Cloud Sashimi: 2013

I want to take a walk.[1] My favorite walks are when there are no time constraints.[2]

It took a year but I wrote a book because I did not know if I could.[3] Turns out: I could.[4] It seemed like Science Fiction but now not so much. Now it just strikes me that I didn’t let it fester enough. Oh well. Moving on.

My favorite words are: slalom, hokum, Michigan, prevert.[5]

But enough about me. What about you?[6] I think, I like, love you. [7]

But seriously. I think I do love you.[8]

Back to the walk. Is it not nice to round the corner and see something unexpected but purposeful like a young child holding a Chihuahua lovingly? One thinks, that dog is in trouble because we are walking by the train tracks but the kid is cool and a talker and her dad seems quietly stressed however he is carrying hers and her sisters backpacks for them which would make anyone with a heart soften a little. And she is holding the dog around the shoulders and straight out so it can see and it is mellow.

[1] Outside.

[2] Like getting to work.

[3] To see if I could do it.

[4] Mostly because I have a printer. And I don’t call it a novel.

[5] Words, yes, but they also seem like colors and sounds. Silver, fuchsia, cerulean, grey.

[6] Sweaty, mocha, miserable? Hungry, pained, no core strength? I still love you.

[7] That is actually a quote from when I first fell in love. He said, as he looked at me quizzically: “I think I like….love you.” And there was no butterfly/unicorn/rainbow smile. He actually looked pressured and tense. And nice. And perfect.

[8] Mostly because you are reading the footnotes. Is it precocious to have them as half the text? That’s cool if you think so. I don’t at all, except to wonder if you do. I think footnotes are nice. But I also like stamps. For example I steer away from putting a letter stamp on a postcard. But I would do it because I think of it as a tip. I also like pencils for certain projects and pens for others. If you want to enrage a crummy mood further give me a pen with blue ink. I can barely type this without becoming blank and mean at the thought. Black ink. Red ink. Graphite pencils. These are the main choices.