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.
"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
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...
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I had a very bizarre, extended dream in which I abetted one murder, and then another. Both victims were young women. The second murder was done to silence a gal who was putting together the pieces of the first murder. The first gal...I can't remember how she died. I wasn't in the room but I … Continue reading Murder Cover-Up Dream
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