Monday, May 8, 2023

Passage to Spring

Everyone has fallen into a stasis field 
put spring on hold 
fooled by a cheap cinematic trick setting off fireworks 
on a summer night 
as the dog lay shaking 
wrapped in her thunder coat
A newspaper
A database scrapper

number five 
when your fingers can't wait 
won't work and why should they? hitting it hard resending from position 
receding there's a little chart 
at the top of a daily paper 
let's get them all stirred up superhuman geriatric types 
and 
overwhelming scent 
of garlic and developing fluid
the mysterious phasing of giant gnats when you least expect 
SURPRISE!
an election panel with pills 
and pills and pills....

At a particular time of each and every violent day 
the vanishing point lives
in a force field projecting such overwhelming chatter video clutter audio chatter without guitars or paper lights 
forget about scripting 
reflecting the shadow play magnetic forces are polarizing microcellular movement 
much the way you'd use a crowbar on a molecular level.

In just about every way under the Sun every day every way every wave crashing against every adventurous ragged zig-zagging shoreline 
wave wave wave 
where the water meets the Earth their lives can be run 
and put that in the poem 
to be scribbled inside 
cheap little poet notebooks waiting for that heavenly inspiration to flow like Hollywood cinematic magic 
into the this crumbling world 
stay true at all times, stay true

Mine is not the world to spin as a roulette nor to be waited on hand and hoof as some sacred cow turned blue with centuries of worship in a far vast developing world where online voices prove you can build a luxurious patio and pool was strenuous labor time lapse function in a day or two to spend before tacking it on the wall in cyberspace

When it all comes down and the subject comes up lines will form for the necessories we speak don't get too hot or take it to smugly think of it as a bagel or a transfer for the unsalted

There is an hour inside each of us when the head is splitting the wolf is howling where we all each one must answer the most difficult question lying lying in a pit of our stomach noising the sinister knowing of the waves of the hair in the in the hair of the harpy in the howl of the engine the Great and grading crush of humankind

Of the stone wheel wake up but don't pretend that your world is real that your hopes are anything other than a posture toward pretense of ego propulsion into the slow dive following deep in the painful pit of the place where all the titans 
Wound up world 
Including the gnashing of teeth 
the day is too gone infomercial awards committees have nodded off over and out,  good buddy even the rubber duck wanted out 
by the end of the flick knowing that every road runs out of ground when it hits the coast  
went to waving you off
as I've been from to coast to coast to coast and Coast

It's a brain jacked attack 
to jam as much info 
as can be shared 
at first blush it seems 
Amid the great uncertainty 
is washing us away 
Strewn along the violent shore 
with all the fire; 
all the smoke, 
all the crazy lighting tricks 
of course the devil has always been screwing around in the details 
of all the detritus virtual 
or not sunken off 
a floating island planet 
in and atop the bottomless deep blue sea.
Check your local listings 

oh what could the trouble be?

The market gets timid but you mean 
it scared you 
can make up who is positive and who is tested negative

 time for time to move time

to run 
I can't get a thing done 
have to get all the time 
in the world 
I'm not getting worried 
tired or uptight 
just taking in the light's noise 
yes, lots of noise when you don't 
intend to 
share deep dark secrets...

Which are really no secret 
to anybody at all who has known been known been around the block 
kick the tires 
broke the rules 
just because you could 
I could voice it 
upon useful stupidity  
why would I and you shouldn't feel shackled to that stereotype things 
I did, I wanted to do 
nobody gives you a guarantee 
that you'll ever be able 
to do 
again. Right?

New day rising! New day rising! 

Rip off your pajamas
Strap something sturdy to your feet
Assume the position in the full armor of God
Everything
The whole of it
To defend against the slings and arrows
To defeat the corrosion of complacency
The conformity to bow your head and kneel in truth
To the revelation
To the truth

A slight and slender five lined skink
Came to visit me this Saturday
Should have waited 24 hours
For the feast day of Saint Francis
Wouldn't have noticed her
If Lulu hadn't been preoccupied with her daily sniffings
For rabbits and field mice
You stupid skink - I huffed
I'm trying to put you out in the sunshine
So you can enjoy your life
She slinked down the fence

And away

The cruel winter hinted by diabolical agents trying to incorporate miserable lines stitched in like your mouth stapled shut with metal staples shards jammed in with a surgical staple gun
if you ask for me 
you can ask glorious 
who saw me wandering alone 
who knew when I was hungry 
I didn't have to learn no damn euphonics 
to write my blues 
on the far horizon 
with tangerine 
thinking horizon 
in your perspective 
from the prosecutorial 
it is only personal background 
the politician will never 
tell 

Attempting to speak to you in a cryptic antiquated language over a breakfast of d'anjou and black coffee
Across the pond you giggle
To you, I feel, my language no longer travels
On the ears 
Of doves

More the soundings of rocks and shattered storefront displays no finesse, capiche?

Should attempt to borrow the pen
Mediterranean
Or loot from Dante

My small Soul tremors from Paradise you'd think the world, including e.e. & all his furry freak bros
From sea to uproarious sea in updating style books  setting American tongues free!
Who hepped you cats 
to the once upon a time brand new deal
For the real musical lyric of the Love American style we are in the middle of a revolution
For crying out loud

Now the world can see 
but cannot hear the monstrous megatech overlords and major media co-conspirators are attempting to brainwash the rest
Into concluding complacency into the fraud and races vice that we are a divided people just not true.

