were we gathered somewhere good

how much longer?

breathing inside a bathroom
is weird but good you can hear
yourself 

water takes away the soap

anna wears the cam'ron t-shirt

pours us a shot of tequila 
and takes away the tequila
below the bar you can hear
the bottle clink but just see the nozzle

on the eastern shore of america's afternoon
all the fixtures turn chilly

a few letter magnets and a christmas card
in the dust pan
we made it all the way here

first splashes of a long night
hit the barbecue

when i got to work it was easier to let go


good tap chemicals
all top prospects

every night before bed mindkeys
deem it the flint

a special hill where lawn mowers
send chipped

'the train's empty' / 'no one is on the train'
'it's/that's because we're at the end of the platform'
'i'm following you'
'you just missed the other one'
'but that was going...'
'they both go to the same place'
'oh well / [silence]'

cj

meebo was a chat client for the android

my friend's wife wakes up at 4am to pick lint up off the floor

his grandson is a 14 year old who makes thousands of dollars

reselling the latest nikes he buys him on the internet

this was a dream

Two ballers perch

in a tree, the shoulder

holes fit perfectly

around the wings.

Haslam attacks Jeremy

and you stretch out your

sleeve and tattoo

The first thing I do

when I leave the office

is look at the sky.

you saw it sit

near a player piano

and stare at the floor,

bleary eyed methane

rising from the arctic

permafrost saturates

the gauze wrapped

potato 

elija wood on netflix

the boss emailed asking if all the lens shammies disappeared. for the most part they all disappeared. i missed the 10:21am by 5 seconds. the next train at 10:40-something-am stopped locally. a local train downtown connected to the crosstown to the west side where a cvs sat on top of the subterranean terminal, inside an old bank building. they had boxes of swifter dust clothes. a hasty crowd stuff a grocery store across the avenue. twice through the kitchen cleaning accessories section. twice. the second time a box of clothes on the top shelf. the box yeilded several clothes folded and sealed clothes and waited in line. some people were inconsiderate to one another. one lady made a strange man put his items in a basket. i walked to my office on 9th avenue. sean had his dogs in eng. i did some things for some small gear. i worked in the room until 8pm. then i punched out and walked to my hotel room. it was raining very hard and it was hot. there was garbage in a drain and slowing the water flow. some bars were open. people were in the diner on 23rd and 9th. two foreign sounding accent women checked me in at the chelsea savoy. i took off my rain gear in the room. took a shit and went back downstairs for ice. i drank two 24 oz cans of beer and watched storm coverage. there was lightning outside. it seemed to be raining a little harder. i took a shower and walked back to the station around 10:45 pm. i gave eric the other key to my hotel room. christian left and i covered the room for the next few hours. sean left for his hotel room and returned around ~2 am. it started leaking in the room after sean left. gerry showed up around 3am. michael dudley returned. around 5am i went to my boss’s hotel room. i slept for 3 hours. it seemed not bad outside. i walked to the station and howie and sean were bringing food downstairs. i helped them carry food down to the car. i dried off. around 10 am gerry said that howie was stuck in a puddle. we went and pushed howie out of the puddle. we shot some sound of like a british kid or something. i ate the free lunch which was sandwiches. sean drove me home.

peter lanza's dinosaur dig blog

i hate my job for long stretches of weeks

i believe it is someone else's fault

the bosses boss talks with howie

in the room and the rains beat heavily

at the windows the photo album came

out for the third time

is soup a meal?

I drank more than one cup of coffee. Ride to trail head over an hour.

I'm able to pee and fart as we begin hiking through the forest.

Up on the side of the mountain we cross several slides

and look up and down into the clouds of mist funneling

through the hallway of trees.

It's misty and blowy all day, clouds passing right in front of us

and consuming us.

Sun warmed our backs as we ate

on the north side of the summit

looking down hundreds of feet into clear blue

lakes a catwalk stuffed with slinks across

to a sharp pinnacle, it passes in and out of the white whisps

mosquito lands on my thigh

a chipmunk aggressively darts towards

our lunch and quickly escapes under the large boulders

the col below the final stretch

looks like an alpine lagoon

solitary pines floating in the haze

among random mirror pools pressed into

the long alpine grass

eating huckleberries in the fields

1st draft

What's up, how are you? I guess I have your email address, I hope it's still relevant. 

Since I consider your worldly adventures and benevolent nature particularly valuable in my current situation (and likely in many others), I've typed you this little synopsis to my crisis. 

