Pacific Coast

Wow - welcome back to the author! After - can it be? - a full year of not posting a damned thing, here I am, back and ready to read some more of my favourite pieces of work to you, Dear Listener, should you still check the place out once in a while.

I guess blogging is like anything; it's not the source. You might be one of those folks who spend days reading and watching news, keeping up-to-date on politics and social problems, writing MPs, or Congressmen, or whatever other rat-bastard-like is running your local neck of the woods, and maybe even going out and tacking up posters or marching, megaphone aloft and solidarity echoing above the heads of those around you; but all that work and effort makes you forget about your blog about activism, because let's face it, blogging isn't the source - it's the secondary.

So don't think I'm not out there everyday, keeping a watchful eye, lying naked in the rain, or under a full moon, sticking my hands in the muck of a marsh just to feel the ooze, helping a worm to the far side of the sidewalk, watching strangers in my local coffee shop, whispering on the corner about the end of the world or sitting downtown with a coffee contemplating the Meaning of Life - I'm still a poet, even if I don't spew evidence of such online.

So here's my re-introduction to the secondary that is this site - the showcase, perhaps, is a better term. Fresh from the mud-slogging, naked-in-the-rain-lying, worm-assisting, moon-worshipping that is the source of all of this, I bring to you Pacific Coast.

It is currently one of my most favourite works. It's got layers, is the thing. Often, I select an image or an idea to address, or a couple - in this piece there are so many questions left the reader. What is the thing I'm talking with? Is it the car, or me? Why is the fuel tank full but the thing's in neutral? When will this whole thing end and just what the hell is the whole metaphor about, anyway? Well, answer them however you like - that's the best part of this kind of thing - I ain't going to tell you, and yours is as valid as mine anyway. Hope you enjoy.