculation -- creates extra-language experience and it will be wild

Pre-language? Ultra-language?

I guess that was all an aside, but it ran across my mind earlier today in a meeting and I scribbled it down

I didn't want to forget it

Even if it isn't going anywhere yet

Animals riding animals

The War of 1812

That Javitts Center fee you get hit with when you stay at a hotel in New York

I'm thinking about a lot of things, I guess

Location:Portland St,Baltimore,United States

No! Still Means "No" Even When You're Quoting Fictional Utterances of an Actual Cat

Blow out, be it Brazilian of by way of Boston

A dearth of thievery

The suburbanization of poverty is a real problem

Rising loss of life to commuting, made worse with rising healthcare costs, trying to keep track of your family and failing

Trying to keep track of everything

Trying to get more sleep daily

Everything funny ever

Everything heavy or dense or just unwieldy

Your wingspan vs. massive constructions of styrofoam and cloth

Glitter, fake and massive birds of prey, islands, sun, sea-scented breezes or gusts or gales

And then windbreak, paddle boats, chicken-neckers, sunsets, sea grass

Think it out and spell it out then time to turn in

From here

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

Things You May Have Heard Of

So many of the grammatical rules you learned growing up are things made up in the Victorian age to put a stranglehold on language and make the well-off feel weller off

Or the educated feel rich

Or something

Like the scribes that used to have the power

And the head of the Department of Defense is called the Secretary

And the invention of dictionaries or at least the spelling part therein and all kinds of ideas about what smart is

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Similarly useless stories about what intelligent is

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I wanted to call this "Enter the Laser Cat" and I realize those two pictures add up to better than anything you're reading here

I do volume like nobody's business

Volume loud

Volume amount

Volume like length but cubic

Seriously, this is worth most to me, I'm betting

And I don't mean that as false self-effacement

I just need to wind out

And I'm just throwing triple-pluses when I think I might turn a corner

You can skim ahead

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The M in one thousand

A pound of coffee

Predatory behavior

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Sing. Sang. Song-bringer. Throat singer. Singed tentacles. A long way home.

Group think. Design by committee. Aren't we all? For here and ever after.

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"Secondary Sensibility" is something I should write. I wrote it on a notepad in my car earlier today.

Maybe it's a chapbook dedicated to Justin.

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The books I write.

I've been thinking about absurdly long hash tags, too

The ultimate would be 133 characters

But anything so long that you couldn't event retweet it is perfect

Even 50 or 70 char long is good enough

I wonder what it's going to do at the line breaks

I assume just stupidly break

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Retreat it. History is always full while storage is always storing more. The end of storage would be quite an event.

Douglas Adams would make some joke about the Big Bang being some accident cause by rampant efficiency at a Self Storage rental place in the previous universe

He'd make it a funny joke, whereas for me it is just another dig at efficiency

What is it good for?

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Efficacy. Effaced artifact. Fractured bonds. Leveraged capital. Bartered wounds. Ring. Rang. Favorite towel.

Anybody will tell you, don't even try explaining humor.

Paint is drying

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

Platformer, Contrary, Conveyance

Or Sunday check in
Or Sunday and I'm in the sun (for now)
Or I am here

I accidentally deleted an app from the home screen on my phone, but I can't figure out what it was

I want that to be a stand-in for so many other things

But I know that the missing app is something I needed for a situation and I'll remember when it occurs and there I'll be app-less

Like I'll need to diffuse a bomb to save the whole squadron

And I'll be all, well Shazam isn't gonna help me with that

Only the bomb will be inane and the squadron will be my life

And maybe knowing what song I'm hearing will be a different kind if answer

And an opportunity to purchase

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Where I'm going with this

Baby blue Members Only jackets on aging war veterans

Confrontations with my classist skeletons

Do you think those kids at breakfast are meth-heads or on the way to it?

Maybe they are on their way out of here

Which is the iconic novel about spending everything on getting out, just to realize that this thing around you was what you wanted all along

Maybe that was Citizen Kane

It wasn't the Great Gatsby was it?

