hi no pretense sunny day in a quiet oakland neighborhood just got back from a little trip or two one to the homeland wisconsin for a family event marked by presents and sugar and the other a brief trip down to sunny southern california desert to meet with friends and both times without live in girlfriend shes off doing her own thing but as i wait i wait await you know the time share holiday that kind of thing waiting and living longer than ordinary education plays a role says the newspaper but as i wait later on today ill go meet with a man who might offer me a job though im not entirely hopefully good timing though since the current means of employment doesnt begin until the next week and i find myself erasing punctuation very much a transitional period while lacking a space amongst other things maybe this is the time to make phone calls to apartments here in this one filled with smoke as something in the oven i think it was a potato pancake from decembers activities filled the apartment with smoke and though the windows are open my eyes still hurt and it looks a little cloudy still but i can't tell if thats just me or the smoke still on its way casually moving towards the exits fresh air still coming into the insides the breaks are few and unforgiving times like these require scooters to send down hills not messages but the messengers themselves in all of their healthy glory hercules and isosceles marathon twenty eight days later the post is filled died at the finish line slipped on the rope the sweat and embroidered on his sweater reads snowflake nineteen hundred and fifty four new year etc option for change et al