Monday, January 04, 2010

Urban Myths and Mich Lights

She told me dozens of times, the colored yarn twined between her fingers, crochet hook zipping up and down...."How you bring in the New Year is how you spend the year"....fingers flying, eyes down.

I laughed.

Smudged out another cigarette, and told more stories.

She meant it.

I brought it in upside down, sideways, sound asleep. I burned up the old year, sent it ashes to ashes into the wind in the middle of the tiny paved street. I buried it in the back yard, stuffed it in a suitcase and set it out for the garbage man. I danced to Stones. Danced with fossils. Danced by myself. I made resolutions, promises, threats to an empty sky. I cha-chinged it, cheered it, clinked it, feared it. I tried it everyway but right.

And then I put on my cowboy boots and that damned dress I had to have and sashayed it right in through the kitchen door...

Sometimes you've gotta put on your kickers to get that dust off of your petticoat....

9 comments:

kj said...

i love anything you write. it moves me everytime.

it's a new year....

♥ from kj

singleton said...

KJ...

And from this ratty tatty rickety rackety ole computer...
smith corona words...
I clink you friend!
Come a day,
a new year,
an uniterrupted cable connection,
an electric cord not chewed into smithereens by "pick~me, pick~me" puppy Paisley,
a day without cotton candy chaos,
with skies the color of every shade of blue,
I'll get to cruise again,
in a 57 convertible,
a wild, wild mustang with the top down,
the back of a pick up with surf boards clanking,
and visit again...

And until then,
it's a New Year...

And we'll dance

if even,
in circles...

Much Love,
Sing

Dee said...

It's a beautiful dress :)

singleton said...

Dee....
*smiling*

You should see how that baby spins,
sashays on a sandy floor,
swoops....
under a Full Blue Moon!

Scott from Oregon said...

dem boots were made for this new year.

Stomp on Singleton!

Ultra Toast Mosha God said...
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Ultra Toast Mosha God said...

I dressed up as Hugo Drax and drunk a lot of cocktails.

Clinks to you.

singleton said...

Scott...LOL! I'm always stompin' into the New Year! And those boots were made for me :) Happy New Year, Friend!

Ultra...ROFL! And ummmm, yeah, I had a few cocktails, too! Something about that Bubbly that always does me in! Clink!

Anonymous said...

You look beautiful here. I always liked you in boots. I miss the red light stops.