Yeah, yeah
Everybody's got their own opinion
Or the same opinion
Or however you wish to spin

If standing against tyranny
We jump on our horses and make it to Philadelphia with a declaration by and from the people of the great state of North Carolina or South Carolina

Poems rushed in from the periphery of the Mercurial edges 
the pool side 
the city side 
the curbside

Open up the timeline 
let's go frame by frame 
slow it down 
speed it up 
do it over again and again reverse engineering
The difference engine

Friday, November 18, 2022

Toxic green inlay of zigzag notebook

Page 1:

Toxic blemish disaster
My fans are doing wrong
Intentionally
We've set up a helpline
To discuss fraudulent fees
An electric plug unplugged
Finally to the point of being sick and tired
A wealth of noun
And they're darling adjectives
Bygone and pulp scented
Tomes of verse
Upon verse
Upon verse
The corruption of which
Up with I shall not put
The turkey/lobster holidays approach
As a way of welcoming
Thankful aliens from all corners of the globe
Come feast at our table
Wearing your audacious headwear
Pass the damn can of cranberry sauce
Jellied
Kicking under the table
With your uncomfortable high heeled shoes
You're square leather toes
Or as the Indians have told me
Why do you want to give it to us now
After you trashed it out.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

No Reason to Get Worked Up About It

without truth you have nothing // less than nothing // really // 
what do you have? // a lie? // a lie you can believe in // 
will that make you happy? // 
ultimately?
after living this (my life) to its fullest // i am neither shocked nor dismayed // 
to find the truth of lies crumpled up and thrown on my porch // 
as that robin who flew into the door // on a windy spring day //
Your deceptions aren’t earth-shattering to me // I, too, was living through the darkness // 
before i was called away // 
it can make you happy for a moment // 
take it!!! // Take it all!! // RUN! FLY! SAIL! // 
on these our memories are built // and all else be damned // 
go ahead // cheat, steal, and lie // 
gather your miserable baubles // 
clutch them tight to your chest // 
close your eyes 
as the world winds down // 
to find itself 
some rest

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

7 Fractals (Travels Through the West) - AKA-Resolution #4


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Who’s Barrette Is In My Pocket?- 

 Last Night (North Beach)... These Are the Things that You Do These Other Things that You Do- girlfriend smash! bottle of wine...

These Are the Things that You Do
when you do other things
you know you will do

bottle punch!
Streetfight right

‘...right down the middle, baby! Right down the middle!'

Down the middle of Columbus
these are those things, too
These Are the Things that You Do

When the ocean runs off to hide
gonna bring down that boy
from up the Northside
gonna spill that tongue
go for a ride
you know there’s no poem
that’ll get you that high

These Are the Things that You Do
When you do Other things
These Other Things that You Do

these things you do
i thought you knew
there’s no ocean @ the end of this road

keep stealing things
your bound to get shown
ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS
you knew you would do
These Are the Things that You Do

Grant Street holdouts
* got a job in the Morning *
if you roll out of bed before noon

These Are the Things that You Do
As you do OTHER things
 you know that you do

gonna take all humanity
* roll it in a ball*

maid cleans the carpet @ two
Audio-corpse hiding in micro-cassette

These Are the Things that You Do
 * you know it’s only written for you *
for these
 * Are the Things that You Do * ========================================  



Definitive Naked earthquake Surf -(poem)-

Naked roof surfer rides it down
just out of Sleep’s tender fingered clutches
Rides it down
Naked Roof Surfer does
‘pon cresting red bricked waves
Building blocked up in the 1920's by West Coast Scotsmen
lugging buckets of mortar ‘cross Cascadian ranges
‘cross Columbian riptides
[Also known to be the future site of the former Grand Coolie Dam] (Finally realized by the early 21st century (by the by) to be the natural predator of many endangered species of sacred fish spirits) nudge nudge wink wink THIS... only after they mastered spawning upstream which still does not negate the fact that bricks are heavy especially when you carry them over mountains Naked Roof Surfer riding the roof down Where news casting clown stands vociferously chickling paints on fish pants Which fly fishers may be seen wearing this spring @ better mens shopping outlets in truly hip chic urban areas Roof Surfer Naked riding roof down @ perpendicular angles to Earth’s angry plates Shuffled by the muscle of machine built by man powered by alternating current inspired through secrecy via guffawing celestial conspiracy The chickering clown points North by Northwest from the corner of Pine & Melrose -Lucky our LIVE camera is locked & loaded... SHOOT ‘IM, ME BOYOS, SHOOT ‘IM! LIGHT ‘IM UP & SHOOT ‘IM! Joe & Sally HighDefine are really gonna love this one.- Naked Roof Surfer downriding the roof -What could you be thinking Naked in bed @ 10:45am when the rest of Amerika is hard @ work you worthless bum?- You are the sole impetus the reason for this godly wrath so ‘his’>>>(are we still calling the angry vengeful all-seeing all-knowing ‘his’)>>> SO.. ‘his’ target- ing system is a splotch off kilter... Maybe ‘he’ doesn’t want to spend the C-note on the upgraded version... & who could blame ‘him’- without shaking their respective fists @ that mansion ‘cross the largest lake in Washington? Naked Roof Surfer when you ride it down you must ride it out of town in order that hardworking bastards may build more mansions acquiring hourly wage slave whoredom gigs @ 4 star downtown open air strip malls paying exorbitant rents buying expensive imported shit with credit cards set to stun online overnight next day delivery sit in their bars + sit in their cars + sit in cafes +++((pretending their once & future stars))+++ for the love of all that’s secular... Can’t you catch a wave headed towards Mongolia Naked roof surfer riding the roof down? What if there where no FREEZONE? Then where would you be? Still asleep on caffeined overload, i bet They didn’t write those freelove songs for you roof rider/ boat rocker 35 years old & not one clue in your bag of tricks so what if the sidewalk kisses the ground? so what if the roof kisses the sidewalk? so what if everybody sez ‘It’s all about you isn’t it?’? Naked Roof Surfer riding the roof down naked crumbling onto naked sidewalks of naked pavements in naked cities serves you right Roof came down the Naked Surfer on the roof was riding stumbling upon descent over broken concrete broken ‘NO PARKING’ signs broken freeway exits Doing the long-haired cafe scribble just one more reason your not making banco on this whole schematic here get plugged in- jacked up- downloaded put a damned plot in the play & keep that camera still! I want bandwith broadcast quality art from artists & write from writers You’ve pissed off too many powerful people NAKED ROOF SURFER so ride it into the Bay & down the Sound & get your skinny ass out on the myster-ee-ous-o Sea all the children sing scapegoat set afloat use a rooftop surfboard for a boat &Laughing MANIACALLY @... US?! Hardworking Liberty-loving economic foodchain souls... BUT... if you can find it, roof surfer, naked as you are if you can find that elusive illustrious golden day sunshine dawn Naked Roof Surfer riding the rooves of the world down to transmission soaked Earth concrete won’t you show us all? @ least you could sell us a little hope... Before you go

