20240223

Screen Off Memos or a Fever Dream

There's an actual child
and she's actually fat as fuck
at 1:21 in the morning.
    But then again, 
it is what it is.

Pepper tree story!

I saw the chickens
and wanted to be them

Walking down old country roads
is an exercise in trust

Doesn't seem right
being surrounded by olives.
Or Eucalyptus

Thank you,
old, fat lizard,
for allowing me to
hold you for a moment
    You remind me of when
I was young and fast and
caught young and fast lizards.
    Thank you.

The seemingly random
(this is about the pretty, little, red flowers
     and that memory is mine)

I went the right way
because it was literal

I take pictures to share but
the little red flowers are for me
 
I wish that I could tell you 
how to share this moment with me
    Alas, it is but [something?]

Nature and a moment
gave this seat to me

I want to go to 
all of the places where
only the few go

I still say these
things in my head
that I hate to say

This (a view)
is a better story than
I could ever hope to tell

Eventually,
I went to take a drag
but it was already out
    I thanked myself
and walked about

I had to tell myself
to just be there for a fucking moment

That's going to be more fun
when I'm less drunk

I decided before
and realized after

We don't have fireflies
but we've got
white moths at twilight

You only get to see the trees
that no one sees
if you go and find them

The right kind of lost

The pretty little tree
with the pretty and sudden spring flowers
and the caution tape around it
looked more sad than the other
less pretty trees

Walked into the resort dancing
like I was in a Maklemore video
to this fuckin' gem,
I texted to the friend

Sang a bunch in the shower;
Hot water for that Counting Crows song
    (the one with the cello) and
that Lana track
"if you know, you know"

I walked where
fewer people have

I've seen hot girls
walk funny too

Smokin' time.
Just the red leaf
this time

I'm sitting outside to smoke
and wondering,
    are these people like me?

Children + Casino = strange

They look that good
so that they can resent
all of those
looking them down
and somehow
feel better about it.

MPs

I forget, exactly, why 
that night in Hesse
I was arrested. 

But I was, pretty, sure.

    Others could tell it better.
    Others could remind me.

Mostly, I was alone and
somehow I was let off.

It wasn't actually a big deal
but sometimes I remember it.

20240215

Chug a' Lugg's

 There's the two types of Chuggs:

   ~the "Chug, Chuug, Chugg," with constant sips and swallows, and

   ~ the long 'Chhuuggg," where the Chugger chugged long and held both close and far before the swallow. The one like gutting a dip before the boss suddenly comes around. 

A drunk guy told me this while I was too, drunk.

20240213

Untitled One

My little cigar is
again unlit because
enthusiasm for lighting
was extinguished by
sudden excitement
for that. new. track.