Finally remembered to bring the ipod to the library...listening to some band called Weekend, album--Sports, cannot remember downloading it but it's alright. Lots of droning gee-tars, soaring fuzzy vocals.
Just had a moment...some guy walked in here, my brain recognized him before I did.
He was a grad student years ago when I was working on my first degree. He was older than me and I figured at the time that he had it going on...knew his philosophy and was conversant in people like Nietzsche, who I wasn't at the time. We hung out a couple of times, then when I was done didn't see him for a while..
Then sometime during the tree-planting and warehouse years I spotted him once on Broadway here in Saskatoon, and he looked fucked up. He didn't see me, but I clocked him looking worse for wear on some single minded mission with a guy on a bmx...a cracked out mission, it looked like to me...which was jarring, for at uni he was the consummate self-collected stony voiced philosopher.
Seeing him makes me feel old. He didn't catch my eye though. I wonder what I would have said to him?
Blah, blah, blah, back to work...needless to say, that summer cocktail at the top has me anticipating some sweet summer sippings...
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