I'm getting further away

this happens when you don't pay attention 

and just start something and rely on past notions

Something slips

Your foot goes off the pedal

the gears crunch 

Your brain stops giving a fuck

and you die

No you don't die

But maybe part of you died

And now you get this crap

 

 Stooges R Us 

in Detroit gas 

Accomodations 

meaningless 

   attributes 

 Breakfast sky 

I'm a pancake 

with no syrup

 Thirteen thousand

thoughts on my shoulders

with wine

      and broken poems

       I'll start out in foggy mornings

        off to the Pacific Ocean 

I've climbed Lassen

and some other mountains

Bumpus Hell

     sulfur smell

      Yellow rocks 

        Black birds

 You spoke

before you 

Mumblety mumblety  

you parked / pegged

You're no Jack Kerouac 

 I hated everything

Mom dad cars ( no not cars)

Lotions aspirin pill bottles

other stuff too much to remember

Things in weird assemblages in museums

shoes fancy shoes white high heels

never criticize a woman's shoes

or you're a dead man

I learned this first hand

 Mirrors of cement

your eyes are bad 

Your brain tries

But no luck

So you just use sun block

and try to stay out of

The way

 

 Lazy

 days

 Stand to attention 

So what

     Look at the sky

    gray and maybe rain 

     find your shoes 

     in a pile

         time to go

 No matter

Just cryin in my beer

Lazin like a rich white dude

 Symptoms of such

   No matter 

      I need a planner

         But 

   But

 But 

     But

Butthead 

I'm a tumblin tumbleweed

Oooh eeeeeee

     get in

Go on

    Go forth

    Leave it alone

take it now for blah blah blah

       What color are your eyes?

I'll sleep on the Spanish Steps

      I'll Henry Miller that shootski

Pensiones in Montmartre 

   Clichy?

Cliche fledge that

  I'll go Cendrars one armed 

to Napoli where thieves and scoundrels

live in ancient wars with

    Ratty tapestries

and motor scooters

and abandoned kittens mewl 

in the rain

   Your passport was stolen 

So off to the consulate 

Took one look at us and actually said

Don't take candy from strangers

No lie

  

 

 2x 

nuthin

          is still not much

   so no matter

     I've placed my bet

on a long shot-

sucker bet

       they say

   but oh when they hit

                    Everybody will be jealous 

       Or not 

I don't know 

                  No one's paying attention

So

do whatever you want

     

 It's always yesterday here

the dust and dirt 

where the antelopes play

No one's gonna give you a home-

a woman in baggy pants stands

in a ballet stance

There's a word for it

but she just wants coffee

and there's no tomorrow today

Ezra Pound said that

 Pooh Bear pajama clad older lady

Walks in shadows of the moon

Eeyore laughs

Owl confused

 Wet & Foggy

beautiful late summer morning

Orange haired teen gals buying iced lattes

 Commensurate 

UPS package

             1388 Haight St

      destination 

towards Mt Doom

Mr Frodo

      Blacula

                    in Fogsylvania 

get some crack

for your friend

     move on done

                         she worries about a woman watching

and hides it

for a vape

      and his face is black and green

                    from hitting the sidewalk 

blacked out

but he works the bar

               and is still pissed off 

like usual

 

 Centered

unlike meself 

Nit Brit

      Try me

                    some other day

    germanic? germaphobe!

      Try me 

another day

         but it won't matter

I say hello

you say goodbye

      put on another LP

 I'm falling

onward

toward nothing

Where's nothing

Nowhere

leaves of brown and green

and I'm trying to write

But it's working

To some degree

Some would contest that

and it's within their rights

I guess

I don't know 

I don't make the fucking rules

The End

Of Crime

And Crimea his wife

Roman mythology I think

or perhaps Etruscan

Mycenaean 

Minoan

Maserati

A baby's arm holding an apple