thats a
fine how do ya do
but wth

verbiage 

muck muck

mucking about 

 toss it off 

 sweet bread cakes

   

some doodler pushpins

moving 

the carts

starting with tarts

flow and Ed

perpetuity

see the seamless

staunch with starch 

                             but 

                               what does it mean?

   

                               stumped and pumping 

        sweet pumpernickelback

           Did you get the mojo?

I got the john the conkaroot

boot 

 boot 

 boy-o 

  toot 

  toot 

 wth 

    get off my lawn
i mean cocaine

       

groove 

to the merchant 

to the groob marching 

you plew the flew 

and buried your head in 

the zoo

you flew the coop 

dont say it 

who slew the few 

coop

coop

coop

that redwing shoe

since i left 

read it in the news

dont say it 

you too 

we the few the pound 

the chew?

oh hell it's not me 

yeah its you 

peruse the use 

flew the crew 

blew a fuse 

screwed the pooch
dont say it
who knew?
black and blue
hoo
hoo
hoo
some sue
ooh
 

pluh

pluh
pluh


  what


        gak

pow

       cruk!



       ugh


oof



             boing


huh huh






yep

Some San Francisco 

 skies 

                           alert the police 

        

measure the cost 

                  of throwing out 

   everyone who isn't   

filthy rich 

              you've got your lucre

now it's time to 

                    sell your home 

      wouldn't it be great 

you're really a piece of work

                        pony up

     Now is the time

          but you stand there

                                                                    staring with your pockets in your hands

Go! Bring the tide from the Sea! 

                                                            Carry it to your home 

lay in the tall grasses

                     feel the ocean beneath your eyes

                        

       standing in sand 

                                                           

                                                                  it's in your shoes 

throw a pebble down the cliff

 watch the whole cliff crumble 

 but you float away 

                      wave to them 

         

                                      now 

                                                                wave to them

               

                                                          bye

 

NYACK, NY 2006

tramadol 

dreams

with foggy mcfog

captain of the 

team 

Did you hear the breeze? 

                it is quiet right now 

    except for that guy who 

coughs    

        It sounds like he is sitting outside in the dark 

  that cough doesn't sound too good

                  

                    but it's quiet now 

except occasional clunks and thumps 

                                          from the neighbors below 

                       or the wind blowing the shade 

   

                                                                        I love that kind of stillness

  

                                   the quiet

                                                                                   when my brain isn't working overtime

                      San Francisco breeze

                                                          off the ocean 

                                              and through Golden Gate Park

                            when my brain isn't working overtime

     still I might relax in the night 

when I should be asleep 

  and smoke a cigarette laying in bed 

              "you'll burn the house down" 

               but it's a railroad flat 

                                 You always gotta be right 

          dontcha? 

wait, what?

   see?    

      when my brain is working overtime 

                 

                                     Oh, I'll smoke a cigarette 

and forget about it 

                             it's not going anywhere 

   click

                                                   

 

perhaps
the essence
of proper nomenclature
resides
in a little bungalow down
near the tracks
you can walk to the Creamery
once you leave the Ho Chi Minh trail
This was before Farley Mowat,
Trevor Novak, or Spot
you could walk down the arroyo to the lake
but it eventually filled with mud, the lake that is,  and
the county wouldn't allow it to be cleaned out
with a bulldozer
perhaps the essence of proper nomenclature
moved to California
from New Hampshire 
some would argue against
going to the concert at Altamont
but it did see the Woodstock documentary
when it came out
it was shown at the Vine Theater
in 1970

Down the brushy pasture, Coyote cuts back and follows the trail

a fox runs and climbs a tree to escape.

A raven is in the tree.

"what are you doing up here? "

"Coyote down there. See?"

"Ah yes. Coyote. Well my tree is your tree"

"Um fuck off eh?"

"SQUAAAAWWWKK"

The raven flew off.

General Bospehus stared out the window. It had been seven years since the war began and he was tired.
His aide, Clarise, was killed two years ago in the Tempe offensive. She had been in the desert making ambrotypes at the time. He had several of her works framed in his office.
He stared out the window and wondered at the uselessness of it all. He knew it was an unwinnable war designed to fatten the coffers of the administration's arms dealer cronies.
He himself had made good money off the war. There was no denying that.
His conscience was fairly clear though. He had always strived to end the war. The administration had finally told him in no uncertain terms to can it and keep on fighting.
The resignation papers lay on his desk unsigned.
He sighed and opened another bottle of wine.
"To think this all started over the importation of Tecate beer!" He said aloud to himself.
"That stuff is pissy rice beer!"
Although he did enjoy a can or two now and again on a hot summer day.

