the spirit of adventure

just through kal's radio romanista
like medicine that
onto peatbog fairies
pretty much my setlist of delight
david byrne's on the way

davidbyrne.com is a fun looking website
the map of this year's tour is awesome
there's the dream
i think the smashed finger will heal in a couple weeks
until then it's going to be extra fourth finger work

and the ongoing work that comes with the realization
that at this point in my life
every inury is just a reinjury
a retraumatization

that if i pay attention to
i can utilize to heal the old wounds which flare up at the moment of injury
and it is likely they partly caused

my weak shoulder carrying itself just a bit lower to conserve effort
leaving my hand lower on the grey stack i was sliding along
until my best vibrato finger jammed into one of the stacks
beginning a long row of tonnage leaving but a narrow pathway
whose width i overestimated by a couple inches

it is tempting to go into hate in those moments
but i know better
i am clumsy raven

so i know the gift of so much physical trauma over so many years
ever since being the littlest of kids
is finding out

they are strangely disguised
blessings
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i look forward
to whatever all this converges
to drive me to

some contact improv global thrash band
or some nearly masochistic auric healing path

empathic sensuality through aggravation
middle aged dancing career
yogic milkshake drinking philosophical recluse
refuse reusing refugee fuser

lucid dreaming manifestor of some glorious evolution
ancestral cancer healing removal of psychic scar tissue

pinching
polyrhythmic
amore

why bother singing up for this show
if not for such an adventure

venturing's advent
before things harden up so much
you just die like most people
out of boredom with your suffering

this earth can torture me all she likes

for i have found the spirit of adventure