#kenosha

Lake Michigan summer vibes.

#latergram #kenosha #ktown #wisconsin #lakemichigan #carthage #cciw #midwest #midwestlife (at Carthage College)

First day of fall and feels like summer! #firstdayoffall #icecream #hotlikesummer #mygirls #mygrandson #downtown #kenosha #lakemichigan (at Sandy’s Popper)

Kenosha, Wisconsin, 2020

fromReckless Chants #25, August 2019

this time of year there is a quality of light that hurts the eyes. all that green against all that blue & the clouds shapeshifting across the sky. even on overcast days it burns itself into you, acid green, electric gray. this time of year is a quality of light that hurts the heart. I dream of never sleeping, of the demented orchestra of ice cream trucks, of staining my tongue blue in slushee eternities. sometimes I drove along the lakeshore on the south side of town & there is the skyline of Kenosha jutting out into the water, a hazy blue mirage. it looks like an enchanted city, a city of dreams, & I think maybe that’s why I’ve always romanticized Kenosha despite living in Racine—it’s easier to love a city when you see it from a slight distance, cloaked in blue mist, & can imagine it to be anything you want. when I arrive there it’s just another dirty old town, not that much different from my own; as soon as I leave I long to return again. the only time I feel such longing for Racine is when I see it from a different vantage point—like when I took xxx to the lighthouse & we looked at the silhouette of downtown against the fading blue & I said when I see it like this it’s magic, when I see it like this I can’t imagine ever living anywhere else.

lightningstruckitself:

fromSafety Pin Girl #12, summer 2001

(Please do not be alarmed by my comment about wanting younger punk kids to have crushes on me. A. I was only 19 when I wrote this. B. I said I wanted them to have crushes on me, not that I wanted to reciprocate said crushes!)