Everything to Everyone

I just don't have it for erasures right now

I have it for the firehose and the flood and the synchronous

I have it for the Collapse of Space and Time taking a look at us and saying, silly humans, this has nothing to do with singularity

I have it for a view of everything breaking down to neutrinos being anything but gray or just not giving a shit about gray

All these images in my head that aren't pictures

Strings of words and/or rhetoric and/or narrative shreads

Jokes and half-ideas and half paragraphs

I want to make some space for rabbits, so I just made some space for rabbits

Brown ones

Whites ones

Spotted ones

Those giant ones with the long fur

They are German?

Noses and then otters and then rivers and then the air

From whatever-saurs to hollow bones in how long?

It's all amazing

Night-night

Location: Melvin Drive, Baltimore, MD

I Lost a Post

And I meant it and that's a bummer

I mean, I meant what I wrote

Even if I was on the Metro at the time

And I was metro-ing between U Street and Dupont Circle (transfer at Chinatown)

But that's not enough to put it back together

Funny what autocorrect won't correct

Funny this time of night

Funny what time of morning I'll be up

And out

And "Hey Yeah" was a great song, you're right

It still is

Let's put it on tomorrow

[I wrote this a few days ago, but found it in my drafts instead of having been published... Whoops.]

Location: Melvin Drive, Baltimore, MD

Amtrak, Weeqhuahic Park

Sixty-four pitches and we're still in the third inning

Some people are red-hot

Some people are doing well

Some things are not forthcoming or are working their way around or are taking a little time

Some things are wild.

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Jargon. Dialect. Heteroglossia aka mixing it up.

Remix. Collage. Cut up and cutting it up.

End. The end.

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Sometimes you'll even have something to say.

No Trees, Now

Heat on heat

Heat on humidity

Near-charcoal smolders under a fine layer of ash, not because I dug around for the right word, but because that's what it does

What it's been doing all night

Night after night

Fan it and fan it some more

The sun will come up and splay oranges and reds down the way

The sun will go down and a host of other stars will get a turn at making you dizzy

You're floating

They're floating

And they're burning, too

Get some sleep, Monday is on its way

What Color

Night time. Pink. Putrescence and the quality thereof. Rhetoric against inhumanity. The page, remember that.

Thingness vs. thinginess. Thinking thin ice. Frenchmen walking.

Bread buying. Future markets. And it was time to reset the units. To set it straight.

Re-straighten. Straits of Magellan. Iberian Penninsula. Sino-U.S. relations. Who put the station in station wagons?

Left hook. A well-cared for place where people play golf.

Rainbows over Baltimore, IRL.

It Was Taco Night

I've been up too long

Others would say I've slept too little

There's that guy who goes and lives in caves for really long stretches and his circadian rhythms get all out of whack

There are types of training that take years, if not decades, and it's not even like you're gonna be a Navy S.E.A.L.

White expanses become static and become white expanses again

Field, fields, screens, windows

Negotiating a view-port is no way to live your life

Taco night happened

Reality does not end at your ability to understand it, but some say it does end at our ability to observe it

I'm not sure where I land on that one

I'm not sure I have to

And then there's Europe. All of it.

Funnier Things Have Happened

Funnier things have happened

So the tyranny of pretty shit

So the days that come one after another

Again, dinner while the sun is shining

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Waves meet solid boundary

Rudders and steering wheels and all sorts of helpful things

The sextant is an invention like language

Is a technology, is engineered

Look down the road like language

By the pool, belly up to sunshine like language

The mechanics of a change up or a drop shot or a good feint like language

Then the grit whether the teeth kind of the eye kind

I Don't Get Everything That's Going on Here

It's like I have this new pencil and it has the GPS in it, but it doesn't know how to sing the place

It's like the sun has gone red and the sky has gone black and we're all exhaling like there's no tomorrow

It's like winter is here, but the days are still absurdly long, and we eat outside in parkas past 8pm with the cold sun shining down on us

Let us say this and let us say that

Let it all grow

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Water falls from great heights and pools down low

Ambling on stairs, mewling in basements

Left to the sun, and left to sing

Left to the way things are and re way things were

Amber waves of amber light, late autumn

Can you tuck yourself away and wait for morning to come?

Ever ready, ever ready, ever after

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What's next

Water

On location

Blister pack

Falling and waiting

Seventy

Crumpled plastic crumpling

Chinese food for breakfast

Breakdance, point break, poinsettia

Here and ever after

Safety dance, if you want to

Don't look back anyhow

Count seeds, count saviors

Simple simple simpler

New vs. Not Something You've Heard Before

Words only have baggage if someone in the speaking / listening chain is aware of the baggage, right?

That's Bertha

Very few rules weigh in at 100%

And then a reminder that a goal in life isn't to be beyond reproach -- at least my life

Defensible vs. useful vs. let's get it done

Locking arms together as we drive the car over a Texas cliff or stare down an advancing phalanx of not-good vs. locking arms at the beginning of the wrestling match

Trading arms, getting guns off the street, letter writing campaigns

And then the All Boats Rise

And then the Been There, Done That

And then the Are We There Yet?

Sometimes a tie is what you use to close up a garbage bag

Sometimes you're good to go

Saturday

Different Contributions Valued Differently

So Yeah Selfie Again Biology and There's That

What I forgot was that I accepted it at first

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There's somebody with a bag over his head

There's somebody on TV right now by the hundreds

There are China-scale audiences in China

They show you this thing and then this other thing and there is an arc and it reminds you of a rock in flight

But not just any rock

Oh, Henry! Come on now.

Come one and all

Come back now, ya hear

Come all ye faithful

Comets rained on the Earth, but the dinosaurs were long gone this time

The thing that survived is the thing that went to ground

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(with thanks to Anna and others)

Manic Monday

Taco Tuesday

Weigh-in Wednesday

Thirsty Thursday

Freaky Friday

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!

Sunday, bloody Sunday

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Something has to come after or else I'm a liar

Leave balance to your yoga instructor

And finish for stock photography

And faking it for making it

You'll be asleep before you know it