singing... whisky in the coffee... contact mics... becoming an amateur handyman out of necessity... practicing bartok for children on a sort of broken piano... 100 tones... writing letters... embroidering... canning... bourbon... red velvet cake... theoretically, offal... making marshmallows... bongos... bicycles... mincemeat... Ancient Greek... good poetry... Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle... thriftstores... records... mobius strips... mixtapes... amateur and pro boxing... bible studies (knowing the length of a cubit)... short stories... autoharps... gift-giving...
Anyone with a tambourine bruise. Someone with a skeleton key. People who memorize fairytales. The underemployed. Trainspotters. Someone who can teach me to build simple electronics. Friendly ghosts. Most of all, a wealthy patron of my arts.
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You and yours.