Walking on Thin Ice

i’m a lucky mucky ducky.

my friend, my artistic collaborator, my traveling companion, my biographer, my inspiration, my cook, my haircutter, my amused appreciative audience, my fan, my p.r. agent, my co-performer, my dream, and my lover are all the same person - my wife Lady K.

that’s the lucky ducky part.

the mucky ducky portion lies in my film noir past - which includes but is not limited to car thief, armed robber, convict, bankrupt, divorced, drug dealer, adulterer, drunk, near dead, unemployed, and cancer.

i’ve been granted lucky ducky status because i went wrong and learned right… i’ve created art and poetry… i published 513 people for free… i’ve sent thousands of books of poetry and art out into the world… i’ve made people laugh in good ways… i paid poets to read their poetry… i stood by my mother in her time of sorrows… and, i took a wounded dying woman under my wing, offered her safe harbor and time to heal - (she married me in reward).

Lady K moved in 4 weeks after we took up. the next week we chose to sell my place, give away our possessions, move to europe. 5 months later we were married by a Wiccan, and 5 months after that we left america.

in the 8 months since, we’ve slept in 7 countries. what we own, we carry on our backs. we write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, take photographs, create art, and blog everywhere we go. together 24/7, we’re supportive, honest, and faithful - each with each to each.

the only things missing in this existence are bathtubs to soak in and poetry communities in which to read.

my life has been magic since Lady K came. and now we’re upping the ante - in 3 days we leave france, train to barcelona for 2 days, train to madrid for 2 days, then fly to marrakech morocco for a couple months. we’re going through the looking glass to see what we look like on the other side - which should be interesting since people find us an odd look on this side, what with my being 10 inches taller and 27 years older than she.

our coming future is so strange i cannot weave expectations around it. i feel excitement - it’s as if we’re running off to join the circus. this is the kind of adventure you read in fiction, watch in movies - this is fairy tale true. i suffered for a long hard time - now is worth what all i paid along the way.

may you all live your dreams as i. may you all be as lucky as i. and may you all stay stubborn and true along the way long enough to reach such a place in your life.

this story is so unusual, this one time both my blogs (walkingthinice.com & myspace.com/smithcrimes) will be identical.