We are always arriving

2/18/2025 off road

THE NUMBER OF NEW GHOST TOWNS PROPPED UP BY CHAINS AND FRANCHISES — IS ASTONISHING

EVEN THE INDEPENDENT ROADSIDE ATTRACTION WAS A RARITY

SOMETHING — SOMETHING — MATERIAL CONDITION

STARTED OUT WELL

Blue Ridge Mountains
Con/Jur/d, 2/5/25

Lumbering ballet 
edge of death
by metal, spinning, smoking
wheels, a release of cargo cult
signified toxins, the end of a singular
caravan,  communities of the lonely
a nation of deliveries, without
deliverables. High above

the ridges, with their infinite
crags, crannies, secret lives
watch patiently -- observes silent
as a dark BLUE  line at twilight 

the same gaze before our 
hurried language, rushed transport
still staring long after 

we are returned
to scrap.

DEVELOPED A MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS THE SAME DAY WE DISCOVERED BUC-EE’S

A MACGUFFIN OF CHANCE
Con/Jur/d, Around Vegas

We cannot run from 

EARTHQUAKES.   HURRICANES.
BLIZZARDS.           MONSOONS.
FORESTFIRE.        TORNADOS.
CANCER.                CARCRASH.

Rather, we can run and run
in response to, and still remain
our own primary protagonist
IF we acknowledge, these are
possible events in the scenario
of our lives, similar to the 

GALAXY FILAMENTS made of WALLS
of GALACTIC SUPERCLUSTERS woven
into the fundament of our EPIC HERO
JOURNEY, like this morning when you
went to find us coffee through the
labyrinthian halls of this casino
among the countless other
casinos, MACGUFFIN
generation service
for particular 
subplots

Along your life's lived
FILAMENT 

BY THE TIME WE REACHED VEGAS — HAD ENTIRELY ENTERED THE HEAD — VERY FEW PHOTOS WERE TAKEN

CIRQUE HELPED — IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO

EARLIER IT SEEMED MORE HOPEFUL — BEFORE THE RUINS OF CAPITAL BECAME TOO APPARENT

Listening to Lord Huron while backtracking an hour because we forgot our suitcase at the hotel
Con/Jur/D, 2/something/something

A few songs ago
the chorus used
BASIC to good.   Effect
we're too old to use
it this way, maybe 
GENERIC, falls
to us

yet, it isn’t as clear
as basic of a description
but when Kristen Stewart
sings about UFOs and NEON
worlds in the Lord Huron song

We know we've been here before
and nothing ever changes.

MORE UNMENTIONABLES TOMORROW

Much love,

Con/Jur/d, 2/18/2025