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SLIM JIM METAPHYSICS

SUN MOON RAIN WIND STARS & FLOWERS
- Flowers?-
- Flowers too-
-Remember Seattle, Jim? I remember we decided we would stick with the American Heritage definition of ‘condensed language...’ but Flowers?-
-SUN MOON RAIN WIND STARS... & also.. FLOWERS-
Ah,... Jim?
- Yes, Slim?-
Remember that Spec of a sud jockey, Jim? Very critical of anything slightly resembling this This... ‘Soul Unleashed’ style of which you speak
- Critical minds resemble the consistency of flabby baby bottoms. We will NOT speak of this critique again, Slim.-
But, Jim! What if the peoples don’t like us, Jim?
- SUN MOON RAIN WIND then, Slim.-
No Stars & Flowers?
- No Stars & Flowers. If they don’t play nice, they get neither STARS nor FLOWERS-

What about FIRE & BLOOD, Jim? If they don’t play nice... What about FIRE & BLOOD?
- It’s FIRE & BLOOD that’s dam bursting floods-
How now, Jim? How now & what ho?
- That’s angst exposed to win mediocrity a minuscule modicum of notoriety. Have or have you not noticed, Slim, how everybody’s been flooding that dam?-
With FIRE & BLOOD, Jim?
- Yes, Slim... with FIRE & BLOOD.-
Who do you speak of now, Jim?
- Sitting naked in my mynd... i threw the STICKS... i cast the RUNES... i rolled the EYEBALL of a Goat,... & let me tell you... you would be shocked @ what was exposed-
What was it, Jim? What was IT?!

- SUN MOON RAIN WIND STARS...-
& Flowers, Jim?
- But of course, Slim,... & FLOWERS.-

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DER SCHIMMEL RITTER IS WRITING FOR HUMANITY
Sometimes... the crying rider - der schimmel ritter- is riding for humanity... On a yellow horse @ 10:32 p.m.- that’s Seattle time -past the grunge stations... the S.U.V. parking here on I-5 * heading very south as i am with a -left-turn-green-arrow-... THE GREEN ARROW! THE GREEN LANTERN! The greeny green green to make the world go ‘round... these are all the greens i see in this Emerald Town... the freeway entrance... lanes merging, other lanes joining... That’s sixty miles an hour, pal. Do you want me? Do you wanna let me over? Now that i’m using my patented -left-turn-green-arrow-? NO! You don’t want to let me over... because you’re a very important person... you’ve got too much on the ball to be worried about DER SCHIMMEL RITTER riding his yellow horse in the moonlight... The Moon hanging over downtown... very small/little/tiny downtown... such a little pearl- especially when seen from the water... from the ferry... from the westside... from the industrial concrete man-made bunker island out in the harbor... amid the halogen floods & magnetic cranes [matters not whether orange or white]... YES! YES! i know it’s a ‘tow-away’ zone/// that’s why i’m going 70 mph... I don’t want to be towed away, get it? Here i am driving further south with my love for humanity {AHEM} hopefully i will be able to give them- ALL OF THEM -everyone of them a ride on my yellow horse TONIGHT! They in turn shall pay my rent... shall buy my videotape... for i need my raw product... Just... way out there raw product... That’s what it is...
Lady said i should go to school... i should take a coupla classes in... ahhhh... ART!
This is a class in ART, Lady! Lady, look @ me!!! This is a class in ART! This is how you make ART! Driving around Lake Union...
Oh, smarmy Lake Union... used to be the home to thousands of hippies... only had enough money to buy a little houseboat... rent a houseboat... feed a cat... live on the water... no playground/// no soccer mom training gear/// no playground... no nothing... NOW>>>
you may as well buy a beamer for the price of a houseboat... & why not buy another car? Wouldn’t that make the world a much better place? In the long run? If everyone owned an infinite amount of cars to travel the freeways... to piss off
DER SCHIMMEL RITTER...
who are going down desperately towards the Regrade... on the ‘graveyard shift’... (cough, cough!)... we can pull out all the dead bodies & make it respectable for everyone... get it? DER SCHIMMEL RITTER! Past REI i ride... past the business machines... Turning on Eastlake... Here i am! Who’s gonna hit me? Nobody! Noone would hit the rider... you don’t want to get any on you, that’s why... & there you have it! The Suite Cotswald Port Dances... Five people in the Regrade five lonely riders... mostly Ethiopian... mayhaps an American... but i.. i am THEE SCHIMMEL RITTER on this yellow horse... late @ night... i see the young boys in their pullover shirts, wondering if they should walk against the ‘Don’t Walk!’ lights... wandering to do a little disco dancing in their sandaled feet... they decide... ‘Let us do do that disco dancing we’ve been planning for so long... meet some women... have a few drinks... Chill out with DJ Soupy Soup Soup... Chill out with Mack Dad DJ Baby Baby Baby Wipes... ‘ There’s the Moon! So beautiful... silhouetted against Pike Tower flapping giant American flag... i don’t know whether or not it is truly an American flag [ i prefer to think it is instead of some major corporate cartoon spending money to plod the boot stomped backs of the downtrodden masses] (so i’ll just assume) it’s an American flag waving over the Moon... Under the Moon’s ever watchful cratering eyes... original skyscraping hotels made out of brick... Your days are numbered... stuck up from the 1920's... you had best get as much use as you can out of that neon green title... braced above your penthouse decadence tongue kissing candy dreams... pretty soon it’s que sara ! It’s BAJOOM! It’s BOOM-a-LOOM! They’ll sell your bricks online smuggled through the yellow barrier tape by scavenging salesmen on skateboards riding razors in their suit & tie... Low income housing turns top dollar condominium when those times do strike... DOWN ONE WAY STREETS... Meaning: as long as you don’t go two ways @ once you’ll be doing fine... down Terry Avenue... there’s that Moon again... this time it’s hiding behind a tree as if that were the safest place for it to watch me & the others smoking in the twilight... there’s a lot of construction going ‘round these days & they’ve been throwing things off the roofs again... actually... pressing the zero-four-five buttons we find that Steven Potteroy has not been moved by these machinations for evidence of recorded messages remain... ‘Hello you’ve reached Steven J. Potteroy @ zero-four-five please leave a message & i’ll return your message as soon as possible.’ to which DER SCHIMMEL RITTER responds with micro-cassette technology recording the syllables sounding through the Night’s time ‘i’m recording this message so don’t get any funny ideas... i’m standing outside your frontdoor.’ -click- this across from the wordpit where Drunken Writer’s Collective collected in the wordhole far from the astral noodle... in the shadows actual... after readings-greetings-meetings-beatings of the nuevo cyber-pop-media movements & self pithied soliloquies... Yet... only to mount the yellow horse once again... to fly around town... flying, Flying, FLYing... the madness of constant motion... hoping to get something out of all of this mess... hoping to learn to love to live... i win a bronze medal for my exploits @ least... a bronze medal... i’m #3!... that’s something, huh? #3 @ the Dog- called the Greyhound -called the bus station to the uninitiated... cruising past all the people the greyrider smiles off prancing pony beaded massaging seatcovers ‘i’m #3! Me! The outrider! DER SCHIMMEL RITTER! The crying rider... writing for humanity on his yellow horse!’
SONG-: Schimmel Ritter... where are you going? -*- Now that the night is done... Oh, Gimble minder... Put your yellow horse to bed -*- after all has been said & done... Imperfect Binder... How you shout those Chinese baby laughs -*- better get your ticket -*- board that train never looking back -*- only headed for the... Sun

