Playa Ritoque, Chile

Self Portrait by Richard T. Boehmcke

10 New Band Names

Muffins On Fire

We All Lie About Katanas

Powerbars and God Knows What

Who Is the Strudel?

Tooth Pulp

Chicken Rubbed in Death

Skinny Gay Hemingway

Fuck You I'm Made of Bees

Here Comes the Marzipan

Fun Imp Game

Long Island Rail Road

The ride from here to there

Took an hour at best

But I had arrived a different man

Nay

The fact that I was even a man was the most

Different

The most

The thoughtsploration that I had engaged in

Had been unintentionally incredible

Like the only kind of incredible I could be

Unintentional

It didn't quite make me incredible

Or

Halfway even

Nay

I had just finally realized why I was so unhappy

Yes

I thought the things I needed to do when

It was most needed that I do

Amazing

How amazing this had happened without my trying

My brain tried for me

Or forced me

It was a forced "to be"

But something that was necessary

And we picked up speed

Shedding angers and grudges

Sadness and tears

Well

Maybe not tears

But all those unnecessities for happiness

Emotional roughage

It passed right through me

And the only lasting impact on my body

Was a cleansing

It passed through me and pulled with

My naivete

of those nights in Beelington West Virginia

And all the weekends since