shades of mediocrity

built into existence

   So what

 Like a butterfly on a banjo

What?

     Like a sesame on a shell of night 

Whoaat 

   Like the turds floating around your bathroom brain

Hey now!

  You stroked the pinion miracle

for superior hp on your standard brand

But no nothing down the road 

  Just dirt asphalt pebbles and hard tack sailor joe

Drive the cosmic typhoo 

  Sleep in a boat

      Swim with dorados and some other to be named later fish 

  Go on now 

 

 

 Living w the ghosts of poetry

I really don't know anything about poetry

(true confession)

most of it I can't understand or not gonna bother with

Sorry great poets :!

Christopher Smart ( was he kookoo? I think so)

That one about the sea creatures/ it goes on and on

 and the one about his cat Geoffrey- pretty good

The Drunken Boat - Rimbaud?

   What's with Native American reference - Indians!

 Leaves of Grass 

   Classic - which he changed like umpteen times - couldn't leave well enough alone-

Auden, Elliot, and whatshisname sorry couldn't do it

I lack certain tenaciousness verbosity

Ahem

Jabberwocky - fuck yeah

Two Roads Diverged by an old white New Englander

Dickerson- gloomy New England spinster rides the horses heads thru eternity

Baudelaire? Balderdash

Gloom and doom most of these guys need a good shot to the gut (kidding)

Rilke?

I wish I wasn't such an a-hole

 Lazy fucking day

Kinda gray, windy, almost rain

I got up early and went to Walgreens

for prescriptions and antacid

now I'm back wondering what the hell im doing

could be worse

Things are starting to look up

My brains being rewired 

I exercise (slightly)

I don't hardly drink or do drugs

Just lay around and look out the window

at the gray sky

and a giant tower for sending signals to aliens 

and people in Tiburon

 Mooo!

    Supper moo jo 

Skallyboowish

• One
• Two 
• Free

Sub par head

POETRY FOR THE MASSES AND FISHMONGERS

Minor League heading AA FRESNO OR FRES-YES

(dumb)

    Cry me a river 

        Mark Twain

            

 They can't all be winners

but are any?

"you have gotten into the habit of asking too many questions"

White lines

squashed porcupines 

Purple mountains majesty

Two marmots in the bay area 

They chew car innards and fall asleep

Wake up hundreds of miles from home

Years ago my buddy worked at Animal Care & Control

I knew he was working late night by himself so

at 3 am I called them 

"HEY, there's a marmot in my backyard and he's howling like he's hurt!"

"It's not a RACCOON ITS A MARMOT. I BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINS I KNOW MARMOTS"

He said he wouldn't come out. If it was still there the next day give them a call. 

"WELL WHY DONTCHA COME OUT AND WE'LL BURN ONE!"

"Who is this?"

 I started taking antidepressants 

supposedly they rewire your brain

and mine could certainly use a rewiring

or a complete fucking overhaul

"Take her out boys, she's done, blew a cam and the rods are worn thin"

"We'put mmm a Mazda in Mr. Williker last month and he's ticking along smooth and easy."

The nurse practitioner mechanic said I could have a months worth and then check in with her. 

Remember when cars had chokes?

"You choked her?!!"

"It was the only way she'd start!"

Vrooom brrp grind rrrrrmble

 I got nothing

Lying in bed at 4 am

drinking New Orleans style iced coffee

out of a milk carton

La Dee doodly doo

outside it's gone from summer cold (not really)

to Fall cold (kinda brrr!)

Brrrrr!!

(Not really just a jacket and still shorts!)

Mmm interesting eh

Bluupity bluuuu

Blub 

A dog attacked me yesterday at the dog park 

I took his photo with my plastic camera

Maybe he didn't like photos?

Came at me barking and snarling 

and got hold of my jacket 

and gave it some tiny tears

Owner offered to buy me a new jacket

I said just give me like $30 (target jacket)

He was apologetic and said the dog doesn't like black jackets(?)

Said he's attacked before 

Also a black jacket

 I soaked my brain in carcinogens 

ran my flagpole up yer moms adu

died my cat purple and red

Go USA!!!

I sank my feet in marshy water

photographed cattle in the hot brown hills

The water rose and flooded the marsh

I camped out in your kitchen sink

burned creosote in your canteen

Ran a few red lights on the way to the liquor store

sober as a marmot

Whose turn to buy?

 The sun burns a hole in my flesh

Every day I slather shit on my face and arms 

but it doesn't do any good

I spray it on maybe that's the problem

I should go full mountaineer and use white zinc

Like I'm climbing Everest

Glaciers are melting 

They didn't use their sunblock?

Stupid glaciers

"We're bright white! The sun will bounce off us!"

Try again losers!

You are melting. Are there hats? Yes it's real. 

Bummer

 

 1.6 miles

28 minutes to walk there? Huh

I don't think so

Who da fuck knows 

Fuck dat!

Fuckers!

Fuckin bull shit

Have a nice day!

 September Song

"It's good to live again..."

Falling light

    Leaves turning 

     Red 

Orange 

  Yellow

Brown

  Black

Nowhere in Vermont

Nowhere in Manhattan

Nowhere in Spring

    Leaves falling 

wind blows  

   Cold snap

you can smell it in the air

  It's a northernly smell

Of burning leaves 

horse poo 

   and bottles of booze

It's fresh and clean

But your socks are dirty

and your fingers are frozen

  "It's good to live again..."

 I'm bonkers

I think I've always been

I don't think my dad knew how to deal with a kid who made shit up and would talk so much 

Mom was non confrontational and would just go along with anything

Great combo for parenting but whatcha gonna do 

Everybody parents could have done better

They did their best

I think

Who knows 

Who cares 

what difference does it make

Absolutely none

 effete 

and over educated

Not me someone

I know can you imagine

What's it like 

Nah

too much 

The variables are Sagan-esque

Billions and billions...

he was a stoner obvi

grew marijuana in between the corn

to test it 

got some seedy ragweed shit

Dad try this thai stick 

It'll blow yer mind

Couldn't understand Underground Comics

Wha?

I'll take the BART bus to Hayward

then in to Berzerkley records comics weird movies

people selling crafts on the street

Hippies and bippies burnouts and

scuzzballs pizza and gyros and patchouli 

Teen kicks for no one

Cigars at Moe's 

I jumped into the pasture

where the cattle were feeding

they got a little nervous

"Who the fuck is this asshole?"

I tried singing to calm them

"Oh give me a hooome where the Buffalo roooam"

it didn't seem to work

"What a shitty singer!"

"I just want to take some photos 

I know you're cows but you don't have to be dicks!"

Valley of the Mooooon

 I can't stop

it's kind of an illness!

"What's ailing you?"

"Doc, I can stop posting! Every day I blah blah blah like my thoughts have any relevance to anything"

Doctor scribbles on a pad

"Take these and call me when my wife dies"

"WHAT?!"

 

 I'm tryin 

   to tell the truth

but it's sometimes kinda flu-like haha HAHA!

Ya know?

   Ah whatevs

      life goes on regardless 

         you have flowers

            songs

               spices

       We all have German Kafka-esque days 

ooh scary

   Let it go 

embrace joy?

Good luck!

Fuckna

  Another loser

Toss it!

DISCARD POST

 Soporific

   splop 

sophomoric

     Sploop 

         spleeezed

 da beetcha!

Catch me if you can't

You lose$$$$

I hate $$$$$$

  Sploooop

nowhere time

Going nowheres 

   No day

       no nothing 

No gas

  $$$$$$

Is this poetry? Hah up yours!

Signed,

 Robert Frost