Tecate mourns a soulful tune
  


                      Tecate breathes fire and belches


Tecate walks a tortured mile

     Tecate knows all the words in Spanish

please let me see
the light!
    
     a grey fox in a tree with a raven as a coyote passes by

and the 

robot 

sprayed the azaleas with antifungal spray 

bitter herb 

why is this day unlike other days?

someone is waiting in line to buy napkins somewhere in the world

the rabbit 

ran across the checker board

as we slept 

in the afternoon heat 

I'm running out of ideas, that seems apparent 

But I did do my core strengthening exercises today 

and I fell asleep after work

it's a life, I guess!

   "I think I need to get out more." He said, non-ironically. 

I think your new jacket is too big 

waah 

 what's the use, anyway? 

some Muslim Cleric just questioned the idea that the sun is not at the center of the universe

this is what passes for news these days

zzzzzzzzzzz

  cu-ughhhh 

 brap 

  sputooti 

Let's go throw the football around! fuckin' A!

  somebody just gave me shit for not wanting to go out drinking on a weeknight

Somebody who DOESN'T HAVE A JOB!

HAHAHA

this a test 

this is only a test 

  Mike's stolen car is being held for ransom by the city car towing company 

Where is the Get a Grip Department? 

    

    Fat Tuesday 

Pablo Sandoval Day 

Hello Boston Red Sox fans!

or as my uncle said, in a disgusted tone of voice.

"It's not the big green monster, it's The Green Monster."

Goodnight Ted Williams

 

 

 

the brainless
    mechanic from Harvard University
sat on the edge
of a smoke filled room
     diddly
doo

wop
    diddly doo
wop
wop wop

      speak up children

for the dreams of your life

 
profound poodles

and noodles

sit tight
sit right
don't fight

and ladies in boots, hats
 and gloves
 stretching their arms

they don't work on farms 
 
stretching their arms
 for taxis on
  on 57th street

 but there's too much construction noise

  "Hey Taxi"
  but it flys by
                   and leaves a puddle in disguise
as a secret agent
   and the why and wherefore

 and there is no god
   not even
  in the little things
       but

 you should come out and play cards with us
           
               

there was a farcical
endeavor
it
was not
illusory
- protracted non sequential
visitation rights
and PT
for L4/L5
don't forget to bring the dvd
and send her the report
we like that girl

on the offshore mesmerized 

derelict oil rig of your dreams

three spaces were given 

1. Be trustworthy 

2. Accept no substitutes

3. Blow me down Captain!

Lauded by critics

and incredibly successful at the box office 

this derelict oil rig

gave new meaning to the term "job producers"

as a divided nation watched,

on a sunday evening,

the course of history was irremedially 

unchanged and gladly at that

"No "facts" can sway us from this course."

"We were destined, manifestly, to enjoy, at any available time,

the rewards of our dreams- that the offshore mesmerized 

derelict oil rig of our dreams- should, can, and will be

blah blah blah 

you get it"

"what she said"

Marine One landed at Crissy Field in San Francisco on 

a blazingly warm February day

With the Golden Gate Bridge looming over them and 

the brilliant wonders of sunshine sparkling on the cold waters of the bay 

the staff were taken aback at their 

own good fortune 

and the stock market was up too

Across town Rafael DeSoto, a nurse at SF General Hospital, and his family

were being evicted from the apartment they had lived in for sixteen years.

The building had been Ellis act-ed and the new owners would be selling the units individually 

one prospective owner was Lance Gladhand 

a twenty three year old software engineer 

who had graduated from Brown University 

and whose parents purchased for him an Audi A4

Pretty badass too 

Across town the derelict rig of etc etc etc 

was breaking into a pharmacy to steal Oxycontins

three stipulations ensued and only three-

1. beware the two eyed sloth dressed in gabardine

2. Scientology is NOT a cult

3. Who has a copy of the Bourne Supremacy I can borrow?

three and ONLY three

as the dove flys below the parapet 

these will be so

 

the Baudelaire boat

is in heavy seas 

it is night and the 

storm is raging 

there is no one in the boat 

why Baudelaire? 

