Monday, October 25, 2021

Burger Fog/Memory Map (what to erase)

Surskittles

Cocksucken

Combustanut

Nicki poetry (poke it out, poke it out)

Cardi

Beyoncés Coachella performance

Bad Bhabie

Animal Collective

Phillip Glass

LCD Soundsystem— American Dream

Bright Eyes— Lime Tree

All of Cassadaga

Neko Case— Dirty Knife; City Swans

Phosphorescent— Endless pt. 1; Endless pt. 2

Sleater-Kinney— Can I Go On

Beets and potatoes

No tomatoes

No red meat

Mr. Pollo

Bird tea

Chimken

Dudley

Monstera (Deliciosa)

Echeveria

Jade

Weed

Long-stemmed pipe

Magnifier

Magnifying glass-lit weed

Big jars of water (two hands)

Salads: greens, sunflower seeds (pistachios?), beets, kalamata olives, avocado

Sables

Macarons

Mini banana bread

Eggs left out for too long

Clogged sink

Dishes washed by hand

Cat box in the pantry

Lil Peanut

Haribo— star mix, cherries, happy cola, sometimes twin snakes

Cinnamon Toast Crunch, with a miso soup spoon

“Gare-“dettos

Cheetos Paws

A crönch-chip

Kettle cooked potato

Coconut Water

Golden kiwis

Concord grapes from the

Logan Square Farmer’s Market

Lula Café

Raclette (too-messy fried egg)

Lox’d bagel

Community Days, ambling about Logan Square

Holding your hand on Milwaukee, by the Taco Bell that serves liquor

Hairy Who

The Chris Debacle, a month of silence to follow

“Oh shit, OH shit!”

Horner Park after The Infinite Wrench, June 30th, the last day of Pride

“You’re getting my load tonight”

New Year’s Eve, spent in your bed

Massaging you until you fell asleep, precious fucking angel— I had to wake you up so you could lock the door behind me

“OKAY, MAAAARY” 

*tongue pop*

“HAH! HAH!” in my face, unfair, you tease

Roping together the underside of your broken couch

Soldering your broken speakers back together

Exquisite corpses

Photographs of my boulder opals, fire agate

We never photographed my irises

Your black (GREEN) armchair

“I love you, too”

Mario Kart (your fucking rocket starts)

Jeni’s Ice Cream

Buddy Wakefield, 5/5ths, Mykele Deville

RuPaul’s Drag Race (AllStars 3)

“C’mon, trees! C’mon, nature!”

“Walking kids in nature”

Walks in nature, Belmont riverwalk

Trying to catch the same Squirtle

The fire station

The fire station mural (so homoerotic)

Cum in my eye, that first day, after your trip to the post office

Lighting my chillum with a match

“Wait for the sulfur to burn off”

You kept and remembered our Grindr messages

“M”

5’5”

125 lbs

Gram

Grandfather; name change; honoring his legacy

The silver roof

Naked sunbathing I never partook in

Jockstrap reveal, walking up the stairs

Videos for your boyfriend

Primary sexual partners

Halting speech, strained, anguish

“Minty man”

Filthy Friends— “Second Life,” “Mother”

Brand’s Park

Francisco

Kuma’s Corner

“THAT GAHDDAMN BITCH COLLEEN”

Permanent retainer

Perfect teeth

Dimples

Adjusting your glasses with one finger

Looking up and to the right (to remember, to avoid, to escape, to lie?) 

The cast copy of your grandmother’s ring, forever on your pointer finger

Conversations about the bullshit at work

Hugs

Kisses (I’m so sorry for that time you felt pressured)

Shuddering, shaking legs

Licking it up

“Pow pow powww”