In the hospital emergency corridor everything was too brilliant and I did not want to look down at my body. I could not feel it. I could not move it. The physical pain was gone. But a horror much worse had replaced the pain. A million knives ice and fire, electrified, would have felt better. … Continue reading “I Thought I Was Dead”
I am considering hitting the PCT again. I am selling my van, and then I am going afoot with money in the bank regardless.
“Problem” scare quotes as intentional ridicule. Easy to solve. You make border travel totally legal, and you have a special wage, maybe half, even a quarter, minimum wage, call it the, “limited work visa wage.” Now, if they try to get jobs using that cheap wage as an incentive, their own people who have full … Continue reading “The Illegal Immigrant “Problem””
I have had many of epiphanies. So when I say “The” epiphany, I mean to single this one out as something particularly magnificent. Epiphanies seem to come in a sequence, each one unlocking new possibilities, but also seemingly never ending, no resting place, always moving. Yet finally, now, a break away from orbit new knowing! … Continue reading “The Epiphany”
Fresno is not my home any more. I maintain an address here. It is where I have family. I have stuff stored there with an office and a mat for my visits. But wow. It was sketchy getting here. I was in more danger in LA than anywhere out in the wild. Out of money … Continue reading “Safe Now, Not Home”
Exhausted. I want to go to bed. I am short 40 bucks for a train ticket and everyone I know is asleep. There is nowhere to rest. Just now, yet another security guard approached me and warned me yet again. What an awful place.