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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Skittles $1.59

A dollar fifty nine for a pack of tear n' share skittles, no, not the skittles but the notepad. I tore the white sticker off the double red corner and placed it on the economy skittles.
Please see me here is the only voice in the space of grey grid and warm bodies. Please see me here Joan Gardner, Rick Sykes, Crishta Pedran. Chrishta Pedran, Chrishta Pedran, Christa Pedran. Please see me here, well what is it, I can see a mass of a thousand but hear plastic bags, coins sifting in pockets and three separate babies giggling.
I am sickened with laughter inside, half frightened, then again, deliriously amazed. Everything about the airport is grey. The chairs cotton striped grey, insulating curved walls off white, the walk, cold walk suspended above jet tires, propane trucks and traffic lights, steel grey. I am eye lined up to grey phone buttons and a graphic grey white instructional call symbol.
I haven't met the one next to me but I can hear marching and in the corner of my peripheral. constant hand burrowing into a bag grabbing nuts or some tiny crunchy treat. I thought to find out after meeting her but she stashed the corn somethings down into the uncomfortable storage unit between and under ones legs.
Hilarious goading to oneself is occurring now. Disney couldn't have done better. I count ten rows of television screens with two zippy people animating the ridiculous reality that we will all soon be zooming in the dark night poking holes in the grey.
For two hundred eighty two dollars give or take one hundred, three hundred depending on which of the 365 days you dare to fly, your can rocket into the sky, no strings attached on a millennium of earth waste, last centuries money and your own disregard and thankless attitude toward living. Take a bow.

Buy on board snacks
"snack box"

Thursday, November 13, 2008

A Paean for Baltimore


Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Let us assume
that no perception
or
definition of time
can bind
or depress
our yearnings
and the light mirrors of our eyes
let us be
as two who gaze
and soften in recline
to leave this
heavy world worry dumbfounded
'
let us happen
if so absurd and so mighty
as to intimate
vastly addled history
impassion icons owned
it is true to suggest
this humble option
to present this hazard
to compose

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I am the lone girl
in streets do I sew
dreary discoveries
wink strangers soul
narrow are pathways
and wide are the holes
far dreaming traveler
we'll draw you a home

Old Home

This is the place
that broke
my heart
yellow corn gold
heart long
ago
the carved out bench
we sat upon
lamenting goodbye
no longer
to stomp
upon fresh foliage
and our fall
counting red great trees
tasting blue ribbon pies
so far in time
I feel this place
organic streets
leaves of rustic houses
I aged in here
and loved
and lied
a place, peace.
and journeyed too vastly
my name is lost
swept and trampled
under piles of green
whilst dew sweet grain drops
tickle and remind
me of my earth