Driving and Wanting

The sun in the sky beats down on me to the satisfaction of moving about in a living world.
Down here in Manassas, it's in the 90's and it feels good to be outside.

 
 'Ballad of The Maple Six In A Box'
MPK
2014

The Light

 'Hard To Fade'
MPK
2013 
From the album:
Summers Lost Warmth (2013-10)

Of several local species of Horse-fly in upstate New York,
this one has a very uncomfortable bite.
I had hit the fly and knocked it to the pavement.

 

'Straighten It Out'
MPK
2013 
From the album:
Summers Lost Warmth (2013-10)

I'll finish the EP later.

Roadside Garden

A very comfortable Saturday in Manassas, Virginia.
The bigger thing of whats in the name is that this is Manassas, one of the best record albums of the 1970's.
As I find myself singing 'Colorado', 'So Begins the Task' and 'The Treasure (Take One)', I wonder if anyone in Mannassas, VA does too?
A far as I can see, everyone is Hispanic and we all eat at Chipotle.

'Roadside Garden’

MPK

2014

The Cross Process

'Roadside Garden' is performed
on a Höfner Shorty Travel guitar.

Systematic Intrusion (Homecoming)

Thanks to Microsoft Paint, idle art is a reality.

Something New

Attended West Corners Baptist Church
Years active: 1988 - 2009 (Removed)

Something New:
The 5th American Beatles album
Recorded: 1964

There was a time when my life consisted of a church environment and a parallel activity centered in music.
That separation no longer exists. 

 

 There was a girl in my church something new.
I felt in my heart something true.
I knew that time would be something to do.

After several months, she said she had plans.
The fire in my heart burned for many years.
Every word that I spoke to her resulted in distress.
The church grew smaller by each year.

Time left me not knowing what to do.
Don't act so blue, God has plenty for you.
There's never a reason not to care; the Holy Spirit is in the air.

The pastor fucked up and died.
Past time will never lay by his side.
I'm the fool with my arms opened wide.

The church was built for nothing new; It was only a selfish plan not to tell.
Every day I wake up and wonder why?

'Lonely Years'
MPK
2014

I was 23 years old.
I would look across a valley and see the mountains as I drove,
my objective was determined by sight.
I was and I am he who conquerors by understanding that of which I may be transcended.

IBM was something unspoken, large and, the great source of my crucifixion.
Blood never did flow from the body of my shattered soul.
The sky became indistinguishable from night as day.

~A narrative account of 1990~

Around By The Seasons

It's a nice time of year.
The work that I perform is more along the line of 'time sensitive' as compared to continuous hard manual labor.
As a truck driver, I can operate for 14 hours; with this job, it really is a challenge.

View from a hotel in Manassas, Virginia.

 

‘Social Media Request‘
MPK
2014

I'm working on a EP (Extended Play) titled 'Monday Blue'
I want something different totaling about 20 minutes in length;
Or something.
The EP's usually come out quickly, I am thinking about a album by
Cerro Cockworm and The Batter.

A Walk Last Friday

 

‘I Stayed Alone Without You in the Hot Sun Around The Seasons’
MPK 

2012

Standing in a meadow with the morning dew on my shoes is so ongoing of the times that I have loved you.
The sky’s tumble around by the seasons as my heart circles the years with refrain.
Whenever I was with you, I stood where the water flowed.

Around and Around

I Woke Up

The long walk that eventually glides along a gentle meadow is a occurrence in my life that I strive to achieve.
Somewhere long beyond the hill, the long day and night of truck driving and off loading product is a occurrence that results staying elsewhere.
I am now elsewhere, the accommodations are comfortable, there is enough time to rest.
I endlessly eat at Chipolte, I am granted $23.oo each overnight trip for meals; we receive it regardless of whether we actually spend it or not. Somehow, I'm not too inhibited to spend it on food.

 
 ‘Down Here’
The Voorholes
2014

I woke up in the early evening, I went out in the rain to get coffee, I took a few pictures along the way.

As the rain poured down on me and I wiped the water from my face with the hand that wasn't holding the coffee, I decided to walk up the road to order another burrito from Chipolte.

I was drenched in water as I stood in line, I carried the food back to the hotel and ate the second meal of the day.

When I get home, a series of long walks will do me well.

 
 ‘Time Is Blue About You’
The Voorholes
2014

Older and farther from home isn't a serious problem but, it's lonely.

I have had all of the artistic leeway and space to produce anything I could think of.

Mostly, it is simply lonely without anyone true to lean on.

 
 ‘Words Can’t Touch You’
The Voorholes
2014

Truck  Driver Mentality 

doesn't really back down to anything, 

everything shifts in a non-fulfilling manor to the side.