The Jump Off
The Get Up
The Get Down
Jump in
It's not that you fall down
It's not that you fall down
It's not that you fall down
It's that you pick it back up
Everything is inconsistent and jittery
Everything inside out
Everything closing down
Close your eyes
Breathe
Repeat
April 24, 2017
April 23, 2017
#Persist
Stay hungry
Stay present
Stay curious
Stay vigilant
Keep moving
Keep eating
Keep breathing
Keep ready
Stay interested
Stay open
Stay forgiving
Stay awake
Keep talking
Keep fighting
Keep loving
Keep living
Stay human
Stay human
Stay present
Stay curious
Stay vigilant
Keep moving
Keep eating
Keep breathing
Keep ready
Stay interested
Stay open
Stay forgiving
Stay awake
Keep talking
Keep fighting
Keep loving
Keep living
Stay human
Stay human
April 22, 2017
I Live in Baltimore, Now
I live in Baltimore now
With the squirrels and the bunnies
The deer and the woodpeckers
The dogwoods and dogs
Foxes, raccoons, butterflies, and birds
I'm living in Baltimore
With the folks planting annuals out in front of the Presbyterian Church down the street
And the people bringing in the shopping carts from the parking lots
And the ones making deliveries night and day
People getting by, people not getting by, people figuring it out
I live in Baltimore around houses
And apartments and new construction
Buildings buttressed with wooden joints
Buildings falling apart and falling down
Condos, restaurants, and hotels
Universities and high schools and parking lots and more
I live in Baltimore where it rains
And the sun shines and rises and sets
And the moon is full on the regular
And the clouds are amazing with the ocean right there
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After being here 13 years, yesterday was the first time I got ugh about my living in Baltimore and The Wire coming fast upon one another in conversation. Don't get me wrong, I love The Wire. I'll talk about the great trajectory of cop shows from Car 54 to Hill Street Blues to NYPD Blue to The Wire. I'll talk about the good guys being the bad guys and the bad guys being the good guys and everyone just living. I'll talk about it being the best TV ever made at its time or damn near it.
But then this morning I was tooling around the neighborhood and saw all the green and the wildlife around me -- sure my current neighborhood is pretty suburban for being inside city limits but whatever.
I'm not high-horsing it here. It's just Baltimore is like everywhere and Baltimore is everywhere. Just better. ;)
With the squirrels and the bunnies
The deer and the woodpeckers
The dogwoods and dogs
Foxes, raccoons, butterflies, and birds
I'm living in Baltimore
With the folks planting annuals out in front of the Presbyterian Church down the street
And the people bringing in the shopping carts from the parking lots
And the ones making deliveries night and day
People getting by, people not getting by, people figuring it out
I live in Baltimore around houses
And apartments and new construction
Buildings buttressed with wooden joints
Buildings falling apart and falling down
Condos, restaurants, and hotels
Universities and high schools and parking lots and more
I live in Baltimore where it rains
And the sun shines and rises and sets
And the moon is full on the regular
And the clouds are amazing with the ocean right there
---
After being here 13 years, yesterday was the first time I got ugh about my living in Baltimore and The Wire coming fast upon one another in conversation. Don't get me wrong, I love The Wire. I'll talk about the great trajectory of cop shows from Car 54 to Hill Street Blues to NYPD Blue to The Wire. I'll talk about the good guys being the bad guys and the bad guys being the good guys and everyone just living. I'll talk about it being the best TV ever made at its time or damn near it.
But then this morning I was tooling around the neighborhood and saw all the green and the wildlife around me -- sure my current neighborhood is pretty suburban for being inside city limits but whatever.
I'm not high-horsing it here. It's just Baltimore is like everywhere and Baltimore is everywhere. Just better. ;)
April 21, 2017
Size Medium T-Shirts in the 90s
There's a lot of things you can do in one-hundred and twenty seconds
Even more things you can get started
Minds changed, damns broken, feathers and camels, etc.
This is what I care about
And so it this
It's Friday and the weather turned out great by the time I was home
It might all break
Second comes second best
Sunsets, subsets, sentinels
Why not?
One bit's not more
Count the cracks
Even more things you can get started
Minds changed, damns broken, feathers and camels, etc.
This is what I care about
And so it this
It's Friday and the weather turned out great by the time I was home
It might all break
Second comes second best
Sunsets, subsets, sentinels
Why not?
