Early morning
Just
After the dawn
Wake slow
Open my eyes
Look at my phone
6:21 am__
Alone another dawn
I lost count how many
Back asleep asleep
Dream nothing
White light
All is nothing__
Wake up
Alone again
My family halfway around the Earth
My dawn to their dusk
My Village their Sri Racha
Dawn to dusk__
No more sleep
Open eyes
Look at phone
6:58 am__
I fall asleep
Wake up
Look at phone
7:43 am__
Way past the dawn
Bright sunlight
In bed on the 9th floor of 4 Washington Square Park
Overlooking Bleecker Street
My dreams forgotten
I am awake
I live
Get out of bed
Go to the bathroom
I pass water I live
Life goes on
8:36 am___
Awake standing
Life come to stay
For today
8:37 am__
Living is life
Today
8:38 am
A deep breath
Time to start the day__
Fifty years ago
At the east end of Bleecker Street
On the Bowery
August 16, 1974
Tonight that Year
The Ramones play live for the first time
CBGBs live
Blitzkrieg Bop__
Me that day
24
I wake on a bluff
Overlooking the Pacific
Moonlight Beach
The end of an LSD trip
The end of America__
Fog fills the dawn windows
White all white
Floe in bed with me
Naked like me
Asleep
Fingertips on her bare shoulder
Warm flesh
Alive same as me then
Same as me now
August 16, 2026
8:51 am
I shower I dress
Blitzkrieg Bop LP playing on my stereo
The Ramones
I first saw them winter 1977
I live
I hope tomorrow too
The Ramones forever today
Me alive too
Gabba Gabba Hey__
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Thank you__
