Didn't people die every day that you did whatever it was that you did before the day that you died? All while the uncomfortable truth emerged and whispered that you made no good goddamn difference, while the others stress to burnish into new time the lie that says that even that has got to stand good for something, even if, in truth, it was good for absolutely nothing.
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Mornings Making Life Well Worth the Trouble
A modest introduction into the brain followed by Zoe Keating and her pensive cello and my quilted cats, expensive coffee, a single pickled egg, a copy of Lolita, and my errant co-defendant co-dependants breathing out bad breath on my blanket, purring, trilling and well lapped, whose bacterial emissions entangle with my own, creating weirdly intoxicating and slowly rising wafts of "thick, lipid-rich sweet sweat," which reminds me of my grandmother in her house dress doing dishes and humming Hank Williams in her yellow kitchen, while the gas unit hums out its own deep wafts, exhaling warm breath for me and the my spirited tres panochas. We have no need nor desire for travel.