this is water, this is water, this is water...

this estate sale was small, the deaths undiscovered for too long to salvage almost anything in the house. only three rooms were open with the back of the house still held behind thick plastic airlocks that muffled the rumbling industrial airfilters inside

i put a new alternator in my car this week. the old one carried me well beyond it's expected lifespan. so many miles, so many mountains. thank you for your service, alternator w zero one three three three five nine seven three six three. you will be missed

the more i think about alternators and running shoes and even tubes of toothpaste as measures of time, the more confining calendars and clocks feel, like a leash, or a fence around the senses. i remind myself how their stiff edges make it possible to find the people i love, the people i want to love me, to be where they are when they are, but still

thank you for your striped service, aquafresh five point six ounce. you were as ever, minty fresh. you will be missed

we are sitting together in this old salvation army chair, reading, and listening to a fourteen hour playlist of old southern field recordings that would have felt like unimaginable wealth to a younger me. the bedding is stripped and washing. it's a lovely morning and i want to remember it

last night, i slept so deeply, i thought it was friday again

i dreamt of frying eggs in a wok made of white porcelain, and i dreamt of working an entire shift building stoves in the stove factory

this morning, i parked in front of the funeral parlor and walked up stone mountain with a thirty pound backpack. it was more intense than i expected, but lots of fun. i checked on the skull girls' glaring. i ate a gas station chicken biscuit. i bought a can of numbskull and a ticket to the offworld colonies at the milk jug

now, i'm ready to save the world

i'm not sure if that affected my dreams, but boba was sick sometime overnight. she ate her breakfast and purred this morning, so i'm choosing not to be concerned, even though she's more quiet than usual