- increased alcohol consumption, yes - everyone staying up “too late”—but then again, does it really matter? - this has, in a weird kinda way, brought us closer together, our little quintet, strains and frustrations and all, there’s been more guileless gathering in the living room in the last month than probably there was in the year before - crisis brings out the golden and the fizzy and the scary -- - ... the space bar chisels softly thru the snow of this ... - overflowing with stoopid love for them again, always, helpless in the brunt of that muscular current being a human is dusty, sawdusty, grimy, moonlit & barnboard grasshopper cicada and firelight broken and scary and fraught with pain, real pain, not the cute kind and i couldn’t be more enthralled & thrilled to be privileged to be able to be a part of it failure is imminent death is inevitable crack one open for me and for my dead best friend and for my dead dog and for my crackling live alive girls and me right at this moment this pulse this blip in time while we’re the ones who are alive as long as we live to tell the tale