A crowd like a pentangle 

or a pentagram

in the square in London

outside the SA embassy

Who was Trafalgar?

No one knows. 

Probably a great general or ships captain

Imperializing left and right

and here we are 

protesting Apartheid

w Rev. Jesse Jackson orating 

and five marches are converging here

Trafalgar Square

And Jessie and I with our luggage and LL Bean jackets

just in from Paris 

via La Havre

and the Cliffs of Dover

and the police in riot gear surge

and the protesters retreat 

Then they surge and the police retreat

Back and forth they go

We took our bags and got out of there

 and you're walking again

to anywhere and nowhere

drugged out guys on the sidewalk

With three quarts of Ben & Jerry's

Life is like that

Ice cream melts 

as you are high as fuck

no happy song

No Christmas cheer

No Great Pumpkin

not today

 and yer just 

lettin it slip on by

There's no pizza for the mice

There's dirty dishes piled high

There's no washer or dryer

Argentina is calling

But you buy cat boxes

There's no fury

There's no sleeping in the afternoon

with the door open 

the dog is barking in the backyard

Yer planting plants and making plans

Happy Sunny Garden sign

made in Big Sur

Still there 

 

 Sleeeeeeep

Like no one

   And    Now

You're 

  the 

   cloudy day

    Sigfried has gold rings

and lives near Central Park

       Your gloves don't match

One looks vaguely Scandinavian 

Where did you get it

You don't know

 Sunday

7:30 am oof

      slept too much

Zzzzzzzzzzxzzx

  

 I'se 

low 'n

tired 

I'se

low n

down n 

out

I'm 

older 

than 

the s-

stars 

   pinpoint holes 

in a

night's 

eye

  some

   wink

 some 

    blink

     some 

   shoot

   And go to jail

Some ignore you

   some of your

  Bestest frenz 

burn out 

Fizzle

   Super nova

     Black star

   red death nova 

      Red gaseous mercury

    atmosphere

Ise

  Got a 

Achey

  Eyebone 

From 

Lookin

  for 

My 

Friends

   stars

 A plACE

Say   Peaceful reminder

    Try the still waters 

nope not here

  I got out

Sub tried begats 

Crime is no headliner 

Leave it!

Borrow the keys

Nothin here sorry

 

 Virgos

mostly September

    I in August

can't see the forest for the trees

analytical they say

Who nose

Copernicus

     Euripides

         Klays Von Bulow

Try to remember 

The evening star 

      Little Dapper

          shining in SD

       corn ferget that palace

I laughed and she got offended

  "Who would laugh at the CORN PALACE?!"

Who wouldn't?!

     Ah Stars 

bright and shiny 

   shooting like fireflies

Zzzzzzzzzrrrrppp

  Who left the DOOR OPEN?!

 Shut yer 

   pie hole 

asshole!

 Sloopty doo

  sloopty day

broken sea shantys

  and steak tacos w lime 

and dried out cut radishes

   the pier is

closed for your safety 

pylons rotted

  no maintenance no care

just rotted by the sea 

   no walking out there 

bicycles everywhere 

and then sea side bay side

Fisherman's shops

of gidgets and gadgets

  plates for Nora

  and tshirts 

Tshirts 

SF  

  San Francisco 

Stab Fracktictoe 

   no more walking 

Alcatraz out there 

   waiting 

Like your mother at home

 

 I've tried 

  to not align

and have been nostalgic

for the shadows

    in old magazines

      some say it's a fools errand

         even fools have errands

       but the pages are stuck together

           you left it in your clubhouse

         you burned your thumb

    trying to seal the rope

  auto asphyxiation will have to wait

   sometimes you just can't get it together

to play the trombone

   with the Tonight Show band

 

I've seen 

    66

it came about 

    near the end of Virgo 

         I'll live to 666

       if the devil wishes

         is that six hundred more years!?

           please no

              the devil works his ways

                 I made a deal with him

    but I forget what it was 

one of his tricks

     to say the least 

        it's a candy heart colored demon

  at the door

     For you

 Fall

 begs

   you 

     to be 

             quiet

Fuck dat

        I'm a nobody

   nothing 

   nosuch 

     Nowheres

     What 

       stage

      left 

     Ariel?

       the books

        were saved

          taken away

           condemned and 

                               sent to exilio mundo 

      circle the square

            I forget 

                     the names

just Ariel

         who she

       a character

       in a play

        

 61

  sixty two

          63

64

   sunny ?

I don't see it nowhere

-mountains lion tranquilized

in the sunset 

    He tried his luck at panhandling

got crowed at

  A crowd formed 

he scampered away

no one saw him

    or her

61

   Sixty two

        63

  

 Sweet

   grifts of mercury

apostle to nothing

 save an apple seed

     Johnny was a notorious applejack 

   boozehound

Johnny bought the bank

   and changed his name

       to child's play 

Eeyore and 

  Xenochotitlan 

      shot heroin on rafter row

caught dreams of Mexico

     fairies and fantasy of the dark alley

no blood stained campanero white cottons 

and huaraches

   on

the loneliest highway 

Saguaro and pixote 

Pipian and mole 

Gaby knows the place

 

 Climatically 

sinner

driving to Utah desert

    your truck sucks

   spray painted on the highway

      next to black rocks on white sand

        spelling out lines from the Constitution 

words for the blind

toothless drifters in gas station dreams

"Hey buddy do you got a nickel?"

   fill er up captain take your nickel to the highest land

where preachers eat pork chops

and smile at sinners

Check the tires and top off the radiator

   Gotta get back on the road 

and head to the Devils country

  where the fires burn

 Tourniquet 

    swimming 

pool  

In 

romance 

    daze

      the child smiles

        sunny and bright

         fat lifeguard barks

         

We are here

 water is warm

  now I'm sleepy

Woo hoo

  Will you ever come back?

     My skin mmm kinda smells 

like pool water

  Dive deep

get that torpedo

   Little swimmer!