Shades of Blue Last night you asked me to clean your house. ‘You need a job,’ you said. It’s because I look for you two or three times a day while you’re occupied with other things. It’s because I’m leaving again and know what that means but cannot verbally express it. I’m not as good with words as you assume. It is a crisp and bright autumn morning, the air tastes like cider and smells like chimneys. It is a red/yellow-leaf-day...
Last night I rugged up and hit town with CJ. We discussed the forthcoming Carrier movie that is still in post-production, a final product should be available for viewing over the coming weeks! We wandered beside the water, I made wishes on stars, we discussed manifestation, we pondered any opportunity to earn a living that doesn't make us want to vomit. One day when I'm a world-renowned word nerd and CJ is an international directing phenomenon,...
Rain Dance I awake thinking of you. Before the sun comes up. Before the city opens its eyes. I think about you walking out of the white front door to your four-step brick building two blocks away. Walking out the black metal gate. Showing somehow you want to see me as badly as I want to see you. Exchanging avoidance of eye contact and small talk. I’ll say how I figured you were busy when I didn’t hear from you yesterday but leave out the...
Lola in October Lola isn’t like the other girls in her grade six class; loud girls that scream on the playground and believe that everything is ponies and pink. Sometimes they tease her about it. They’re going to learn today to never do that in October. October is Lola’s month. They’re going to learn more today than they bargained for. I’m talking about Sally Thompson and Amanda Axis. The two girls following Lola across the blacktop...