June 2011
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 degrees Celsius. The Russians used a pencil.
I’m sitting here in my car, in a rainstorm and listening to something I never pictured myself listening to..classical. I hit my bowl and blew the smoke out of my mouth slowly. I watched as the smoke expanded and swirled in wispy little lines. The smoke slowly difted farther and farther , going under the seats, over my head on the roof, past my eyes. And when the smoke had filled my whole car I realized, that my actions are like smoke in peoples lives. Everything I do will affect them and touch them in ways I might not even be able to imagine.
Come and get meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Cuz it’s so nice, so nice when you are around
Your touch, your smile girl you need a crown
Baby I’m coming, rolling though your town
Wont you hang out with me for a while
I know your mama don’t like I natty dreads
But you know my love is better than the rest
And if you don’t then put me to the test
I can be your king you can be my empress