Where I live, there are small one lane roads through the redwood trees. A small creek runs through the canyon. In this spot the water is rather deep, and the children swim here on hot days. Sometimes there are like a dozen teenagers laying on towels on the road by the swimming hole. (The road is in the sun.) It is the last little piece...
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"I'll have the usual!"
Someone on twitter put one of my acoustic folk songs on their playlist. They said, "Beautiful, I love that spacial guitar." They might have misspelled special. Spacial has several meanings, it could sum up my current circumstance; which is in part Covid inflected.
spacial - a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
Lately I don't anything about love, except how to live without it...
"I Can't Win"
I've been trying so hard to find a way to your heart
Win your love, win your love
Instead of taking it, keeping it, baby, you tore it...
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I quit drawing on this verse, because I had learned all the lyrics. Rosemary is the other main character in the song. She is Big Jim's wife, but is looking toward the Jack of Hearts. Lily is Big Jim's mistress, but has a thing with the Jack of Hearts. Big Jim and/or the Jack of Hearts could be a reference to the tarot card, The...
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Resistance Jacket with hood