Sunday, July 13, 2008

Talking of Things

Talking of things
great and small:

philosophy, history,
action, the future,
the past, incidents
of intrigue, and at
least fourteen of
the most fucked up
consortations you
can imagine.

Here we are my friend,
poised on the edge, near
the precipice of three-
fold understanding--a 
rare feat indeed--and 
determining principles
are nothing more than
fortitude, will and desire.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight!

I want.

You Affected the Fabric of My Life

Everything is everything and everything
is nothing.
I make love to cliches.
Godspeed.
Make love in odd places.
Smile with Mother Nature.
Never give up your pride or your voice.
Everything costs too much.
Don't sell your soul to afford
nourishment.

A bucket full of orphan pennies grows in
infinity.
Shiny.
Perhaps no one sees a use for them...
yet they wait.
And multiply.
And take you places
beyond your wildest dreams.
Fiji?
Maybe.
Maybe the potential places are better 
than any place one can fix concrete 
dreams upon.

Whistling winds tales of fins nobody
knows where the little girl spins.

She spins and drops and I move on.
The piano man has nothing on me.

TalAkrtkfjxhdgi take the lpogjj Ip long a
way.  Up up home.

Please write something here:

Casablanca lily espied on a means of
commutation.
Crystals glisten in fluorescent light.
Hunter asks,
"Can you smell it, man?
Breath it in."

Visiting an Historical Place

Well, here you are bruh.
The birthplace of the "Martini  and
a Guinness" order: "I like to
think the Irish and the English are
battling it out in my stomach."

But O! the things we used to say.

My Currents

I guess I believe in power
and feeling lean and powerful--
like your back is strong
and can carry anything. Anything.

and I guess I believe we
are water, flowing into internity,
fishes swimming through
us like we swim through humid

July days: feeling like the 
world is some fat kid sweating on
us, totally oblivious to the ick.
And in our surfaces, the currents

give us style.  Those areas
the water swirls around and
creates dimples and
pimples and falls and white.

Are these not the most 
celebrated?

And if we are powerful water,
then the currents give us shape and
beauty.

If I am any kind of man,
then I owe it to my current-makers:
those tireless pushers for 
my painstaking pursuit of beauty.

(sorry about the flurry
of alliteration there)

Um...
so thanks for the drinks,
and thanks for the day,
and should tomorrow find
you face up in your grave,
buck up, bucko, don't despair,
I was the one that put your there.

Writing Game #1

This is a writing game,
please continue in what
ever manner pleases you
most.

Organic dream wishes:
healthy, practical, convenient.

Did you know that olive oil,
yes, that magic cooking fuel,
is simultaneously nature's secret
to healthy hair?
Seems like a lot
to ask of a body
expecially when
two full meals can
be had for ten bills-
and we're talking
singles here.

Do not lean on door.
Schedule your free consultation today.
No way!
The next stop is
nature's secret.

Does it bother anybody
else that the word with
the largest font in the
Free Abortion Alternatives
poster is FREE! I mean,
yeah, i guess it's important,
but aren't we assuming 
that all preggo teenies
are looking to hide things?
That sets an unfortunate
standard :-( sad smiley ).

Oxymoronic nothinghood.


Moving

Why is it that corporal reality 
never gets any easier to understand?

Because I've just told you that
I will be extricating mine from where

we both live, and, whatever it
means, it is pretty ridiculously hard

on both of us.

We are not even together
anymore,
and yet the idea I cannot
simply go
to where you are wears on
the fabric
of my already delicate and
already
schizophrenic mindset (read:
psychotic).

And then there will be times
when, on a sunny, parkday, 
all I will be able to think of
will be days of red wind and 
cheese and the chatter of a
park full of conversations 
that mean next to nothing
in comparison to your talk
of Godard and my prattle of 
the importance-both from a
journalistic and political point
of view--of Hunter S. Thompson.

But fuck them and everything 
they're talking about: you and
I were there, and that is pretty
goddamned important to me.

I guess saying good-bye-
when accompanied by 
physical distance-can't
be much more difficult.

No Give

Welcomd to the world of the
uncompromising,
a world populated with assholes
and failed seekers,
a world of unparalleled angst
and angry folk singers,
a world of the few
Constantly misunderstood by the many.

