Airships Made of Water

            On Friday at around midday I did my taxes online. H & R Block makes it easier every year. Some things are confusing this time around such as having to click “no” when you “do” want the carbon tax rebate.

            I had refried beans and salsa with chips for lunch.

I weighed 89 kilos in the afternoon.

I worked on a long poem that’s mostly about clouds observed during a bike ride.

A sky churning with shapes and contrasts of mists

What an ingenious way to carry water around!

Airships made of water high above the ground

Soft flying clenches of water-filled fists

Alien water thieves wouldn’t have to land their ships

They could just suck it from the clouds

And take off with millions of pounds

I worked on a story.

I translated a segment of a story by Boris Vian and part of the screenplay for Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of paradise” by Jacques Prevert.

It was raining all day.

I’m a bit bored with suddenly no schoolwork to do.

I had three small potatoes for dinner with some margarine and watched The Rifleman. This story begins with a peaceful scene of Lucas and Mark chopping wood together when suddenly there is an Apache raid. Lucas is clubbed from behind and Mark is kidnapped. It’s a day later when Lucas wakes up on a bed with Sheriff Micah Torrance there as well as Sam Buckhart the Apache marshal making his second appearance. Sam explains that a renegade Apache named Chaqua lost his son last winter and he aims to replace him with Mark, who is known to the Apache as the son of a brave man. Lucas has a concussion and is not well enough to travel and so Micah and Sam form a posse to go after Chaqua. Lucas follows them. Later they get caught in an ambush. One of the men dies and the rest of the men, except for Lucas, Micah and Sam, abandon the posse. Lucas collapses and Sam goes ahead by himself. He sneaks up on Chaqua’s camp but he is captured and tied up. Lucas recovers and follows. He sneaks up on the camp and way too easily for reality, shoots all of the Apache raiding party except for Chaqua. He and Chaqua fight and Sam and Mark have to pull Lucas off to keep him from strangling Chaqua to death.