silent fragrant friday night in my stuffy suburbia as i walk bourbon street via dolorosa, dolores on a dotted line. warm-lit windows - amber eyes of empty houses dreaming of prize family. might as well be staring from space, floating in the airless vastness, my whole life in the palm of my hand. 4 months of nominal flight with my brain in a lockup going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA