flash gordon's got nuttin on me

Here I am flying to Texas and using wi-fi..in a few years this will seem so yesterday but today I am a little mindbent. chatting, blogging, studying in my course, even looking up research..everything works but skype. so why can't we find a cure for AIDS or a vaccine for HIV...why can't we get rid of the continent of plastic in the middle of the ocean? are we truly entering a modern time even as we step backwards in time in our political world. what happens in a world in which technology goes so quickly that colleges can't get professors who know as much about it as 15 year olds? and at the same time Haiti and Pakistan flounder in cholera and misery from their floods? i'm looking around the airport in Atlanta, a city with a very high proportion of minority residents and yet I see a sea of white and nearly white faces. is this because the haves and have nots are becoming further and further stratified along color lines? thoroughly modern are we as the things that truly matter recede into the dark ages and silly blogs go shooting across the universe at the speed of...what?

insomnia

starts with a dream, building pressure, speed, strangeness, peaks like a bubble bursting and I wake up. 30 minutes figuring out what the dream was..one song playing over and over and over, pictures swirling like confetti of images round my brain like McIrney's peruvian footsoldiers stomping round and round. then the snoring next to me kicks in and 30 minutes trying to shove earplugs in tighter, turning away, poking him finally a break in the snores and quick now try to sleep and the cat takes a crap in the next room and I can't block out the stink so head under the covers, crick in my neck turns into pain down my arm now it's 30 minutes later and I wander upstairs to sleep on the couch but now it's 30 minutes later and I have to get up in a few 30 minuteses and I give up and look at the pictures on my phone. so I turn off the alarm that never had a chance to ring and go see if anyone is on skype...or facebook..and fall into my blog. so now you know.