Depunkt 

Or Depunked?

Deslumt?

Graves aren't like CBGB's

Torn jeans

Leather jacket 

Dirty white canvas sneakers 

Tom Jeans 

It is fucking unusual 

To be loved by anyone!

 The stop bath integers

Damn enlarger is out of whack

Do not test the fixer by tasting it

Print 17 5x7's of a cat with a toy

Go out and smoke a cig 

And then get back at it

 Sometimes you play it by ear

Don't paraphrase Moon quotations

   Sad and drunk

  What are you going to do?

    A. Pick up the books on the floor

 B. Take a nap

     C. Go for a walk and get an espresso (double)

  D. Drink whiskey and play weird electric bass noises through a weird reverb pedal and amp.

  E. Worry about everything

 

 A searing Bro-cade of another day

Time is a crazy time

Of dealing with bullshit

Donkey movies

And stories about your great uncle 

Losing an arm 

But the kids are hungry

So fuck it

It's off to the drive in burger place

Let's go!

 

 The Encyclopedia Stowaway 

 A long walk on a short plank

Barefoot and thinking about a cheeseburger

With fries and a Dr. Pepper

He ended up on a bus to Hohokus

Reading the want ads for jobs

Wanted: Self starter for long term employment. Health benefits in six months. Hourly $7.25/hr.

 

 Bored by the breath

   Stowed like a bunny rabbit

Like sounds bumping

   In the dark 

The clatter and crash!

  What was that?!

We'll never make it out alive!

There was no rope to hold on to

  No iron trail

In our own personal

Pyrenees

   Got the car keys 

     

 The pork rind kid

Lean and quick

   A bit sassy

   Carrying that mitt

 A little leather 

  With a hardball

 On my walk today

I got Chinese food

And then a coffee 

Then I walked back and went

To the supermarket 

Got Popsicles - Cherry, Grape and Lime

And some Hash Browns

 I rambled

In brambles

Torn and bloody

Shook my head

I won't be afraid

Nah I never said that

But I thought it was poetic

  The car started up 

And the tunes blasted from 

   On high

   We'd left the shovel behind

      And the road was ahead 

  But we forgot our names

 Who are you?

   I'm Captain Botswana

Where'd you get those overalls?

 I had a bad dream

It was about scheduling

I had conflicts

Thursday after work 

Was triple booked

Fuck!

 Some kind of Stars broke overhead 

I was drunk on whiskey 

Reading Let It Come Down

My new band will be called Uncle Doug

Our new album Save the Endolphins

Is due for release December

 The Tao of Mass

     What does that mean?

Tao is "the way"

And mass weighs! Oh wait

Way way way too much

  Why does mass cause gravity? 

Ah jeez

  Hey let's have spaghetti and red wine 

And look at the blue sky

 The river

Flows of its own accord

 It's just water

   You need water!

Not that much! Too much!

And there's weird fish in there 

  And crawdads and alligators

Bugs and minnows 

   Bacteria! 

Flesh eating disease! Yuck!

  Buddha said let it all flow on by

Try detachment 

Be the river 

 The raised drivel

    Was abstainable 

Time had its advantage

     Over and over and over

   Read a book

About a man seeing a French doctor

   You'll be bored trust me

Sit at a cafe and watch the day go by

   A friend said when in Paris

Just sit at a cafe and people watch

 I did see some strange outfits

Look at what he's wearing !

 What decade is it?

 I took a 3 hour bus ride

Up the Pacific coast

Of Baja Sur 

Shades drawn

Watching a seventies movie 

Of a gal with a pickup truck

Outside 

the ocean

And Saguaro cacti

And desert - dry dusty hot desert.

 The opposite of dreams

A manta ray breaching

12 foot across

Two bulbous eyes

Beneath the wings

An alien space ship

Taking off 

Outside the Mexican coast 

Near Yelapa

 Fallopian brajura 

  On a sad sidewalk 

with little hope of redemption 

  No left turn on red

We all have lives to lead

In old worn out sneakers 

 By a chopper

In the seventies 

At Angels Camp

California 

 

 The wage theft of life

What no pay?

Who owns my star dust tears?

