Dislocated

It started at a Christmas party of all places… but then again these things just happen, you don’t plan it. After he explained how difficult the conditions were, I asked Derek, “Why do you live here?” He stopped himself for a moment, looked over at the Christmas tree and said, “because Los Angeles is wild, dirty magic.” For some reason those words struck me and startled me into thinking about the truth of that statement.

I woke up the next morning, with the words in my head, “wild, dirty magic.”