These were my daily journal entries from a trip to the UK a few years ago copied down exactly as I wrote them then...
Day 1
Rations Good. Full.
“Lady” seems in good spirits.
Will come for me tonight.
Engines at full power –
40 percent to shields.
My contact guesses at correct
terminal –
Earns points towards evaluation.
British voices on radio.
Day 1.1
The police use old-timey style cameras
to capture
belligerent drivers.
Day 1.2
Dick Piercing Park is very near
the Israeli gunmen.
So too is the police van
full of foot patrol cops.
Day 1.3
Spotted Mad Hatter Hotel
next to
Mad Hatter billboard
(unrelated).
Day 1.4
Wicked has been accomplished.
We missed a chance to have a
high-powered and vastly
opinionated discussion
on the merits and weaknesses of the
epic witch hunt.
Slight rain –
Sleepy eyes.
The rabbits watch ever onward from the
mantel.
Rations low.
Day 2
The young lady has arrived.
Her rations are full and good.
Javier is off to fulfill duties for
Marty.
Medical emergency.
55 years old.
Heart palpitations. Grey skin.
Husband inattentive.
Amputation.
Day 2.2
Italian downstairs where we did not
belong.
Tails of Terp and Tammy
and Carrie.
Golden showers.
Tell me things you would blow.
Tell me what things you would blow.
Rations low.
Day 3
Forty dead.
No one injured.
Rations in high supply.
Spirits soaring.
Sardines in the night.
Fried eggs on the floor.
Day 4
Caught the last train of the month.
Saw the purse
(red)
in the bathroom.
No hot fudge Sundae.
No Dr. Pepper.
Someone pranked the dean again.
No blood.
No bodies.
We hit nothing.
Day 5
Scotland looms like a pale Negress
on the cold horizon;
however,
her icy rivers are melting
our young American
hearts.
The cabby talks of whiskey
and water
and there is still no sun.
Mom is warm and welcoming as always.
Day 5.1
The ol’ hotel switch-er-roo.
Four men enter.
Two leave.
One gets another hotel somewhere
else.
The castle looks on
always
like a rocky brown turd perched halfway
between heaven and earth.
Rations in good supply.
Fuel low.
Tammy in full breaux-charm mood.
Day 5.2
Chilean pepper police standing in a line
getting peppered.
Strawberry beer in everyone’s mouth,
but the gulp is
mine.
It’s always
mine.
Day 6
We forge on.
The icy Baltic Sea has baptized us
and we are young men again –
as young as Anthony was
when Master Javier hit him
in the head
with that board.
Keep in mind he didn’t start crying
until he saw the actual Water of Life
(blood)
on his forehead.
There were no cell phones then.
Our feet were frozen
but are normal again.
Holly’s ass is cold
when she drinks.
Day 7
Christmas lights.
Yelling.
Wrapping presents.
Fighting with the bitch
again.
Rations high.
Spirits low.
Scrambled eggs and caballeros
on a 2,000 acre ranch in Washington.
Booja Booja
(B-o-o-j-a, b-o-o-j-a).
A young man balances a carton of milk
on his sister’s head.
She relents.
The castle awaits.
Day 7.1
Butter and cheese
and no water
from the well in the castle.
Rivulet was finally perfected on the candle,
causing a cum-splash of wax
to pour forth.
Day 7.2
I danced willy-nilly past the airport guards
and still they looked away.
I am the security gate charmer.
I am the airport aerialist.
I am the cutest little curious little rock and socks ballet beauty.
I am the lord of the
fly.
Day 7.2
Rations at all-time low.
Spirits at medium rare.
Mom sleeps somewhere tonight
over the British countryside,
peaceful,
but soon to be sad
when she arrives safely to find she’s sleeping
on the ground.
Day 8
Rations depleted.
Have begun to eat the tightly bound meat
within my various friends’ buttocks.
Miami roasts like a stuffed pig
cooking under the trapped heat of an overturned aluminum boat.
These are my first steps on American soil
this year.
May they be fruitful
and merciful.