And why wouldn't you want
to live in this world?
Here we stand,
please challenge us.
It's what we need.
The very thing you think
is helping you,
it the very thing keeping
us moving through

the world.

Funny that our most productive
day
should simultaneously be our most
destructive.

I'm pretty well done
love muffin,
and I hate
hate hate
hate hate
over cooked meat.

A man is nearly falling 
cycling down the decline
of the Brooklyn bridge.

Do you know why contractors get
away with hosing so many people?

Most people don't have any idea 
exactly how long it takes to build
something,
anything.

And the jackhammers destroying
the road are pretty goddamned
soothing,
pacifying.

Violence is being done.

Metal
wound around
metal
wound around
metal 
is not nearly strong
enough.
Enough.
Enough.
To support the over-
whelming weight of
history.

3:18 and the world is angry.

You want what it is possible for me to
give
and now what I am willing to give,
which is
a mighty, mighty incongruity.

And it has been a mighty long day.

There is so much polished
marble in New York City.

And I have walked 
barefoot
through the filthy
Brooklyn
night on congruous
streets.

And if I am to be hated...
sobeit.
So be it.
So Be It.
SO BE IT!

We Do What We Must

Here we sit in pain; 
prospectless on all fronts.

I have hurt so many of
those I would call friend

that I am starting to
lose all track of time--

of time and space and
place and meaning and

it makes me madtired
just thinking about it,

and my brain is running
on the body's emergency

ketones due to the fast,
which makes me Major

Uncomfortable.

Shine on you crazy diamond:
a pink luminescence clouding

daily interactions with light
refracting and blinding with

reminders of unquenchable thirst.

Expect to fly
and you just
may.
Expect of fall
and you must
fall.

We are all aware of cartoon physics.

Tables with chairs on top of them in the back barroom of an unopen mind collect dust from lack of use.

Categories of nonchalance. 

disinterested
uninterested
conspiratorial
conjugal
baroque
contemporary
modern 
post-modern
recollected
reverse
empathetic
painful
joyful
classical
fucking 
anejo
reposado
blanco
categorized
sodomized
unrecognized
unintelligible
cantankerous
wankerous
causeless
careless
functionless.

"Why is it that every time something
needs bending around here, I, Bender,
get called in to bend it?  
Bend this girder, bender.
Bend this coat hanger, bender.
Bend this beer can, bender.
If I wasn't a bending unit this would
make me very very tired."

"...existence is to all men a thing to be chosen and loved, and that we exist by virtue of activity (i.e. by living and acting), and that the handiwork is in a sense, the producer in activity; he loves his handiwork, therefore, because he loves existence. And this is rooted in the nature of things; for what he is in potentiality, his handiwork manifests in activity."

Keeping It Inside

You are drunk
and ready to 
vomit.

The cool breeze 
of train winds
suffice

to keep entrails
from expelling 
insides.

And I am coming
from a school of
thought that

wonders why you
didn't when you
should have.

That you love me
is undeniable, and
something

absolutely worth
holding onto--how
ever 

that might be.  But 
if you think about 
things now,

there isn't much we
could do to loosen
the grip.

Then fucking fuck,
you've got to meet
you half

way, which, with my
half off the picture,
is more

actually more like 
meeting you all 
the way.

The Power of Busing

The power of busing
is inherently impotent.

I can take you there--
you miserable sac of
worthless fucking ex
cremental ridiculous-
ness.

It is safe, this under-
standing of humans,
because, given choice,
we choose the aweso-
me card every time.

Choice.
Thank God!

The Least

Your tone, lately, has been awkward
and fairly thoroughly evasive--to say
the least.

Always so forthcoming and so wise,
prattling beautifully in probabilities,
the least

of which could cause a man's brain 
to melt into his esophagus.  It's fun.
The least

likely thing to face almost utterly
improbable statistics is probably
the least 

likely thing to win.  Did you give up 
the idea of the "romantic long shot"--
the least

frequent mathematical calculation
ever performed.  Maybe it's been
the least

frequent for good reason?  Maybe
so.  I mean, I guess it makes sense at
the least.

You are poetic to my ear, but lately
I have heard something other than
the words.