a kid watering his garden out front

squirting the water gun nozzle intermittenly in his dogs jowly mouth,
who would then try to chop the water with bites of drinking in the air,
snorting.

toy in a basket outside a stoop

with a note that read, "Please take this before my daughter returns
from camp today!"

the minus time diet

because it's time passing through your gut that actually kills you.

music's mimicry

Music is the only satisfying--therefore only fitting--response to this existence we find ourselves in. It reminds of the wonder of it by matching it for ineffability.

Filmmaking, as it springs from the genius of music, is a kindred response. But only real filmmaking. A film as a response to this all. If I'm lucky and don't die first, I'll practice such filmmaking again.

bath vs. stew

the warm bath of self-regard vs. the stew of resentment. Inclusion in
either group lends insight on the other, though not on itself.