You wandered

broke but you had vision

Unfortunately your eyes were going bad

You got a job as a bus driver for Greyhound

and didn't tell anyone

The doctors said they could fix yo up

so you quit and started washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant 

The cooks had all been brought over from China and they all lived together in the same house

One night one of the cooks was squatted down chewing on a ducks foot

"Is that all they feed you?!"

"THIS DELICACY VERY GOOD"

I quit and went to work at a National Park

The pay sucked but there were lots of young outdoorsy women

Elizabeth said we should get jobs at a motel in Sparks

I dumped her

Rosalynn said I had no ambition

I fucked her many more times

Carol had a lazy eye

I told her the joke about the guy with the wood eye

 A frosted sandstorm 

Sturmundrang

fleabit 

Old tires and

lazy wives

Mocktails and day walks 

To the pharmacy

Insurance denied

Have a crescent roll

Spreading it on thick 

To disguise the truth

There's no hope

You are doomed

What else is new?

The Knicks are in the finals?

My god, but that suit?!

C'mon you were most stylish guy in the NBA

Peel back a bit 

Ah well things change

 I'll cut the modest cord

Redirect the phalanx

Eat a banana

Stow macaroons by the sea

Stand by the sea

Read books of sand

Broken shell biographies

Of steamboat cap'ns

And merry swabs

(No poop deck)

Fossilized remains of large seaweeds

Antibiotics bottles floating and lost from a garbage skow 

Oh happy days once again!

Happy happy days!

 

 I got words

but ideas

Are a dime a dollar

Look to the East

time to rise up

Time to kill

To stop the 

Sentences 

Stop the assilogisms

The anagrams 

Purveyors of know nothing

The annotations

Abbreviations

Abberations

Aggregations 

From A to R

Time to face the fury

Of stupidity

To clean the mirror

and wash one's face off it

 

 

 I'm inspired 

By the greats 

But the meat is in gutter

It's foul

Disparaging 

Annoying

Day to day bullshit

It's bullshit that flourishes 

There are no rules

Or there are rules to be broken

Shattered

Which make those that live by the rules angry

That you're not following along

But I follow along with the best of them

Idling my days

In cappuccino haze

Walking walking walking

Can I go home now and lay in bed 

Smoking and reading

And playing hearts?

 Another good one

Put it in the pile

They're heaped in the corner

Some I buy online some are 

supermarket necessities 

What am I talking about?

I wish I knew

But when you get a good one

You know it

 

 Second tier

    where you belong

You're down there for a reason 

Carl Yastrzemski was a triple crown winner

   What'd you do

  Wrote his name on your sixth grade chair

you and Mark McLaughlin had to buy the chairs 

Then we had to go to Principal Rose's office

Cuz my Slam Book had a cuss page

You and Karl Quimby and some other kid

Other kid started crying

Karl Quimby wasn't having any of it

"This is stupid"

Principal Rose didn't like that

Dumb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 You wear

Berries and shrouds of spider web

Mixed w manzanita branches

and you forget your past post-Harvest King

Ravens remember though

  and they'll advise on a transactional basis 

Leave them a trail of your wanton indiscretions 

   and some cheese and bits of bread and a pool of water

 

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are about to experience a rebirth -- about to be given another chance, a new lease on life.
You have persevered, gone the distance through an entire cycle -- through the Spring of hope or new passion, through a Summer of growth and building, only to be sacrificed like the archetypal Harvest King at the Autumn reaping.
You lie dormant like seed beneath Winter snows now, healing and absorbing new energies in preparation for the new young Spring coming shortly to your life.