deep samadhi of emptiness

attainment without attainment

foe-destroyer
vanquisher of enemies
Oh "worthy one"
can you hack
views on the relative perfection
anyone who has reached the total awakening
probably needs a large coffee- vente, even
but is it hack time
I need Satsuma
orange perfection
under the Bodhai tree
being fallible and still subject to ignorance
see, I left the peel on the carpet
not pee
peel
peel me a river
without greed
stepwise fashion
aspiring for arhatship
set sail
watch the BOOM

tathagata
moon shine
shine
like a crisp ten dollar
BILL
BILL
me later
on the prairie
right now I'm dancing

IT's the Lindy
no the country swing

ryhmin to die
aint no never mind
smells like brownies
dammit
I'm hungry
blowed that boys head off
for stealing a pie

tathagata ain't home right now
he's um on third
level
ladies lingerie

I always wanted to yell that in the crowded elevator
Tathagata aint home right now
you best cleeeeaaaar outttttttttttttttttt

saying like the night
was your friend
and you had a brassiere on your head

with a morning hiccup
and starched knee joints
barreling through the
down lownsome and thinking
stuff

heliotropic
sensemilla
spinning
in some
boarded up
calliope
with a
moon beam eye
and a hiccup thigh
and twenty pounds of medicine

catching bye and bye
aint so hard
on the old S&P
ye skeedaddle this way and the ye
skeedaddle that way
for ya know it
the yard bull's on ya
but twenty pounds of medicine
goes a long way
up against your head

at night
if it's quiet I can hear what sounds like a
train running down the tracks
CLICK CLICK CLICK

Billy "Green" Bush
cracker sumbitch
nah
elton
and Stony
Fannie Flagg
for reals
You should get yourself one them little things

I was accused of robbing a store down
in the Indian Nation and I jumped bail and now a year later here they come after
me. ain't that something?

He said
I need a good long one
about nothing
and nothing is
something I'm good at
so I took the job
sent me over to Bakko County
to run the
wire
but I got into a fight
with a black operator and got fired
no matter that kinda work was
not my fortay
as the say
it wasn't that he was black
don't get me wrong
its just that he wasn't doin it right and he was
obnoxious and I aint gonna suffer
fools who do it wrong
later I heard he got fired and ended up in jail
for killing a dog
true story
anyways Bakko county is not where you want to
be without a job so I drove up north to
visit my cousin
but he was in jail too
for getting caught with a grow room
in the basement
some kids spied it thru the basement
window and told their parents
who immediately called the owner of the house
who called the cops
and now not only was he in jail but his wife
said they were getting evicted
damn! dark clouds, right?
I couldn't hardly leave my cousins wife in
such dire straits
and she did invite me to stay
I had no intention but sometimes
things just happen
so now my cousins in jail, he's getting evicted
and his wife run off with his cousin
sometimes life just kicks you when you're down

kalooey
kalakkkaadee
kalooey
kalakkkaadee

cha cha cha
CHOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEY
BUHLLLLLLLLLLLOWJOB

the thing about movies from the sixties is there's
so many great cars

god's bath
and the glory hole
everything's fine
until some damn fool
goes and cracks his
head open
(but it didn't happen and later they gave us
some chips)

there's a drought
thats tearing up
the south
animals are dying
plants are dead
soon it'll
be a goddam dustbowl
and the topsoil'll
all blow away

we finally stopped at the
Burger King
in ________
and after I ordered
the girl behind the counter
laughed and said
Oh yeah I forgot
we don't have any burgers
and laughed again
and I said in the land where
burgers are King
you have no burgers?
and she said um yeah I'm sorry
do you want something
else?
I said okay bye

sunday driver
cutting
the drive in at in
-n out
drive thru
have em
gorilla style
or whatever
I still don't like
their
fries

down by the
freed
from the ice cream machine
dream
self aware
synoptic
symbiosis
or was it
self centered?
sumpin
signalling narcocisstic
mandrogyny
or carrying a large
sack
and believing in the
power of theater
or theatre
confused, one
on the
streets
but we need to get back
cause time is ticking
kinda tweaky
though
temperature is
highly unusual
for January
in t shirts
and that girl just smiled at me
that makes me suspicious
dammit
I wish I could sleep
and I wish I didn't sleep
so much

