It's been a while since I've posted. I've had a busy time of it withdrawing and detaching from everything without doing a bit of packing. I got my drivers license yesterday and visited with Uncle Joe and Aunt Angie. Today I finished up a Psych experiment I agreed to take part in at UCLA for $150. It's my non-job, but good money for sitting around taking a few tests around my schedule. Hopefully I'll see everyone I want to see over this weekend and spend Monday and Tuesday packing and getting ready. I've been having a somewhat unexpected reaction to this leaving shit: one week of dreadful boredom, now one week of incurable mopiness and detatchment. But I plan to make the best of this weekend and next week.
We leave nighttime on Wednsday. Lots to do...
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Upcoming: Romeo & Juliet, Forum Theatre, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A Californian, a Scot, and a Shanghainese walk into a bar...
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Soft Night
silent graffiti
sprawling words stretched out on cream pink walls
spattered from on high by the seagulls
that freewheeled and caw-cawed through aharsh pink sky
still graffiti
a motionless oasis
in violence, silent. calm,
but eagerly longing for discovery:
notice me!
here! I am out of place
no whitewashed walls
a monument TO MAN’S INGENUITY
no pyramids of the metropolis
only the loving work of boys
somewhere between testament and confession
they who posses nothing
but are the property of adults
spray themselves out on other adult property
this is mine! until the paint
is covered by another layer
dogs piss at a fire hydrant
silent graffiti
crackling ground under Nikes
and from
far off
the whirr of sirens.
5 comments:
Don't forget you said you'd do lunch with Virginia on Monday.
And your 8am appointment with Agaloo
Leaving is becoming less abstract so you're probably feeling a bunch of things and a little sad.
Having never moved away from home and friends before, this is both exciting and sad. Moving long distances never really becomes "easy," I don't think. But here is where modern communications takes out some of the sting since you can easily remain in contact with those who you want to. I don't remember how I felt when driving away from home for college, but I do remember the first few weeks being very lonely (not that I ever had a second of regret). After making new friends (which occurs much faster in dorms than elsewhere) I felt right "at home" in Santa Cruz.
And & as you alluded to) this is where technology may actually provide a qualitative change of who we "are" in the world. In ancient times, when people went away, they were quite "gone" and "out of touch" for a very long time. Now we are hardly "gone" at all. We just add new people and experiences to the mix!
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