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soul coughing and stars.
2006-03-01, 1:41 a.m.

current mood: finally getting sleepy...

current song: screenwriter's blues by soul coughing

exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers
jewels cleaving skin between breasts

your cadillac breathes 400 horses under bluelines
you are going to receda to make love to a model from ohio whose real name you don't know
you spin
like the cadillac was overturning down a cliff on
television

and the radio is on
and the radio man is speaking
and the radio man says women were a curse
so men built paramount studios
and men built columbia studios
and men built los angeles

it is 5 am and you are listening to los angeles

and the radio man says it is a beautiful night out there
and the radio man says rock and roll lives
and the radio man says it is a beautiful night in los angeles
you live in los angeles
and you are going to receda
we are all in some way or another going to receda
someday to die
and the radio man laughs because
the radio man fucks a model too

gone savage
for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love
gone savage for teenagers who are asthetically pleasing
in other words flies
los angeles becons the teenagers to come to her on buses
los angeles loves love

it is 5 am and you are listening to los angeles

i am going to los angeles
to build a screeenplay about lovers who murder each other
i am going to los angeles to see my own name on a screen 5 feet long and luminous
as the radio man says
it is 5 am and the sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us
and painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet

it is 5 am and you are listening to los angeles

you are listening to los angeles

i went out to the freeway diner tonight after work to have some coffee with the preacher and his partner jon and jon's girlfriend and a friend of hers. laughed a lot, had fun. drove the long way home over the hi-level while listening to soul coughing. i love how toledo looks from the bridge at night...i love looking out over the river towards downtown; the oi building shining green and the 5/3 sign reflecting off the inky dark of the murky river. and then i look towards oregon and i see the refinery lit up; blue flames stretching their fingers to the imperial violet of the midnight sky, punctuated by the orange-white steam. i find myself lost between the twinkling stars of industry and the blackest dark of nature.

i love feeling small and childlike, gazing upwards at the towers that men have created. i love wondering at the world that humans have built, crashing as hard as possible into the world that was here first. frames of steel covered in glass that twist and grow as high as gravity will allow. towers and cables and beams pointing upwards to something bigger than everything else. and the universe's own electrical web shining down from the expanse of space, competing with man-made fire. billions and billions and billions...

and the watchful eye of the moon was absent tonight; she is new tonight. it was a pity. a full moon would have made the scene even more breathtaking. i guess i'll have to take the drive out that way on the 15th.

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