A Chink in the Armor

Part of being a teenager is rebelling to find your own identity. The other (and very necessary) part is getting adults to prove that adulthood works. Prove your power, prove your freedom, prove you have the answers.

I'm in love with the WORLD'S OLDEST MAN

Every spot is rising
Covered with the hopes
and dreams of a new connection
love dripping, sopping wet,
sopping over the edges

sun kissed hills and royal blue waves
cities filled with young hopeful entrepreneurs
activists and poets, artists and infamous criminals
all waiting to tickle our brains
all the way to bed and back again

i heard you speaking
the warm rush of difficult syllables
falling on unwelcoming ears
except mine—open, loving, expectant

i saw you reaching out
first with the smallest gesture,
smiles, and manly deeds
stimulating unwanting thighs
except mine—hoping, yielding to your touch

Landscapes rolling before us
The most beautiful in the world
moments of sheer mirth dripping from our supple minds
Fully felt, deeply dreamed and wanted and yearned and cried and screamed and frustrated with life, and hopeless, and compassioned for

Moku lua Me.

Moby Dick Notes (Part 1)

Valley of Saco
the poet of Tennessee
Rockaway Beach
brother of Jove
Archangel Gabriel
snow hill
"The act paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us."
old hunks
Old Manhatto
Tyre/Carthage
Leviathan
harpooning (how does it work?)
pea coffee
palsied
Euroclydon (wind) zephyr
hob
copestone
Lazarus
Moluccas
Squitchy
Hyperborean
Cape-Horner
founder
Nathan Swain
Javan Seas - Cape of Blanco
monkey jacket
grego, wrapall, dreadnaught
bosky beards
bombazine
scoria
the Cave of Elephants
Goodwin Sands
brevet
verdure
Quebec (leaving him impregnable…)
Ehrenreitstein
Censtaph
confabulation
vitiated - spoiled/debased (lat. vitio)
Sag Harbor
Tit-bit
Medes
galliots
Becket-bled - Canterbury Cathedral
Thorkill-Hake
buckler

chapters/foreign destinations

tille/turnstile wheel
footmanish
Belial bondsman
the idol Bel
Bel is a dragon mentioned in the Old Testament "Book of Daniel"
It was the object of veneration and worship in the Babylonian Empire where Daniel was held captive

palavering
plaudits
puissant
quoggy
Outward portents and inward presentiments
ahasuerus
Anacharsis Clooty
binnacle lamp
genera
bilocular heart

penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem
gnomon
hartshorn
ferule
"Oh time, strength, cash, and patience"
hustings
abstemious
that wild Logan of the woods
standers-of-mast-heads/Egyptians
carking
Iron Crown of Lombardy
iron way
demomorgan