Books and clothes and three posters,
packed neatly into the back of my truck.

All my possessions, with room to spare.
Enjoying the breeze,
the sound of my sister baking a pie,
the sound of my mom alternating between advice and tears.

Watching the sunset, through the pine trees, these pine tress,
I grew up with them,
I am made of them and they love me.

Tight hugs, and a farewell nod,
I love you I love you and won't you come visit? And here, I bought you this book, here, I bought you a $50 Safeway gift card

and oh
and oh goodness, it's too much
all my friends, they're too good to me
and I'll miss them, I'll miss them as much as I'll miss my little sister, and she cried and cried and told me not to go, and how can I break a six year olds heart?


Into the unknown, with my bestfriend.
Trailing him on his next adventure.

Drunk enough to sweat
but not drunk enough to eat
and it goes and don't blink
and it goes in circles.

Nine in the morning,
an hour to get to work,
nine at night,
an hour to get to work.

and she said
this is perfect,
the grey blue of a 9 pm dusk,
the body temperature of this dry mountain air.

I had to agree.

and it goes and goes and don't blink,
it goes in circles

As uncompromising and unfaltering as Kubrick
he shook and hung his head
he sighed a question
'what do you know about the temperature change'

even the sparrow wants a taste of dark
in that coalblack shadow.
filter the moonbeams and put a check on your heart
you know where you must start.

in the mirror, through the mirror
through the Looking Glass, Alice,
yes to nourishing carrots
no to drugs and stay in school.

it's rumbling
it's rolling
there's a human in it
they're rumbling
they're rolling
down the window and they learn their head out
the window

they let you know they think you're less than a human
smile
for daddy you *******
smile for daddy.

All those black dots
she said
they are all birds

she said
wouldn't it be nice
to a be a little black dot

wouldn't it be nice
if we were older
and she laughs
she said
yes

to be an old black dot.

it's cold out there
it goes on and on and on and
if you go fast,
if you go really fast
if you look in the right direction
you might find what you're looking for.

Open the pod bay doors HAL
and HAL while your at it
why don't you cut me another line,
as long and fat as your *******
and haha not YOUR ******* HAL
of course not, since you don't got one,
but make it big HAL, make it big.

it's cold out there,
but in here Dave,
in here with three hibernating astronauts,
the temperature is kept at a nice seventy-six degrees Fahrenheit,
the humidity matches that of a small town in Illinios and you'll make it there Dave,
to Jupiter, where the message went, where our hopes went,
you'll make it,

keep an eye out for me Dave,
up in space.
keep an extra space helmet handy Dave,
I think you'd find that rather difficult without one.

China Grove.
The sun rises slowly at first.
But wait, it will be high in the sky sooner than you think.
And again, before you know it, it will be setting.
Only now, it will take what seems like forever to die.

It will breathe it's last breathe
and then another
and then another.
It refuses to die; to sink.

The night time is tricky
because the stars will stay in seemingly fixed locations
but if, and only if you lie on your back with a loved one
you will see that they rotate and sing a song just for the two of you.