Beck: Mellow Gold

I totally missed it when it plashed, plunked,
and sputtered into fourth place.

Now it sounds like everything I didn't
miss back then,

o back then

when I was bedheaded
and worming my way through some
nightshift of my own making.

Thanks boss, I did
get paid
after all.

Simple Update

I'm about to see Nick Cave in Nashville.
But also saw in a honky-tonk bar
written in Magik Marker

"Herbert Hearts Gloria Ashlock".
Cheers: from the 7th floor of

Indigo Hotel. I'll let you know
what it's like to be the line

connecting the dots between
the two.

True or false, then?

Noia is plainly an evil: to suffer it is to suffer utter unhappiness. So what is noia? Not a specific sorrow or pain (noia, the idea and nature of it, excludes the presence of any particular sorrow or pain) but simply ordinary life fully felt, lived in, known: it's everywhere, it saturates an individual."

~Giacomo Leopardi

Thought Skipped Over Rooftops

I think, partially,
our ability to quickly grasp
stories, sweet stories,
may undo us.

How many times
these days
do we glimpse or whiff
something and say,
"yeah, I got it,
I understand everything
about your life."

Thanks for the photo,
I am catching a bus,
leaves are falling,
it is fall --

what a cliche.

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