The Myth of Sy Philos a play in an unknown number of acts

Act 1 An urban city street at night

Sy: (wearily) The load, the heavy, heavy load.
Dark one: Are you complaining again? You bought the thing, now carry it.
Sy: Buy the ticket, take the ride!
Jericho junior: Here, gimme that, I'll carry it!
Sy(turning away) NO , It's mine!
JJ: Jeez whatever
DO: Have you figured out what it's made of? Is it sisel? I think it's stuffed with sisel.
JJ: you just like saying sisel.
Sy: where are we going?
JJ: Um Doc's Clock?
DO: The Lone Palm?
SY: The Latin?
Stranger number one: Hey what is that thing?
DO: we think its a bumper.
S1: a bumper?
DO: yeah a bumper; you put it on the side of the boat so it doesnt scrape against the dock.
S1: Oh
Sy(wearily) it's a heavy, heavy load! we gotta get up that mountain!
JJ: shut up.
S1: Where did you get it?
JJ: He bought it at a store. see?(showing him price tag), $260
S1: wow
DO: he haggled.
Sy: I didn't haggle!
JJ: yes you did! You gave him a lower price.
DO: and he took it , immediately
Sy: He said it was less than he paid for it. If we haggled he would have come back with another price.
S1: well it's a cool thing. later!
all 3: Bye

there was a
storm of fake
apple tears
glistening

uncava-fied
in a lonely spanish
village
so so so
triste- eh
we were once
a simple poor
village
now we're fucking broke
but we have a car and
high speed internet

It's too much
really
well
it's just a testing ground
I cant really expect much
but
ONE DAY
yes

2. I'm feeling worn out- somethings got to give

3. I have a number of projects I'm working on

4. He ordered three number threes in his fractured Korean

5. two inflatable kayaks

6.Are they sleeping together?

7. [ ]

8. looking up the old address

9. x 5 =45

10. let's do it again!

stupidity
what is that
when you
don't think
or when you think too much
maybe
lights go down on the theatre
a large woman appears and then disappears
a chevy cavalier pulls on to the stage
"Did somebody order a left handed pizza?"
the near sighted youth at the wheel asked the audience.
"Hey get out of here!" the backstage manager was
screaming. but too late the \\show had begun

Now I lay me down to sleep
how 's that go?

something something something something

there's a hole in my bucket dear Liza dear Liza

and the show had ended

"I really like that part with the pizza delivery guy." A man was saying to his wife.
"Are you hungry?"

They slipped into the all night diner.

the jukebox was playing Elvis Presley's It's Now Or Never.
"the famous date rape song." The man's wife remarked.

a boy was sitting at a nearby booth reading Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

'I'd like to go to Venice' the man thought to himself. Maybe a little "business trip" without the family, heh heh. Those Italian goddesses are really something.

the waitress was in the kitchen crying.

as the mirror broke
into a thousand tiny deloreans
the sound of
a river in the cascades
played
through a speaker in the wall

J. Post Grimsley was eating dinner at the Yin Yang when the bear arrived and sat
at a nearby table.
'Now that's unusual.' Grimley thought to himself
He'd seen something similar in East Borneo. A giant sloth had taken to wearing english clothes and had been offering his services in the law. Most of his cases were summarily dismissed.
Quan took the bears order without hardly looking at him.
"Hundred year chicken, shrimp chow mein, two orders potstickers, Mongolian beef, sweet and sour pork and two large Tsingtaos. Is that everything?"
the bear pointed at the menu again.
"oh yes and the roast duck. velly good!"
the bear poured himself a glass of tea and tried to fish out some of the tea leaves.
"You should let the tea settle and you won't get those bits in your glass." Grimsley opined to the bear.
"And you should go fuck yourself." the bear replied.