how I sound when I explain my future plans

things i have recently googled

1. urbanization of las vegas
2. who was st. alban
3. nashville weather
4. edwin warner park
5. shows in nashville
6. luxury real estate switzerland
7. where does the colorado river run dry
8. lake mead
9. jan terri album

t-oolong

a year ago, you returned home from anglo central

not knowing how the time you spent there would affect you.

in the first six months back, you still weren't quite sure.

but, at a year's distance, you've begun to sense it:

a part of you lies dormant - a second, internalized culture.

day-to-day, you may forget that it's there.

but, on occasion, it will emerge, often in very peculiar ways.

whether it's opening the cold medicine you bought with the pound sterling,

taking a sip of a strong ginger soda,

or overhearing dry humour that utterly drips union jacks,

something in you stirs.  a second language briefly fights its way up.

though it may be quite a while until it you use it actively and fluently once again,

you can't help but grin, simply because it's there.

Newlyweds were here.

Congrats!

versagen

...when you can't think of a witty remark, a foreign language will do.

fail fail failure.  it has been around since the bite into that fruit.  don't blame eve, though, because i would have, too, and so would you and him and her and he and she.

we were born good at it and are well-practiced at it.

but, thanks to jesus, it's not who i am.

Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)

Since the first of June

lost my job and lost my room

I pretend to try

even if I tried alone