the weather shifted and it felt malevolent today. 

when we passed under the tracks the man living down there 

was peeing off to the side and then he stared at charlie and looked scary

and she barked. 

i don't want to go all haywire but i guess i'm nervous 

after the other man around the corner threatened to strangle me. 

they say a fish doesn't know what surrounds it but it knows the water

like its skin, and feels every disturbance. 

some days i feel a strange calm and i want to sing about it. 

today i felt the breakdown.