When someone well
stranger
than if
you

I look into my ass
gaping
cavernous
I stop and ponder
on the wonder of that dark
abyss
What has been lost?
What can be found?
I look into my ass
gaping
cavernous
and I ponder.

I thought I'd steaed, I found my way
I found that I don't be sad at all
I feel my faell, a puppy mah
I said I boring boring aheaahhh

Tonight was 'opening day' at Security Field where I'm working at the Fox Den for the baseball season. This was the first night that I worked in the store, and wow was it freaking busy. I sold so many blankets, sweatshirts, and beanies! This was because of fans that came to the game unprepared for the cold weather. I swear I must have sold over 100 blankets. At $32 a pop for a blanket? whewwww.


For the first 30 minutes after the gates opened they had bag pipes playing, which sort of made sense because earlier in the afternoon I wondered why the hell some guy would wear a kilt to the game considering how cold it was.

The highlight of my night was two guys that patronized the den. One was swapping out his Detroit Tigers cap for a Sky Sox cap. We talked about both having moved to Colorado and how we'll probably have to become Rockies fans now. I asked about which cap he would wear if both the Tigers and the Rocks go to the World Series, and he grinned and waved his Tigers hat at me as he went out the door.

Nice.


The second was a guy from southern MI. He was swapping out his Red Wings beanie for a Sox beanie. He told me about how his Irish grandparents got off the boat and found themselves in an all Polish neighborhood in Detroit, so that's how his family learned how to fight and play hockey. His uncle and another relative of his played for the Wings is what he told me. So I told him where I was from and he said "oh I know where that is! It's right here!" and he held up his hand and pointed right to the Saginaw Bay.

It was nice to talk to a couple of strangers with a familiar place in common.



Most retail jobs are grueling. But this one isn't. It's light hearted and fun.


To sum it up. I really really really hope I get to meet Fox the Sox at some point.

When all the pain
fills with water
then disappears

The rug you're on
is the rug that's filled
with live mink and straddle walls

on that you'll fly home
design & all

Tubular disaster it was indicated
I just never read the common law
posted pining imitations

tick tocking by to the right
then to the left
and past

how much more don't I know that's already gone?

overturned & covered mud deep in it was funny at the time
but you're so far away and your face I might never even see
so close
its these times
this time

Among all the
what?
torrential purifications?

I read once that conch shells pray
Still, radiators continue to melt them
75 degrees to the left of how many are actually needed until we reach town

decompressing around the bends, arguably deceitful,
funny thing that TV,
three colors make satin brown
three colors make white
stranger yet, fiction makes three

underexposed
it's not a meal
it's a transplant
and you,
rightfully dressed,
a part hide donee

Squander
which you find attractive
a sequel to that which hounds you
traffic

brought on
just joking tandem actions
coughs up neglectful
severance pay which for all intents and all-purposeful flour lands in the cloudform from
which it is was baked.

Good

Red the outline
yes the orange
flown with draft down

if in between they visit
they should you

can it be the
can it be I heard the fire for tea
sizzle filling go

as slowly
and surely
and slowly as
not saying
"talk to me"

pair a tune
with a doer
temper that mast
temper that mast

dwelling inside
the insoles hide
unsolved
insolvent

zoo eyes
mad dash
coco
chanel

Spent/Nothing

spent
like yesterday's pocket
or couch bank roll
taking its toll from the march of dimes
to the soda car wash
gone
like nothing
running on empty out
and
~~~
nothingness settles in
like its the last drop
the "don't go"
that nothing invites
that nothing calls
and nothing comes
~~~
Nothing fell into your keyborard
causing golden ribbons to not flush crimson
There's nothing to clean up after
zero hours spent on sage and salt and silly
There's nothing owed to the world for all these brakes

I've never been so close to something that's not
and nothing at all

I had this list of things to do
I threw it away

I had a shoe for yes
terday

I never gave a care for yes
turd day

There's a way for me to say
tan

you can call it beige but I call it brown
ish

Have a tuna melt with Lily Tom,
Lynn.