Perhaps I was mad

Crazy like-

not angry

Nature 

    What was that?

It seemed giving

Non judgmental 

-Could be harsh though

Fuck that wind and rain and mudslides and drowning

Stuff like that

Isn't natures fault

I blame Physics

 Creep 101

It was a large classroom

In a large cement building

Someone said it was Brutalism

I liked the stark concrete

It had a neutral quality

When I tried to discuss it with a friend 

She just said "What?!"

And I had to rethink my whole way

Of thinking 

Or I had to not talk about certain things

With her

 Mom said-

"You've got a story for everything!"

I don't think it was complimentary. 

She never swore so it was probably her way of saying-

You're full of shit!

 

 

 I stretched

the sky

   bloodied my tooth

on your rock hard neck vein

Sorry bout that

I didn't realize you were frozen

or made of stone!

Sometimes looks are deceiving 

 

 

 The ancient

  Truth

was not even revealed

 Scorn and fury 

replaced it with ease

   So we sold our shares

and lived in condos

 Drank Mai tais 

  And slept 

Well

 

 What am I doing?

another day

another two cents 

In the bucket

another crying jag

Or not 

Who knows 

boredom is the person bored

I'm boring so I'm bored

Revelation? Hardly

My drinking days are done

Cigarettes?

Out

No drugs

Well Tylenol extra strength

I'm barely holding on

So what

Nobody gives a royal fuck

So I paint a little

Eat a little

Walk a little

Another day

I did drink with my cousin

Ended up driving on the Powell street

Cable car turnaround 

and backed into a pole 

Turning around 

WHAM!

No worse for the wear

Most fun I've had in a while-

 Don't

ECHO

Zin

Mmm

inanities

     stay away from Gallo

         Jugs

Of purple wine

Steer clear of the Captains

Patched up Caddy

   By the Oakland library

bookstore

Near the jail

   "Why were those men waving at me?"

"They're prisoners"

 E

M

B

R

A

C

E

a Lucy character 

bitter ignorant loud and sure of herself

The stuff of Karen's on yer phone

Where have they been all these years?

Oh they were always here

Raising Persian cats 

listening to country western

On the small radio on the refrigerator

Married to a laughing pot bellied welder

The house smelled of cat pee and was covered in fur

and you had a thing for a gal named Pam Putt

Who lived in the country 

And raised horses

She rode the bus to school

 

 

 Slaughtered 

        Let it bleed

Beehive

    Student of no one 

     Worker bee

         In the skull of a marmot

            Covered in pollen

                And buzzing 

Around 

Going flower to flower

     Dreaming of the Queen

        Gotta get back to "work"

 

 

 

 I stormed

the castle gates

With torn overcoat

and sketchy sneakers

Lances and bulwarks

Played from the jukebox 

A knight in black armor

Approached 

"What'll ya have?"

"Gin and tonic double"

He wielded a battle axe dripping with blood

"Four bucks" 

I dropped a five and said keep it.

Some knights respond well to money.

 

 I stop  

And embrace my

Lonely souls parched thirst

BEER!

Lots and lots of beer

And TEQUILA

HERES TO MEXICO

So it's too hot

People are nice

Iguanas and hyacinths

Gardens and patios

With checkerboard

Tiled floor

And leather Mexican chairs

Surrounded by sawdust

Eaten through by termites

And dust

Tortas 

by a man with a 

Skin affliction

Don Pedro

No sign outside

He'd have to pay 

Rebar sticking out everywhere

BEER

and Bolillos

At the little store

La tiendita

The bodega

That

Smells like bread

And chlorine

And peppers

and plastic

 I can't stop

painting these things

on the back of torn open

grocery bags 

It's like an addiction 

Who knows what the next

one will look like

For a while they got shitty

Who knows

Maybe they're all shitty

But what does it matter?

Who knows

 A thousand storied

Epistle

In your seersucker suit

and sneakers

Cryin like a baby

For no reason

Just why the fuck not

So simple

So clear

So wrong

Or forget it

Get out of bed

Go breathe

 Alarmed 

that was his proof

alarmed again

but he thought 

this always happens 

It's the same as two

Or three times before

You don't know why 

It happens

good luck trying to

Figure that out

But it does

So just settle down

Motherfucker

You're doing it again

So yeah fuck it

 

 Steady

   the wringing 

don't forget your pants

Mmm

   the shoes are on the wrong feet

And two different shoes

no matter

No bother

In the land of Nod

praise the sorrowful angel

For he manages

Arcadian battles

And ravages pizza

Like nobody's business

 

 

 Sterile

    fragilistic

mirage

  Of simpatico 

and seance

Hold hands in the dark

Onibaba

The pit

In the reeds

If you leave early

You don't get paid

What does it mean

Ask the spirits 

They'll answer in barley and rice wine

 Oops

     Tribulations 

and turgid

   Smiles

  In lost package 

   Apologies

What's it mean?

No one knows

  Expectations 

I guess 

  Let's forget it

And have a good time

 

 Ima loser

So why don't ya killme

Music music music

   Cannibal vampires

  And local evening news

FOOSBALL

  AYAHUASCA HATS

with bulbous balls

  From Panama

To you

With love,

   Bob

 Curreepy 

        and moist

  Like some 

  Bento box lover

       Never looking you in the tempura

     Soy sauce everywhere

TERIYAKI YAKKING

  ALL DAY LONG

(Or occasionally)

Sad 

 Little Japanese restaurant

     

 Silver Gods

      stupefying

Outward SIGNS

    slender body

         YOURE OLD!

