Wa cha doing?
I don't typically draw the blinds in my bedroom.
Because there's usually a security guard outside my window strolling up and down the lane, in the rain, thinking of Spain, protecting the new condo complex that's being built across the way. Someone's gotta keep the skateboarders out....
I choose darkness cos it's bad enuff that when I go out on the patio for a puff that we (the Security Guy and I) have to pretend not to see one other SO THE BLINDS STAY CLOSED AS A GENERAL RULE.
But it's Sunday and I've got nothing much on and up go the blinds.
And what do I see?
Well, the Security Guard. No shit.
But I also spot a purple plastic shoe. It's wet and dirty with soil and it would prolly fit the foot of a four-year-old boy or girl or a doll that comes alive at night.
It's good to note that there's only one shoe outside and it has been placed on the edge of the garden outside my window as if to say: I HAVE BEEN FOUND. Praise.
It reminds me of driving down Hastings past STOP LIGHTS and seeing a lone hubcap propped up against a pole. So thoughtful of the finder displaying such a lonely object, a sorrowful thing. Will somebody claim me? Or will you just drive by?
Or what about the missing flip-flop placed on the bus stop bench JUST SO, so we all know someone has found it and put it "just so" so it will find its way back to the rightful owner. I kinda love it. It's a little announcement and this action happens all over the world. People who find shit do have a knack for creating "a space".
Can you see the little shoe? These are not very good shots at all.
It's best to blame Lara for the quality of these pictures cos when she told me she bought a web cam I went to Best Buy immediately and picked me up one of dose tings. I haven't chatted with anyone online yet -- it's a scary thot indeed -- but I have taken lots of pictures of myself. Here's one of inside my bedroom.
I kinda like it. It could be the cover of a Canadian literary journal. Fall 2008 Prism International.
That makes me laugh.
And here's one of me on my webcamjammer:
I'm propped up against the side of the bed and I am also lost.
