able to vs should vs will

about an inch of standing water atop ice, earlier today. viva la cleats! the street's mostly bare pavement now. I'd forgotten how fucking beautiful bare pavement is. I know that contributed to my wistfulness today. I thought the term "homesick" and I wasn't referring to Anchorage....

also, "speed hump" and requisite Butt-Head laugh for all you non-locals.

Entropy the Useless.  

snow on the overpass, 2 nights ago. no one else was out, as usual. MY town! 

sexy, mysterious Minnesota Carrs' flooded parking lot this afternoon. 

this was imbedded in the ice by the Alaska Club. 

FOG! fog is how you make out with the universe. 

feigning functionality. 

Q: where do pirates get their groceries? 

A: ARRS! 

This was taken from my catbird seat on the 3. there was a man in front of me with very visible dandruff and an inert, scrawny man wearing a surgical mask sitting in the back. oh buses. 

"she tore herself away, and went out. and I went away. I cannot describe the emotion with which I went away. I should not wish it ever to come again; but I should think myself unfortunate had I never experienced such an emotion." 

-Turgenev, "First Love"