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Across the Midwest, On My Way to Mongolia

Writing on a train, rolling through the midwest... No! i will not start this off by way of romantic lie! The train is stopped to load passengers @ the St. Paul station. [THERE i said it & it is true with no embellishment. HA! Didn’t think i could do it, eh? Write a sentence of truth so plainly bland that no one in their right mind would dare to deny it. If you’ve got a problem with a little truth you may as well close these pages right now/// wrap them in that gawdy paper you’ve got in the closet from a dozen holidays ago/// take that wrapped present throw it in a paper bag/// go down to the local postal hole/// tell ‘em to put it into one of those empty refrigerator boxes we always hear the homeless people love sleeping in sooooo much {this by the top pop jocks & jills as Big Daddy Warbucks foots the bill for their fastfood drive through plasma tans [[[which (((REALLY))) just keeps gaining in erotic appeal & gets more sexy looking the older you get & the more your flesh starts sagging } & send it to that person who everybody thinks is some sort of mutant just BE-cawse S/he is not attempting to be part of the disinfo that’s being pedaled by a mass media glad rag]]] Not even halfway through the trip & ALREADY i’m putting false images on it! The silver train swallows it’s cargo. Kathryn is looking for a handi-wipe...er.. some form of antiseptic to clean a cut received somewhere (more than likely Wisconsin --[taking into consideration all the paper shuffling she does as a Fed...]-- maybe an old paper cut that worked itself a little worse when she got to her childhood hometown of Amherst & started slinging packages into the loft while i got real dizzy.) this//////[[[i stay herbal that’s why... only carnivores seem to have a problem with this little conspiracy of mass slaughter being a WAY unkind thing to perpetrate upon the surface of a GI-GANTIC living entity trapped out here in a quadrant of space () millions of par secs from anything that even resembles it merely 2222 miles into the first half of our journey. This journey’s purpose? To move all extemporaneous belongings to a safe storage place. The safest storage place in the United States of America being >>> Amherst, Wisconsin (the family fishfarm)

Kathryn grew up on this fishfarm but since has travelled this country & the world searching out the holy grail of her passions. You could call that ‘romanticism’ if you wanted to. I really don’t think Kathryn would mind that too much. She lives by certain concepts she picked up out here in the Heartland & if that’s all right with her then that’s all right with the world. Comes from a lakey prairie home type setting where the younger brother (the baby of the family) could be working on a spaceship in the basement out of AOL CDs & Mom’s making that ‘Cheesy Potato Hotdish’
{that sounds fairly humorous when you say it on a full stomach but just wait until the late night cable stations start running all those sleepers you never wanted to ante up for back in the 80's { those Cheesy Potato’s don’t sound so silly now do they, mister? ...Or maybe you would prefer>>> trekking through the 40 below drifts ALL THE WAY to Steven’s Point (that’s the nearest 24hr convenience store, huh?) For some crappy junk food after you’ve been drinking beer & brandy all night (not to mention the Vodka... No... let’s not mention it)
She hooked up with me six years ago... Jesus! Six years ago... i told myself i was on my way out of Planet America... WAY OUT... couldn’t deal with the greed, the wholly unAmerican concepts of stagnation through dinosaur ideologies, nor the overly consumptive nature of the prevalent *ownership/purchase/might/& right* square cornered four way circle jerk... on my way out...
Gnawing voice behind the brain asks ‘Where ya going, Mr. Smarty-pants? Somewhere better? HA!’... Anywhere i don’t have to hear lies being professed as truth in any one of the multitudinous dialects. That’ll be good enough for me. As anyone familiar with my work would know>>> i have previously lived along the Mexican Border... ‘Bordertown, Baby!’... loved being some freaky alien where i couldn’t understand the words the people were spitting over their shoulder... smirking & calling me a gringo... No comprende, Amigo!... insults don’t ruffle the alien... the alien didn’t pull his scales out into feathers when that was the ‘in thing’ to do the funky def dope slamma jamma thing the disco hustle thing to do the yuppie coke freak thing or... (hide the kids)... this 'freaked out', paranoid, dilettante, politically correct, soccer mom road rage wannabe apathetic condescending thing to do... NO! Aliens do not do those things you do... insults bounce off of aliens... yellow jello shooter shots bounce of your windsheild ... your psychopathic Uncle bounces off the walls of the sanitarium when he finds out that money is a lie... the unregenerate priest bounces off the pearly gates when he sees all the angels have tattoos & they say it gives them nice dreams... but still i felt crappy...
I finally decided to go to Mongolia [[[of all places]]]... to live among the memories of the beautiful savage hordes of my ancestors... America ain’t so big compared to what Mongolia was back there... before the modern convenience... the generations of easily swallowed lies... well,... i guess that’s it everybody gets a shot sooner or later.... they all get a shot to really screw things up for hundreds [[[sometimes thousands of years]]]... until one day a bigger screw up shows up with hat in hand... illiterate... can’t even speak the language... & just takes everything for him or herself... one of the world’s most successful forms of primitive empiricism... MANIFEST DESTINY... ME:::&>>> no money, but what i could scrape out of taxicabs, willing supporters of my rather socially unaccepted forms of artistry, & the inevitable odd job. (Always odd. Always a job.)... i’m going to Mongolia...

