One Stop
“I’m going to write what I know.”
“I’ve been away too long.”
“Why did you think I wouldn’t meet you?” AH
Is there any other option?
Yes.
The distance.
“One stop.” Between the locations? Or does it mean death? Or does it mean an end of a thing? It is an offer to relieve the sitting in planes?
Not a direction, to the unwelcomed. That would be: One, stop.
(Oh, a train on the island.)
To see you now inside a specific, round, rusted steel place.
The whole world briefly screened out, only the sky gets in.
A leftover place. It held water, or something else.
It holds you, imagination.
Moving around in imagined fluid. Some actual at the feet.
(She is getting a wave going)
A viewer has access to this space, through the device set up.
Madonna’s video for Open Your Heart, her on exhibit, with a young boy watching, and a timed curtain springs to mind later.
Resting near a cast concrete, round place, with horizontal access, no longer contained by the set.
Thinking of other/time.
Replaying thoughts of others.
Name dropping.
Writing what I know. Not writing what it knows.
( ) didn’t think you wouldn’t meet me.
( ) am holding myself together post the wreckage.
A wreckage honesty makes.
David Curtis 3/5/2026, edits 3/9/2026, 3/13/2026
“One Stop
I’ve been away too long
There’s the tree that I used to climb
Call in at ‘One Stop’
put my things in a long line
I love the streets here at night
I’m gonna write what I know
Things I ain’t known for a long time
I met the real John Cale
He had no words, but I don’t mind
I packed the stage while he ate rice
I rip myself on
I rip myself off
Imagining from the block
Imagining
Why wouldn’t I wanna meet ya?
Why wouldn’t I wanna?
I’m gonna write what I know
Kick around on the big brown
So the lies I tell send me up,
and I can’t get down?
I’m wearing big grass to town
I rip myself on
I rip myself off
Imagining
Imagining from the block
Why wouldn’t I wanna meet ya?
Why wouldn’t I wanna?
Oh Why wouldn’t I wanna meet ya?
Why wouldn’t I wanna?
Oh I’ll never do it again
unless you wanna do it again”
-AH
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