Sam Falls

DAY FOUR

i woke up really early and couldn’t go back to sleep

it was the weekend of the festival

i could hear excitement when I woke up

the humidity bounced off the limits of my body

I remembered the dream I had just come up out of but I didn’t want to

when i bought the cold drink my money looked like blue tickets

and all the decorations were around town

i had changed towns but the walk I took was still familiar

paper mache flowers and red and white striped poles

looking like mcdonalds straws

everyone flipping coins about their decisions;

party girls are only ever in our lives for so long

they have to go take more pictures of their parent’s pool

and drive around with coffee drinks

my dad called me to tell me he had been thinking about More fun

More fun was the video arcade we went to when I was growing up

it smelled like car exhaust and I loved it

now is the time of year that makes it two years

since I have been to rose hill

sometimes you are just making a map of places

sometimes you really aren’t

arcades are the places we go to play games heaven is the place where angels hang out and sit in cloud-chairs

- Jamie Kanzler

Karma is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Sam Falls.