Swim with the marine iguanas
on the shores of the Galapagos.
Admire in person the city of Petra
carved into the Jordanian desert's walls.
Take a slow boat
up the Congo.
Rewrite my romantic saga
about a lizard-loving savant
collecting data and dodging
the tweakers collecting metal scrap
in the Chocolate Mountains Bombing Range
just east of the Salton Sea.
-Story board it
for screen and stage.
Get my photographs and poems
onto walls and the printed page.
Get to Rome somehow
and Barcelona.
Play the autoharp like Jimi Hendrix,
write dazzling songs of joy and sorrow.
Draw old style topographic maps
of Martian canyons and volcanos,
Reconcile desire
and fidelity.
Consider the necessity of faith
in the face of mortality,
Pay the rent tomorrow
and not forget
to stop by Walgreen's
to buy a pack of razor blades.
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