I don't know. 

How about Melville?

would that make more sense?

The Harrison Ford boat 

sat in traffic 

and when I noticed him he flipped me off

the Langston Hughes boat 

on the delta riverboat 

sweet sinking in muddy waters 

or hey the Repo Man boat 

Miller is at the helm 

with a metal oil drum fire burning old clothes

Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties, Miller?

What are cars? they're TIME MACHINES

and in the car alarm boat 

which is beeping 

not that eighties multiple sounds beeping 

this is just a straight beep beep beep beep beep

Charles Baudelaire's boat 

is syphillitic

and dying in a gutter, right?

what about a TRASHMAN boat?

Smash the domininant paradigm oars

submachine gun rudder

in the streets!

R CRUMB IN FRANCE 

boat

a big legged black girl is rowing 

for all she's worth 

Robert is sweating and staring at her butt 

The Richard Milhouse Nixon boat 

of criminal paranoia

and anti-semitic, racist

outboard motors.

The end.

please stop 

the skipping record

buh buh buh buh 

for civility- 

so sweet 

- this candy life

but it's hot 

and it's mid February 

here try some 

it's carrot, ginger, apple soup 

the sour apples cut the sweetness 

it helps my knees 

I can't remember the name 

of the root 

my friend gave me 

in a lidded mason jar-

Burdock root 

 

 a summer day 

in February

sitting in a coffee shop 

or cafe 

discussing the ideology of

"demon" cars 

versus bicycling safety 

with a man named Howard

who is in a wheelchair

The wine of the Valkyries
  pinioned branch sky wing
snorting and stomping against a cloud
like a game player
"lightning bolt, lightning bolt!"
  but instead sailing in a sky boat
fueled by dream gasoline
  harvested from the wind

frozen and bereft
movie quote
"I'm so hungry I could eat a frozen dog."
was that Missouri Breaks?
he was too confident
didn't fathom
he could lose
until the knife woke him up
going across his throat
fuck Marlon Brando anyway
sounds like a description of his career

wish I had some cheese puffs
   a plethora of pandemonium
laying in bed hungry
fell asleep too early
listening to bad Eric Clapton albums
and mid career Dylan
   I'm hungry
I ate too much pesto pizza after work
some old man in a dirty bowler
 and retro circus barker pants
kept staring at me
 I'll eat some raw green beans
those are good
crunchy
and then I'll make some spaghetti
with butter and pepper

the poison 

    bottle 

                                             a misnomer

tap

              tap

      tap 

        where's the cane sugar?

                   don't stare at the light 

                                   

                                                        is this your guitar?

What did the devil look like?

                   

                                                       the  easy rider died along the road 

some people play in open A 

and capo on the second fret 

Vicksburg,

clean on in to Tennessee

  we'll get your picture taken at the drugstore               

you can make a slide from an old Mateus Rose bottle                                

he showed me his tremolo technique

                                                     it was very clean 

                                                         use the thumb as the anchor, 

the pivot               

            

                              you see? like that

try not to bang it against the neck                                          

 you can mimic the melody 

                               see? you better come on 

                                                                           in my kitchen

it was at the Dockery Plantation 

   

                                                                     not Webb Jennings

that was 

old Tommy Johnson

 the one who really sold his soul

   the poison bottle 

lied 

                      John the Conqueror root 

rub that root boy

    or maybe it was the

  

                                                           Star of the West Plantation 

They carried him to Tush Hog’s house                                                     

he was told to bury him

                                                Rosie Estridge said no you wait and went and got Jack Star

     she called him Jack Leg Preacher

Tap 

    tap                                 

tap        

that bottle's no good 

I got women in Vicksburg 

    clean on in to

                                  Tennessee

scheduled at least five sites today
Alabama,
Mississippi,
Tennessee,
"I told them I was willing to do it."
 I am a consumate professional
 (on the phone)
 honest, direct, business-like, and
nice.
yeah, it's hard to believe,
 I know

1111

 that's the number
                  maybe I should quit

is anyone listening?

