Almond milk

In my smoothie
no chewing
and just a little more
smug.

Wind gusts blowing rain

Thunder with lightning
never any closer than
five Mississippi.

Memorial Day Weekend, Ayer MA, upper Flanagan pond

Cognitive dissonance

Camo hot pants
Look then look away.

Does the term "maybe" mean the same thing as "maybe not"?

Free market

I had a dream where the SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket was strapped to a space shuttle
to bring it up to orbit. At the last minute the shuttle would not stay attached to the Falcon9. There was an announcement that a SpaceX competitor had its rocket ready to go. In an hour or so they strapped the shuttle to the new rocket (called Velociraptor) and took off successfully
I then was running around Fenway park trying to find someone to talk to about this.

Hmmm...


"The universe works on a math equation
that never even ever really even ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying
We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other..." -Modest Mouse

Didn't see this coming

Walking around at dusk
through the woods, fields and small farm plots
talking about coyotes,
looking for hidden things
and the next day fasting.

Between ear erotica

My space porn went
a little S&M this morning
at 4:55 am when the SpaceX Falcon 9
launch aborted with one half second on the
liftoff clock, abnormal pressure in engine #5.
Then, Grrrrrr... a chick talking rocket science.

Laptop roulette

I wait until the last
possible minute to plug
in my laptop to external power
just to see the little scolding nag
that oblivion is immanent.

Birds, bat and a moth.

Sat outside drinking tea (Constant Comment)
in between dusk and dark (favorite time of day)
and heard the birds settle
in for the night as a bat
twisted overhead. When going back inside
a brown moth followed me in and spent a while bumping
into the white ceiling above any light that was on.
The moth paused on the edge of my bed where I was
reading.
The next day it was gone.

"Hey...your OK...you'll be fine...just breath." - ZeFrank

Cull the chaff

Bob Seger joins
Stevie Wonder
and Elvis Costelo
on the Pandora thumbs
down pile.

"He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions." - Carl Sagan on Johannes Kepler

More metaphors.

The zipper went from forehead
to groin
and I had a way to unzip and step out.
Today I felt wings and
decided to stay in this body.

 "I've convinced myself — I hope I'm right — that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth." - Maurice Sendak

High off the hog.

me: "If I took that apartment in Providence
I would be living like a king."

he: "Why, because the rent is so cheap?"

me: "That and I would have access to all sorts of stuff for my smoothies!"

he: "Oh, right...the not chewing thing."

1981 Chevy Luv diesel pickup

It was trying to tell us something.
There was a different squeal
accenting the cavalcade of
normal operating noises.
It wanted to let us know something
and the best we could
do is send it on its way
for more context.

N 42° 30.472 W 071° 16.732

Found my first geocache today
and got a little thrill
knowing there is something
hidden by where people walk
and don't know.

Weird thought today

I can literally do almost anything
I want to do today and most
likely I am going to pretty
much repeat stuff I have
done before.
That's great for somethings
like raising kids, caring for
those in need, yet can blind me to the
joy of the new.

"Smile your little smile --- take some tea with me awhile.
Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder.
Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you're really real.
Another tea-time --- another day older." - Jethro Tull

Living arrow

A metaphor and reality
borne out of relativity.
My past set as a living
future.
30 revolutions and
this bow could not
be more proud.