technology and accessory fails

so far on this holiday:

1. new sunglasses committing suicide on golden gate bridge
2. breaking headphones
3. dropping nikon d90 and tokina 11-16mm lens in to the beautiful mediterranean waters around paros, greece


summary: $*#&

Nice, France

behind my headphones
i run
the streets narrow down
before exploding
in to fruit stalls
of colour,
with
life a scooter
winding through these
alleys drenched in history,
accelerating and braking
hard

the promenade now,
and as the people blur by me
i get lost in the crowd

the music plays
the guitars power me
on
the turquoise water
meets the horizon
and continues to
the heavens

for a moment,
the self-doubt, the uncertainty,
the guilt,
the crippling anxiety
take the back seat

and for a moment,

dreams and reality


coincide.

nyc 2

watching lights
sparkle
from the top
of the empire

the lift cradles
me down

to these
streets

these spiritual
streets

which


have to be walked

alone


it seems.

nyc

doves'
'cedar room'
beats out my steps


and -

the empire
state building
and the chrysler
building and
central park
and the wall street
suits and
the homeless
and the schizo
phrenics
and the families
and their tourist photo taking
children
and the smiles
and frowns and
hotdogs and
pizza and budweiser
and the squinting
lights and
pretzels and the stranger
who stopped a child from falling over
without taking
his eyes off
his paper
when the train jerked to a stop
on the subway
with its million universes
each going in a straight
line off
to some different
star

- envelop me
to some anonymity

i power on now

i am
part of this
heartbeat

this
is
it.