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The Ex-Conman's Glass Eye

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Today, I conviced an entire Nation of ants that I was God.
Went out to shoot the moon, but stubbed my toe on the North Star.
I spent five hours adrift at sea,
Then talked my way into a poker game
But all I won was an ex-conman's glass eye.

Tonight, I will sleep naked in someone else's bed
While they roam a lonesome city street
Thousands of miles away.
And when I wake up, I will have forgotten where I am,
Who I am,
And the definition of the word 'Apprehension.'
My existance will be defined by the complex physics of skateboarding,
And I will change my name to OWL.
Who I was the day before, no one will ever know...
--NP

This image was shot from the terrace of my friend Rick's beach house in the Cayman Islands. We were spending the weekend there while he was visiting family in Florida, and even though I hated waking up each morning to find fat tourists in speedos lounging in the sand outside my window, living that close to the ocean certainly had it perks. I stayed up and drank mojitos as I stood waist deep in the ocean, feeling sting rays, tarpon, and once even a nurse shark brush against my legs. There's nothing like it in the world.

Nonetheless, I was happy to leave...because it meant that I was headed home to Portland.

Sure, living on a tropical island seems great...but in all honestly, I can say from experience that it's NOT. At least, not for me. I need to be able to wander, and on an island so small you can literally drive from one end to the other in under 2 hours, that's quite literally impossible.

I spend my time on the island walking from one end of Seven-Mile Beach to the other, and literally jump at the chance to hike the Mastic Trail. But more often than not, the people I know there would rather play beer-pong with me than walk in the woods, so my distaste for the island grows.

While attending school there (I will not say which one), I was taught that John Lennon and Frank Sinatra were advocates of Satan, and that Ghandi went to Hell with Hitler while Ted Bundy is happily sipping dew beside Jesus in Haven. I have not been to church since.



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SnowAngelJin's avatar
Like the picture and what it symbolizes.
Love the way you think even more. XD
Thank you for putting this up. :)