New Cities/New Soviets

October 30, 2004

Soft Ground

as in: "...and then the situation went soft ground on us."


I feel like New York is going into a slow meltdown in the days coming up to the election. No one with any sense ventures outside unneccessarily, leaving only rubes and hapless tourists wandering the streets.

Or maybe it's just me that's melting down. My father is still in Ohio digging ditches for Kerry, and Mom has gone to volunteer her limbs for the "home team" in Pennsylvania over the weekend (update: is feeling sick, but still may make it to Penn.).


I've been having ten ton dreams
thick and saturated with
color character and detail.
developed, multi-phase dreams.
less suggestive than objective.

facts and facts and facts.
i'm debilitated in my waking hours.
can't write worth a damn, can hardly get out of bed to do cart-work.

I don't know what is going to happen to my family if Bush wins. I'm much more worried about that than I am the fate of the country. My dad has been trying to retire for almost half a decade, and he is quite fragile. The fact that he decided to go off to Ohio for five weeks on less than a weeks notice suggests he's got some empty time on his hand. Either way, really, i'm concerned.

A points-scenario predicting a Kerry win from BigLeftOutside.

That this is Halloween weekend only makes shit weirder. Halloween is downtown NYC's only real holiday. The rest are just an excuse to get drunk, but halloween is afforded a unique public importance, and strange rites abound. This year, moreover, with Halloween falling on a sunday, we are guaranteed 3 days of oddity. A drunk, hairy, fourty-year-old man dressed as baby met me on my way out of the grocery store last night -- and that was Friday, with All-hallows Eve stil 2 days away.

I didn't make it out with the cart last night. Tonight I am going to try...

Posted by Sam at October 30, 2004 04:19 PM

keep heading west till ya stike land

Posted by: meat me at November 1, 2004 09:26 AM

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