the unfinished files

October 19, 2007

S ometimes I find little half finished poems or stories waiting in desktop files. This is one...

Sunday night

k.d. lang singing a Joni Mitchell tune
about drinking a case of you, and she’d
still be on her feet. I’m silently impressed,
because at four beers, come morning
my head throbs like a traitorous son-of-a-bitch
and I’m moving like a destroyed Hemingway
looking for the goddamned medicine, carefully
swallowing the little brown pills and inching
into the shower, waiting, waiting for the dullness
in the back of my head to wane.

October 19, 2007

3 Comments

1.  mary had this to say:   Oct 19, 2007 ~ 11:25 ~ #

thomas,

here are some interesting k.d. lang trajectories.
1. did you know that tippy a go-go was a back-up dancer for k.d. lang in the 80s? it is true…just ask him.

2. we sometimes get our vehicles repaired, etc. by this older man who needs to first be described so you can fully understand this perplexity. he is in his 70s, wears jean overalls often with no shirt underneath, has false teeth which you know about because he will take them out of his mouth and clean them at the sink in his kitchen while he is talking to you, he chews chewing tobacco and then spits it at your feet but for some reason it is not offensive, and he belongs to a gourmet cooking group. so once he was showing us some things in his house that his “lady friends” (his words not mine) had brought back for him from various places, and then i look at his wall and there is framed and autographed k.d.lang picture along with her first album in vinyl. and the note she has written is: “thanks for making my dreams come true.”

2.  Thomas had this to say:   Oct 19, 2007 ~ 14:53 ~ #

Okay, that story is just really f—-ed up. What the? This toothless, spitting, gourmet-cooking mechanic made k.d’s dreams come true?!?!??! But maybe it wasn’t him who made k.d.‘s dreams come true, but one of the lady friends….Oh, my mind hurts.

3.  mary had this to say:   Oct 20, 2007 ~ 07:59 ~ #

no it was really him…the note actually read “thanks (insert his name here) for making my dreams come true.” you should come with me when i go to get my oil changed from him and i can show you the picture!

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