heart - empty
life - sad
what's 10 yrs if you live forever

Last Day

I noticed today's paper has only dead people on the cover. Saddam Hussein and Gerald Ford. It is symbolic because it is the last day of the year. My mom also died this morning in her sleep. The end of the year. The metaphorical winter of life. All came together today.

When the lights come down?

Driveway (No) Coffee

Sometimes the driveway doesn't require coffee. Not often.

Finding a Cobbler

It seems there's a cobbler on every corner in DC. And there is.

to: Japan

Brandon, washing his hands before his flight to Japan to visit his girlfriend's parents. Other than visiting parents, he plans to bath in hot springs with snow monkeys, and buy me a set of magnetic therapy head magnets (that a local bike messenger explained the workings of to us).

Kitchen: a narrative

American Fortune

Merry Mei Wah Christmas

Man, we're seated outside the tower wall
waiting for anygood time to make our move
storming the ancient doors with burning pots of oil
driving other customers away and eating food w/ spears



But before our wait turns into war
they ready our table for three (... for four)
and to praise the christian son of man
a friend orders up some kung pao lamb

Mean Street, USA

(On Christmas morning thinking of
the Toughest Streets in America)

A man approaches on a rainy night
w/ a knife and asks
"would you like to fight for your life?"

... And then the toughest streets in Baghdad
Where if youre an American a knife is nice

Christmas Coffee

Coffee Christmas Morning
did you ever have Turkish Coffee
moving a cheese grater
reveals 2 turkish coffee cups
"of course, in this house we enjoy
the finer things of the world."
sitting in towers
tower-top seating
in minaret cafes
drinking cafe touba w/ Allah