Author: kai

“Things I bought yesterday because I was Sad”, or “Why I’ll Never Have Money”:

1. rubber rat with a very intense expression on its fat-whiskered face

2. tiny potted sweetpea, because i felt sorry for it

3. wooden skeleton, parts missing

4. little girl’s bracelet that looks like a beartrap

AND that one pooped on the towel and then flew away, i mean honestly.

manners?? but i still loves dem jerks

naturally i took advantage of this undignified episode in that baby bird’s early career to make some sketches.

(pencil, pen & chalk on sugar paper)

resisting urge to tag this “tits”

Ephemera

1. this dinosaur has the distinction of being the ugliest of all my dinosaurs

2. osteospermum – not all flowers are beloved by poets

3. i am queen of holes

4. band poster i designed for these guys

5. cryptic list found in a second-hand copy of A Music Course For Students printed circa 1956. list reads:

Tennis racquet

Room at the top and another one

food

6 a second-hand book about technical drawing, inside of which i found

7 this highly technical drawing (reverse signed “D McLaughlin”)

8 i have spent so long dreaming of the summer sun that would bleach my soul clean like an old bone

Something, or someone, left almost exactly half a rabbit outside the back doorstep. Or a bit, if you will.

Ephemera.

1. Found flyer (FINALLY.)

2. Found packaging for pool toy; some rain damage.

3. Nest complete with the remnants of eggshells, found on a compost heap.

4. Painted symbol indicating a footpath. I see this often and it makes me oddly emotional. (it’s ok buddy I am not the man I used to be either.)

5. Ink drawing I guess I made in a bar.

6. Phone pic of bar interior. It seemed important to document these colours.

7. Bargain basement light reading.

8. I went to empty the fireplace and found a heart in the ashes.