seriously though, it's the smiles that get me

not always there, but sometimes

‘i don’t thinnk you know what it’s like being next to you’

‘don’t let them take the love away’

‘i feel like im eating a volcano’

as we sat near that lake watching the storm growing on the farside,
Grey, he who was chasing Candy Cane
aka the Start Of It All,
Grey came and padded over
weary and beat
and not quite, but a little bit
and if you were to ask him he’d say not at all
but really just a little bit
tired of chasing Candy Cane.
and so he came to me and flopped to the floor
heaving and sighing with his tongue lolling out

and while those lightning fiends playing up in the distant clouds
i scratched his head
and under his chin
and around his hears
and when he rolled over
his great furry belly.

and after a bit i stopped and used him as a pillow
a prop up for me
a lawn chair
and Candy Cane
who was already there ‘cause she was a speedy one
laid her head on my great furry belly
and we three watched the grey dark sky…

and then we noticed the lightning fiends continued their play on the farside
as the grey clouds moved toward and above us
and rain started to fall
and Grey was about to wish us a giant umbrella
but he noticed Candy Cane and stopped
for Candy Cane sensed an opportunity

so she howled a calling for the Other 10
and they came
Radio and Alfla, sometimes called Love and All,
Chieftain Emeric, Daisies, and Twilight
Moon and Wolf, now sometimes called Second Chance,
and Monkey and Bo

and as the I and Others were waiting with grins on mine and their faces
Sunshine came

and the overhead clouds partly, not quite, opened a bit
just enough to let her namesake shine through
and warm the rain as it fell
and we ran around
and I saw Grey finally grab and tackle Candy Cane
and proclaim her as It
and I saw her laugh and giggle and together with Moon tackled him back
and I saw him rise and with Wolf, now sometimes called Second Chance,
I saw them turned to monkeys of the baboon nature
and together with Monkey
I saw them make mudpies and throw them towards Chieftain, who was our eldest
and he guffawed, trying to dodge

and then a mudpie hit me in the face
and I saw not by whom
but lucky that I was wearing my awesome glasses band I use for dancing and parkour

and while I was thinking of how lucky I was,
muddy chaos reigned around me
and swept over me
and got into my hair
and around my eyes
and a bit in my nose
and some in my hand as i made my self a
This Is For Daisies ‘Cause She Tackled Me Out Of Nowhere Mudpie

a mudpie with a capital M
with I using both my hands to throw it

and Daisies ducked
but not enough and my capital M mudpie splattered on her back
and on Radios
and then our ears perked up as we heard the tunes of
Blondie’s One Way or Another
escape the humming mouth of Radio

and I bolted
I ran for the lake
ran as Radio chased me down,
pounding the ground with all four paws
a mudpie being created as his tail dragged through the stuff

all the while the Other eleven continued
but stopped and stared as I jumped off the dock
turned around
stuck my tongue out
waggled my fingers next to my head
raspberried
widened my eyes as Radios mudpie flew towards my face
did a slow motion “oooooooohhhhh nnnnnnnn-”

SPLAT!

SPLASH!

we did good.

i get so lazy and distracted.

i’ve got a rad family.

im reading a book in which a starship has the name ‘Spirit of Social Collectivism Carried to the Stars’.

my god daughter is now an older sister today.

‘be google.’

i think i’m still feeling the effects of the past few days.