this post is about Family Ties and Philly and December in general

[stephengordon]

THEME FROM FAMILY TIES.
I bet we been together for a million years,
And I bet we'll be together for a million more.
Oh, It's like I started breathing on the night we kissed,
And I can't remember what I ever did before.
What would we do baby, Without Us?

And there ain't no nothing we can't love each other through.
What would we do baby, Without Us?
Sha la la la.
.............

I will now rant in explicit references.
i would watch Family Ties late late
at night and wait
wait for Tiny Toons to up and on.
"Babbs! Babbs!" is that her name?

i will be absorbed by great cities
in ways you'll NEVER know [yes, YOU]
and the trips to which just
ENGULFED
like nothing else was there.

now i will go deeper, deeper
into the whole familiar schulkyll
or, likesay, philly mode...
...back - what was it? -
one whole year ago right now?
when my time was all syncopated and pained,
while someone's face
leaves an ectoplasm infinitely long.

and i cut at myself mercilessly
just wanting to forget.