1981: a Texas Odyssey

Calamities… assaulted by the Memorial Day tsunami drowned victims & floating cars-- appendix detonates during the Season of Hell haplessly hospitalized in the UT-Austin medical zoo Delusion of progress… recovering in the mobile home plodding through texts of postmodern pointlessness-- overcome with visions of nuclear annihilation Life is a plunge… sensory overload & self-deconstruction-- reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" pondering Camus’ only philosophical question does Jung have the answer? Re-entry into the (ir)real world… Labor Day blues & academic angst surrounded by yi(u)ppies-- mesmerized by Eastern philosophy crushed by existential dread The Being & Nothingness of Texas... The Longhorns won/lost The Game primal braying & primitive reveling avoiding the orange phallic madness evading beer bottles hurled by frat boys Monstrous cockroaches inherit the Earth… discombobulated by the sadistic heat I ram my fist into a case of Lone Star “The horror, the horror” as Kurtz opined can I still resurrect myself? Five packed together in one car… a circuitous journey to South Padre Island silent white sand & red star suspended over the Gulf hypnotic waves & harsh words in the condo the Odyssey is (in)complete(d)