curved palm i've fallen in love with palm trees.  they feel more human to me than the people i meet, the rednecks and the wrinklies and the vampire wannabes.  there's a forest of them where you can hear nothing but their sighing and the plips of lizards flinging themselves off them.  it's nice to be outside under trees without that wet massachusetts swamp stink. sometimes the dead leaves look like sad women, sometimes just like themselves.  everything looked beautiful on february 21 and i shook the universe's hand. thanks for doing it right, buddy.

and when i looked up