Coffee Smith – foto Smith
Final Answer
Found fragment
From the gateless gate
— Smith, 2005
I suspect there are no final answers, at least while drawing human breath, but I daily work on temporal answers moment by moment, parsing the sequence of time.
Boy o boy is coffee a drug, a major drug, and it’s legal! Just had my first cup after five days daze and my eyes are wide, my brain moving, my tongue talking.
Due to operation and heat wave that followed, I lost my appetite. Then Saturday’s tooth which broke off at the gum made me less eager to trust my teeth to eat. Woke this morning weighing 164 pounds, down from 175.
Graduated high school 49 years ago weighing 165, went to boot camp and came out 185. I’m 6 foot 3 inches tall so I’m starting to resemble William Burroughs’ build. Been up as high as 260 pounds back in my heavy drinking days,
In April I began my 22nd year sober. Over a decade since I did coke and chemicals, 4 years since hallucinogens, 5 days since I smoked grass. Think the monkey on my back just got tired and bored and left . . . which reminds me of a 1955 Elvis Presley rockabilly song — I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone, which of course has absolutely nothing to do with this blog. And here’s a great slow version of the same song, both recorded March 1955 when I was 9.
Answers
New morning light
On yesterday’s shadow
— Smith, 2005
X u r here – foto Smith