Look up.  You awake in a field at dawn, long grass against your face, packed dirt beneath your shoulder blades.  The creek is a short walk south, soft worn banks and clear shallow pools.  You wash your face, scrub the dirt caked between your fingers.  You take a long drink and there is a cold ache in your throat as you swallow it.

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i don't have any scars, one says,
young. the other asks,
how could you not have seen it?

how to fill these long sad days
without love, without
a schedule to keep.  somehow

On the train south out of Chicago, past all those winter basketball courts, past 1950s housing developments, past those small apartment complexes where cab drivers live. Past hobo villages beneath bridges even though it’s 10 below, past grey-green metal church towers, past trainyards and truckyards and backyards, past trailer parks, new condos and ( Read more... )

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in this pillbox again. salt on slugs, flames against leeches. i don't even have the attention span to watch an entire movie or read a short story. i am in the hospital dorm this time, lovingly referred to as the beach. it's open, fluorescent, but there's no privacy. i have seven more nights here and this computer is wheezing.

last night i rode a bicycle for miles and miles, out onto the runway of the old airport. there are five abandoned city busses there, and there were candles and songs and beautiful people inside one of them ( Read more... )

chances are, i love all of you. this world is amazing. you are all amazing. the fact we are all alive right now is beautiful and i wouldn't want this any other way.

i would have done the same things, even if there was no death.add my 'reallivetigers' journal if you want to hear about music-related things. i'll try not to post much here, and i ( Read more... )

so when my lease ends i am going on tour pretty much indefinitely. i have rough tour plans that take me through february of next year, but i do need some help. if anyone here likes music of the diy indie-folk variety or who maybe has friends that put on shows i need your help. if you can offer suggestions on where to play in certain cities i ( Read more... )

trip to houston is cancelled. who wants to go swimming tonight? my usual swimming partner, dw, is in ppd.