it doesn't matter what I think it's for
the young this applies generally nor
do I imagine I teeter through the row
who the vital catalyst the magic friend
like Joe Cino was to white-bearded Joe
Davies no one they all know each other
like me in the Village too much to ask
again and I wouldn't really want to now
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Many Bits
but where will I stay how will I have fun
look at art is that enough for two days
the artist must be ruthless others will
nothing accomplished without a space
scurry back I used to drift around as
if what I did where mattered the most
here is where I need to be everything
awaits attention divided in many bits
look at art is that enough for two days
the artist must be ruthless others will
nothing accomplished without a space
scurry back I used to drift around as
if what I did where mattered the most
here is where I need to be everything
awaits attention divided in many bits
Friday, February 26, 2010
Magic Words
654 artists imagine the car defines
the man beware drive what u have
to be financed magic words money
is not real but all else is conditional
well not all obviously the body not
branded uniquely everybody's own
& the mind rules itself conditioned
so choose carefully what you drive
the man beware drive what u have
to be financed magic words money
is not real but all else is conditional
well not all obviously the body not
branded uniquely everybody's own
& the mind rules itself conditioned
so choose carefully what you drive
Visible Trace
cut the grass before the rain comes
again every time the same solution
unreels as if for the first time never
granite is opaque no one complains
a mountain there a piece you hold
in your hand world made revealed
this work arises unasked welcome
visitor visible trace and then go on
the rest hidden silence by distance
again every time the same solution
unreels as if for the first time never
granite is opaque no one complains
a mountain there a piece you hold
in your hand world made revealed
this work arises unasked welcome
visitor visible trace and then go on
the rest hidden silence by distance
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Less Hair
do ears get bigger they look bigger
with less hair see through to scalp
vulnerable still strong bodies stand
face to face hands holding whiskies
it's amusing so I'm cheerful my own
happiness index keeping high so far
with less hair see through to scalp
vulnerable still strong bodies stand
face to face hands holding whiskies
it's amusing so I'm cheerful my own
happiness index keeping high so far
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Gray Fog
if I lost wording whatever would I do
to you revenge distraction someone
is reading them aloud or left behind
late night cooking granola riches
sitting undoes exercise not getting
up rolling around rolling your eyes
Better to drift into the gray fog and be forgotten. (Jonathan Lethem)
most beautiful too close up to focus
your tender touch and I am released
impossible not to notice everything
to you revenge distraction someone
is reading them aloud or left behind
late night cooking granola riches
sitting undoes exercise not getting
up rolling around rolling your eyes
Better to drift into the gray fog and be forgotten. (Jonathan Lethem)
most beautiful too close up to focus
your tender touch and I am released
impossible not to notice everything
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sheer Joy
sudden confusion warps reception
fitting the tune contusion marked
like Cole Porter or Paul Simon like
poetry but not for any good reason
impossible to communicate disease
control freaks me out again raving
as if I cared who can think like this
is dead hopeless difference yawns
these rigid forms replace sonnetry
with something easier who needs
more perfect performances stunts
delight sheer joy something itself
fitting the tune contusion marked
like Cole Porter or Paul Simon like
poetry but not for any good reason
impossible to communicate disease
control freaks me out again raving
as if I cared who can think like this
is dead hopeless difference yawns
these rigid forms replace sonnetry
with something easier who needs
more perfect performances stunts
delight sheer joy something itself
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Perfectly Fine
news of the day a coming out
surprise
it is certainly O.K. with me I think
gay is perfectly fine if you like it
as for me how life goes on my
mantra
everything changes but usually
slowly better get used to it
surprise
it is certainly O.K. with me I think
gay is perfectly fine if you like it
as for me how life goes on my
mantra
everything changes but usually
slowly better get used to it
Friday, February 19, 2010
First Time
how big is a house
cousins generations
Abraham Lincoln's
signature before all
Remy takes himself
too seriously for me
Academy of Science
full of noisy children
I'd rather walk if I
could be irresistible
to anyone sees me
the very first time
cousins generations
Abraham Lincoln's
signature before all
Remy takes himself
too seriously for me
Academy of Science
full of noisy children
I'd rather walk if I
could be irresistible
to anyone sees me
the very first time
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Sunny Days
the miles fly by
a waterfall a cat
on its back purring
gesturing looking at me
I am comfortable
among old friends
new family familiar
thinking easily wrought
a strange noise
under Bicky's Volvo
loosely plan to meet
if not now then later on
San Francisco
still here where left
turned out Cambodian
after a week of sunny days
a waterfall a cat
on its back purring
gesturing looking at me
I am comfortable
among old friends
new family familiar
thinking easily wrought
a strange noise
under Bicky's Volvo
loosely plan to meet
if not now then later on
San Francisco
still here where left
turned out Cambodian
after a week of sunny days
Monday, February 15, 2010
Paper Bag
Garrison Keillor practically took my cereal away.
