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Vocals + noise recorded on 6/2/2021 at Roser Park Sun Shack, St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Everyone has invisible friends but me.
Talking to no one but a voice in ear.
My focus: Blue jays and squirrels in trees.
Those jays seem to always cry, “Me! Me! Me!”
Squirrel chatter meaning’s such a mystery.
Think standing means, “Let’s have lunch meeting.”

This is my summer of twos and zeros.
Subtracting thirty-one years of progress.
If any stranger dared to say “hello,”
would I remember how to follow up?

Miss spring when at least had novelty,
and maybe was illusion of unity.
Now Florida’s proclaimed, “Shop! Dine! And Die!”
Neighbors slamming doors as they fall in line.
Set myself free, hour or two at a time:
Alone, outside only, through no door but mine.

Hello, Mirror Lake turtle buddies.
Gulls are circling and always laughing.
Yet some days I’m followed by anxieties:
Pressure to enjoy what is so fleeting.

Finding nature in city is my solace, and maybe’s blueprint for how to solve this. The joys of close living so easily lost...If good times return, can I relearn to trust happy-end myth? Or before next crisis, make a plan, damn sure to be way out-gone.

And when I do, friends I promise you:
I’ll be more regular reaching out.
May not have a house to offer?
But we’ll find a sweet spot to gaze at stars.

Don’t know how I’d be now without dear ones, who’ve kept touch even without sight or hugs. At least with them haven’t lost all social skills; releasing me from selfish perspective. And those haven’t talked to, but know they’re out there: Resume where we left off when it’s over?

This summer I landed with a dull thud
from rough tumble yet not to zero ground.
Some days, don’t feel the need to cry or scream.
Can’t call those good; best to hope for is nothing.

But I hear the true sound of this season.
Any other year I’d join them on the streets.
Where am I? Hiding not just from a virus.
I learn and prepare for autumn rising.

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from I Can't be Normal but I'd Like to be OK, released June 15, 2022

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