Center

 

aligned

steep 

   slobbery 

slope

     slipping

  sliding

              skiding 

       slooping 

    Mcpoop 

       Cerebellum III

       careering

     careening 

    Left

   Right

     lefty Lucy

     righty whitey

   time

      up

   You got a fly

     in yer ointment

     there a spy

    In yo jointment 

aching

    and breaking

So 

No

   Go

 Joe

  Leave it and come on home

     

 

 Night life

My stomach hurt

Old guy

I tried

The crowded venue set me off

Felt bad cuz I bailed on my friends 

Irish goodbye

 

 I worked the Union 76

in high school

how did I get that job?

No idea

Pump gas

Clean windshields 

Check tires and oil (if they ask)

I was sixteen and the owner was I think a couple years older

His dad had bought him the gas station cuz he was into cars

He had a racing car that may or may not have been street legal and Ford F-150 with what he called airplane tires

I got my buddy the night shift job

Sometimes I'd come in and we'd get stoned

We had a homemade bong made out of a honey bear plastic bottle

My friend said I guy came in with a shotgun looking for the owner

said the owner put oil in his brake lines and his daughter crashed

My friend said come back tomorrow he'll be here

 Crapped

   out

tryin'

    nuthin 

   look out 

   for Lelly

Or Nelly Mug

      A famous makeup artist

      Bye 

    

  The 

worked

life

   bring

  back 

     the 

    estuary 

     blues

      stinky

     mud 

      south of the canal

    we launched kayaks

      and saw dark 

     small 

   dolphins

 Crime

 

pays 

when you're stealing

sun block

                     I don't want to fry my face

       Stealing 

      stealing

         stealing

             

 Waiting for the mailman

and military jets are blazing away

over a beautiful sunny 70 degree

SF DAY

I feel

Let it be

lazy

Phil Spector produced day

WALL OF SOUND

and a little messy 

Tired 

black

    and 

        white

Wistful? 

   Nope

I dig a Pygmy?

    Something about that album tho

no GM making it "perfect"

  No one's making this day perfect

That's on me

 

 

 Kanniption 

   Kansas

   Last stop  

on the Bandoliro Hiway

Twenty three houses a saloon

    and a post office

     Try as you might

   you will not

Waste 

away

    Bacon and eggs at the saloon

       Burgers in the afternoon

        

     

 

 

 Cradled

in the iron rust belt

of forgotten memories

snapshot memories

of tunics and runes 

battle weary grandparents battered and scarred

Aunts and Uncles with 

Buick eyes

LeSabre suits of ccthonic misery

smiling and laughing

at a 6th birthday candles lit

color prints with deckled edges and the year and month 

printed on the border

 I'm 

standing on a peak 

of nothingness

So what 

    so what

        so what 

See the forest

     not each tree

          read the moths 

              circles in your sleeping bag

   tripe 

And Hooey

   Tripe and

Hooey

He got yelled at cuz there were bats living in his bathroom

He got punched cuz he parked in the 

wrong spot

They claimed he peed in the corner 

of his bedroom

   Life in Nicasio

has its downside he said

   Stoop

    groop

floop 

    The kitchen was the messiest thing I'd ever seen-

like who would live like that

  I pitched my tent outside 

 

 what day 

is it

who knows 

fuck it

today is the day you gotta get out of bed

leave your head behind

It doesn't do you any good

Shaved off four day chin scrabble

brushed the teeth

new underwear

Socks

Back in bed

La dee dah humbug

  ladybug

     Ladybug

        Wherefore art thou

asleep at the wheel

   sleepdriving again

       Valium 

           Walium 

               Calium 

Say do I see

    His little peepee 

        oh forget it 

            Pay the Piper

    and say goodbye!

 

 Mesmorized by 

   the idio

incited by the untimely

you stand 

You sleep

you don't sleep

 What

   I'm not here

     I left years to go

      In a bottle of Ace 

         I've got nothing

            it's at the turn

                Beware the self

               he'll fool you 

            Into thinking

         and that's a risky business 

       For some