labor day cycles, annuality, year after year, returning, circles, it's funny how life is, it really is, random strangers, book connections, drawing lines and parallels, drawing pictures of people's butts, wild chicago, WBEZ, chicago, new eyes, new years, will things look any different, now that they're clearer, empty cities, full of history, tradition, mere hours away, empty now, but filled later, people coming to conclusions, realizations, understandings, acceptance, knowledge shared, passed on from hand to hand, mouth to mouth, ear to ear, moving across people's minds, to mine, seeds, germinating, how often times the headaches that occur from being able to really see again, what would it be like after LASIK? suddenly, no more plastic, no more glass, no more altering of reality before i alter it myself with perception, much talking, much words, much thoughts made flesh, and then, the summer's gone