downfall kyla "This is the night, It's a beautiful night, And we call it bella notte..." 010922 ... birdmad in the dark, losing my balance on the soft sand on the path out of the little alcove where only moments before i had tried to divide my attention between the wonder that surrounded me and the one that sat beside me watching the tide just out of earshot of the drunken party people beneath the bright light down the way, no sound but the rush of the ocean and our voices as we sat on the rock that acted as a bench and the almost hypnotic peripheral glow from the lights of a distant ship on the near horizon i remembered in those moments what contentment could feel like 010922 ... misstree civilization's follies 011010 what's it to you? who go blather from