some words with a shifting relevance through time, in no order: newburgh, flacito, pete’s market, parking lots, s.v.a, washington street, cornwall, misanthropic, fire, procrastination, choose-your-own-adventure, benches, abuse, sacred heart, weed, manhattan, the river, johny walker red, infatuation, gimp leg, menlo park, company car, gramercy park, defeat, desolation angels, fear, bobby’s, romanticism, thomkins square, paint, baby brother, wannamaker, henry & newton, stations of the cross, acid, ciggarettes, work-a-holic, letters, wine, ludlow, dragonfly, astoria, the library, unrequited, photographs, grand am, boo, mescaline, sexus/plexus/nexus, abstract, the tiniest kiss, balantine, masturbation, arrogance, shy, autumn, the nation, park slope, piles of books, shoplifting, elephant shoes, mercer street, car sickness, low-point, divorce, the sketchpad, heaven, syracuse, cemetary, term, edison, priest, limelight, enid’s, hate, february, emerson, confession, the stoop, hand cuffs, nasa, ink, cafe pick me up, poetry, voyeurism, tower books, sickness, cruelty, strangers, falsetto, debt, bushmills, regret, intervention, dr. varvinsky, the tressel, failure, sleep, skunnymunk, doubt, new paltz, 1st ave, accident, nusea, gutterboy, journals, loathing, staten island, old man hat, depression, chess king, carroll street, typewriter, kavehaz, joe’s pub, g train, 57th street, metuchen, pink pony, ringworm, beauty, elation, notes from underground, security guard, cocoa bread, longing, the plastic factory, 218, puerto rico, lowell, rain, big bar, reckless, the diner, canalogy, 75th street, sid’s, threats, pierre & gertrude, indecision, science fiction, olive juice, gladness, baseball bat, canalogy, the pit, lice, metropark, burgundy sweat pants, mania, mistakes, humility, sunday painter, washington square, graphic design, loss, stark raving sane, lurf, balls in a paper sack, fruit flies, loneliness, baltimore, greenpoint, the nonist, central park, violence, love. make of it what you will.