jump for the past 

 set the fire 

on the road 

                                                  theres a sticker on your bumper

                                                                     4 way stops where you see the sign

                 we could eat 

steak sandwiches again

                                               at Natural Bridges

                                             or sell hash oil

                                                                        at Kresge

my favorite bagel 

                                      was cream cheese, jam, and cashews 

                                                          on garlic

                                that and a large cup of coffee

                     

we avoided the ESP seminar 

                                              we knew it would suck

my dad had a '69 E type jaguar

       he commuted in it

    

                                       hard to imagine 

I had a '63 Ford Fairlane 

      we paid fifty dollars for 

                                             it was running on three cylinders

it used to rain a lot back then 

          but my housemate came home with cartons of cigarettes 

                              from his job at the movie theatre

 because 

    they stopped selling them 

                                         Camel unfiltered
    

the mornings were always foggy
                                     but by noon you could see all the way to the ocean

                We had to get out of town

it was just too sleepy

                   

  

from
   the          strife
of dereliction
      pause
  
             pass
 empty barrels


 to the fore
    misconstrued

some seemingly
engraved
    with

implausible
       reasoning
 

                  the twins conjoined 
by alcohol

        playing harps
and

  wearing leather moccasins

the forensic pattern
       prevailed
in time
             and without a light to guide

past the edge of the garden

  and toward the back alley

 the fence was jumped
                 a rottweiler pulled at the bulky chain

across the street the tv was on

     and an old man was sitting on the porch drinking a Miller High Life

the wherewithall
of forest nymphs
  the beguine /erasmus paper
stoic fortitude
   in dew laden meadow
smite thy branch
   shine upon the arrow
 metallurgy arts lost in
centuries
      below the dark wandering
some were taken
and others freed
       the towers white mystery
an open door
to nowhere seemingly
   cast upon the Raven King
No magick does prevail
and yet the hat remained
  at the circle 
and we drank

Tuco 

 says 

                                      hey blondie 

but Jimmy the Greek is laying odds 

               

                                            there's a star somewhere up there 

                                                                             for Marilyn Monroe

there's a lot going on here
but we can minimize the damage
have another beer
you shouldn't eat that crap
it's bad for your health
I'm not looking to make friends in a place like this
I've got too many friends already
my doctor told me to delay the first cigarette
She's seen it all
I don't know what forms they want
have another beer
and then we'll go for a swim

Gerrymandered

                                                           Putinisms

 the cold war 

 in the middle of winter            

i before e 

except after c 

learn these rules

the house burned up

the house burned down 

which is it?

test on Thursday

                                          will this be part of the grade?

                                               who shot down an airliner

     yer mom 

         did 

 

              here drink this vodka

It's Russian military vodka 

everyone knows someone who's here               

it's fucking cold out there 

yeah well you can't make a pie without killing a few grapes 

I think you forgot your insignia

I'm not needing to be reminded

polonium kills 

                                                                   get that "porn star" to do it

there's always room for more

                     but the traffic will kill you 

  

one dacha 

two dacha 

three dacha more 

                                                       there's pudding in the fridge 

there's no magpies this time of year 

                                                              store it on the right  

the left has been killed,

                                    is frightened to you know what,

    

                                                           or is on trial for embezzling

                   it's an autonomous region 

you know, what's in your pants

                                                Don't ever hire anyone named Sasha

 

                                              he broke the cardinal rule

                                                                         but we forgive you  so 

the house burned up

or the house burned down 

                  which is it?

 

 

pusillanimous derivatives
hedged in non-sequential
non-binding etymologies- the bird built it's nest with pusillanimous derivatives
Clearly exculpatory
recumbent ideologies in
non lactating binomial rythmns
- the drummer pounded the tom incessantly
asphyxiated intertidal redundancies
promulgated effluent syncopation
- the starfish dried easily on Miranda's shelf
myriad synchronicities engendered
auxiliary quonset intrusions
asporadically - the army placed their temporary habitats in a rigid grouping

Sam Snead 

in polyester 

used to watch out for lightning 

                                                 swinging iron golf clubs around

some of the golfers liked to drink

                       and smoke 

 Tareyton 100's 

                    Pall Mall 

                               Winston

Benson & Hedges

    

                             coffin nails- Camel straights

it's dangerous out there 

              crocodiles in the water hazards

 Down in Puerto Rico 

                          a golfer got bit by a poisonous gila monster 

In Mexico a golfer got shot by a campesino  

         but it was an accident 

    