       And STUPID

  CRY ME A PONTOON BOAT

    on the MICHIGAN LAKES

       POWHATTAN

 Occasioned

by rain

and other shit

     like books

                            and cinnamon toast 

        and splashing black

          INDIA ink

           on torn

      grocery bags

 

 

 Kilgore 

   Was Here

or not

  who cares

  fuck that shit 

   mothra

 being

Time for Emptiness

    Whoa

profound 

(Nope)

   Just another dimming 

of the day

Another NIGHT

(Rotation away from Sol)

  Cooking kale 

and carrots

  Green ONIONS

OINK OINK

VEGETARIAN-ESQUE

as we go proudly

  Cab Callowaying

our mercurial kaleidoscopes

Into the brains 

Of misfits 

 And Rocky paths 

 

 Pizza

Wings

Tequila

Super Bowl

Indigestion

Oof

Zantac 

Pepto Bismol 

Water

Oof

Bad Bunny?

Bad Tummy!

Oof

 

 

 Kastles 

    Of RAIN

Kafkas rain castle 

  Say what you will

He knew insurance

  Or what rains 

In bed

   In Prague 

 In consideration 

   Of Austrian

Skis 

  Say what you will

for making time

  In Romany

and apples in Greenland

  Say what you will 

It's no secret

 We all know it

Like Czechoslovakian

   Whispers of 

Time to go

 

 The Aztec in a 

Bind 

Surfaced bird of iguana

Stoked by hyacinth

And mota 

    Breathing fire

and reading

  the book  of dreams

    He knew Bowles

 in somewhere 

Caught a reindeer

In Cairo

   But being Aztecan 

Was neither here nor there

  He used wire cutters 

    For mail

  Spoke in case

He wasn't understood 

But never said what he thought

  Sun Tzu

Would understand 

He said

    And unwrapped majoun 

And billed hourly

 Morning cold coffee

Good morning

Clouds

Of February 

How ya doin

Me?

Oh you know

Kinda fucked

But not so bad

Just read about a 66 yr old who tried to run a mile

And couldn't 

Now at 88 he's the number one

Long distance runner in his age bracket

Maybe I'm not done!

 I waited a thousand years

But you never showed up

No matter

I filled my time

Swatting flies

Eating bean Burritos

Watching reruns of I Love Lucy

It wasn't so bad

Vitamita Vegemin 

 Forget the has beens 

The what-nots

The never weres

Forget the used to be's 

Forget the time

Forget the place

The moment

Forget the color of her hair

Forget her handbag

Her shoes 

The Mercedes she drove

30 years old 

Rusting and paint flaking off

Forget her dog 

The first one

Who died while we waited for the vet

And buried her (Daisy) in Golden Gate Park at 4 am

with an American flag

Forget the second one

Who was crazy and fun

(Stanley)

A man saw him at the beach and said

Hey, that's my dog

Not anymore, she said

 

 Forget yourself

Forget about it don't be an aardvark

In the land of ants

Catch a sunrise

In your back brain

In your back mind

In your back, mother

In back of nothing

And see

What's left but

You know, and it won't make any difference

 Believe the un

Unfortunate

Expired monotony and termed in

And N Tim attend to

Bad explanations

 

 So long

So lost

In eternity

Well, you know the score 101

To one and Cell sell sell, sell, sell, sell amoebas

Cellular single cell being 101 to one

An eternity for you

Just a moment for me

With With coffee and a sink

And a half big grandma on acid

Or something like that, I don't know

Don't ask me

I don't have ALL THE ANSWERS

JUST MOST OF THEM

 

 Creatures cried and lied and died. No one was immune to the storm that bro like a fury.

It was a purple rain. It was a dark and stormy night. The tooth fairy was out of money. She took your tooth and left.

We all tried well, not really, but who the fuck are you?

What I did, I didn't mean that really I didn't life's not so bad As long as they're ICs like ice ACs, I think I don't annunciate well. Oh well down the wall down the well well down the well.

There you go all good. Have a pleasant day.

 

 I whispered

a forgotten shout

told lies to headlands

In military built buildings

   Wrote Jesus on a wall 

      The NIKE missile site

    Wore DEATH

in manicured lawns and chain link fences barb wired

  We ate apple slices

 and lemon cucumbers (I didn't have any)

   I found a sea soaked pink rose

and sherry found a rubber ball with a crack in it

I drew two eyes above its mouth

  And it talked 

We laughed and 

   Laughed 

It was a beautiful sunny

  February day

 I got stone marked a lot. I always bark.

Los bought books from pumpkin

Anarchist books Kropotkin yeah that's right

Took pictures of trees while one tree

838 sushi

Hot CD

 

 Satan seeks souls

Apply at crossroads 17 and Greenville Rd.

Christians encouraged.

Toll free 666-6669

 

 Seekman 

The Seeker

in California 

Drove a '65 Mustang in High School

Now he lives in a condo 

in Pasadena 

 TFIA Shorty

Lives in a moble mm

Mobile Home Park

in Calistoga, CA

 

 I called

On a frozen river

what year is it?

But silence

   Just a bird twirping 

       And the sound of ice

      Cold 

 And hard

Like ice is

     

 Movement isn't free

   the trial stands

forget about it

It's not worth your thought

   You've built a dugout canoe

in a desert

   With sand for oars 

      With pyramids for death

          Silver monuments

To the wild burro

  So sweet and hungry

 Ah well 

Pack the station wagon

Again

    To late night motels 

W vending machines 

And ICE

   The sand is everywhere

But no more oars

 Confirm

   Your eyes

   With special sauce

   And don't be a don't be 

Or something

I woke up

   Pleased to have 

Oh so pleased 

   The 

confirm

  Is 

in

  The rights

  are yours

So what

     Time goes by

   YouTube charges for no ads

      Plug in

turn out 

  Leave it alone 

  Go for a walk