American Fugitive

It is still possible to live as a fugitive in America today.

It is still possible to feel the wind at your back,
The blood rushing through your spine,
While you whiz through the night,
Untouched.

It is still possible to live as a fugitive in America today,
Greeting locals and buying newspapers,
Sipping coffee and reminiscing casually,
Standing with your very best friends.

It is still possible to live as a fugitive in America today,
To live as a fugitive is to live the life of a stolen man,
Your very own self and smelt for sale,
Your very own body and core on trial.

It is still possible to live as a fugitive in America today,

Smart fugitives are too cunning to do stupid things,
They follow the grid and never speed,
Pay in cash and leave their change.

To live as a fugitive, tip your cap and step outside,

To live as a fugitive, take a sigh and drop behind,
Just beyond the frame.

American Fugitive
Daniel James 2012

Shady Grove Motel

Displaced in time,

Word without a mother,

There was a cat in my room before I even turned the key.

Rolling hills, distant suicide, sun cracking through the flesh.

Brick walls, television chatter, a cake of mildew on the floor.

Fat man, slide me my key. Fat man, slip a paper in my hand.

Until the end of time.

Shady Grove Motel

Daniel James 2012

Dogs

Dogs are not impressed by new technologies. They don’t need the latest gadget and don’t care about the latest trends. Dogs are all gourmets. They know and appreciate good food, but keep their pretensions to a minimum. Filet mignon will always get first nod over a dead rat; but if there is no filet, the rat will do just fine.

Dogs don’t understand arithmetic, don’t take in any income and are not registered voters. They live very charmed lives.

Dogs

Daniel James 2012

Burst Broadcast (prelude to a short film)

 In a place we’ve never seen, but not far from the present, there lies a future lost from the past. It is a technological bubble stupefied by necessity, unable to say hello to strangers, flickering like a lightning bug under the glass.

And then, a warm glow came across the sky. 
People were joyous, happy, blissed beyond their will. 
Lovers met, mothers loved, an old dog died in a young boy’s arms.

It was the awakening. Lightning surged, crashing down, reflecting psychedelic waves into the cellular sphere. Tesla was heard howling from the grave. Aghhhhhhhhhhhhh! As all power burst, wires fried, power plants tripped, Silicon Valley incinerated. Those in close contact with an active computer or cell phone were stunned into lobotomy. Young children and the elderly were primarily left to fend for themselves.

Only a limited network of land-line telephones, ham radio and backfired UHF television frequencies survived, while news and programing is spread primarily by rag-tag regional broadcast signals, and a new breed of citizens emerge like the aftermath of a civil war.

Second chances are not for the gifted, but for those of a will who's strong.

Burst Broadcast (prelude to a short film)

Daniel James 2012

Messages for living in a new world

1.) The new world is both like and unlike the past. It will seem both entirely different and entirely the same as the present.

2.) The new world will contain new, big ideas. These ideas may seem good, but are really bad; or may seem bad, but are really good. It will be up to you to decide.

3.) Whatever you do will be new. You are new. Even if you are doing something old, you are a new person doing it.

4.) Energy shifts. It will hit you from time to time. Ride it while you can; It won't last forever.


Messages for living in a new world
Daniel James 2012

Quote of the day (baseball)

"I can imagine hitting against him tonight. It would have been mind-boggling. I would have been swimming in my own brain about what to look for."

-Seattle Mariner's catcher, John Jaso, describing a stellar pitching by the veteran pitcher, Kevin Millwood. May 18, 2012

Daily Insight, Tuesday Morning

“to live is to fall, backwards and blindfolded, longing for clouds to touch”


Daily Insight, Tuesday Morning
Daniel James 2012

Morning regrets.

A World of Nouns, A Wave of Rounds.
Time, Location and Moment.

The trick to this is quite simple, really, complicated only in its undoing.
You must be in the Time and Place, moments must be aligned.

There are hundreds of moments within a given place.
There are hundreds of places within a given time.

But to find the One moment.. takes patience, foresight, a splash of lucked fate.
A clear window to view through the crack, sliding down slowly, lingering a moment.
Place the wooden peg between the sill and the pane and slip right through.
Linger in the moment, let time freeze/stutter/pass, marking the illusion.
Set a placemat and tip your driver. Smile if you must.

All you need is a Moment, if you look and react it will find you.
But when it finds you you must Act.
Act or it will disappear. For you may be low on second chances.

For a second chance is a second circumstance, Big Bang/Little Bang, vortex path.
And your mathematical odds may never be the same.
Holding their name within your vein.
Slowly Slipping from the frame.


Morning regrets.
Daniel James 2012

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Text Inspired by Indian Jewelry concerts 2012

Survey

I keep a very mild exterior so that my identity can change quickly.

My ring and pointer fingers are equal distance apart.

My last bowl movement occurred at a time they call “magic hour” in the movie business for the golden, beautiful sunset lighting & atmosphere. Afterwards, I strolled down my local street, where the tavern advertised “Happy Hour Specials.” I ordered three sliders, along with two Mai Tai’s and a tall Zombie. I later staggered out into the night.

Shirley Temple earned a MILLION dollars by age 10.

Babe Ruth began his career as a young “Southpaw” pitcher, and was forever haunted by a misfired pitch-- a bean to the head which killed a man.

Survey
Daniel James 2012

Alcatraz

I was a long distance swimmer.. keep your forearms loose but glide into & spear the water without a splash.. long strokes with a firm, tight waist.. bilateral breathing if possible (1.2.3 breath; 1.2.3 breath)... remember to kick if you get tired.. and daydream your most tantalizing thoughts until the finish line ;)


Alcatraz
Daniel James 2012

Tales from the West

Evanston, Wyoming. December 2011.