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August 6
Heading East
the screen flickers in front of me
not a movie now…
little plane: spec in the speck in the sky
a sign. with portent.
distance to destination
ground speed: 811 kmph/502 mph
fast. fast.
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August 5
Bangkok
You’re drunk Johnny. & you drink too much because you hate yourself. You think of your life, and you hate where your at. You say you want me to tell you about yourself? Okay. …you carry too much baggage Johnny. What makes your life so hard? How can you have so [...]
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August 3
Phet Buri–Kanchana Buri
We stop, walk wots–Buddhist temples. And again this “nothing” stares me in the face.
& I am staring back
blankly
Gold leaf, creased and flicking, on this physical representation of the Buddha before me… the physical representation of an ancient teacher who wanted nothing so much as to achieve the [...]
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July 29
Hat Yai-khas Phanom Bencha National Park
I am in Thailand. & I am truly lost.
Like when I was a kid, hiding from my older brother’s anger, my heart pounding to the beat of his fists on my locked bedroom door.
If the door held, he would give up the vigil with a volley [...]
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July 26
Marang, Malaysia
“The divers will all get together for a collectively choreographed vomit.” predicted Neal after tonight’s meal.
& Andrew, it seems, has a fantasy about being wrapped in a plastic bag and having a whole group of people throw up on him.
???
***
We swam into a shower as fresh as a spring [...]
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July 21
Lake Chini
“This is where you are,” says the Malay anthropologist in charge of studying the area.
He is pointing to the “X” marked on a large local map that’s pinned to the restaurant wall. But when he stands in front of the map his shadow rearranges the details of land and water; [...]
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July 18
Singapore
Collin calls the place Mc-Singapore
This city is a tad soulless. Orchard Road = three solid kms of mall upon glorious mall.
Like Hong Kong’s “Buy me”sirens, without half the character. As clean and tastelessly efficient as a Mc Donald’s restaurant.
& I gave in to the urge to sell my soul to an electronics-specialty consumerism. [...]
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July 13
Penang
Synchronicities
Our friend Anna received a letter today: her mother breaks the household mixer and that very afternoon, unknowing, her father arrives having won a new mixer at a golf tournament.
there is no such thing as coincidence
Meanwhile, our Swiss friend Daniel has hooked up with a Thai woman who’s celebrating: “My happy [...]
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July 8
Bukit Lawang
Epiphany…
Rubber-tubing down a tropical river in Sumatra. Like a teenager in Canada’s Wonderland. Except oh, way better. The umbered blue of Indonesia’s mountains behind. The palms and bamboos coking the whole foreground with their fecundity, bending over the river’s banks, reaching out to scratch my arms or catch my hair [...]
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June 28
Charita
Last night:
talking talking
and Johnny: drinking drinking
in between: waves crash
white line in the darkness
only know it’s a wave because of the context
the sky is moonless. starless
can’t see anything
talking talking
getting nowhere
his arm reaching out to circle my shoulders
me rolling away
toes stirring up the sand
& waves crash
getting nowhere
in they come
out they go
Today: The sun [...]