Dec 2010 / Jan 2011
.
Rations Good. Full.
“Lady” seems in good spirits.
Will come for me tonight.
Engines at full power –
40 percent to shields.
My contact guesses at correct
terminal –
Earns points towards evaluation.
British voices on radio.
Day 1.1
The police use old-timey style cameras
to capture
belligerent drivers.
Day 1.2
Dick Piercing Park is very near
the Israeli gunmen.
So too is the police van
full of foot patrol cops.
Day 1.3
Spotted Mad Hatter Hotel
next to
Mad Hatter billboard
(unrelated).
Day 1.4
Wicked has been accomplished.
We missed a chance to have a
high-powered and vastly
opinionated discussion
on the merits and weaknesses of the
epic witch hunt.
Slight rain –
Sleepy eyes.
The rabbits watch ever onward from the
mantel.
Rations low.
Day 2
The young lady has arrived.
Her rations are full and good.
Javier is off to fulfill duties for
Marty.
Medical emergency.
55 years old.
Heart palpitations. Grey skin.
Husband inattentive.
Amputation.
Day 2.2
Italian downstairs where we did not
belong.
Tails of Terp and Tammy
and Carrie.
Golden showers.
Tell me things you would blow.
Tell me what things you would blow.
Rations low.
Day 3
Forty dead.
No one injured.
Rations in high supply.
Spirits soaring.
Sardines in the night.
Fried eggs on the floor.
Day 4
Caught the last train of the month.
Saw the purse
(red)
in the bathroom.
No hot fudge Sundae.
No Dr. Pepper.
Someone pranked the dean again.
No blood.
No bodies.
We hit nothing.
Day 5
Scotland looms like a pale Negress
on the cold horizon;
however,
her icy rivers are melting
our young American
hearts.
The cabby talks of whiskey
and water
and there is still no sun.
Mom is warm and welcoming as always.
Day 5.1
The ol’ hotel switch-er-roo.
Four men enter.
Two leave.
One gets another hotel somewhere
else.
The castle looks on
always
like a rocky brown turd perched halfway
between heaven and earth.
Rations in good supply.
Fuel low.
Tammy in full breaux-charm mood.
Day 5.2
Chilean pepper police standing in a line
getting peppered.
Strawberry beer in everyone’s mouth,
but the gulp is
mine.
It’s always
mine.
Day 6
We forge on.
The icy Baltic Sea has baptized us
and we are young men again –
as young as Anthony was
when Master Javier hit him
in the head
with that board.
Keep in mind he didn’t start crying
until he saw the actual Water of Life
(blood)
on his forehead.
There were no cell phones then.
Our feet were frozen
but are normal again.
Holly’s ass is cold
when she drinks.
Day 7
Christmas lights.
Yelling.
Wrapping presents.
Fighting with the bitch
again.
Rations high.
Spirits low.
Scrambled eggs and caballeros
on a 2,000 acre ranch in Washington.
Booja Booja
(B-o-o-j-a, b-o-o-j-a).
A young man balances a carton of milk
on his sister’s head.
She relents.
The castle awaits.
Day 7.1
Butter and cheese
and no water
from the well in the castle.
Rivulet was finally perfected on the candle,
causing a cum-splash of wax
to pour forth.
Day 7.2
I danced willy-nilly past the airport guards
and still they looked away.
I am the security gate charmer.
I am the airport aerialist.
I am the cutest little curious little rock and socks ballet beauty.
I am the lord of the
fly.
Day 7.2
Rations at all-time low.
Spirits at medium rare.
Mom sleeps somewhere tonight
over the British countryside,
peaceful,
but soon to be sad
when she arrives safely to find she’s sleeping
on the ground.
Day 8
Rations depleted.
Have begun to eat the tightly bound meat
within my various friends’ buttocks.
Miami roasts like a stuffed pig
cooking under the trapped heat of an overturned aluminum boat.
These are my first steps on American soil
this year.
May they be fruitful
and merciful.
Dec 2010 / Jan 2011
.
