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Mexico Part 2

under a palm tree
i like them best at night
i first realized this in southern California, the green glow of the city lights sharply
cutting out the lone shapes in the sky, nothing else competing with their elevation.
made me think of the doctor who explained bipolar disorder to me
"It's not exactly depression," I explained.
"Shut up, you're depressed..."

i told him my concerns about taking psychiatric medication

"Doesn't it make your behavior kind of...bubbly?"

he leaned back, amused.

"What's wrong with bubbly? You could use a few bubbles."

"Will I have to take them my whole life?"

"Who knows? Win the lottery, move to Hawaii, live on the beach - you may not need them."

Bigger images: http://flickr.com/photos/david_a_berens/

Ode to Turbulence (Mexico)

everywhere there's a dog standing in the street
they always look a little wet
people without destinies
reminds you
achievement is definitely
a point of view-
some people would be happy to just be able hang.
pretty much allowing myself to bask
in the ridiculous-ness of this place
in the taxi cab after we went downtown, shopping for
pharmaceuticals and mezcal (same store)
getting harassed by people trying to sell things:
"You need pipes? You need something to put in them? Some powder?"
no, officer
overheated to the point of physical illness,
"Comfortably Numb" begins playing on the car stereo
my wife reaches for the volume knob. "Can we turn this up?"

A short while back I spent a weekend at a family's beach house on an island in Puget Sound. It's a great place for me because it's very quiet, unpopulated, and the house hasn't been redecorated since the original owners (the grandparents) moved out.






























It's actually quite cheerful. For larger viewing, visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_a_berens/

Special News Update

I've been gone/busy for a couple weeks now, and have a backlog of things I'll be putting up in the next day or so. Also, I managed to sell five prints, which officially upgrades my threat level to "mildly less pathetic" and, I believe (by airport security standards), "green".