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Travel Coma
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I guess it takes a ten hour drive to finally write something worthwhile
but that’s a joke. It feels a tad menial.
Maine for a week sounds right.
Out to Lake Damariscotta for a few nights
but I’m still excited for Mark to come up to Buffalo.
I’ll spend my week on relative radio silence
in an attempted self-induced disconnected triumph
maybe Maggie will actually miss me.
A classic soul-searching quest to refocus.
A loser sitting on the shore in a yoga lotus
but I never liked sitting indian style as a kid.
So I packed my backpack with a mic, pop filter and a laptop
to offset the rustic peace.
But maybe I’ll go hiking like Ian
or sit in a kayak and fall asleep dreaming
of the exactly 937 things I can do on this trip.
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Talisman '91
02:41
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It was the talisman from ‘91
a svengali’s gift for a future son
He noticed he’d worn it before
Is it some sort of heirloom
that one of our granola friends gave to you?
Who knows who left it.
I wore it back when Hawaiian shirts were in style, or so, I thought.
I thought.
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I’m not tired
the first time
in five months.
I needed something like this.
Even though
a pull-out bar is low
pressed deep in my back
sleeping soundly like someone in a k-hole, relaxed.
Me and Kate went out to the island yesterday.
Paddled out in kayaks, saw empties, ashes, and an empty escape.
I don’t miss those hollow vibrations
but I’m an addict so I relapse every day.
Let me clarify;
there’s no service here.
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Alpacas Wait
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At 10am jumped into the waters that almost claimed me.
A tad sarcastically, I was fine last night doing my own thing.
A voyage across the lake, a pilgrimage to touch the landing
had to stop once or twice to listen to the “almost nothing.”
I really hated the cars
whose motors I could hear whirring
through the hills.
Is there anyplace completely silent, soundproofed?
I’m going to see the alpacas today.
My dad would’ve drunkenly held the lantern for me all night
waiting for me to come home.
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Vacation dragged a bit today.
Tossed and turned last night
not used to the sound of the rain.
Stayed up late
began to ruminate
on how I mumble when I sing.
Anxiously,
wondering if people will like it.
Frustrated me
if people cared about
the lyrics
or if a pop hook sustains them
on long car rides
with the windows down.
Just a frustrated tourist
this is my airing of grievances.
Kate is on the shit list
for ruining my bubble I spent a $1.79 on
in the Camden not in New Jersey
At least we didn’t get shot thats a joke
we’re in Camden, Maine.
If I get much older
I’ll have to be responsible.
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Elevator Anthems
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Can I keep up writing mediocre catchy songs
or will one morning come and I’ll wake up and it’ll be gone?
I had these thoughts on the edge of the dock
then I walked away; the bugs were bad.
If I keep on questioning it,
it might consume me and make me sad
Stuck writing elevator anthems
that no one wants to hear.
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Dusk on Damariscotta
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Ready to hit the road
the end to the proverbial soul searching.
Late in Damariscotta
been saying it wrong since we pulled in, but
on the last night,
staring at the moon refracted,
the problem with last nights is the change we associate with.
Back to normal in a week,
I won’t even remember I’ve been gone.
Except of telltale signs of pastels and northern accents.
That reminds of today
inside a tiny music store
wanting to buy a nylon Alvarez
until I had the epiphany
I have everything I need, I guess
Leaving the cottage I know at best
the summer will be bearable now.
Sometimes reality is a sobering thought.
ON TO PROVIDENCE
Oh yeah.
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Wylie Something Buffalo, New York
rust belt dreamin' since 2014
tired singer-songwriter
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