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Meeting A Celebrity

I've had the strange fortune to meet many celebrities
I always feel like famous people must be exhausted
as if they were just normal people
I've developed
i let them have their private time
I did randomly meet a celebrity
Well, this one is pretty random…
I won't be surprised if many of you don't know her
My celebrity story starts like this:
I was helping a local band load their gear into a bar/restaurant called Captain Carlos
The year was probably 1999 or 2000
We had a motor boat in boston harbor
we took it out one weekend
for a picnic with the boat club
But I wasn't really there to laugh.
Now you may be scratching your heads
Having worked in the rock and roll
business
i've met many
A few years later,
It was a normal day
until something strange happened
I randomly met Ben Affleck
the Blockbuster Video in Park & Tilford, North Vancouver
I Met Ben Affleck
and told him to act like Batman and punch me in the face.
I met Ben Affleck
outside a fancy restaurant(,Spaghetti Factory),
accidentally stepped on his shoe„
he BLEW SMOKE in my face
& called me `‘little burger boy”
We all go through a lot in our lives,
but being in a spotlight makes things 1000X harder
people can be cruel.
He deserves better.
What is life now
after meeting Batman
He was a really genuine and down-to-earth guy
but he mistook me for someone else
and spent 15 minutes talking to me about diving. I don't even know how to swim.
I said what I had to say to him & thanked him. Got his autograph on a picture that's special to me. Took a selfie with him. i had him sign one of my batman figures!
Meeting Affleck was okay, but I was literally shaking when I met Neil Patrick Harris.
He was great! While I met him. The best batman!! One of the coolest moments of my life
Feel like this is really random
But
I met Ben Affleck when I lived in Boston and he was just super nice and chill.
He drove over the curb and had on mismatched socks.
“Your portrayal of Batman means so much to me and I want to make sure you know there are so many people that love it”
he smiled at me and said
“Thank you that really means a lot”
asked me if I knew where the nearest @McDonalds was. I guess he took one look at me and knew I had that info.
He hugged me and we took some pics.
honestly i still can't believe it, it was a dream to me.
I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
I had noticed him a few rows behind us in mass,
an annual civic one
that we just happened to be attending
by chance
as we were in Liverpool
for the weekend.
But trust me,
this was random in the most unplanned and most unexpected sense of the word
It was a very good experience
Good to see celebrities can take a bit of banter
Cliche, but it happened


Karny 2022

HOME

Cigarette Intersection

if you hadn't just
smoked
i wouldn't
be here

if you hadn't just smoked
i wouldn't have marked all of these
cigarettes
on the ground

everyday you smoke
i add another color
because you were there
so
so was i

i go in zig zags
following a path
you've made for me
and for everyone else
including
2 old athletic people
one walking really fast to keep up
a woman with two small dogs,
one really ugly black poodle with barely any hair

Karny 2022

Morning! Lets Talk and Drink Coffee


good
morning
time to chat
drink coffee

but i don't drink coffee
i'm a tea lover
i've got an appointment

i get it
i really do

there are things to do
things to not do
people to avoid
countries to live
soulmates to meet
soulmates to mourn
knees to replace
hair to color

and trees to watch
and feel
as they blow in the wind



Karny 2023

_______Meditation Walk_________

As I walk
I enjoy my body, the tension
The way it hits the roots in the center of my leg
The pain is solid
It’s black, an aluminum pole
Shaded and bent
Traveling into my thighs side and down
Into my feet and into the ground

I can see propositions
And suggestions of moments
Maybe spaces that hold me here
Graciously keep my body on this carpet
Yet afloat like a sail

There was fear there too
In that sunken moment
Not a deathly one or a painful clenching fist, more I promised
Something arose
Disallowing me to step inside this new zone
It was a fear of running into you
Although my body knew how close You stand there as a barrier
A mirror of myself
A distrusting mechanism
That does not take shapes bound with screws or bolts

This fear looks like walking with eyes half closed
Shifting into time half broke
Maybe I just need to see the things that close
Reopen the building torn
And lift the brake down south, kiss the channeled spout
Scouting for new answers
Shattered organisms
Blue bellied lizards
And a day so hot, the tar melted off
Becoming a time limit
A stressed foot
A displaced hoof

Who are you to tell me what I don’t know?
What I can’t see?
Let’s try again in this unwavering sea
Be a bee
Be a snake on a tree

Maneuvering