This year Wild in the Streets to benefit LeeSide the do-it-yourself skatepark in a tunnel under Hastings Street in Vancouver
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half-baked cookies in the oven...fruitcakes on the street... |
Social Security
No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.
even in the safety zones, it's not safe.
Even safe sex is not safe.
Even things you lock in a safe
are not safe. Never deposit anything
in a safety deposit box, because it
won't be safe there. Nobody is safe
at home during baseball games anymore.
At night I go around in the dark
locking everything, returning
a few minutes later
to make sure I locked
everything. It's not safe here.
It's not safe and they know it.
People get hurt using safety pins.
Under the Capitol DomeThere are those who speak of confusion today
as if yesterday there was order
rather than confusion.There are those who point to confusion today
as though if given a chance
they could tomorrow transform it into order.There are those who find benefits in confusion
and make it a labor of delight
to render any confusion more confounded.There are those who expect today’s confusion
to be followed by another tomorrow,
the two confusions being different from each other.The confusions of being born are followed
by the confusions of how to live
until a final moment when a stilled heart
holds release complete and absolute
from all former and earlier confusions.
The Rainy Night in Kentucky
The rain is setting in.
Night and rain go well
together. Hell, why not besad tonight? I’m not tired
of being broken hearted—from
baby’s cradle, mind you—yet.
Family Therapist living
in the Northern Rockies.
Blogging as Riley Dog
since 1999.
Reading:
And Then
C-Monster
Erasing
Consumptive
La Linguisterie
Look Into My Owl
Odd Citrus
Radish King
Susannah Breslin
Wood s Lot
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day draw near
another one
do what you can
we are an accident that thinks
listen: there's a hell
of a good universe
next door; let's go
