Sioux City, IA

In my pockets.

A TriMet ticket from Old Town, Portland, Oregon, Dec 20, 2005, 2:17 p.m. Postcards from the Cheese House in Kalona, Iowa. A fake carnation from my sister's wedding last March. A copy of Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia. Right now in the book he's on the beach in San Julián, Santa Cruz, Argentina, contemplating a dinner party in Sir Francis Drake's cabin.

As a bookmark, pp. 102-3 from the Boeing 767's Component Locator Guide, originally from a stack of papers used as firestarter for a woodstove near Tonganoxie, Kansas on New Year's morning 2006. The pages show the component location for the landing gear. Buddhist prayer beads and gongyo book from Sakae-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan. Two Rolling Rock bottlecaps from Zach Harris's apartment in Iowa City and some Sacagawea dollar coins from Chinatown in Portland. On May 12, 2001 I rode the train from Ormskirk, Lancashire to Liverpool. I paid £1.85. Métro pass from Montréal, lundi 27 déc 2004 au dimanche 2 jan 2005. 18$ Canadian.

Alas, no mobile phone. Forgot my cellphone at the Bellevue this morning. I want to be in Yunnan in three months. Dreams of Xishuangbanna. Don't even know how I'll make the 100 miles to Omaha tomorrow. I'll be playing my double bass there, at Sean O'Casey's, 10:30 p.m. The Saturday Sound.