I want to be Norman Paperman.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
I mean it. I really do.<\/p>\n
What makes me want to be him? What has seized me this morning?<\/p>\n
I want to get away from everything. Drop off the face of the earth for a few days. Spend those days in the sun, or maybe in the shade hiding from it’s harsh gaze.<\/p>\n
I want to scrap the job. Scrap the time I spend doing things I don’t want to do. I want a good night’s sleep. I want to relax. I want to see the sunset from Mallory Square.<\/p>\n
I want to take a lunchbreak that lasts all day.<\/p>\n
I want to throw on my pack and walk. Up mountains, under blooming rhododendrons, through streams and mud. I want to crush my problems with every step.<\/p>\n
Got a roof over my head,
\nSomeone to love me in a four poster bed,
\nAnd I can play this here guitar
\nGonna thank my lucky stars.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\nI want to find myself someone who isn’t interested in who I am, just in what I say I’ve done. I want to spend time with them for a few days, and make up baldfaced, bullshit lies.<\/p>\n
I want to hear people speaking Hindi in the barbecue line.<\/p>\n
I need time for to play.<\/p>\n
Besides she bitches about the mosquitoes
\nShe says “Down there there is nothing to do”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\nI need a day where I wake up to a crisp morning, clear of clouds. By now, the dew has dried. There’s a chill in the air, and it’s freezing in the shade, but the sunlight warms the body. The only sounds are the birds chirping, and I sit on a rock sipping hot chocolate and feeling like nothing can touch me.<\/p>\n
Billy Clyde wasn’t insane, you know. In fact, I’d say he was right.<\/p>\n
A short trip on the schooner Tiki<\/i> wouldn’t suck, nor would one on the SS Minnow<\/i>, but we can leave the Skipper, Professor, Mr. & Mrs. Howell, and Gilligan on the docks.<\/p>\n
I want to throw my terminal daydream into my backpack and take it wherever I go.<\/p>\n
Maybe I could make a run down to Biloxi or Pascagoula. I’ve always wanted to go.<\/p>\n
I want a date to go dancing and dining. I want to stop and say, “Damnit, the pleasure was worth all the pain!”<\/p>\n
I swear, I smell rum right now. . . Oh, wait. Yep, it’s just me.<\/p>\n
If you’re looking for a quote from me I’ll be under the mango tree.<\/p>\n
Last Sunday, I thought about renting a sailboat after the Black Bear Midsummer rite. I haven’t been on water in a couple of years. I miss the wind and the spray. No one likes sailboats today, though. They’re hard. You have to have skill. Who would bother with that?<\/p>\n
I should forget the blind ambition and learn to finally trust my intuition. This cowboy doesn’t belong in the jungle he’s in.<\/p>\n
I was in the airport last night (no, you may not know why), and was staring at the departure boards. I picked out a few places and thought about where I could go that night.<\/p>\n
I think I will be in Denver next year. Maybe sometime in the spring. I don’t think I can pull it off this autumn, which is when I really want to go.<\/p>\n
I want to go to New Orleans. I want to sit in Jackson Square at midnight and drink cheap wine. I want to eat doughnuts at the Caf\u00e9 Du Monde. I want to live on the things that excite me.<\/p>\n
I want to call an old flame from Paris or maybe a noisy bar in Avalon, just to see how she’s doing. I want to see the southern cross again, high in the sky. I remember the first time I saw it, that clear March night. It was slightly out of repair, but still beautiful.<\/p>\n
It’s definitely time to go home. I haven’t seen my full nuclear family in a long time, almost 6 months at this point. I should be in Chicago sometime soon. Maybe more than once.<\/p>\n
I want to go back to Boston. Next time I do that, though, will be next October. I can’t make it to the Celtic Colloquium this year, but I can next year. Who knows, maybe I’ll have a paper for submission.<\/p>\n
My nomad feet came complete with wandering toes, and they’re looking for an excuse to get some exercise.<\/p>\n
I want to listen to some Benny Spellman, Doctor John, Sweet Irma Thomas, or Frog man Henry.<\/p>\n
I want to tell the story of my original destination.<\/p>\n
I’ve probably got about another 35 good years left. . . Still, it’s not that long a stay. We only go around once, after all.<\/p>\n
I want to lead, not refuse to dance.<\/p>\n
I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose drinking fresh mango juice.<\/p>\n
This morning’s chaos working has started me thinking. Maybe we’ll discuss it later. For right now, though, let’s just say that there’s nothing a lunch hour in the sun can’t cure.<\/p>\n
If anyone has a copy of the 1968 movie, I Sailed to Tahiti With an All Girl Crew<\/i>, I’ll bring the popcorn.<\/p>\n
Pardon me. I need to go commit a little mortal sin.<\/p>\n
It’ll be good for my soul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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