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Chronicleer
The Mother of All Creation still rising, she is still blindingly pulling eyes towards a-blinding sleepy eyes sleepy red white & blue eyes, redder than all the beer bottle labels even more than that funky salsa musico, that mellow calypso, that reggae beat EVEN MORE than those massive Persian couplets so brutal in the early morning hours no doctor worth his weight would/should/or/could prescribe more than two before sunrise with a clear conscience heavy heavy are those sunrises a leader striking heroic poses against telemetry backgrounds a young girl who still believes in fairy tales dolls her self up The music shifting so much & often neither are able to grasp the face of reality They walk off hand in hand through silvery veils of mystery dawning They share the mutual understanding they are both out of time A voice booms from Heaven’s public address system ‘YOU ARE NOT ROBOTS! Time is ending soon!’
COCK-A-DOODLE RISE! COCK-A-DOODLE RISE!
RISE-A-DOODLE DOO! RISE-A-DOODLE-DOO!
COCK-A-DOODLE RISE! COCK-A-DOODLE RISE!
RISE-A-DOODLE DOO! RISE-A-DOODLE-DOO!
...THIS ECONOMY WON’T MOVE ITSELF! We need product & service. That’s what we’re paying for... A woman walks slowly in conjunction with the planets. The sound of planets connecting in the ether. Liquid rings mark the table. A strange blue/print is formed. Steel grey blankets cover sun rising skies. Somebody’s been transmitting again... GO AHEAD>>> cry on your sleeve/// the monkey’ll force it out @ that point you connect to the link. There’s a youngman walking his road alone. After the trauma. After the Drama. Disconnected from the freedom he felt in Philadelphia... back East... somewhere in Amerika. He drew the FOOL card, pulled it deep from his own deck before this journey started. Now he’s got himself a special form of torture,... slow & sweet he sings those hang dog blues plucked from the flowering of his dead end youth... tossed by the zephyr of passing semi-rigs... he’ll know this is what it means to be ‘alone’[[[if it doesn’t kill him/\he’ll never be able to leave]]] the only hope which he can’t possibly know is that he could land in a box labeled alien by those who stay put, keep their mouth shut & locked as if to conceal some ancient mystic wisdom gleaned in the fiber fine print whispering
Novus Ordo Seclorum
COCK-A-DOODLE CA$H! COCK-A-DOODLE CA$H!
CA$H-A-DOODLE DOO! CA$H-A-DOODLE DOO!
COCK-A-DOODLE CA$H! COCK-A-DOODLE CA$H!
CA$H-A-DOODLE DOO! CA$H-A-DOODLE DOO!
He’ll stumble among the monuments they built for themselves to prove their not as bad as all that. Those visions dancing on his retina. Atlas is shrugging ‘What?... That?... forget about it.’ His brain bound the moment the image is stored deep.. Deep.. Deeper still further back in soft tissued memory... stored in the crawl spaces... a fingerpainting taped to the refrigerator door of a whorehouse,...way down south... somewhere in America...
He’ll return, chances are, one strange day to the wet asphalt of his spawning ground... On that glorious day to see he’ll notice a woman walking slowly in conjunction with the planets. If he’s extremely lucky, on that day, a semi-rig will rocket past blasting an old blue eyed version... listen... you can hear it in the rubber rolling the pavement...listen,.. under the temporary umbrella cloud of diesel exhaust... listen,... that’s life... that’s what all the people say...
Cock-cock-cock a-doodle TIME! TIME a-do-do-doodly-do! Cock-cock-cock a-doodle TIME! TIME a-do-do-doodly-do!
Time to come up for some air now, Charlie. Still cock-cock-cock-a-doodling... still blowing that brass godmouth... still watching years slip triptych into colors, ya know? Colors LIKE Colors yellow, orange, blur, green. Regular colors. Normal decent colors. Noone has a problem with colors right, Charlie? Welcome to the 21st century! We still burn crosses,... burn crosses in our minds everyones’ predjudism is of the highest most holy city concillatorally ordinancary ordained with a couple amendments added for those mean tortured love children jumping up to wrastle talk show security guards flat on their respective asses... We.. Still.. Have.. Sneaky alleys don’t trick yourself into believing all is sweet & Low & fat-free. It’s the 21st century fer crying out loud! Charlie! It’s the 21st century!
COCK-A-DOODLE- GENERATE COCK-A-DO-DA-DOODLE-GENERATE GENERATE A BETTER DOODLE DOO
GENERATE A BETTER DOODLE DOO
... the voice of the majick rooster trails off to the other side of the planet The Landscape asks our young coxcombed Rooster
“What is it you try to tell? Are your passion so enraged screaming through the sunrise must you awake every sleeper must blast through their waking pull them back to dirty streets to remember they are living of this time/\/\/\this place Your maudlin stare/\Your rapacious voice Your cocky strutting/\Your dodging snide From weather vaned perch you scream your sermons both manual & pious attempting to pilot human nature from their naturally destructive course Did you awake the shahs & prophets? The Emperors & Architects? Either Fascist or Politically Correct? Your roosterings have had no effect on ways the money’s spent All your harems, All your hordes are thrown back from another time. & Sir!”
Our Landscape turns on heel “I won’t waste my Time!”
The Landscape walks off to fill the horizon.

