Tommy Pico

Ppl r so concerned abt the Earth
in the sense that Knott’s Berry Farm
preserves
will b hurt.

The earth will be just fine. We might not make it, but she will. Hopefully we’ll exhaust
ourselves soon. We’re fucking like rabbits. We’re

at San Loco macho nachos and ruddy from frozen margaritas You reach for my arm.
You drifted off again. You ask, what are you thinking about?

We’re chemists, but it’s not a science. You might say science is racist, but I say
inventions reflect their creators.

There’s this idea about the way things are “supposed” to be, that’s been scooped from
me. What’s the most natural human act?

keep living

keep living

keep living

There was an orchard in the valley. Sand Creek was shrinking. This is all very blurry to
me. Candelaria gathered wild foods from the hills and woods. She tamed the intrusion of
Spanish crafts, made pinole, a blend of native seeds and Spanish barley. She churned
butter, and made lace. She ground acorn in ancient metates and wove baskets from dry
grasses.

We’re at San Loco bc that’s what I wrote
I was just thinkin the Last Supper says way more about Da Vinci than it does about the
Bible, you know? There’s no likeness for the apostles in the good book. Those were like
men in his life or something. Who is Jesus in the painting but the painter? Or is he the Judas?


Just kidding, I never think.