This summer I impulsively agreed to drive the three thousand kilometers from
Toronto to Calgary with my mum. It was her 57th birthday,
and she asked me, and-- well-- I can't say no to people I love. It's a
bad habit and I know I should fix it, but there it is. I have this silly, deep seeded, Joyce inspired ideal that love
means saying yes ad infinitum. Yes I said yes I will yes, and all that.
By nature, driving is impressionistic. Defined by
speed and a deliberate, quantified, marking of time. The fleeting
images of Northern Michigan were sobering in their back woods reality.
The family friends we stayed with on the Manitoba/Ontario border were
living out their post-Scarface existence with plenty of hash and vodka
and velvet and faux gold furniture. I saw no moose but many road kill
deer, beautiful in their contorted road side death. The prairies were
flat as they've ever been, but passing from western Manitoba into
eastern Saskatchewan is all canola fields and huge blue skies and salt flats, and it brought up the strongest surge of nostalgia I've
felt in months. When Mum fell asleep I turned the radio to a cheesy country
station, brought the car up to 130, and I
thought about being a teenager and felt grateful and sad all at once.
Growing up in the prairies is strange. It's like always being the last
kid picked for the team because you don't have a real city or an ocean or
mild weather. Like being the last kid picked for the team but the first
to dance because you grew up hard and beautiful and god damn it all you
have the best skies. And you know every fucking word to that stupid
country song about barbecue stains and white t-shirts.
Calgary always pins me down and kicks me around. It's hard to go
back, again and again, to the place I've been exiled from. They know it
and I know it-- I left, and when I'm back I'm never back for long, and
I'm happy being away from its bullshit. I tell 2, maybe 3 people I'm
there, and the rest I hope not to run into. It's easier this way: no
expectations, no commitments, no drama, no conversation. Some of them,
fuck, we can't even be in the same room.
We drove and drove and Canada slipped away past the windows and under
the wheels and it felt like coming home and leaving home in the same moment. Returning and running, coming back to
say goodbye.
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Be good to each other and yourselves, please / Para La Envidia
the heavy wind of age
brought in its flight
dust, food,
seeds split off from love,
petals wound with snakes,
cruel ash of dead hatred,
and everything flourished in the wounded mouth.
A web of passions started up
and the woeful dregs of being forgotten
gave root to the spreading tentacles,
the violet medusa of envy.
Neruda, from "To Envy"
brought in its flight
dust, food,
seeds split off from love,
petals wound with snakes,
cruel ash of dead hatred,
and everything flourished in the wounded mouth.
A web of passions started up
and the woeful dregs of being forgotten
gave root to the spreading tentacles,
the violet medusa of envy.
Neruda, from "To Envy"
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the other night I dreamt my way into a dark city
where I lost everything I looked for
traveled on the outskirts of buildings
jumped fire escapes
ran into a man
covered in blood
shooting up
I ran
he followed
he caught me
he held me down and he shot me up
he bled his blood on me
he put his poison in me
I woke up despairing for myself
heroin
and him
heroin
where I lost everything I looked for
traveled on the outskirts of buildings
jumped fire escapes
ran into a man
covered in blood
shooting up
I ran
he followed
he caught me
he held me down and he shot me up
he bled his blood on me
he put his poison in me
I woke up despairing for myself
heroin
and him
heroin
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4.21.2012
oh fuck I just want to see you for 3 seconds to tell you I'm proud of you, k?
I'm proud of you
I'm proud of you
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