We've known some people/places

1/24/2025 Inside Dream Journals For The Awake

1962

Inside Dream Journals For The Awake
(who made it Out): High Watermark

HST on the bar stool
we sat companionably
although, he had long hair
which wasn’t part of his relative
cosmology; dream logic
and he asked the others 

AMONG

the golden filled glasses 
teak and walnut tones, an
amber miasma of wood
and silver polish 

AROUND

murmuring, “Where did it 
go wrong?” 

AND

we traveled place to place
asking the same question
although ‘it,’ was sometimes
replaced with’ we,’ like, we

CARRIED

a coffin, bit of a Wake vibe
on all those conversations
looking down, shoulders
Hunched, forlorn wisdom 
in drinks or phones

LATER

after waking, still within
thought he was a prophet 
twice, once by suicide, and
when he wrote these words:

  	---
“There was no point in fighting
on our side or theirs. We had 
all the momentum; 
we were riding the crest 
of a high and beautiful wave. So now…
you can go up on a steep hill in
Las Vegas and look West, 
and with the right kind of eyes 
you can almost see 

THE HIGH-WATER MARK


the place where the wave 
finally broke 
and rolled 
back.” - Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing

Inside Dream Journals For The Awake
(who made it Out): NOT SURE HOW
Con/Jur/d, 1/26/2025

Not at all
what we
intended

Don’t know
how to con-
vey, getting

                       from

MAN CLAIMS BRIDE
She was a displaced
person, in a German
refugee camp, so yes
he could have given
her a place, she was
never owned, boxed

Or a local paper who cared
a man’s grandson was get-
ting hitched, to this current

shitshow (moment in HISTORY)

        Until, we remember
it's all just a story, an attempt to displace

YOUR POSITION

as the primary protagonist
in this story, in this place 

WHERE YOU WERE BORN
without border or boundary

DON’T LET 

                                                              THEM.

BEFORE YOU WERE BORN — THE CROWS CAWED QUIETLY

Much love,

Con/Jur/d, 1/26/2025