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American Road Trip (up & down the coast)

What was it?{four people in black car rolling North I-5 to come back down 101 heading south} THINK! THINK! THINK! Amazing!- simply this-Nothing more A suicidal possum opted to take it’s life today- Eyes throwing Starbeams- High-speed love stories are very subtle- running freeways littered with tears- that gasoline on your jeans- smells American to me- Somebody’s dark eyes in the rearview- keep the ocean over your right shoulder- Maybe... don’t try to figure it out- if the possum had lied- very verrry still- the clearance of the carriage of the car would leave a happy possum- how happy to be happy- prismatic optical contrivance blinds the mind- the Moon’s contagioned lips over your right shoulder- her protector is a salt water junkie- Back in town the walls of Saturday Night resound happy screams- The more you give... The less you have...- out on the Highway- to be robbed & stolen- Any heroes save possums?- Just a bloody brainscrew!- this is nowhere near truth- i lie- possum flat- the best intentions of noble intent ring of overly stated redundancy- Was there a kiss?- How the junkies dress their pigs- the question remains still- Was there a kiss?- The pain is untrue- unlike falling down drunk- the possum’s eyes kissed the driver’s eyes- they were both very afraid- the possum lost- the pain was stored in the driver’s brain- memories play damnable poignant- EUREKA!- beautiful people are ugly, too- EUREKA!- ugly people have beauty unknowable- EUREKA!- ‘Oh Yeah!!’- Charlie blowing out the Black Rabbit past hordes of ‘heavier-than-thou’ motorcycle enthusiasts- ‘Oh Yeah!!’- a lady chases napkins down a cigarette littered sidewalk beach- ‘Oh Yeah!!’- ‘... but we’ve got a Mingus- flavored Black Rabbit racing down the coast- ‘Oh Yeah!!’- rental people will wash possum blood off the Black Rabbit- ‘Oh Yeah!!’- Better replace that ‘No Smoking’ decal, too- $ell it again for another North American Junkie Road Trip- ‘Oh Yeah!!’- ‘... but... they don’t have a Mingus flavored Black Rabbit!’- ‘Oh Yeah!!’ maybe no possum blood- no contagioned kiss- no snorkeling platypus- [sic = spelling is correct]- unlike the exquisite pain of kissing- can’t buy it @ a ‘Blue Light Special’- anything you want but not that- poor sad sleepy dream after possuming the Road- can’t hold Beauty down- it get’s Road colored- Even the most noble of Thieves can only displace it in Space- it was actually a Japanese Black Rabbit w/ roots so thick, ‘they could never cut ‘a Spaniard’s’ hair’- but... the possum was American- as is the Beaver- industrious enough to teach us ‘how to...’ build dams- The Beaver & The Spaniard teaching... Industrious Thievery- You take one economical sized Black Rabbit of Japanese decent... Mix it with a possum south of Gold Beach on PCH- It’s a recipe.- You see?- BUT the ART... Is a culinary sculpture- of Light & Smoke- of S.F. firetruck songs- there’s more than that- really- some people refuse to give anything- some people don’t give you enough- to work with- only tears- or keep their secrets locked away- the possum knocked on my floorboard- it was a secret possum knock- there was a Spaniard- a Possum- An American- A Junkie- a lot of Pigs- there was a Black Rabbit from Japan- the Green Tortise had already given up the Ghost- there was a kiss- there was an end- an end to this American Junkie Road Trip

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

& Early to Rise

What to do?
What to do?
between the blinds
Sun seeps through
The next day finds us
Without a clue
But harried as we are
So terribly busy
To prove
Our lives are more
Than a mere collection of breath
Passing from this hour
Into the next
Everybodies poetry
&
Everybodies photograph
Is part of the app
Producing a song
Swelling as the credits roll
They roll on & on
An infinite train rushing through
Past slack jawed riders
Filling their cases brief
With cheques
And billable hours
Oh, someone's going to pay
You know they've got to pay

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Morning Brings the Songs

Thank you
for the songs
you sing me
early in the morning.

For the images
you impart
through sonic means.

Sounds of nails creak
sliding into the flesh
of wood.
Birds outside
the global warming
of my air conditioned
photographic lair.

My God!
There are even beautifully photographed
birds on the calendar, 
across from the desk lamp,
on the wall.

Who should ever worry
over the poetry of spring?
Only salesmen worry.
Whether real or imagined.

Spring? NEVER!
Birds? NEVER!
Music? NEVER!

For these,
it's just enough
to be.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Softly We Rise

From a time and a space
Days have been numbered exactly
An hour only has sixty minutes
There won't be another added
Not even one of the 3600 seconds
Can be stolen from
These intricately manufactured
Clockworks

If that'd happen
They'd throw off the crowing
Of roosters
And the chirping
Of crickets
Then what kind of world
Would this be?

Once I thought
Time had passed me by
Like a train leaving the station
Out in the middle of nowhere
And a guy running across the plain
Waving his arms frantically
'Stop! Stop! All my luggage is in there!'
And all the apathetic faces looking out
Watching with a melancholy of inevitability

Time's march and its' fly and its' roll and its' crawl
Are noted in passing and approach
But how you spend this currency
Is your own business
To be added to your bill
Or your paycheck
@ checkout

Like when you're a little girl
And you realize someone you know
Is fifty years old
And you also realize that fifty years
Is a half of a century
And you think to yourself
'Half a century! That's mighty old.'

