I miss you Europe like a severed limb

Charles De Gaulle, Paris 8/3/09

I want to be constantly around words and colors
things made of fire that ignite the mind
Comfort pains, madness soothes, is this a problem
am I wronged indefinite?

I will never be happy
but for the moment of inspiration
To constantly create that moment
tires and uninspires exponential

the accomplished sort though

--
Air Berlin Flight, En Route to Dusseldorf 7/30/09

travelling is divine! maddening!
from a 16 mile elevation
Dusseldorf looks like Pasadena
in 10 hours I'll re-board Air Berlin
Flight 3745
trying so very hard not
to grin out loud
at the jolly german demeanor
--

Rue de Martyrs in Montmartre, 7/31/09

Wandering the streets of Montmartre
for the last half hour
where the greats pondered days on end
And ended days with worlds pretend
I couldn't be more culturally out of place
but my soul's at rest
(ha! upon completing that sentence I had the rudest cafe worker give me hell. For shame!)

Paris je t'aime but for what I have not yet discovered