A Quiet Piece of Longing – Nine

A Quiet Piece of Longing – Nine

All of a sudden I was crying without knowing why. My body felt like static and everything was enveloped under a thick, dreamy layer. One second I was at a rave in Miami, and the next I was crying like a babe in a warped candyland. I didn’t even know why. It was...
A Quiet Piece of Longing – Nine

A Quiet Piece of Longing – Eight

I was in the midst of a dream. I was on a cruise, far below on the bottom deck. Through the porthole, I could see the water rising and the sun reflecting off it. The sunset was beautiful. Cages were lined across the walls. Inside, were dogs all growling and barking. I...
A Quiet Piece of Longing – Nine

A Quiet Piece of Longing – Seven

There I was. Sitting at another bar in downtown Billings, Montana, stoned off my ass. I had smoked a blunt on the way here. And then I smoked a blunt outside. Lately I had felt that same empty loneliness and weed always did the trick of getting rid of it. I...
A Quiet Piece of Longing – Nine

A Quiet Piece of Longing – Six

I suddenly found myself back in Las Vegas. I did not know why I came back. Just following the highways wherever took you on a great adventure. And my great adventure led back here. Outside my hotel, I met a woman. She was smoking a cigarette and staring off into the...
A Quiet Piece of Longing – Nine

A Quiet Piece of Longing – Five

I was sitting at a bar in Pennsylvania. I had driven here from Minnesota in a week. What had taken so long was the fact I had decided to drive around in circles through the Midwest. I still had a good surplus of cash. And I hid it everywhere. Under the seats, in the...
A Quiet Piece of Longing – Nine

A Quiet Piece Of Longing – Four

On a train through Minnesota. Heading to the station where my car had been parked for a day. I stared out the window in silence. Marvelous rivers and forests. We were in the middle of nowhere, the boondocks, and it was beautiful. Then the train passed through a...