In Hawaii a golfer fell into a surf blow hole and they never recovered the body

                                                           but the source for this anecdote is a little sketchy 

Jack Nicklaus played Augusta in 1977 under a death threat 

You gotta really wonder what the hell that was about

there's a hundred ways to skin a cat
   but I don't want to know any of them

                something had smudged
                       
why am i so tired?
it rained a couple days ago
is that why?
          oh you just keep on
but maybe you shouldn't smoke so much
                 the garbage man came at 6 am
   and made a bunch of noise
   and now it's another fire truck
           was it the vodka tonics?
     so many questions
               I think I'm already asleep
           

the heat
again today
I moved to
San Francisco
to escape the
dry heat of the
California hill country
luckily I was
I was laid off
from my job as
second coal man
at the furnaces
of Purgatory
now I lay in bed
with the windows open
and feel
the cool breeze
I drink from a red
plastic cup filled
with fizzy water
and write bad
poems

2004

armful of
Armegeddon
I'm praying
to the Moon
my mouth
is dry
my tears
like oil
my lips
cracked
I check my
tongue.
still there
I wipe my
fingers on the
mirror to see
the smudge
I throw the
soap away
I'm going to
live dirty

2004

The Benefits of Being Sticky

sometimes you think
that life has let you
down and you just
can't ever come around
  but the proof is in the
pudding or at least that's
 what they say

T.B.O.B.S.

And sometimes you
get stuck
 This Krazy glue
will keep your eyes shut
but sometimes it's so
perfect and beautiful
  and right

T.B.O.B.S.

it's not about beer spilled
on your sandaled feet 
 or washing then in the bar sink
it's something you can't get
from beer, wine or a mixed drink

T.B.O.B.S.

Zendo Bonker

stop



      breathe

      

water 

    

                  what?

stop! 

                                                         no, keep on

{{{{{{{{{{{{{

                                                             remember, what ? 

wrestling match 

                  stop 

                                  no, oh, keep on 

   remember 

    

                                                     smoking on airplanes, yuck 

                                buying the zen 

oh, yes,  repeat 

              repeat 

      

                                                             what was that, eucalyptus?

stop 

    

 repeat 

where is the time going?

                                 the sun

stop, wait, oh 

where is the wrestling match?

stop, no, yes

what the heck?

}}}}}}}}}

         that's the difference!

                                               yes, and don't 

where is the stop

 don't wait! 

 there it is  

                 

Iwouldntsopfornothing

I wouldn't stop for anything 

or nothing 

you 

are 

the 

bullet 

that 

blank

you 

are 

sound 

that 

runs 

along

the 

side 

of 

a

metal
blank
blank
blank

bouncing 

echoing 

tearing

vomiting

again

you

sound

the

warning

you

send 

the 

warning 

you 

seek 

the

the 

shit

you 

seek

the 

dry

air

 you 

seek

the

words

you 

seek

the

idea
that
all
is
okay
that
we
don't
hurt
that
you 

can

be 

blank
blank
blank

where's that coffee?
no gummi bears
take more photographs
or not
why is it so hard to get out of bed these days
i'm getting texts
 my friends are poor
but they own houses and boats
 

brie-ola
             captioning the news
            sleeping in the afternoon

sans mons

perduity 

echofacious

and the bee and the buzzz

and the monkey a

bird

named Ralph

I'm hopelessly lost 

this article defines me 

           It's not "fun" to write an opera

Jackson Pollock's body was thrown fifty feet from the accident 

 it wasn't found until the next day 

I just made that up - 

       I heard that somewhere

                                       Also that the woman who died in the single auto car crash 

                                 was dressed for a party and she looked completely unharmed, like she

                                                                                   was sleeping 

don't ask me about the rocks in the backyard

the burrows
     farrow
El Faro
  the lighthouse

                 keep on keeping on

as the world turns

sing it like you mean it baby 

                                                                       there's a place something like heaven

                                                                but it's not around here

are you going to talk in catchphrases all night?

some things get stolen, some things are borrowed

                      

                    It would be easy to believe in Jesus 

 If he wasn't such a greedo 

                                                  some say the light comes from within

         

                         some say the Devil made me do it 

              some don't say much at all

          

                                                              blessed is the sound of silence

but if you have a trombone by all means

              play it