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there's an incredible rush of lost breath;

squeezed... constricted... 

as our lungs push against each other

compressing the muscle one more time.

to each other,
we are green kryptonite 

with an impossible 

language barrier.

your inability to 

understand 

i might be what you need
is ineffectual.

i let the day's float by
and ignore the incredible obviousness.
but it won't go away and

you say you see nothing.

i am not obsessed with you.
YOU are obsessed with me,
and you have to 

let me go.

you are here for me
but you refuse to believe.
you're stubborn and short sighted

and i want to go home.

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photos by David O. @ The Floor - Hollywood, CA 4/27/09

Bongo Fury @ Harvelle's

photos by J. Ryan taken at Harvelle's April 21 2009

Bongo Fury band led by Walter Davis

with Victor Orlando, Bjorn Fleuren, Asa Watkins

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Junior Walker, Boris Pasternak

and a skeleton 

walk into a bar in Paris.

Junior Walker orders

a Makers Mark

and a cone of pomme frites.

Boris Pasternak orders

a Long Island Ice Tea

and insists on a bowl of cream for his pet kitten Siao-Pow.

The skeleton orders a draft beer

and a mop.