i collaged 32 years of mug shots of Lady K – – 1974-2007 on Agent Of Chaos. trouble is, once other flux look at these photographs, everyone will want a Kathy of their own. maybe i could rent her out on time lease buy serial share contracts.
kathy says i hum quietly to myself often. started listening to myself. sometimes i hum “It’s Howdy Doody Time.” other times it’s Beethoven’s Fifth, Frank Sinatra’s “Young At Heart,” or the “go to sleep” children lullaby. most times it’s a tuneless aimless aural doodle. it is the soundtrack to my movie. i can’t afford musicians, so i have to make the noises myself. i also make “whack” and “kapow” sound effects at semi-appropriate times.
a lot of the lessons we’ve learned on our 8 month european journey lie in kathy’s head alone. she’s the one who researches where and how, orders tickets, handles our finances. i could do all this stuff, but it’d be more last-chance-after-the-fact-free-flow-let’s-see-what-happens-now kind of journey. both philosophies have their special sweetness.
on our last hour bicycle ride to pezenas, i disappeared inside my head where i started writing a poem. once i begin to return to reality, i start wondering where i am, what’s going on – then see the highway, hear the cars whizzing by and say “oh, yes, here, now.”
this last week my arm and face skin turned thru red to rouged brown. never been this color before. time and meridian changing me.
past few weeks have registered a change in us also. we’re beginning to get used to being us, doing this, getting used to no known knowns.
got married 12 months ago. had no idea then where we’d be now. now know not where 12 months more will bring. know the next 3 weeks tho – 2 weeks abeilhan, france… train, two days barcelona… train, two days madrid… fly to marrakech morocco. unknown wonder wander from there.
serendipity doo da serendipity ay
my o my what a wonderful way
plenty of sunshine coming to stay
serendipity do da serendipity day
we have a ticket to ride, on the marrakesh express.
life is strange.