And you live
And you live
And you live

Until you're looking in the mirror
Fast approaching
The second decade marker
Outside of that mystical half century

With you in the mirror
Are all your past
All your fears
All your hopes
All your time
On the planet

You wonder
'How will I ever make this train?
There's not enough time.
I can't run as fast was I could
When I was younger.'

Suddenly the train stops
Dead in its' tracks
As if one of the passengers
Caught the conductor's  attention
And said
'I know you ain't gonna let that child
Drag itself all the way out here
In the middle of nowhere
With nothing but the clothes on its' back!'

The joy floods over you
As the conductor hits the breaks
Fifty yards from the depot
The engine exhales

Now you can breathe a sigh of relief
You have faced
The rushing wings of time
You have caught your train
And you are bound
For your destination

~ pmpope 2013

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Photograph of Chlorophyll Depleted Leaves

Today in this
My consideration calls to you
From across this well populated
Social space
Human lives

As they move on their path towards
Who knows what?
One couple wants to buy a car
It's a guy and girl couple
They look that they'd be better suited
At running marathon and 5k races

Another young girl comes along to enjoy a lunch
She catches the eye of a pink wearing blonde
As she exits the establishment
Some may ask: How could I ever love you?
I ask: How could you not?

Answer a question with a question
May lead you to tag me as 'duplicitous' (at best)
Whose fault is it in the long run?
Blame the sun for illuminating beauty,
Blame the book for opening your mind,
The doctor for opening your heart
What will you discover in the landfill of blame?
Only death and decay
And of what benefit has that ever been
Besides to the autumn landscape

~ PMPope 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013

This is Vision ~ 10-2013

This video poem was written& performed by: 
PMPope.
All Multi*Media was produced at:
3dgeRanch Multi*Media
Charlotte, NC
2013 ©

Friday, October 4, 2013

The Best It Could Have Been


The most special million year sentence
could have been most universal
of the world
if & now out of nature
all come altered when
Another person repliances, becoming
criticized by gluing such graces
as livingly dropped in; the jury startled
you and the surface
high energy gravy,
a little more than scented out
by the terms out among the latitude in-country
Bacon, your eggs!
Where everything's bacon
 
 larger straineries come, possibly
As of a grand photory
tailed by a piece
of our Exhibitorium
of this only life chance

~ pmpope 2013

Monday, June 3, 2013

Somersault

A Work of Prose Poetry In Installments
A Collaboration of Light & Love
Ladies & Gentlemen,
I joyfully present
The 1st Web Installment of...




Wanting so much more in life, other than his 100k lifestyle

He feels his failure inside and squeezes it into a little pill,

Swallowing the bitter pill and leaving reality for a dream.
+++++
Here I am, looking out the window as the sun surfaces,


In awe of such beauty from above, traveling afar

On a venture to find oneself betwixt the mayhem – chaos
How I so long to roam this new road I now journey
I hear the bustle and commotion, as we now descend
The landscape below entices the desire even more so
As we now, approach land and I see my destination
I can feel the rush of the adventure, racing passionately
How it seemed forever, so distant, the dream I envisioned
Time has now come, to initiate this new course of action
All my earnings spent away, to live, as I have never dared
Breathing now slowly in – out, as the plane slowly descends

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The wingspan of a Aeroflot Medium Distance passenger jet is 27,8m. Falling from the sky // plunging from the atmosphere // forensics will finally decide it was a glitch // in transmission, from the Navicore 870 cpu, which caused the turbines to stutter, then into the turbine was sucked a large-ish predatory sea fowl // whose bones became stuck in a flywheel // attached to a centrifuge // that centrifuge was spun by a rubber belt // re-enforced with fine stainless steel cables.

It so happens, that upon the day the molten steel was to be poured in the module, at the parts foundry of Bangalore, the head blacksmith was attending an elaborate Hindu funerary ceremony, in honor of his friend, who was killed in a terroristic explosion at the ashram which, subsequently, took the lives of 123 souls, at final tally.

Giuseppe 'Lucky' Frantellgio called in sick to work this day [the day of the somersault]. Unfortunately for us and the lone surviving passenger, as Giuseppe would always, always, always carry a pair of binoculars and a digital camera around his neck, as he trekked his path, checking the circumference of the Mt Riglettoni Tree Farm, as part of his daily chores.

The medium passenger jet, en-route to Lisboa caught a down draft and pitched its left wing into the very peak of those beloved mountain (3777 meters) before commencing to turn wing-over-wing, down to the base of the aforementioned incline.

Though not as famous as the Gran Paradiso, the bottom of this mountain is an enchanting spot where five rivers, three lakes and two valleys meet. This, indeed, is one of the most fertile spots in all of Italy, if not in all of the Mediterranean. This, however, is a privately owned mountain on a privately owned island, which has been property, for the last 1300 years, of the famous Marini family.
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Let us trying, as it may seem, examine the wreckage, to find what remains of her passenger.

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Larissa Marino never thought that life could end in such a cruel fashion
She could not believe what was happening, as commotion surrounded her
The screams alone were petrifying, how destiny could lead her to this moment

As the plane plummets from the sky falling far off course of what would beLooking out the window, she takes in all the beauty coming into view

Sadly thinking it would be that last thing she would see, on this journey
At least she made it as far as Italy, with the courage of something new
She hears an explosion, just before she loses consciousness

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To be continued….
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Copyright © 2013 Philip Pope / Lucy Martins
All poetry by Philip Pope / Lucy Martins are copyright protected by International Copyright Law, the use without written permission is illegal. All Rights Reserved ©

Friday, May 3, 2013

classifications of Flora (up to the present)

Which name these flowers go by,
under which guise of man-made beauty,
is for finer machine-heads than these fingers typing
into this note-taking app.