My cosmic sap covered hands

Climbing pine trees in New Hampshire 

Is hard work

Riding a homemade line 

Or riding on the outside running boards

Of a 1964 VW Bug

There was no money playing

In a refrigerator's delivery cardboard box

We walked the "Ho Chi Minh" trail

Through the back forest

To the railroad tracks

And followed them to the ice cream dairy shop

Once I found an empty circle in the middle of the forest

With no trees

Called an Elf's Circle

Found an old felt hat nearby

Took it home and put it in my closet 

But it disappeared!

Oh no you don't that's not yours!

The payment in the stars

With sap and dirt and old washing machines.

 Old Man

In the middle of the night

Eating Poke

And drinking ice cold milk

 The Miracles

wore me down

Counting too high

   walking three miles

  Sunday lunch with 95 year old Ma 

driving the Hyundai cross country

Because I didn't want to get in a plane

  Everywhere was different

But I was always glad to go

see ya!

Brick houses with giant thick brick columns

    Rodeos in Kansas

Streets going every which way in Ithaca

Home of Nabokov

and Vonnegut

Highest suicide rate amongst college students

  The layout of the city was off putting

I pulled into NJ

Near the George Washington Bridge

  Close to Fort Lee

Glad to be back

 To avoid anxiety

Avoid all the things 

That I do regularly

 I don't know what I'm doing

by I'm doing a lot of it.

 

 The Aventurra Rip Cord was torn

You had no regrets

But the cold streets offered next to nothing 

Your breath was visible

I smoked cheap Italian cigarettes 

Like a wolf in the wild

Your eyes were beautiful in black and white 

You left me standing confused

I walked to a bar and ordered a whiskey 

Rye make it a double

The bartender dried his hands on a towel

And said nothing

 I have no heartaches

But my head is ripe with figs 

Trees spring from my sides

Buttered scones are my enemy

A fat pig follows me everywhere 

He recites or just makes shit up

I'm not sure

"The troll of the forest knows

Your name but will not tell until

you find the Kasper Hauser Glen 

surrounded in pine."

 The Clambake Wars

Ferget about the ruddy bastids!

Here's mud in your eye!

 A veteran of the Chesapeake Oyster Wars.

The Governor of Virginia rose in public estimation

after seizing seven oyster dredgers boats and arresting 

41 oyster pirates.

  Later he tried it again and brought newspapermen to witness and report. But the Governor got outraced by a sailboat worked by three plucky lasses- the wife and daughters of the boats captain. They escaped the Governors attempt and the reporters ate it up, much to the Governor's dismay and chagrin.

He'd become a laughing stock.

 You played the misery game

I'm sorry

But I didn't sign up 

For that-

A thousand games

Of Pai Gow-

You had stacks 

Of parting gifts

In the living room

Twelve sets of steak knives

Fifteen sets of something else

Rows and rows of these things

And more in the garage

I said why am I paying your mortgage

When you're squandering away all your money

On these stupid tournaments

She said

Because you love me.

 I never said I was a writer

Giono

Calvino

Dostoyevsky 

Hem

Fitzgerald 

 Guys like that

  How'd they do it?

 Wrapped in a dream

         But the weather

Jeez

             Some people stink

        Not everybody

        But some do

   Maybe I do

   Who knows 

I'll ask around

    But not a census

   Just ya know 

  Random sample

To be interpolated

 I liked that book

But that's neither here 

Nor there

Pip would understand

But that gal at Miss Haveshams?

Too snooty!

Sometimes ya gotta go

With what ya got

or you're off to NZ

From the prison hulk

 

 I moved the spider

Caught in its web

Drinking water 

 I rode the storm to bed

   I had no idea

  But things work out

  When you're alone

  Sometimes you just gotta give up

 And watch the sidewalks 

crack

 Or not 

See if I care!

 I had no current

     I was in irons 

The wind was gone

  I ransacked the galley

Biscuits and a bottle of rum

Har dee har 

  I fell asleep to the 

Sound of water slapping

I hadn't touched the biscuits

 Checked online book buyers

I have a ton of books! 

You can scan the bar code on the book and you'll get offers from different book buyers.

Scanned a hardcover Bukowski. Originally $25.99.

Book buyers offer .30. Thirty cents. I'd rather leave it in a laundromat or Goodwill. I'd rather leave it at a sidewalk library. But I'll keep it.

The cover is cool.