Sunday Paper
I love paper
good quality paper creates
joy and satisfaction
few other things can achieve for me
That being said,
Newspaper makes my skin crawl
Like fingernails on a chalkboard
I hate the feel they have
Hate the ink that always smudges
Leaving traces on my fingers
Feelings and films of grime on my hands
When I was a kid
it was worth it for the ‘funnies’
Even as I would lay them on the floor
and try to touch as little as possible.
Something tells me the rapid decline
of the newspaper industry
has something to do with this feeling.
I would, however, like to experience a good
British Pub
Fish n chips
Wrapped in newspaper
Somehow I like the idea.
Feels romantic
in a messy kinda way –
like a walk in the rain or snow
or a roll in the hay or leaves
or standing beside the ocean as the tide comes in or a drive in a convertible on a summer afternoon.
All the really fun things in life
Leave us messy and a little greasy
smiling and breathless
eyes shining
with crazy hair –
Which we are proud of
In those moments.
AL 10/21/13
life: acoustic & amplified 