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Found written on a napkin interlude: another list


I found this while cleaning, I don’t know when I wrote It… had to be around may…probably during one of my sleep deprived work-a-thons at the post.
It seemed to be a list of memories that rolled on in… and when you write down memories the rest seem to crawl in
So here it is …

China town - 3 am warm wind, and the sounds of a late night domino game
- the rice bowl diet ( I gained a lot of weight )
Living in a shop under a movie theater
- the rat
- interrupting a hooker and her 14 year old john in my doorway

Halifax:
-fire trucks
-thick fog
-sitting on the wall
-dollar burgers at the Old Baily
- One cent steaks at Our Father’s Moustace
- peanut shells

Ottawa:
- street corner
- backward rikshaw tour
-Laff with John carroll and the big ‘ol 50
- hiding under a tarp during the end of the world
-great sushi
-Chinese food at 1 am
- red curtains all around my bedroom

Sitting in an empty bar at 1 pm
Washing blood off my hands after my first day of work

A train somewhere in Malaysia sitting between the cars, smoking
Being soaked to the skin In a long tail canoe

Breakfasts with the stars.
-Singapore
-Brockville
-Kingston
-Kitchener
-Ardmore tea room
-Charlettown

Star treatment at the 4 points on the Shereton in Kingston

Nights @
-marquee
-revolutions
-reflections
-seahorse
-after hour party at the post
-the bar next to coyote ugly ( Singapore )
-zook
-milk bar
-beer tents hali busker fest

A $14 dollar show for 4 people in the rain , then a show on the same stage a year later that made 100 times as much , and then a year later having a show pulled from the same stage cause I lost my temper.

Sitting on a transformer talking until the sun came up
Kissing a british tourist 5 minutes before a show

Sitting:
-on my kit in the sun waiting for the dusk
-in the back of a trailer with my dad ( I was just one of the guys then )
-on a log with a girl
- in a truck with a sixpack, watching the rain
-on a rock on a mountain top
-on my balcony watching the sun come up
- smoking a pipe
- a hooka
- pot
On the steps of the dapp corner store drinking an ice cold coke , from the bottle

Waking up:
- the day after the night before
- to s crisp day
-to a thunderstorm
-near the great lakes in my car, snow on the hood
-in the dark , scared
Preaching for something few people got
Arguing
-to keep job/girl
-to prove a point
- to do something



So there it is
I wonder what started it, and it’s weird the things I thought about while writing it.. It will mean nothing to you , gentle reader, but it may trigger a few memories of your own…
Really that’s all writing is about … a little to get it out of your head , but mainly to get the reader inside their own for a while
I gotta shower and go to work….

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