granville hesitating to press blather on granville street downtown willow sings norwegian wood my friend is being picked up i'll never see her again i watch her go with him into his car i'll never see her again i didn't know i didn't know till someone said fourteen years old a decade ago my good friend is lost but i will find her that girl is homeless do you recognize her? painted vintage clothes shaking a cup of coins outside mcdonalds hungry i will find her i will lose but find again the way drunk and scared on pavement rain my friend needs bright red shoes to keep her warm my friend needs a water gun to shoot the rain a whistle that squeals a whistle that cries on granville street we met music between the buses and the cinema lights i am walking against faces "tell me, where is my friend?" on granville street we swapped breath for bus fare i gave all my money for dogfood play guitar, go ahead, play it for me play norwegian wood granville street i used to watch the cops and their dogs sniffing 'round pigs pigs pigs the word buzzing tongues people selling pipes and rings "baby expected soon?" "five dollars?" "is this your home?" "have you seen my friend?" it is all this memory mixed up i remember the corner we sang busking for fun and fare i was glad to take the bus home how has the street changed since then? more homeless? more rain? 040124 ... hmm...yes pause. touched. memory. 040124 ... yeah yeah yeah "you're the lady who sings norwegian wood!" i tried to say but it came out all wrong "yooerrr therrwwurn whoerrr shingggsgs tdaahayt shonggg" "you might want to slow down" eat some food she understood, the night i was young a small bowl of rice i could hardly touch it new years table at Kitto's felt like i'd met a star "i'm willow" she said and i saw i heard her sing a few times after that in the spring i'd stop and listen whenever i hear that song i think of the things i saw and felt and feel the people i met on granville street the last time i was there was a long time ago 040124 ... um (just noticed hmm...yes) yeah yeah yeah wasn't a response to hmm...yes thankyou for the hmm...yes hmm...yes 040124 ... yarggg ooops and someone has used yeah yeah yeah before me! 040124 ... and um . 040124 ... monee vancouver 050101 ... saic rogers park, chicago. 1990. 050101 ... no reason i loved it there 050109 ... . so did i 050109 what's it to you? who go blather from