You should have kept drinking

You'd be a tightrope walker by now

Caressing the shoulders

Breathing new life into a forgotten age

Walking the streets of Des Moines

Your clothes would be torn from your body

By hyenas

With names like Orange Julius

Or Cherries Jubilee

Laughing 

There would be a safari with

Karen Von Blixen

No managers would be requested

And you would fly over Africa

By instruments

Below not a single light

Except a fire by the Masai warriors

Dressed to the nines

And dancing

Robert Redford would be dressed 

In a shirt

You can't buy

And my mom would get mad

At what the cashier said 

At the supermarket 

Things would be stolen

From Sprouse-Reitz

In our 13 year old bicycle rides

I think you took a windbreaker

 Der Brofuss 

Into the dark woods

With a machine gun

Seeing salamanders

And rotting wood

The smell of damp

Where am I?

Then the bullets rang out 

And blood covered the ground

And soaked in

Life goes on

Paintings get painted 

The apple is green

The apple is red 

Hey nice apple!

How come her face is green?

The mercury checked the news

Another day

Stocks were down

Yesterday they were up

More cloudy weather today

Disasters in parts of the world

Mercury thought 

What's for lunch?

 

 Sleep like cheese

Said the Moon

Wensleydale or Muenster

We watched Time 

Dressed in blue bonnet 

Coat and Tails

Until it rotted

 Pi played a game

Of prime numbers

On the Moon

Until we were bored

And feel asleep

 There were no three ways

The Genie told me

"Two wishes is what you get."

 The Moon's effigy

Was recalcitrant 

It was sorry it told them

It was made of cheese

 Pong

We played Pong

In a pizza parlor 

After a little league game

The coach was buying pizza and cokes

If we knew what Pong was the first expression of

I'm not sure what we would have done 

Except play 

And have fun! 

 If I were Richard Brautigan's son

If I were Richard Brautigan's son

I'd start each day with umbrellas in typewriters

In seventies San Francisco 

Near the Art Institute

I'd wear a shiny vinyl overcoat

And be photographed with a girl in a SF location

For my next book

Or maybe she would

I don't know

I'm not Richard Brautigan's son

So this is all just conjecture

BUT

If I were

Well, never mind.

 The drinking

The drinking is for the drinkers

A lift a hoist an ambulance ride

    -Boise, ID 2006

 Joyeux Century

Deliver me from the wrath of Time!

Sweet berries and Trees!

Mark the day with acorns and squirrels

Forsake the news as it is shit!

People being people is hardly ever a noteworthy thing.

 The cream of finagling 

Dreamt a con for the ages 

One for one one for me

Or something like that 

The cream stayed in a cheap hotel in Barstow

The door handle broke off after he shut the door and he was locked in

He climbed out the window

He went to the managers office and explained the situation

The manager came up and put the screen back on the window

"All done" he said in a think Hindu accent.

"Hey NO!"

 Jeez

Jeez I felt shitty this morning

I guess I was hungover

I needed to move the car by noon but

I was so anxious about the car even though

I had like four hours to move it

 Gravity

Gravity has no preconceptions 

Or preferences except one

All things must fall

Some says it's the law

But laws can be changed?

I don't know sometimes 

I think gravity gets a special pleasure 

When things fall and break

Gravity and entropy walk hand in hand

They are gods clockity-clocks 

 Laundry

Laundry is proof that dirt exists.

 Crime is a Cthonian Cthing

Chimera?

Naah 

Like corduroy pants

Don't lie to me 

 There once was a movement

But all has been surpassed 

By money

Of course

We saw it coming

It was 

As always 

One need look no further

Than ones hand

HERE! It is said

HERE! 

 Creeps

A sonnet blue 

Like Christmas time

In trees of yesterday

And winds of yesterday

 The thoughts of yesterday

You who are the God

Of your memories

Find no fault with dreams!

For you know they are a

Fucked up version of our minds

But

My question is

How do we go along,

While dreaming,

Of the outlandish shit?!

In our dreams we just accept it as normal

And move on

C'est la vie

 Catch a ketch

The maneuvers of solitary confinement

In the dark a button can provide hours of mind relieving

Entertainment

In Alcatraz Prison, on an island in the San Francisco Bay, the prisoners said they

Could hear the voices of the revelries

On New Years Eve in the city

On the wind

 College football

Was all about the helmets

I used to like The Fighting Irish! - they were my team

I liked their gold helmets and the way their

Helmets traced on our old B&W tv like being

On acid at age 10

There's a mystical power to colored uniforms

Green and Gold

Orange and black

Red

Blue

Yellow? Did anyone have yellow uniforms?

I think not.

 Two ravens

On the street today.

Walking home from the supermarket

I gave them some raw broccoli

They said and you can quote me on this- they hadn't seen a raw vegetable in weeks. 

 Pork Chops

W tons of fresh chopped ginger, olive oil, (maybe a little sesame oil)

And soy sauce!

Luau pork chops I call them.

Eat 'em up!

 Sing

The ravens song

Ca-caw! 

Beneath a sky

Of dark and gloom

The raven has a room 

With windows out and windows in

And other ravens 

The streets belong 

To them

As well as the sky

The rooftops 

wires 

And the trees

Ca-caw! 

 See the four corners

Of existence

They are 

Measles, ants, Naugahyde, and mashed potatoes 

Isn't it grand?

 Norm McDonald didn't know what DNA is

So fucking what? Believe in Jesus? The thing about science is it doesn't matter if you believe it. Just like  Jesus. 

 I worry too much

Now I think I have well my sister thinks I 

Have pneumonia!

F that! Pass

Me my sombrero and 

Vamos a zona romantica 

Creo que 

 So quiet

Is not how I would be described

Even as a kid I think I had plenty to say

But sometimes I was shy around people I didn't know

Now I can talk to anybody 

Hey, how's it going?!

 Creature Features

Just walk outside

Monsters everywhere!

 I swear

I'm about the laziest person I know

But I've always been one to lay in bed reading comics

Or books about baseball

Or watching tv

 I ate all the steak

It was leftover 

In a plastic bag in the fridge

I kinda picked around the really fatty parts

Gnawed on the T bone tho yum

 Are you an ellipsis?

Grievances unheralded 

Suppository barely

Credence deregulatory

Flame on!

 It doesn't matter

Nothing matters

Well that's not true

Lots of things matter

 I'm

Just a regular

Fucking person

And I can't seem to deal with

Any of this