06.05.07

I like to keep relationships with people from my past. Ideally, I would remain good friends with everyone I encounter, and I would never have a problem drinking a beer with them or offering them any kind of assistance. That would be nice. However, it could come to be troublesome if too many people were taking advantage of my hospitality. Yeah, take that nice guy with a ton of great friendships- just wait until they take advantage of you.

Barack Obama.

a brunette who enjoys wilco.

i would vote for these two things. but only these two things.

and now, e e cummings (it's hard to believe he wrote this in the 1920s)
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nobody loses all the time

i had an uncle named
Sol who was a born failure and
nearly everybody said he should have gone
into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could
sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which
may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle

Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable
of all to use a highfalootin phrase
luxuries that is or to
wit farming and be
it needlessly
added

my Uncle Sol's farm
failed because the chickens
ate the vegetables so
my Uncle Sol had a
chicken farm till the
skunks ate the chickens when

my Uncle Sol
had a skunk farm but
the skunks caught cold and
died so
my Uncle Sol imitated the
skunks in a subtle manner

or by drowning himself in the watertank
but somebody who'd given my Unde Sol a Victor
Victrola and records while he lived presented to
him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a
scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with
tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and

i remember we all cried like the Missouri
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my Uncle
Sol

and started a worm farm)