doing it

Like Ed Smith. Doing it like Ed Smith. Short stuff like Ed Smith. Feeling good about the short stuff. Not everything has to be long. Not everything has to be emo. Not everything has to be magic. Sometimes you’re just 28 making 80 dollars a week and you need some space. Sometimes you’re in the shade at a metal bistro table having an iced coffee and an onion bialy. William Carlos Williams would write about this for sure. WCW would treasure this for sure. Something about the warm bagels and the cool cream cheese. Something about the crispy bagel and the soft cream cheese. A yellow lab curls into himself underneath the far table. A couple discusses nothing serious over breakfast because that’s what Saturday mornings are for. Across the street, a construction crew sits on the curb, doing Saturday better than all of us. Their laughter mixes with the song Brandy as the sun creeps in. The sidewalk gets brighter. The birds chase each other through the various trees of southern California, so various that you f0rever feel like you’re in some kind of experiment, the goal of which is to see what can’t survive here. From an observation deck in the clouds, a researcher crosses off “yellow labrador, jacaranda, writer.” An easy wind blows my hair into my face and I plant another line in the page.