JKSN – I Wanna Be James Blake's Man
James Blake + Mikky Ekko
Purity Ring + Robyn
Maximalist - Baths
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Get Free - Major Lazer
Bonfire - Childish Gambino
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Aminals - Baths
CocoRose + Massive Attack
Lana Del Rey + Gold Panda (Star Slinger Remix)
Crumble
The old man was on his way to work on the F train when saw the young couple holding hands, pulsing recklessness, and breathing warm Spanish into each other’s ears. Each word vibrated in time with the tracks in time with their hearts in time with our dear old man’s tremors.
The old man went to work on the F train and came home on the R train. There were transfers involved, but he couldn’t tell you what they were. When he’s trying to get from A to B, he’s as much a machine as the car he’s riding.
The old man works in an old building with aging people who have forgotten what they are waiting for. But he’s not so old.
He…I was going to say something. What was it again? I could’ve sworn I was going to say something. Do you know what it was? I was going to tell you something important. Fuck. Well, Lord knows it’ll come to me eventually, probably when you’re already gone. It was on the tip of my tongue though… light on the nape of his neck. It was either sweat or condensation, and it’s making me uncomfortable. My shirt’s sticking to my skin and my body’s bigger than it used to be. It’s redder too, like a warning, or danger, but I’m half as dangerous as I used to be, and my literary devices are twice as predictable. But this thing I was going to tell you, it would’ve fixed some of that. I just need to stand up to dry off. And sneak an honest look at him.
The young man. Who loves me. Him. The old me. He loves the old man. I’m the young man and I never shake, but I sometimes vibrate, and I used to speak Spanish before the years wrung it out of me, and I used pray like the F train before my faith got clogged. And now… I… Shoot, I don’t know where I was going with that. It was something though, wasn’t it? It’ll come to me eventually. The words. It’ll all come back, right?
park slope, summer 2012
south slope, summer 2012
