Ya Gotta Rich Inner Life, Right?

Ya gotta rich inner life

Ya gotta rich inner life, right?
All yer music that you listen,
And the books ya read every night:
Symphonies inside yer kitchen.

The strength of twenty miles away
Creates a siren song that pulls
Yer thoughts on how yer mind can stray:
The things it keeps and those it culls.

Check yer rings, a tap that tells go.
So shadows of the moon through trees
Push light to sight in ways that glow,
And lift yer spirit from its knees.

A pull is stronger than a shove,
A push, a knock, or nudge that’s rude;
Failing to work on things ya love,
Prompts be damned, leads me to conclude:

The pull of all the things ya take
Destroys the push ya need to make

Kathmandu in the Time of the COVIDS

Remind me to tell you about the time I traded soccer jerseys with a Sherpa on the streets of Kathmandu while hanging out with Bob Seger and Iggy Pop. Iggy swore he could see Everest and we all told him he was high…which, if you hung out with Iggy, you knew he was. Bob wrote a song about it…good times.

Ask Jack Nicholson. I told him the story in the Dunes Saloon in Grand Marais when he was visiting Jim Harrison.