Here City
By Rick Snyder
The sounds
of the train
piped in
through the
PA system.
The whole city
slightly askew
but familiar
in its shadows,
its symmetrical brick,
its dry hot breeze
and its lack
of pedestrians,
save you.
*
The blinking message said:
More alcohol
is needed
to achieve
escape velocity
*
The salutations and styles
erupting on the top
few stairs,
where service
is mercifully restored
and the world resumes
its tangents and vectors,
terrific possibilities
processed by objects
as small and dark
as the eyes of a starling,
constantly soaking up data
and sending it back to Seattle,
which sells it to Tokyo,
which sells it
to someplace else
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Quickie as I am leaving for Seattle at an appalling hour of the morning so we can find Daniel an apartment out there! My day mostly involved work and shopping for the trip (awesome inexpensive walking shoes), then dinner, packing, and watching Joe vs. the Volcano which traveling west always makes me want to watch -- a guilty pleasure but a very great one. Here are some photos of the wildlife at Washingtonian Lake!