Tell me your number so I can call you back when I am awake.
I am writing everything down on a paper bag.
No, I only moved here nine years ago, after the good times you so fondly remember were over.
That sounds like a good book for us to publish, and if you are really writing a column for the New Yorker you can help us sell it. How can I get a copy of the manuscript? Is the author still alive?
All this because I answered the phone in the back of John's station wagon, which he was compulsively tidying up.
If you are unhappy with the kids in the cast, talk to the director, don't talk to me, and don't tell him I said to.
People persist in their behavior. What can you do with a thought like that?
Tell me your number so I can call you back when I am awake.
I am writing everything down on a paper bag.
No, I only moved here nine years ago, after the good times you so fondly remember were over.
That sounds like a good book for us to publish, and if you are really writing a column for the New Yorker you can help us sell it. How can I get a copy of the manuscript? Is the author still alive?
All this because I answered the phone in the back of John's station wagon, which he was compulsively tidying up.
If you are unhappy with the kids in the cast, talk to the director, don't talk to me, and don't tell him I said to.
People persist in their behavior. What can you do with a thought like that?
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Speak Love
if I don't sing who
will deliver the news
who else speak love
fulfill love changed
and still the same
touch and be close
over distance years
saved up and spent
trust chemicals or
science to explain
so I get up early
every day to write
tell the sun's rise
clear or fogged in
love's fresh dawn
will deliver the news
who else speak love
fulfill love changed
and still the same
touch and be close
over distance years
saved up and spent
trust chemicals or
science to explain
so I get up early
every day to write
tell the sun's rise
clear or fogged in
love's fresh dawn
Friday, February 12, 2010
Modern Friends
all would be forgiven if you blessed my borrowed charm
as if the others knew me better than I ever knew myself
all would be revealed if only we had more time to spend
together in one place playing the musics of other worlds
who could know the secret movements of sober hearts
in passages like melodies or guests as modern friends
like would be recognized in the spaces between words
granted as if blessings on repentant sinners in the act
as if the others knew me better than I ever knew myself
all would be revealed if only we had more time to spend
together in one place playing the musics of other worlds
who could know the secret movements of sober hearts
in passages like melodies or guests as modern friends
like would be recognized in the spaces between words
granted as if blessings on repentant sinners in the act
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Joining Hands
born to love we travel endless miles
to find ourselves together from afar
the moon or phone or bodies meet
awake or closely sleep appreciating
interest on principle and in the flesh
these are good reasons to be happy
that we care that we continue equal
right and true discovery new worlds
inhabited on purpose joining hands
to make a better world for everyone
to find ourselves together from afar
the moon or phone or bodies meet
awake or closely sleep appreciating
interest on principle and in the flesh
these are good reasons to be happy
that we care that we continue equal
right and true discovery new worlds
inhabited on purpose joining hands
to make a better world for everyone
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Easy Part
she works hard spreading shavings in the horse trailer
wheelbarrow shovel is the easy part moving fence posts
stringing wire moving hay moving manure and all the
horse hygiene pick trim hooves feed blanket wash and
all the gardening planting cultivating weeding digging
potatoes we are glad to eat well from her bountiful plots
wheelbarrow shovel is the easy part moving fence posts
stringing wire moving hay moving manure and all the
horse hygiene pick trim hooves feed blanket wash and
all the gardening planting cultivating weeding digging
potatoes we are glad to eat well from her bountiful plots
Monday, February 08, 2010
Travel Fantasies
if I do all that I can go even if I don't
call write reach out all over sow seed
so something else will happen after
this void is not so bad a few months
booked books to read travel fantasies
to be or not to be granted actuality
then what befalls better be good or
I'll have to turn and exit backwards
as if my entrance played in rewind
call write reach out all over sow seed
