I was not a weary traveler
   my shoes were clean
      I ate fresh macaroni
not that old stuff
         sometimes I forgot my wallet
but others paid
   one time I lost my wallet
      but a woman found it and drove it to my house
        I stayed in a pensione in Verona
            the bed sagged horribly in the middle
               but I was drunk on white wine
                    and it did not matter

the Giottos
    that is why we went to Padova
or Padua as we call it

later we left
      
      
            

http://whifflingthrough.blogspot.com/2012/01/toward-back-of-sea-he-placed-empty.html

they cover it with a clear plastic dome
        underneath
    is a maraschino cherry
        atop a swirled dome sized pile of
           WHITE whipped cream
    I don't remember
milkshakes coming like that
usually they just had the flat plastic lid with the hole in the middle for the straw
 
     
  

He'd never heard the word putsch
    a putsch by putin
      coup d'etat says safari
          you back the bear into a corner
"tanks don't need visas"
    and neither do bears
          

the picture is not here
   there is no tomorrow
     the way is to go
         the songs are sung again this time with feeling
 
behold the man!
           what a homo
      i forgot to lock the car
             tomorrow is already here
 
   but let's not quibble
     trees forest whatever
         chinese dinner made me hungry for xmas an hour later
              glucose Claus
                  are you pre-diabetic, too?
 
   there are kittens
      where the president-elects face would be
         like shiny chrome
            i am awaited
                

cogito
non sequitorial
   errata
       cum serrano
           filete milanese
                with mussels
and white wine

Fear of death
annihilation of the Self/self
   pixies are the result of
      eating Jesus' body
through sacrament
    Jesus's wine/blood
      poured into the mind of the salvation seeking
the answers are too real
   sometimes
better to listen to the wind
God speaks through leaves
 there is fire
 in the mind
            always churning
            the iron mind
            salt weakens
the surface
high blood pressure
   and cathartic pressure
       the difference/the revelation of the soul
in a 33.3 LP
          

 

I CHING 

Question: Should I get a job?

Result:

59. Dissolving

Line 3:

Dissolving oneself,
without aversion.

Forgetting about oneself to get things done, without feeling aversion to doing so.

the echo
of the canyon people
    lives in the hood of a '89 volvo
         put your ear to it -
see?

Now,
if you stand
                                right here
    and look between where
those two trees
   used to be
             you can see
                                 the shadow
of a horse that
    lived here many years ago
           
  

 

never again 

sad waistrel 

mourned from stars 

                 beckoned and 

calibrated the reasons 

          the ramifications 

    the sadness  

        

the kindness of the supermarket check out ladies
with a bah humbug hat
   like the grinch
       i'd slept most of the day away
   showered and dressed to buy
bacon and tortillas and shampoo
and tangerines
sweet small tangerines
  so easy to peel
    so good
      individual smiles of delight
          orange sunshine
tangerine sunshine juice
 i digress though
but this
   is all digression
      or is it?
whatev
   I'm running out now to buy a new car
  a Porsche
 with orange tangerines on it
      it drives across rivers of grapefruit juice
             but parking is a problem in my neighborhood
   
        
  

on a Thursday afternoon
 some melancholy adroitness
      pondering construction sounds
         and rectangles of sunlight on the wall

to shower or not to shower?
- that's hardly a question
moving fingers
     eating falafil
         with an i
             there's no I in falafel
                 
someone honking their truck horn
   sound of some machine- cutting- working- pounding

lettuce and red onion and dressing
  with falafil for lunch
time to go!
       
        
            

1.Toaster Life

some tortured response

   the bride stripped bare 

          even in Philly 

       take a look 

                                                peek through the little hole

          she's holding a lantern 

                             near the waterfall

                                        but stop coughing

                     you smoke too much 

      thirteen and a half 

                     just do it the way it is

                        (I need to get out of bed)

2. Mesmerized Bye and Bye

street sweepers singing 

         Amy Winehouse 

    "I said no, no, no."

      I think you left your 

hiking boots in the car 

        but there's nothing there now 

            they stole everything 

                   You better move it or it WILL get towed 

                                       go buy some goat cheese 

                                     and we'll have lunch

3. The Ache of Patterson N.J.

twenty two shootings already this month

"That won't stop ME from going!"

                              this after the car got towed 

      - home of the american dream

-now a shit hole 

  - National Park in the middle 

    of what

 a mess 

     

    

   

clear-headed

devoid

simplistic  

  architecture of 

    symbiotic

   wasteland

     dressed in prosaic gallahad-ness

       streaming live 

from the window 

 the birds are fighting 

in the pond

   tourists pedal by laughing 

   I watch the sunlight dapple on

the water surface wondering how when 

I am facing it