(when there was) sun, as it came in thru the window of my apartment on Blue Island; transience but i still will miss some who knew and know me: Mercy, Steve, Akua, Cat, Shulamit, Young Joon+Marvin, TwjuanaSimone, Malik, Justin+Vivian, Ann Marie, Marty, Dave aka Pollo, Elvia, Mateo n Shira (&the various indigenites you always w/), Mike Williams, E aka DJ Skar, Papa G, Lina+Ben, Casey Mae, Geli, Blaine and all who held me down during the Hyde Park years (I'm only namin those still in the Wind); Another Barber Shop: Fresh tapers @ Bwat's; R.I.P. Fred Anderson - The Velvet Lounge (no replacing the original venue); Els ento The Loop; Jarritos que he comprado de ElGuero y Pete's Produce; biking those long wide streets in the summer; Simone's and late-night randomness @ EXIT;
multi-colored brilliance of the lake in the spring+summer; nocturnallee...painting solitary nights; the short summer and long cold windy winter (I WON'T miss that, but I'll always think of you too); UofC campus; alienation and the intense solitude of the midwilderness; bright days followed by utter doldrums; the bus to Mexico idling outside my window each Friday night (like now); Pollo Express pero mas mis amigos a la Chicken Planet on Jackson; cruisin on LSD (lake shore drive); bands i was in: Nguzo + Health&Beauty...It could've been so sweet, but the ego is a powerful drug(not mine of choice, but i'll always be strong of voice);
cookin stirfry or mi curry turkey burgers; at Horacio n dem's spot on 52nd barbecuin chicken...or anything w/ mad modelo, patron, smoke n limes; drums and jams en mi casa o tambien en las calles; "Where's all your ties, man?"; utter loneliness that can come more easily when u can't feel tha love no matter where you go, the weather, or your rate of success; where did all the time go?
THAI FOOD! the Blue Kangaroo; pale mediocracy; Old Style; Avreeayl Ra, Nicole Mitchell, Corey Wilkes, the Drastics, Akasha, Baby Brutha, Isaiah Spencer, Mikey August; the inception of Apple Tutors USA; frequent breaks by th lake of the Adler; livin a million lives w/out a 9-5; the rodnificence, anonymouslee hustlin; harsh wind starin in ma face but th spirit of creation that dem confusion can never break; dancin at live shows goin home soakin wet; lookin for love in all th wrong places (but found it for a few stolen moments, some worthy opponents yet i guess never quite the right components);
th Original Pancake House and finding the City of 400 parks; the city of nowhere to hide and nowhere to park; like runnin into O or my ex out late somewhere; the Woodlawn Tap; parts of da Southside lookin/smellin/soundin like I'm really down South; Harold's chicken n wine; lentil soup at the Nile; trips to da Norfside fa pizza at 3am; or the temporary madhouse that might've been Arturo's after kickin it around Six Corners; bumpin some hot sh!t cruisin the Grid - but then the occasional diagonal (cuz I be needin dat hypotenuse); never leavin tha city (cuz where would i go if not hundreds of miles away).... well ok..there i go. vini vidi vici..
...one love chi-town; here's to packin at the speed of get me th f*ck outta here!..................time to get to back to [0].
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