I might be Brisbane bound again..

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Remember, it isn't the long, frightening plummet that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.

[Brian37]

Remember, it isn't the long, frightening plummet that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.

Listen asshole, you aren't helping.....................

The comforting thing about this is that I really am trying to force myself to say "fuck it".

Bob's sister was amazing putting up with me the last time. And our best friend John, whom I am paying to go this time, is going. 

It would not be right for me to let an Oklahoma Redneck make it to Australia and outshine me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Grab your fears by the balls and look them straight in the ... eye.

[Brian37]

Grab your fears by the balls and look them straight in the ... eye.

I am paying John to back up all my poetry. This isn't about money at this point to me. It is about two things.

1. John backing me up.

2. ME really really really wanting to go back.

I have been waffling. But considering what John agreed to today, in backing up my poetry. I have to do it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!"

[Brian37]

Here is a poem I wrote when I was in Brisbane this past Feb. It is an Ode to my late friend Bob.

Russell Island, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter)

From the veranda
Overlooking the sloped backyard
To see the beauty 
Is not that hard

Mangrove trees
With octopus roots
In low tide
Attack the drying mud

Great pretender
This half moon lagoon
Pretending it is a dry riverbed
In some scorching part of Africa

But no,
It is just a slight indentation
In my friend's back yard
High tide will remind it

Shimmering silverback waters
No you are not Africa
The underlying turqoise
Of the bay will remind you

The calm tide gently creeps in
It wants to sooth the angry roots
Lapping around them as if
They're  photons acting as both particle and wave

Those clever double slit waters
Undulate the shadows of the roots
Swaying and snaking 
Under the broccoli branch mangrove

And those chimps 
Are not Orangutans 
Any which way but loose 
They're kookaburras

Lap lap lap
The tide slowly creeps in
A heavy piece of driftwood
Submerges like a navy sub

But it is only temporary 
The tide retreats
Those angry roots
Exposed again

I merely have to wait until I can call my bank on Monday. But that really looks like I am going to book my trip.

I really have to do this, not only for Bob, but for John too. Debrah, she will just simply be happy she can give me shit for two weeks.

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Ok just scanned flight plans why the fuck am I stuck with one airline from LAX? I want Qantas but it keeps dumping me on Virgin from LAX.

[Brian37]

MOTHER F ER, cant find my f ing passport! Have to go to the county gov center today to get a replacement.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

MOTHER F ER, cant find my f ing passport! Have to go to the county gov center today to get a replacement.

They sent ninjas in to get when they heard you were leaving the country.

[Brian37]

Cant back out now, just spent almost $200 to get a replacement of my passport. I am going back to Caii Calli Brisbane, Brisbane,.....NO SLEEP TIL BRISBANE.....

[Athene]

Cant back out now, just spent almost $200 to get a replacement of my passport. I am going back to Caii Calli Brisbane, Brisbane,.....NO SLEEP TIL BRISBANE.....

$200 bucks, eh? 
Here's to hoping you never find old one, then.