Aussie Town

"remember when fear
cramps your heart what I told you:
lie gently and wide to the light-year
stars, lie back, and the sea will hold you."
-From "First Lesson" by Phillip Booth


This weekend I went down to Austin on the greyhound - going there gives me so much joy. It feels like I'm going home. It's the people that I know and love there, it's the sense of freedom, it's the parks and the rivers, and the old houses, and the old stores and the mix of people I don't know - east side, west side, college kids, street kids, the capitol of Texas, politicians, old hippies... music and liberalness... the hills to the east, San Antonio to the south, the Colorado river, the Hole in the Wall, Eeyore's birthday, Pease Park, Zilker Park, the dirty drag, The fortress, das bleu house (rip), rutamaya, spider house, the local shops for the local people, the anarchists, the true believers. When I'm in Austin I feel like I'm in the arms of a mother who loves me.

I miss her.