carves holes in your life—in the future
and your heart.
—expressed by Riley, a character from Sense8
After which everything gets really
weird (highly recommended).
I remember blast from the past.
I remember lime green cicadas
and suicides or sewercides:
admixtures of each available
fountain drink at junior high
baseball, basketball or football
game snack shacks. I have to
show up tonight (I remember
having to show up tonight)
to a meeting on the subject
of A Show of Hands. Who
understands this? I remember
liking it, and wallowing in
the deep meaning of it all.
I remember remorse;
remorseful prayer.
The space where my
kidneys ought to be
hurts, or is hurting.
It’s beautiful pain,
rather than a head
full of nothing
might astonishingly be
exactly the opposite.
—most of these words were remembered
after an otherwise less than memorable
trip to Jack Early Park on Telegraph Hill
