Still shambling the streets of the city Nelson Algren defined, I am the Monster in a madhouse refined. Burma Shave.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
My Neck A Rusted Hinge
Forget my work schedule. Forget the writing projects or my self-pity and self-loathing. Its been truly hideous here with the weather here, tomorrow again dropping to twenty below, making my last post of Heston on the beach idyllic. If the fall of Western civilization is pending, count me in but only if its warm. I've had nothing to post worth saying. My concentration scattered by any number of neural responses to my body's movements, walking across the surface of an empty moon. Thing is, there are homeless people too proud to leave the cold for at least one night. I can see their collective mindset in that I, too, like to meet madness on my own terms, but the homeless ghosts of the city have always one-upped me. They are braver souls than I'll ever be...Wayne
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Meeting madness on your own terms. Well said.
I've never witnessed cold like that.
The most homeless people that I've seen was during a visit to Philadelphia during the Papa Bush administration. The streets were quite literally covered with the homeless. If there was a partially covered spot, there was at least one homeless person huddled underneath it. The experience was hideous.
And is the absolute, ultimate number one reason I left Chicago for Arizona: it's too frackin' cold there. Keep warm!
Hang in there, hon. My sympathies for your crappy weather. <:(
I was gonna say something about that elegant and elegiac tone in your post, but then that 'hugs' comment made grapefruit juice fly out my nose!
Stay warm.
er, well.
that "hugs" comment was actually from me, sent to wayne via email.
how very strange...
er, well.
that "hugs" comment was actually from me, sent to wayne via email.
how very strange...
er, well.
that "hugs" comment was actually from me, sent to wayne via email.
how very strange...
stranger still that my comment posted three times, when i'm pretty sure i only hit "submit" once. nor did i refresh or any of that.
hrumph. sorry folks. and wayne, feel free to delete the extra two.
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