BESTIES!

i have one very best friend,
and his name is the cucch.
(pronounced: kooooch)

maybe you know him, maybe you don't.
his given name is paul, but taht's some government sh!t that i don't get down with.
he's the mutha-flippin' cucchie,
and he's been in the ranchlands of wyoming for a few years-
so, i hadn't seen him since his oldest baby, edie mae, was a little baby-
she's much bigger (sorta) now-

awwww.
s'kyooot!
not only that, but i just met his son, beck albert, or the first time, too!

HANDSOME. (and with that good hair, i'll add)
aaaaaaand,
there's another 'nother bun baking in britney's belly, too.
that's a lotta babies,
and that's a whole damn fam hangin' out up here in the woodsly goodness,
where the wild things shiver and the warrior poets opine
about life, liberty, love, and lunch at length.
yup.
i got teary-eyed about it.
don't judge me.
they're on the east coast for a very limited time,
and they made time to see me, and that means more than i can measure in words.
i am grateful for the time i have been given,
and for the very few folks who actually matter to me,
and to whom i mater as well.
it's a super short list, and it's endured the decades relatively untouched.
i know i am fortunate, i try to repay their kindness with whatever generosity i can muster.
there's spirit and memory at work here,
and it's all important in all the ways.
there are nearly no people i can just exist comfortably next to
without the need for planned events or distractions to occupy our time.
cucch tops the list.
for twenty F*ing years, he's been my spiritual other on my existential quest for
overlapping cultivated coincidence and fortuitous favorable outcomes.
he's my guy, forever,
and his whole 'uckin' family is MY family by proxy.
this is an appreciation post, and i'm not embarrassed to say i love him
like a brother, or something MORE than that-
like a second me, or an improved reflection, or something.
i just thought y'all should know.
life has moved us away from each other,
but nothing will ever really take us away from each other.
that's magic;
never quiet, never soft.....