Took my friend to Oakland for her first tattoo, at the spot in front of my old house. Man, I miss it some days.

Our ol' Sunday Shop Poker Table is on its last legs...

She did just fine

''He taught me the meaning of pain -- pain without reason.''

A chicken can live for 2 years with its head cut off... I can't make it five minutes away from you

"Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.'' But I'll stay suspended for now. Inarticulate, with every rumor that feeds the anxiety. Weary from the waiting. So full of everything. Hanging, staying too long...

So Now?
the words have come and gone,
I sit ill.
the phone rings, the cats sleep.
Linda vacuums.
I am waiting to live,
waiting to die.
--HCB