J. Redel

Just Relax. It’s Not A White Flag Out The Window

Sioux Falls. Iphone6s iColorama app

how can we point at a horizon

yet still fear death

just relax it’s not a

white flag out the

window it’s my

new panties

I will never

surrender

— Caconrad from poem From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Hour”

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