When a fire destroyed much of our flat in 1997,
Hildie wanted to know how my painting collection fared -
not good I told her, and she said thank God!

I got the FBI car emerging from the earth tone melting time-space warp
painting at the Marin Flea Market and Hildie was very upset I paid
$10.00 for it. Even a dollar was too much...

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Memory of Jeffrey scouring an "empty" jar of peanut butter
and muttering about people and waste; and that's his tube
of toothpaste

June 16 2003, in my old neighborhood

I saw a tiger striped cinder block and snapped a picture because
you don't see that everyday.

I couldn't leave it and decided to carry it down Clement Street
three blocks to my truck, thereby becoming myself a thing you
don't see everyday. I wished the woman meant for my liking
was nearby for surely by this sight she would know who I was.



The experience of a color wavelength equivalent to a Kodak 1A
Red Safelight happens to be the first visual awareness a human
might ever know, all the more vivid if mother was given to belly
naked sunbathing. Look up, close your eyes and compare the light
you see filtered through tissue and blood: safelight, it was there
in the beginning