Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Pre-Maps

I used to write directions like:
Exit near intersection of
President & Smith
East of President towards
Hoyt
Right onto Hoyt
Left onto
Carroll
See my line breaks?!
Wow look what they
Took from me
At the same time I’d say
I have spent the past
Twelve months
Learning to be useless
I always had it in me
(again, my notebook for directions)
And then:
West on Bushwick
Right on Dekalb
Left on Evergreen
Then a bald man getting pecked in the neck
By a goose with an arm and then
Why
Of omens many
Halfway up by nightfall
Granite ground
The moon set rapidly
I could not defend myself
I have been tired and I missed you
Very much
B38 -> Joralemon &
Court
   (after Fulton &
Jay)
Bread 
Grain
Cheese
Turkey
Tofu
Cat food
Now THAT’S the way to journal
I have no idea who “you” is but
Seeing I bought turkey
With undefined “grain” 
in 2009
Changes everything I thought I knew
About myself

6 comments:

  1. found old fashioned directions on the ground 2day!
    deeply relate + earnest lol at the mystery "you"

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  2. you are really one of my favorite poets <3 <3

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  3. I love that shopping list and this.

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  4. left on evergreen <3
    never knew you did that!

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