Sean & me in Don Chai, Thailand (January 2003)Hey, it's my birthday today! I share my birthday with one of my best friends, Sean, an American who spends half his time living in Thailand and the other half living at his family home in Cape Cod. Sean is a budding writer who's due to have his second novel, Air Thermae, published by Author House next month.
"Mii wan gerd sanuk mak-mak. Chock dii, puen!"
It's also Matt Johnson's birthday today, a man who has always been a great inspiration to me.
Soul Mining
You're floating down a tunnel in a little wooden box,
You're scared & you're lonely & enveloped in fog,
You've been prised open & left here to die,
You should have trusted your instincts because they don't tell lies.
"Something always goes wrong when things are going right,
You've swallowed your pride to quell the pain inside,
Someone captured your heart like a thief in the night,
& squeezed all the juice out until it ran dry."
You've been read like an open book page by page,
You'll NEVER tell ANYONE your inner thoughts again,
You were taken in by a head of fool's gold,
Now you're drifting in circles in the depths of your SOUL!!!
(Matt Johnson, 1983)
Matt, wherever you are and whatever you're doing now, Happy Birthday.
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are you serious?
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