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About The Lost Pedestrian

In my wanderings throughout the moments/days/years, I try in earnest to find the mystical within the mundane and the mundane within the mystical, oftentimes confusing one from the other. I have wandered and roamed through many a city, many a town, in a state of wonder and bewilderment, without necessarily going anywhere. I am easily lost, but eventually found. (I am guessing you have just found me). My sincere hope is that you will find Something in this warehouse of thought, memory and false memory, words, numbers, tangents, murmurs, echoes (lots and lots of echoes), voices, dreams, and other paraphernalia.

Saturday, 11:32 pm

Posted on September 15, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i was standing in a large room, a hall of some sort, and all around me in the candlelight, hundreds of people were singing in a language with words i could not recognize, and their bodies were swaying with the … Continue reading →

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a dull roar

Posted on September 14, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

my plummet into uncertainty was met with a dull roar, which either meant that it wasn’t much of plummet or that things were not as uncertain as they originally seemed to the untrained eye.

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where you are not

Posted on September 13, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

gosh, you should have seen me. in the pool you would have been astounded. i swam and i swam and i swam for almost an hour, rarely crashing into anything. but you weren’t there. and i felt your absence. the … Continue reading →

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mercury

Posted on September 12, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

it happened again. another day of really bad swimming. i don’t know how to explain it. i began on such a positive note. i wasn’t even thinking of swimming in a straight line. and now, i swim like wild mercury. … Continue reading →

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on the terrace

Posted on September 9, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

at my friend c’s party tonight. i was secretly hoping that i would not be able to find anywhere to park and that this would be my excuse for missing it. but that was not to be. i never ever … Continue reading →

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the north

Posted on September 8, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

it’s hard to tell whether my swimming is progressing or digressing. i can swim further and longer, but also crookeder. for some reason when i swim from north to south, i feel as if i am perfectly aligned, but when … Continue reading →

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Saturday, 4:39 PM

Posted on September 7, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

no energy today (yet) the only thing that may wake me up is sleep

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because the wash

Posted on September 7, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

I was just about to go to sleep, just beginning to descend into the mattress when i came across this cryptic message written on a post-it note, slightly attached to my pillow. i really have no clue as to its … Continue reading →

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3 seconds later

Posted on September 6, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i am not the organism that i used to be this is simply an observation, not necessarily a criticism i am not alone in this respect, i tend to think who amongst us are the same organisms we once were, … Continue reading →

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pressure cooker

Posted on September 4, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i can never tell whether i am utterly lacking in self-discipline or if my internal taskmaster is so omnipresent, unrelentingly harsh, so unforgiving if i depart from what i expect of me, i must be a complete slacker. and that … Continue reading →

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labor day

Posted on September 3, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

my labor day resolution: dream more productively

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Bob

Posted on September 1, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i can’t believe how quiet it is tonight. it’s almost startlingly quiet. except for the persistent ringing in my ears that began at a Wilco concert in Seattle in 1997 and never quite went away. someone at a meditation retreat … Continue reading →

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afloat

Posted on August 31, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i felt so duplicitous today. it’s true. i’ve been dreading the next Employee Appreciation Day ever since last January’s Employee Appreciation Event/Bowling Party… the one where the fundamentalist Christian animation instructor (who had just completed his first feature film, an … Continue reading →

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jazz fest

Posted on August 30, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

at the jazz festival tonight. i was seated next to this very friendly woman who kept finding famous chicago musicians scattered around the audience, entire branches, sub-branches and sub-sub branches of families from all over the south side of chicago. … Continue reading →

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backstroking

Posted on August 28, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i asked this man if i could share a lane with him in the swimming pool but i could tell he was not very enthused which made me feel unwelcome and i wanted to swim elsewhere but there was a … Continue reading →

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