How to expulse this beauty
in electrons,
 while remaining relevant to the tedious mindex
(think: roll-a-dex of the intelligencia)
 in applicable wordings,
to make the superbly gifted children of these
times realize that,... beauty is more than a pricetag
or an employable designation.

When simple poet
 (such as am i)
can not even raise one adjective for
such a fineness;
such a fondness;
without finesse or any other co-conspiracy
 the public & the publishing industry has come to honor
 as worthy of particular accolade, heavy-laden with accomplishments
 to entice & incite one the other
 to eXplode with the furious abandonment
of right and wrong.

To me,
the birds,
the bees,
the flowers,
the trees,...
Ad infinum,
are creations to,
for mere & unadulterated moments,
pull our minds away from the trivial diversions
twisting our thoughts into the hell of super ego,
where occupy the shattered and scarred remnants
of obscure passages,
through the darkness
of societal existence.

No, Miss So-&-So,
there is no room for love to roam in such a sterile environment.

Sooner or later
everyone will have to realize,
Frankenstein could have only been written
by a woman.

pmpope 2013 ©

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Friday, April 12, 2013

World of Natural Technology

Forgotten and gone rocketing;
World spinning out in the darkest depths;
flashpoint - Girl, your jets are melting this ice sculpture
I've been saving for a particular twist;
your eyes aren't focused
on the least of the gist;
red flares erupt everytime you punch through the atmosphere and the whole world melts;
over and over again

~Shared from Google Keep

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Time Steps Fleet

Even if you thought, you never did a jot worthy of note
Your electro-magnetic wavelengths have radiated
While a compass needle pointed north,
Through the fog, shrouding the coastline
Echoing a very mammalian and forlorn siren
Flagging wayward vessels off the craggy inlets
The way a sedan flows the jet stream of a semi-rig
On a zero visibility hairpin turn

There's no moral for thee, dear heart
Just to know we are only
Travelers in this stream of time
Racing towards one another
Our hands outstretched for seconds/minutes/years
Hopeful to hook a kindred soul & share a small portion
Of our incredible earthly journey

Friday, November 30, 2012

Electronic Conjunction

to vilify and stir up hatred against him
Put him down like an animal
Lawyers for Facebook argued that it was
neither necessary nor proportionate
a global anonymous browsing system
heavy fighting between rebels and government troops
Thousands of Egyptians protested against President
spill hazardous chemicals into the water, authorities said
A cold November night warmed the hearts of America
when a candid photo spread on the internet
the airport was open but no flights were operating
Marines are already using solar panels
Oh, going to poetry live has made me
she forbade me
they have clever ways of using and putting
words together

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Grass Turns Yellow For Lack of Sun

She'd be warm in a fuzzy sweater and wearing a Muscovite fur cap
In her kitchen and her bedroom
She would be warm
And she would make me warm
With her smile and her excitement
I'd be compelled to grab her in my arms
My breath would warm her ear
Her word would stoke my furnace
That would be romance. Romance is for the young,
I write this from November
From this place, romance is very far away
Impossible to see with the naked eye
Or in the song of a bird hell-bent on stabbing
Some last dregs of dirt crawling things
On the way back to the nest of twigs and dead grass
Is it any wonder all the superheroes of this planet
MUST wear disguises or be set upon
When they least expect it?
Not only them, but their loved ones also.
No wonder the marriage rate is so low
Among caped crusaders and women flying invisible jets
The same goes for all the washed out and burnt to a crisp
Nothing left to give
So t'would seem to the casual observer
In their times of healing
Must look quite uninspiring
Three days in a tomb or the belly of a whale
Not the most heroic stance
Not the knight readied with lance
To charge the lonely dragon
In it's cavern of solitude
How should we then attend to all the scratches and scrapes we have earned in this endless summer of misspent frivolity? I don't feel the need to mourn the dead, better they should mourn for us, the living. It is us to carry their memory everyday UP & DOWN the hills and freeways. It is us whom must live up to their once upon a time heroisms. Let them come down and show us how to survive this world they have left us. Don't get me started on the interest rates! Let them show US how to form a more perfect union or build a better mouse-trap. This is no small rant and there is implied no recant for the counting of electronically produced snapshots of votings and dotings, for everybody knows a house is not a home without a Boston Terrier and there could not be any US without the All involved and Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without some tofurkey and some mistletoe so we move on into the winter with fond memories in our hearts and beautiful visions sparkling in the prismatic splendor of love's eternal promise of love's eternal flame.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

How Much Is Me?

When looking into the mirror
Under the fluorescent fixtures containted with *new* green bulbs

The DnB breaks across this app, though it's free It can still be cheap The cheapest decisions can deliver the most plagueristic effects If you take your eye off the ball FOR A SECOND THAT ball could bounce off an unsuspecting skull Son, that's what we call the 'bean ball' Believe you me My fine, dwaddle swaddled do-doddler, When two or more toddlers are involved It's what is known as a poo shoot Enter Henri, the best excuse ever made For fine, young ladies wearing boots & jeans There is no satellite to pull down the data Once you've thrown it to the high holy heavens Above the seas of oceanic excuses Wrapped in Sumo weedy bureaucracy with all her friends Spouting demonic phrases betwixt breaks Of nasal laughter forced through the meat grinder How could I ever fall in love with someone Who carries such heavy bags on her shoulders? She flips her ponytail over her porcelain chin To get up and begin again Her march into the darkness du jour Intrigued, as she is, with slimey things Her voodoo artwork is as lost on me As a pinot is to a night train connoisseur Why should I rush to aid those plunging Headlong over the cliff into this dark molasses? Why don't they call their friends in Manassas? Or pray to the Holy LLAMA of Brahma, As the asteroids are handing out their calling cards In the 7th inning stretch When the machines run continual glitch And all the heroines have been exposed To that long lasting final exposure In the museum of chronological photography Etched forever into the interior eye Of the mind Which allows the heart access to the skies