Sunday, September 26, 2010

Swamp Trailer

I thought it was cool back in the 90's when Sean Penn's house in the Hollywood Hills burned down and instead of rebuilding, he lived for a year in an Airstream trailer on his charred property. I thought it was even cooler when my dad bought a school bus (well, let's be honest, a short bus) and renovated the interior to be his new house, and then took us in it to Burning Man. But this thing, parked across from my front door, is another story. This trailer looks like it fell in a swamp, stayed there for a decade or so, and then was recently fished out. And some dude is living in there! I haven't seen him yet, but I see the light on at night. I imagine he's some sort of swamp thing, or a guy with no teeth named Cleatus, or maybe, he's an eccentric millionaire getting back to his Deliverance roots. It's ugly and blocking my view of the bums in the park. I'm paying a nutty amount of rent to look at this. Maybe I should stop paying rent, give in, and just move in with Cleatus. Maybe then, I can finish writing my book.

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