Buddy Wakefield's Blog, page 90
June 13, 2016
To the Sea to the See
June 7, 2016
Was jogging through Brighton toward the beach thinking
the word *memoirs*, listening to Coal Miner’s Daughter
by accident, smiling about the “I Am A Lagan” tour with
Katie Wirsing and Andrea Gibson nearly 10 years ago,
having the time of our lives near the giant metal doughnut
and Ferris wheel. Most things pass through my poetry filter
before they get to my practicality feature (blessings and curses;
job’s a job). So when I rounded the corner to the boardwalk
and saw the Ferris wheel gone from Brighton, I wondered
if I should tell the Lagans or did it seem too sad,
that lovely memory missing. Or are we just shedding novelty?
Serendipity occurs so frequently now I find myself considering
abstract notes like this all day long to get a gauge of things.
I stopped jogging and asked the next person I saw what happened
to the Ferris wheel. He said they took it down a couple days ago
to make room for a 360-degree eye.
Of course they did. Jog on, y’all.
Meanwhile, pirates still play mini golf.
June 6, 2016
The Vaguest Threat
June 6, 2016
Air has no ego.
Pat attention when it enters and exits.
June 4, 2016
Stoke Golding Village
June 4, 2016
Was it even in this lifetime
that we knew each other?
Yesterday I was 23.
The day before that I was 9.
Today I am so glad you’re here.
June 1, 2016
May 31, 2016
Clear for takeoff
June 1, 2016
Safe in Brighton, England. Just got back from a walk in the park
with an order of veg fish & chips and blueberry cake. Haven’t slept
since LAX about two dimensions ago. Last thing I remember was…
@buddywakefield enjoys his god damn churro and hot fudge.
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May 30, 2016
A Stay Okay Box
May 30, 2016
Happiness is too far to fall.
You, my love, are tremendously tall.
May 28, 2016
The Hatchery Press
May 28, 2016
“And that’s how sex was born.”
–Derrick Brown
May 24, 2016
The size of the blizzard that birthed us
May 24,2016
Hiding is not an option for people so good at showing up.
You show up. It is okay that you showed up missing.
We’ve all abused ourselves then looked over the wrong shoulder about it.
Call it fatherlock. You were picked like this.
*The Guilt Straps Helmet by Sarah J Coleman based on Healing Hermann Hesse.
May 22, 2016
Waffling
May 21, 2016
Then everyone in the whole world found out
everything I was ever scared of being found out about.
And no one was impressed with my nightmare.
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