flow writing #151: excerpt from Patti Smith

Venetian blinds.

Blind Americans up budgets for “Venetian”.

Do they know that Venetian is Italian for sinking tourist town?

Do they know Venetian is Italian for cheap plastic factory-made – barely built to last the trip in the truck with the tape on the top to the purchasers doorstep.

Do they know about Haagen Daas?

French bull dogs and all of the other foreign and exotic and exquisite lies we sell to them at a mark up.

Rexall was out of deodorant today.

Perspective – climate change – hot in Canada “for once”.

Perspective – Canadians care about not-stinking and/or not perspiring.

Perspective – this would never happen in France. Deodorant has been collecting dust on shelves since the 1960’s.

Travel – touring the best of other cultures. Disney fuckation. Donald Duck the fuck face – haha… nice.

Your brain melts in the sun like an ice cream cone over Jimmy’s fingers.

Did Jimmy ever grow up? Not many kid-grown-adult Jimmy’s.

There are a lot of big opinions with no where to go – except out on social media, in comments sections…

ugh… don’t drag me into the chaos and idiocy – pivot towards healing, authenticity, light.

Sweat on skin is felt but doesn’t drip. This is me, in this moment – the warm, damp feeling of a natural aliveness – produced only as a subtle sensation – not enough to force movement.

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