Stuff – foto by Smith
The Man keeps knocking
Down my front door
Wants to sell me some
Sorta social spore
Says grits & groceries
Ain’t enough
In the modern life
You need much more stuff
— excerpt from Bye Buy, 2005, Smith
Odyssey – foto by Smith
I recently received two issues of the travel magazine AFAR in the mail. The magazine costs $20 a year and we did not order it.
Then yesterday Lady received an Amazon hardback book titled “Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain – How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur” by Ryan Blair with Don Yeager which neither of us had ordered . . . receipt said it was a gift.
So, who is/are our secret admirer/s who sent us this stuff?
Maybe someone wants us to continue our foreign travel adventures so they sent me the AFAR travel mag to whet my whistle and shipped the entrepreneur book to Lady so she can find a way to make the money needed to travel.
Or perhaps they’re trying to lure Lady into a gang, or maybe just trying to get me back out of Cleveland.
I think when we eventually get some money, I’m going to start sending folk anonymous gifts of books and such just to mess with their minds.
Mess mind – foto by Smith at Chiplis studio
lol… cute…
well I think I’ve only ever sent one anonymous gift in my life to someone… and it was because I did not want to embarrass the person because it was financial help and I wasn’t sure how it would be received. But once they got it I made myself known… so it was not remain anonymous. And I suppose it was gratefully received… though I don’t recall. I know it was used for things that were needed.. so at least it was put to good use. And that was it’s intent.
This poem is like an ode to materialism…. sometimes it is hard to avoid… Our lifestyles sometimes force us to have have things we’d like to do without. Example.. my son would like to manage without a car where he is.. but the base he is on is so large and with no public transport he can’t even get to his unit without someone either driving him. Too far to walk or bike easily. And he hates to be always dependent on someone else’s kindness to get him everywhere he needs like to the grocery or something. So we will be shipping him is car soon… a necessary evil.
sorry for the typos.. I suppose I should go back and get some more sleep….
Okay, mess with my mind