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Josh Bass Oct 2014
I fell in love with the whole Bay Area
SF
Monterey
Santa Cruz
Napa
Sonoma
Big Sur
I sit here still and I am stunned by it's beauty
It might be my favorite place on earth.

"Why don't you move there"
They ask.

For the same reason I keep certain people that interest me
at a distance.

Sometimes you don't want your illusion to be replaced
with the truth.

Sometimes it's better to let it live inside you and just visit.

Also never meet your heroes.


...just kidding. Try to meet them all.
Josh Bass Oct 2014
I am afraid
Not just of getting old
Not just of dying
Not just of being alone
I am afraid of dying,
old and alone.
But worst of all
with nothing to show for
it...

Poetry is a start.
  Oct 2014 Josh Bass
r
canyon wren
sings her sweet song
perched upon
the piñon-

for my love
who lies beneath-
the cottonwood
twee twee twee
tsheeeeee.

:)

r ~ 10/3/14
\¥/\
  |.     song of the canyon wren
/ \
Josh Bass Oct 2014
Imagine a castle in the middle of a city
It sticks out to say the least
A sentinel of the city
The Kingdom of Fairmount
Steve Buscemi says it is
a prison of:
Silence
Cats
Ghosts
Tourists
Filmmakers
Gangsters
I crane my neck and take one last look
before heading to the Trestle Inn
for a drink and dancers.
The right attitude
sadly
is always
the most difficult attitude!
  Oct 2014 Josh Bass
ryann
The moon will get more blurred, not less

and more and more i'll look in vain
for edges
and reasons

old errors lose their lines and shapes

leave flashes, not whole cycles
there are peaks
and troughs

i see how all is blending thick

mixing, slurring, soup-of-lifeing
is it done yet?
is it right?

i stir, i eat, i look, i sleep

i dream of moons that fill the sky
with brightness
with courage
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