"working on my faults and cracks..."

12.04.2006

Carrying your torch just to burn things down


No what? No swimming? No dumping? No stopping / standing / loitering / parking? No ninja turtles admitted after nine? I don't remember what the sign originally said--only that it stood four or five feet high. So yeah...that's like four feet of freezing, murky, sewage-runoff water. The skies wept in gentle torrents for a solid two or three days before the temperature dropped about 30 degrees. Now there is ample ice skating along the banks of the swollen Blanchard, across Frazer Street, and down the sidewalk on my way to Wal-Mart. I pity those whom the fire department had to remove via electric boat in the storm's aftermath.

I was making a u-turn in someone's driveway the other night, when I heard a horrific metallic scraping sound from underneath my dying car. In the rearview mirror (one of the last few functioning features on the vehicle), a fairly sizable chunk of muffler or some distant vehicular cousin of my muffler lay forlorn and steaming on the edge of their lawn. Like a jagged, rusty turd. My thought process went something like this:

"Your car just took a shit on their lawn! Go pick it up!"
"No! It's steaming!! I'll get burned!"
"What if it's important? Your car needs it!"
"What the hell is my car going to do with something forcibly pooped out?"
"Good point..."
"Damn right it's a good point. Let's get out of here before anybody sees."
"Don't forget to wipe..."


But as of late, everything is very much like my car--minus the fecal humor. All these little things in my life are coming apart or falling off, but they don't impede my push towards moving to Japan in January. People I knew, things I never said, places I didn't go to, holes I never patched...They're things I should probably go back for, as in some shape or form, they hinder performance--hinder my conscience, but don't prevent the wheels from turning...so I don't. Everything here in Findlay only has to last two more weeks. After that, it's no longer mine to worry about. Devil and God came along with incredible timing...everything on the record is this carefully documented account of my last four years...under normal circumstances I'd quote lyrics that were important to me. But these are so precise, it hurts to think that someone might actually be able to put the pieces together.

"Jesus Christ...that's a pretty face..."

3 contributions to this piece:

Anonymous said...

Two more weeks in Findlay. Enjoy:)
Picture looks actually beautiful though...

Anonymous said...

We need to go out for pre-birthday/pre-christmas hell/going away drinks at the local watering hole. Give me a day that works for you, and I'll be there.

We've got a lot of things to toast! *grin*

Anonymous said...

So I downloaded that Killers song on iTunes like you said, and...I can't play it in anything else. HELP! I'm confused.

Apparently I can't convert the file to AAC because it's protected?! I'm usually fixing people's computers for them, but apple software confuses the shit outta me.


 
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