Me-oak

On a visit to Thailand Im in Bangkok with my friend named Pawn. Her real name is Tannaporn. I know what your thinking, but no joke thats her name and we like it. Well one night in the hotel we where just hanging out and I declaired that I was going to the 7-11 for some snacks I said "do you want anything?" She said " yes me-oak". I said what? She said "me-oak". What? "Me-oak, me-oak". I toss her a very puzzeled look. She gets up, goes over to the garbage pale and picks up an empty carton of milk..."ME-OAK!"

Silly Farang!

I like to visit Thailand, been there seven times. I went to Pattaya Beach about an hour and a half bus ride from Bangkok. I went by myself but I was rearly alone. My friend took me a few miles up the hill to the Buddha Temple. An amazing place, one Buddha statue about fifty feet tall and maybe six or so out buildings with small images to pray before and make your wish. As you enter these buildings you have to remove your shoes,very important. I did so and recieved some incents and flowers and three or four small swatches of gold flake about a square inch each adhered to seperate squares of wax paper.Well after lighting candles and incents while kneeling in front of a six-foot statue covered in small gold flake it was easy to see what my next task was in this centuries-old ritual . We got up, stood in line of maybe seven people or so appling the gold leaf to the Buddha one by one. My turn, "I never did this before" I wispered to my friend."No problem, it easy" She said. Well I go to stick the first piece on the Buddha arm and the damn gold slips away from the wax paper, out of my hand and falls toward the ground just like a dried leaf on a windless day floating side to side. Time stood still. A quick glance at my friends face summed up the moment.Terror! That gold must not touch the godforesaken filthy floor or some ancient monster will eat us all alive or some shit like that.Her mouth dropped and her eyes screemed of shame! I stayed cool. I followed the gold leaf side to side with both my hands cupped under it and cought it in the nick of time....toche`. I shot her a look of bold American confidence. She gave a smile of total embarressment. "Silly Farang". Two words I will hear alot on this vacation.

Playing Guitar

I remember a very powerful feeling not everyone gets to expirience. I used to play guitar in a rock band 20 years ago. Sometimes we would play before an audiance of maybe a thousand people. I would be hung over and scared shitless. We would be playing a song we have played so many times before I hate the damn thing. Then in the middle of the song I start to come alive. My solo starts, I improvise so its never the same. I start out slow and quiet. I get a little louder and faster..Sparks begin to fly! I have my eyes closed and Im going at it full force! Picking notes out of the air and stuffing them into a musical phrase with intense comunnication. Im in a complete state of rapture. Im wondering where this cosmic connection is comming from. I peak out at the crowd.Its blurry. I can see the energy. Its from them! the people out there. Beaming me all these waves of creative energy, all this stuff,their auras,vibrations comming from their bodys, their spirits and sending it to me! I feel so blessed, so thankful ,warm. ....Wow, sure nipped my hang over in the bud!

Cheese Snacks

One night in the dark hypnotised by the glow of the TV. I was eating cheese crackers,the kind where the cheese flakes where all over the outside of the cracker and you have to wash your hands afterwords. Sort of a high mantenance snack food if you ask me. I feel something very small crawling on my hand that Im eating from. Then something on my lips. I turn on the light. Goddamn ants all over my box of cheese-shits. I feel scweemy.

pancakes

Today I had pancakes again.For the last month Ive been having them every morning.The frozen kind, stick them in the microwave for a minute and ten seconds and there you have it. Breakfast of champions! How could anyone not love these? I smother them in real butter and maple syrup as my heart beats fast with anticipation I cant wait to dig in. But wait , somethings wrong, today they feel spongy,taste lifless,boring. Someone screwing with me?...Another love affair over.