so something else will happen after
this void is not so bad a few months
booked books to read travel fantasies
to be or not to be granted actuality
then what befalls better be good or
I'll have to turn and exit backwards
as if my entrance played in rewind
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Great Queen
where you come from makes differences
in outlook vocabulary values unassumed
you don't know what is peculiar ordinary
standards apply before you think about it
line length or regular meets over coffee
or ping-pong search approximated cues
that explains it she would have said back
in Kansas City great Queen of the Prairie
in outlook vocabulary values unassumed
you don't know what is peculiar ordinary
standards apply before you think about it
line length or regular meets over coffee
or ping-pong search approximated cues
that explains it she would have said back
in Kansas City great Queen of the Prairie
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Great Personalities
Verdi in the mall tastes in opulence collide
embarrassing chill wind in the parking lot
this calls for a nap then poetry computing
great personalities display themselves at
work extravagant skills status union jobs
this fantastic world just one of thousands
embarrassing chill wind in the parking lot
this calls for a nap then poetry computing
great personalities display themselves at
work extravagant skills status union jobs
this fantastic world just one of thousands
Friday, February 05, 2010
Every Detail
did you notice every detail that's
the key if not you will not know
what's going down next door or
in anyone else's miniature mind
models of probabilty don't apply
to particular instances managing
wealth or love follow the market
even when you may know better
the key if not you will not know
what's going down next door or
in anyone else's miniature mind
models of probabilty don't apply
to particular instances managing
wealth or love follow the market
even when you may know better
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Too Frivolous
I just want to have fun and be happy
mindful awake to reality not the same
for everyone facing greater challenges
survival adequate nutrition shelter health
much less comfort is anything deserved
to love and be loved is that too frivolous
mindful awake to reality not the same
for everyone facing greater challenges
survival adequate nutrition shelter health
much less comfort is anything deserved
to love and be loved is that too frivolous
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Remind Me
dozing mind falls right out of reality
fantastic dramas flicker all sense lost
snap back oh yes how brains process
information please remind me often
many hours between waking sleep
creeps up some unusual channel
patterns recognized as another day
insists on verbalizing mystery meat
what is the connection nothing
is random firings make a sequence
signifying something if we only
knew we could enjoy it even more
fantastic dramas flicker all sense lost
snap back oh yes how brains process
information please remind me often
many hours between waking sleep
creeps up some unusual channel
patterns recognized as another day
insists on verbalizing mystery meat
what is the connection nothing
is random firings make a sequence
signifying something if we only
knew we could enjoy it even more
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Ready to Write
squishy mind wobbles unreliable body
parts itchy writhe sinking core reeling
cortex assumes control the sizzle high
again Eno bells as if posed in its chair
as if ready to write when what obstacle
clears all systems working gravity wins
but does not gloat floater in time-space
frictionless gelid definition to be found
parts itchy writhe sinking core reeling
cortex assumes control the sizzle high
again Eno bells as if posed in its chair
as if ready to write when what obstacle
clears all systems working gravity wins
but does not gloat floater in time-space
frictionless gelid definition to be found
Monday, February 01, 2010
Only Hint
documentation rewards itself we are
onlooking gourmets sorrier I missed
Kandinskys should have flown east
art is there but you don't get to see
hovering potential books only hint I
miss at least I wallowed when I could
commenting as we pass forward leave
everything behind nothing remains
even document enjoyable in its time
onlooking gourmets sorrier I missed
Kandinskys should have flown east
art is there but you don't get to see
hovering potential books only hint I
miss at least I wallowed when I could
commenting as we pass forward leave
everything behind nothing remains
even document enjoyable in its time
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