moniker42

I've had an apartment here in Seattle for a week and a half or so. When I got to Seattle my first thought was "I think I will keep it" and I have done so. I have not had a steady place to live for around 9 months. I have trouble believing I am the same guy who slept on rooftops and on couches for so long. I miss Wisconsin, in a way. I don't get free coffee anymore, I don't get free food anymore, I don't know where to go to get a pound, I don't know where to get any pills, I don't know every bartender by first name, I don't ride the bus for free, in fact, there isn't any nepotism of any kind. I wait in line.

I wake up. I make coffee. I read the newspaper. I drink tea. I drink coffee. I drink tea. I email my lawyer. I give my landlord eleven hundred and thirty dollars. I open a new checking account. I fill out forms to get a free credit report and get a new passport before October. I make little to do lists.

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Buy New Pants
Buy A New Hooded Sweatshirt
Buy A New Zafu
Go To The Post Office
Write a Cover Letter
Email My Grandfather

I tidy up the kitchen I tidy up the bathroom I tidy up my nearly empty bedroom.

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My bedroom has a rather nice futon mattress I was given, 3 small rugs and 15 maps from national geographic I found on the ground. The Caspian region. Antarctica. Great Britain and Ireland. The Ancient Mediterranean. Ancient Egypt.The Balkans. It's spartan. I like my room. Nice view, more sunlight than any other room in the house.

I open the windows and the curtain and the windows and the curtains and let the breeze in and let the sun in and let it in, I let the sun in, I let the sunlight in. I open the doors and the windows and all the windows all the windows open.

I do the dishes. I do laundry. I buy beer.

I get on the bus. I get off the bus. I get on the bus.

I go to the library. I go to the park. I go to the library. I go to the park.

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I read Tolstoy and Jared Diamond and Bulgakov.

I do the dishes. I read the newspaper.

I write a cover letter. I send out my resume. I send out my resume. I fill out applications. I fill out applications.

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I walk downtown. I walk downtown. I walk to the park. I walk through Chinatown. I walk. I walk. I walk.

I write 100 words. I write 100 words.

I drink coffee. I drink tea. I drink green tea.

We wait for the roses that bloom wait for the roses that bloom for the roses that bloom the roses that bloom bloom roses that bloom bloom bloom that bloom bloom bloom bloom and the roses that never bloom the roses that never bloom roses that never bloom bloom never bloom bloom bloom do the roses in dreams ? bloom roses in dreams ? bloom in dreams ? bloom bloom while we sit in the shade they have built a sunflower that covers cities with ashes roses that cover cities while we sit in the shade they have built a sun bloom roses that bloom roses ash cities while we sit in the sun they have built a rose that never that roses bloom unbelievable isnt it roses that sat in the shade while we built dreams that never bloom we build dreams that bloom bloom bloom bloom cities of roses that bloom to ashes that turn to shade to roses that we sit in the sun light like roses that we turn into ashes like roses that

Dream
Never
Bloom
Wait
Roses

D.A. Levy

I email old friends. I email new friends.

I don't go to the bar. I don't go out to eat. I put the lids on the trash bin. I sort the recycling.

I do the dishes. I tidy the kitchen.

I watch The Arts Channel. I watch Opera, I watch Classical composers, I watch Ballet. I watch Cartoons. I watch C-Span. I watch C-Span 2. I watch TV. I watch TV. The TV. I watch TV.

There must be a lot of money in Erections and Piss, because all television commercials are for erections and piss and bad movies.

I read Tolstoy, I read Guns Germs and Steel, I read the newspaper.

I buy socks. I had only owned two pairs of socks for months and months. I threw those out. There is nothing quite as bliss full as new socks. My feet are so happy.

I watch Opera and I drink wine.

I have roommates but they just moved in yesterday. I am up to my ears in organic peaches and plums and donut peaches and pluots and organic fruit.

I clean the bathroom. I clean the bathroom. I do laundry. I read the newspaper. I tidy up the kitchen. I do the dishes.

I walk to the park I walk to the park I walk to the park I walk to the park.

I watch Opera and I listen to the woman sing and I say "Yes, I understand".

Does this mean that it is over?

I let it in. I let the sunlight in. I let the breeze in. The breeze comes in. It comes in. I let the breeze in.

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