Mayhaps that's what Gangnam Style was all about in the end

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Something slower will come

Something that's worth more or does more or is more

And it's likely that depth isn't the answer

Location:Castle St,Salisbury,United States

Check In

Flour.
Wrinkles.
Deep breath.
A word for this pattern that doesn't take us all down the wrong path.

Pathfinders before they were oversized conveyance.

Conveyances?

Deer.
Fish.
Others.

Departed always dearly.

The Departed and those little papery booties you where over your shoes when you want to keep the situation clean.

Without a trace vs. undisturbed.
As in secrecy and subterfuge vs. prolonging or protecting the integrity of a previous state.

Study. Studied.
Findings.
Found things.

Cast-off feathers.
Beds if tiny mollusks.
Wind.

I hope we're all feeling better.

Location:Melvin Dr,Baltimore,United States

There Are Things I Do

Prepositions

Closing time

Hope beyond hope and gambling that refuses notions of investment

Breathing near bodies of water

Manhattan is an island

Returning "pivot" to its noun roots

Legacies, nominal, nomenclature

Last Spring, wingspan, birds are dinosaurs

Flocking behaviors, jellyfish, sea wasp venom

See it all happen here, now

See it all before your eyes

Reinterpret it until time never ends

In chains in the basement

Streams of sunlight

Snowdays are heaven

Courtesy of America

Location:Whitehall St,New York,United States

Catch Me While I Can

Location:Edgemoor Rd,Edgemoor,United States

There Were Absolutely No Gators in the Water Latergram

That's absolutely how the day rolled

Long stretches of a heartrate you could be proud of

Remembering it took 2.5 of the planet's 4 billion years to terraform this place, one bubble of oxygen at a time

My facts might be a little weak there, but the spirit holds

My aims are true, but I'm heading for less aiming

We were in the sun most as long as it was out

We ate food in between stretches of not eating food

And then another day

Location:Brooks Rd,Madison,United States

Where Have You Been To, Where Did You Go

Pictures are not people

People are not trees

Irises, wild or domestic, are not arboreal

It's an amazing thing to see an iris pop up back and forth down a riverbank

The plant that makes the flowers, I mean

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Think of the times that the picture was better than being there

Now think of the times that the picture just didn't grasp how amazing it was

Think of the times your head, the next morning or the next day, couldn't grasp how great it was

Or couldn't put it into words

Couldn't share it

With dreams, with times

Walks, music, moonrise, momentary connection, things that arrive at just the right moment, a scrap of paper on the pavement or something scrawled in chalk on a brick wall

Take the time to think about each of these and get your head around what they mean to you

What do they mean to the world

I mean everybody that's not you

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There are numerous strategies for getting certain about uncertainty

One of my callings in life may involve all of that

Heisenberg's principle is an equation for god'sake

There are people getting their heads around that all the time

As long as higher education stands

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I've been thinking about a P.K.Dick-ian time to come when we better understand the inner-workings of all these relay arrays in the human mind and we are able to create moments across the surface of your brain

I know those things mean very different things, but bear with me, I'm talking about that time to come when they no longer do

And at that time things like virtual reality have gone to the Nth and there is no difference between an experience and a manufactured experience

And, of course, this will involve all kinds of bodywork, not just brainwork, let's not be shallow

And I'm thinking about, Well, what then?

I'm thinking about whether it all comes down to economics and history at that point

Do people cease being people at that point -- or at least cease to "matter" -- and it all becomes flows of equations

That's when there are starships?

Cryo ceases to matter because living doesn't?

I don't know where all this goes

I don't know that it'll keep a toe-hold in my head and I'll get it somewhere as a story or a something

I don't know if this will give it a hold in some other head

It'll matter, or it won't

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It's Sunday morning

I've seen so much wildlife the past 24 hours

The sun is out and rising higher

The wind has finally died down

So many birds all around