" the smell of home "

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home home:

- the ocean
- the hot east-bay barbecue day in those summer where we get that one-week of heat

- the waft of sulphurous oxides from over near the marin refinery
- muir woods' redwoods, tilden's little farm and eucalyptus trees, and marin county's backroads

- berkeley (...)
- food food food from all the hot places open at 2am on a weekday

- my room
- the clean of rainstorms over albany

- bakery bread
- popcorn from the albany twin

- bars, pubs, and lounges
- paints, solvents, and whiskey of oakland

- the comic book store
- adventure park

- the bulb
- indian rock in summer

- ex girlfriends's houses
- peet's coffee

- SOMA
- playground woodchips

home here home:

- street food waftings
- pollution and raw sewage

- lemon grass, galanga, coconut milk, chilies
- jasmine

- white sand beaches
- the thick of rice paddies

- grilling stations
- bathrooms in restaurants

- fire
- fried bananas and ancient-style ice creams

- the smell of memory
- humidity and sweat

- dirty europeans
- baby powder

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