I was never a poet, but when you're too broken to write...

The rain makes
a meteor shower
in the headlights.

It burns cold
down our skin
into the earth.

I am so sad right now,

for everything excess.
Pain not needed,
balms we're too
lazy to apply.

Winter comes to
make the rain
colder into ash.

Las Vegas

Get off the plane, from early morning flight. Cross country neon coffin tube for 120. Cozy. Cramped. Upon release she says to me "Shoot Real Machine Guns at Real Chippendale's Rio Models!" Yes, there's a Snow Tiger between them. Welcome to Las Vegas.

'Nuff said.

"for the record, i understand you being doubtful of my commitment"

Watching Jeremiah Johnson made me certain of two things; how badly I wish not to be a mountain man, and how bad I want to get back into the mountains. I think this applies to most things I enjoy in life.

Today

It was that kind of day. Terrifying in how wonderful it was, because you want to capture it or at least copy every facet to replicate on command, but such things are impossible, and you fear the emptiness which may well up in the aftermath, the vast quaking footprint left behind by true happiness. It feels like falling but you may never wake up.

Things I want:

A small set of good harmonicas.

Silks.

A subscription to Climbing magazine.

An annual pass to the Gunks.

My Powered-Paraglider Certificate.

Walden

She made a good point. The Thoreau experience was flawed from conception if I can't get the preeminent thinkers and naturalists of our time to stop by and say hi.

Technicality.

"My dear Mr. Halyard: We have just completed an audit of the personnel cards for our Department, checking the information coded on them against the facts. During this audit, it was discovered that you failed to meet the physical-education requirements for a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and that the degree was awarded you through a clerical oversight of this deficiency. I regret to inform you that you are, therefore, technically without a bachelor’s degree, and, hence, technically ineligible for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees which also appear on your record."- KVJ, Player Piano