Monday, February 03, 2025

 I dreamt Cowboy dreams

Two gun kid!
The Ringo Kid!
Batman and Tonto!
No it was the guy who wore a mask
like Zorro but in real life he didn't play himself off 
as a fop 
Kemo Sabe

 I fell off

the wagon hit the ground with
a thud it could have been worse it
has been but manageable today but 
I'm tired - laying on the bed with shorts half 
on the window open I can
feel a cool breeze of a cloudy not quite
rainy day listening to a siren in the distance 
Mexican moving guys are laughing and singing as
they haul heavy stuff up the stairs but
I'm hungover but not too bad

Saturday, February 01, 2025

 Oakland CA Street

    drek see the seeds
of a broken chair
   the Captain was
addicted 
  to peanut butter
doctors said ya gotta
   stop
We laughed
 but no Captain died
and he got a Cadillac w auto tape
 

 I'm an idiot

serious- just the way it is
It is what it is-
But man...

 I'm not waiting

I'm done waiting
but that's Tetons near Wyoming
kind of waiting
staring into the sun
your older sister is wearing hot pants with stripes

 Saturday rain

is special not short bus rain
soliloquys from 
that seventh grade play 
you were in
The Love Computer

 Greed hankers

like kankers 
on your lip 
 s'merch yer pubes


 

 Grief held

too many hands
a stone wall 
In the woods
  with old refrigerators 

 Legends arose 

like Iguanas
hot and dry
in search of Peyote flowers

 Batman bought

a time piece for 
the northern skies
he got no thanks


 


 

 I tried

to capture
a frozen leopard
nope not this spring
(A dream)

 Joy demarcates

  a sad story
caught on the
  power lines

 Pass the steaming tea

  is it green 
or black
  Kitty cat?

 there's no tomorrow

  like today
it's raining outside

 Sayonara

Bushi-san
   be the wind 
through pines
(Is that a haiku?)

 Water

is a good thing- it's wet
clean water is good- 
carbonated water- seltzer- spicy water
it has some burn
according to my five year old friend

 Slipping 

Into space-like confusion
   so 
  Open 
see the dirt on the walls
   try to be 
a starry night
     Oof the Paris museum
with Monets water lillies 
what is that called
I forget