the wind is in from africa, last night i couldn't sleep
2004-08-03 & 12:19 a.m.

And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down

before i opened my eyes, i wondered if i was sitting by the train station where we would sit and eat warm peanuts bought from the man with the large white hat. i could smell the ocean today and i wonder when we stop editing. maybe if you listen closely, the world is full of people shouting their favorite colors on many moving sidewalks.

just before our love got lost you said "i am as constant as a northern star"

if i stopped missing you, does that mean i would forget you mashing mango water ice in my hair? or maybe it means that i could move farfar away, sign my letters "love" and mean it.

on the day you told me you were afraid of being a shadow, i found a piece of yellow paper on a telephone pole with the joni mitchell lyric,

love is touching souls, surely you touched mine 'cause part of you pours out of me

i thought to tell you. instead, i ate watermelon and drank beer from a clear ridged pitcher. and someone else told me they loved me. and i kept not believing them.

go look at your eyes, they're full of moon