Have you heard of the Live Below the Line thing? You know, the Hugh Jackman poverty challenge. Well apparently it's my favorite thing and I am now an active participant. Well..when creating a participant profile my whimsical philanthropy swooped in and partnered me with the first charity to hold expensive self-congratulating banquets, feed Sting's hot yoga addiction and organize messy rock concerts sponsored by evil, bottled-water companies. Have you heard of the Rainforest Foundation (the US Chapter)? Could you reverse my distrust? Are they an organization you'd work for? I'm all worked up: is living below the line, more like living behind the veil, with a pyramid of scheming charities on the other side? Or am I in the second stage of someone on the verge of elevating of billions of starving people out of poverty; skepticism? Do I need to personally refund my two friends, luckily my only two UNlucky donating victims so fa? 

Well I guess maybe I'm overreacting; rainforestfoundation.org is a pretty website with smart slogans and their .com counterpart makes a lot of good points when discrediting them. I've consulted charitynavigator.com and not all the other LBL partners are listed, like the The Global Poverty Project, which launched the LBL campaign a few years ago.

My main dilemma is I have to ask people to support something and I'm not sure if I'm fully in support of myself, all the while I wasn't even expecting this to be part of the challenge. Would you feel comfortable recommending any of the other partners found here on this page: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/us-en-partners

Gran would probably give me money to buy a loaded Bazooka rocket launcher if I wanted. When I told her about the challenge even she eluded to the corruptness of such charities. She has donated to charities for years without drawing attention to herself and I know you and your side of the family may do so as well. So maybe that's the only way of avoiding this affliction, but then I can't physically channel the anguish of malnutrition. 

Number 2

What's up, how are you? I guess I have your email address, I hope it's still relevant. 

I wanted to ask you about charities and stuff. I created a participant profile on the Live Below the Line fundraising campaign website. You know, Hugh Jackman's poverty challenge. Anyway how it works is, though maybe you know already, I pledge to live for five days on a diet of whatever no more than $1.50 per day can afford me while my supporter's donations are channeled to a charity that helps alleviate extreme poverty, the crisis afflicting our world population as represented by the $1.50 a day. I think reading about animal rights and vegetarianism has made me vulnerable to this idea of sacrificial fundraising. I didn't realize though that I'd have to select my own partner charity to receive the donations of my supporters. This kind of made me skeptical of the whole campaign. I chose the Rainforest Foundation because, get this, I like forests. I mean I've never even been to a rain forest. So now as my campaign drags on and I do a little after the fact research I'm finding it difficult to raise funds for something I can't fully support. I pulled up their wikipedia and checked out their charitynavigation.com entry. Maybe if I had randomly selected a different charity I wouldn't be in this dilemma. Part of me is still all about this. If you even have any idea what I'm talking, a small bit of your wisdom might help tip my sudden indecision one way or the other. Here's the list of their other partners on their website: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/us-en-partners Maybe one of those charities has a cleaner track record that you can speak to. Ok, enough of my uneducated ramblings. 

Don't feel obligated come up with an answer for me, especially if you have no idea what I'm talking about.

Ok. Heard from Gran you had fun visiting the east coast. Hit me up next time you might be in town.

Best,

Miles

3^rd and final

What's up, how are you? I guess I have your email address, I hope it's still relevant. 

I wanted to ask you about charities and stuff. I created a participant profile on the Live Below the Line fundraising campaign website. You know, Hugh Jackman's poverty challenge. Anyway how it works is, though maybe you know already, I pledge to live for five days on a diet of whatever no more than $1.50 per day can afford me. Those who supporter my pledge donate to a charity that helps alleviate extreme poverty, the category defined by a percentage of the world population surviving on less than $1.50 a day. Not expecting to have to select a partner I chose hastily. This kind of made me skeptical of the whole campaign at first, but now I'm feeling even more unbalanced. I'm faced with convincing friends to support the Rainforest Foundation. In doing the research I should have done before this vital partnership began, I've learned of their not so great history. Could you help reverse my sudden distrust or lead me down a better path? I'm aware of charitynavigator.com and I've done some other research on the other charities, but I felt that none of it could amount to what I suspect you might know already. Or maybe not. Anyway here is the list of the other partners: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/us-en-partners 

Do you see a better charity? Do you think this whole campaign not so good?

Best,

Miles

Ps - heard about your trip out east, hit me up if you are ever back in the city!