My first night in the Phillipines

they don’t show letterman here at 10:30
so i went for a bike ride

on a bike i bought off a street vendor
for two plane cds

the streets here are unmarked
i rode my bike until the street stopped, fenced in now by a bunch of homes

a cat jumped out and went for my head
now more cats, cats of all colors sprang for my head

hemmingway’s laughing

i kick stood my bike and flipped the back wheel
pedalled the fuck out of there

fuckin flyin cats
riding away i saw a flying squirrel, above it hoverin was even a bigger flying thing

i once had a cat in the stateswe said goodbye as i said goodbye
lying on the floor of my 315,000 dollar condo

she stopped being friendly to visitors
after we spayed her too late

she used to crawl out of my closet all drowsy eyed
she’d rest on my lap as i’d record

on this floor, where puppet shows and cassette recordings with strangers were cut
on this last night she rested her black cat head on top of my gut

-edgars ledgzins