One bit's not more
Count the cracks
April 20, 2017
The Scathing and the Scathed
Collapsed just right
The blind history of fish
Lightning bugs and final offers
Foundering, forgotten, or focused
Forged in mistakes and half truths
You say farmer where I see no hope at all
Let the sun set, I am already home
To begin with
To see through
To settle like it's sold
Newfoundland
The blind history of fish
Lightning bugs and final offers
Foundering, forgotten, or focused
Forged in mistakes and half truths
You say farmer where I see no hope at all
Let the sun set, I am already home
To begin with
To see through
To settle like it's sold
Newfoundland
April 19, 2017
Don't Be Ashamed, We All Get Caught Up in the Spell from Time to Time
The latest vs. the last and that's why context matters
All the misses overlapping and we're shooting the beach scene
There is no Pulitzer for cue cards
Friendship, magic, boardwalk fries, the kind of cold you feel when you've been in the sun too long
Never, you say, whipping your scarf around your neck and draining the last of your beer
We should'a got the convertible
All the misses overlapping and we're shooting the beach scene
There is no Pulitzer for cue cards
Friendship, magic, boardwalk fries, the kind of cold you feel when you've been in the sun too long
Never, you say, whipping your scarf around your neck and draining the last of your beer
We should'a got the convertible
April 18, 2017
Formerly, Formally, Flattery
Sometimes it all comes down to people, places, things and I get that
You can paint the outside of a house
Walls meet
Pavement spreads out in every direction
We've know pattern wants to get fucked as long as we've known the world loves a pattern
Out in front, lagging behind
Turned up, turned out
Tuned in, end of day
Sidewalk cracks at the end of a long day
The cafés filling up and then emptying
The way you take note before heading home
You can paint the outside of a house
Walls meet
Pavement spreads out in every direction
We've know pattern wants to get fucked as long as we've known the world loves a pattern
Out in front, lagging behind
Turned up, turned out
Tuned in, end of day
Sidewalk cracks at the end of a long day
The cafés filling up and then emptying
The way you take note before heading home
Location:US-50 E,Hyattsville,United States
April 17, 2017
We Have a New Champion
Double up vs. double down
Challenge and challenger and the Seychelles
Sea shore memories
More more more memories
Your arm around my shoulders
Knocking into a table
Sliding through the front door
When the wind picks up
Rain or snow or fallen leaves
There's the sun
There's another wall
There's a guy changing a flat tire
Signal theories
Color guard
Canopy
Out
Challenge and challenger and the Seychelles
Sea shore memories
More more more memories
Your arm around my shoulders
Knocking into a table
Sliding through the front door
When the wind picks up
Rain or snow or fallen leaves
There's the sun
There's another wall
There's a guy changing a flat tire
Signal theories
Color guard
Canopy
Out
April 16, 2017
When They Ask if You're Ready to Go
FTR I don't know what to tell you
But I'm trying and I'm surviving and I know that sounds stupid
But you stand on a ledge and I stand on a ledge and here we are
The thoughts, the actions, a whole buncha emojis, rules and regulations as in terms and conditions as in what's expected
It's Sunday and I'm far from home but not for long
And everything gets boiled down from a distance
All the various trucks become one trick
All the moments become one day
All the places at the mercy of satellite platforms and perspective and interpretation
Then cookies, then videogames, then walks among columns and there and there and there
Follow me anywhere, I'm full of red wine and favors
I'll do what I can, the sun is angling, and and and the music
But I'm trying and I'm surviving and I know that sounds stupid
But you stand on a ledge and I stand on a ledge and here we are
The thoughts, the actions, a whole buncha emojis, rules and regulations as in terms and conditions as in what's expected
It's Sunday and I'm far from home but not for long
And everything gets boiled down from a distance
All the various trucks become one trick
All the moments become one day
All the places at the mercy of satellite platforms and perspective and interpretation
Then cookies, then videogames, then walks among columns and there and there and there
Follow me anywhere, I'm full of red wine and favors
I'll do what I can, the sun is angling, and and and the music
April 15, 2017
The Work as in the Getting
Certain leg-covers and coverage
Illegal means of catching illegal fish
Only one of us can be the fastest
And no one is the best
The bar splits into three
And you'll make a choice
The road splits into two
And domestic assault remains a problem
All the things you can do with potatoes
And two pigs and weather patterns
Gather up the numbers and crunch them
The sun shining down on what's left
The countdown to the shooting
The last chord ringing in the air
Illegal means of catching illegal fish
Only one of us can be the fastest
And no one is the best
The bar splits into three
And you'll make a choice
The road splits into two
And domestic assault remains a problem
All the things you can do with potatoes
And two pigs and weather patterns
Gather up the numbers and crunch them
The sun shining down on what's left
The countdown to the shooting
The last chord ringing in the air
April 14, 2017
In the Vicinity of the Moose Lottery
You can save all your life
It's a celebration
People come and go
Divet vs. rivulet vs. sunset
Less than the whole but still something
Seasons change, said everybody
Big on bigger
Streets that matter
Lost wallets and scarves
Pocket change when that was a thing
Employment, employment, employment
A kerchunk you can believe in
Until a wall you can't ignore
The thing about facts
Air temperature, pressure, patterns
Leave a comment in the box then get back on your bike up outta here
It's a celebration
People come and go
Divet vs. rivulet vs. sunset
Less than the whole but still something
Seasons change, said everybody
Big on bigger
Streets that matter
Lost wallets and scarves
Pocket change when that was a thing
Employment, employment, employment
A kerchunk you can believe in
Until a wall you can't ignore
The thing about facts
Air temperature, pressure, patterns
Leave a comment in the box then get back on your bike up outta here
Location:Congress St,Portland,United States
April 13, 2017
They You We Watch Where This Which Is Going
What's obvious and what's doing
Never fails, never flaunting
Always moving always weather
When you fly or flee or flail or fire
This mother, that mother
That open field, this sense of purpose
A path is implied, so you walk it
A day is desired, so you live it
A siren attacks a wall or a shout attacks a cliff side or maybe dells and valley and peaks and all that
The picture is a pedal
The purpose is some wires
They build a tower and they smash it
Never fails, never flaunting
Always moving always weather
When you fly or flee or flail or fire
This mother, that mother
That open field, this sense of purpose
A path is implied, so you walk it
A day is desired, so you live it
A siren attacks a wall or a shout attacks a cliff side or maybe dells and valley and peaks and all that
The picture is a pedal
The purpose is some wires
They build a tower and they smash it
Location:Franklin Pl,Lanham,United States
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