Wednesday, November the 27th. Room tip $5. B just left. And I leave that room tip despite our Kleenex tin not getting refilled. That's what I meant when I referenced the "indicator tissue." Those Kimberly Clark (aka Kleenex) "professional" little boxes of tissue go orange for the last five or so tissues, letting you know … Continue reading Seattle 2013: Day Three
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John Randall is a writer living in Missouri. His interests include camping, running, walking, cutting and burning wood, messing around with magnets, foraging, and listening to podcasts, many of them about baseball.
Seattle 2013: Day Two
Tuesday, November the 26th. [7:45 pacific]The highlight of breakfast was a kind of Tazo tea that I had never tried before. China green tips. Yum. Otherwise the breakfast offerings at the Talaris Conference Center were pretty remedial. They had English Muffin breakfast sandies that had egg and cheese in them. I had two, adding salsa … Continue reading Seattle 2013: Day Two
Seattle 2013: Day One
Monday, November the 25th. [14:53 central]It has felt like morning all day. I am all packed. B is out getting sandies and little bottles of gin. [17:08]The guy gave us a card saying we were in spot 315. We were the only two people on Shuttle 28. "Shuttle 28. Are we clear?" "10-40, Shuttle 28. … Continue reading Seattle 2013: Day One
Pere Marquette State Park, November 9-10, 2013
I. Preface (11/8/2013). I have cut an 11' x 10' piece of the new 6 mil plastic sheeting—doubled over (11' x 5') it looks a good fit for under the tent. For Pere Marquette, I will still bring the tarp and sandwich the plastic sheeting in the tarp for under the tent. For the Farm … Continue reading Pere Marquette State Park, November 9-10, 2013
Farm Party, Fall 2013
Then E Vaughan. He unwraps and tosses a potay—it lands with a thud. I go and get more wood from the creek bed. Patrick helps, drags back a cedar. E Vaughan is working on the tractor. Will it start?
Putt, putt, huff, huff...
"Come on, baby!"
"Now we have liftoff!"
"Don't start counting your chickens yet."
Patrick saws. B offers up the last two cinnamon rolls. Bucky and Sarah are down, getting their stuff together. There was a day, down here, the first Sunday, when we were eager for getaway....
E Vaughan backs the tractor up the hill...
Ampersand, Rotated 90˚ Counterclockwise
Here I am
at
ROCK BOTTOM
again
Death, death, death, and destruction
Bourbon at 13:00—
Song helps,
a Nobel would do better.
Hand to forehead,
seated,
elbows on desk—
staring, stoned, bereft
all of the past up to the present
& this is what's left.
WI/MN 2013
"Enough planning, un-planning, re-planning, and planning for a lack of a plan. I am packed, I am ready, I am waiting."
— John Randell Cabot, Lake Superior, 1687
1
Lostant
rain on the pavement
good light, power lines & their
towers.
Toluca, Tonica, Winona
Mammatus clouds, water
drips down, hits my
face when
I open the
window.
A nut bar, worry of heartburn.
I went around the corner only to
have a cigarette. But then Pat
has one and I wonder why I hid it.
State highway 6, Ottawa/La Salle-Peru
On the Illinois River. Nice place?
There are a lot of windmills, and
an exit for highway 30 to Sterling,
to Aurora—where I went to school once...
Continue with this travel poem...
It Might Not Have Been Blue Mountain, But We Did Ascend a Mountain in Jamaica
Note: What follows is not a dream but a carefully crafted piece of fiction. Any semblance to recent, factual events is purely coincidental. 1 The Veaux-Hanns picked us up Saturday in Pat's Vibe after they had gone to some sort of comedy show down along the Loop. We were ready for them. It was ten … Continue reading It Might Not Have Been Blue Mountain, But We Did Ascend a Mountain in Jamaica
Northern Exposure Pastry Contest Goes Very Much Awry in Germany (Nap Dream)
Don't ask me what was going on in this one. I suppose I was just minding my own business living in my apartment here in St. Louis only it wasn't St. Louis of course it was Germany. I put a packet of ketchup outside one of the doors upstairs on Level 3. Some guys with … Continue reading Northern Exposure Pastry Contest Goes Very Much Awry in Germany (Nap Dream)
Renewal
Me, Ray, Em, and Brook are on the street and some guy resembling Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite was trying to get us to renew our cellular phone service contracts. I was totally into it despite this guy having no apparent legitimacy; he is sitting in a crappy fold-up chair at a crappy table. But … Continue reading Renewal
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