Tuesday, January 30, 2024

All Melody to Bequeath

 

In the vanity mirror I                         dictionary and tweezer, 

Knowing full well

       The imposter geezer 


My wart is frog induced

       Too much Disney juice 

And a full moon paddling

     Black eye from skedaddling 


Wrinkles only wisdom earned       by topics extracurricular 

Chipped teeth at least not                    perpendicular    

     

Man boobs all pectoral granite 

With only a few beauty marks

 

 from mixing concrete in pajamas 


Dim light that's 

        cave human good 

Evolution sets the mood to                        brood          


A scar for character 

       why not employ plastic surgeons

        In Mexico it's 299 

per 70 year ole virgin 


Don't be looking glass crass 

Use your walker 

      to gawk yer carcass 


Microwave it in the buff 

That mercury's worn thin for one so gruff 


Let eyelids drawbridge                        discretion              

At one's vain pretension.  

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Until death departs 


Empty handed our history 


A spiral wrapped dragon 


Teaching the sphinx anatomy lessons 


Sand in an hourglass rides 


Thru the snow 


Your horses feel the path with hocks or scent 


That oak only 700 years old 


Our goblet fell empty 


Reflecting solstice halos in which bitterness fades


Until hearth warms the stillborn 


Kindle my embers 


With chance darts of breeze 


Off baby tracer moments


There's no substitute


If your heart has invested in a family 


Mend one another 


Use kind words to map the tumble 


Make forgiveness unnecessary in inundated gratitude 


There's no world to fix 


There's books to write and songs all melody to bequeath 


Whether in hospital traction 


Comatose froze,

 involved in extreme sports 


Until death 


Does us smart.  

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Acorn can't fathom soil 

Or the leaves and branches mulched by thirty thirty million years 

That creates soil 

Acorn born to drop rolls out 

Onto mossy stones the glacier gave away 

That the volcano jetted in slow motion manifestation

Wind helps acorn over to a divot in terrain 

Just dipped enough to bed 

Under a patch fertile 

Not too moist with sunlight coaxing 

Favorable conditions click 

Growth gets busy rooting in over the smaller obstacles 

Toeholds for unknown tests 

The constellations wary of worry shrug their supernovas spiralling dances 

They also have settled in for a ride over walls of beyond frozen gases and furnaces crushing topics 

Acorn in their dimple ventures up and becomes a part of eternity 

Speckled with zoos of wild organisms and history bark 

Acorn has acorns for the squirrels and deer and birds to eat 

There's plenty it's life 

Space reclaims space in spatial justice the shadow flavors symmetry in canopy 

Storms barber the community and ice adds a belly one must carry for tomorrow

Acorn origins grow stories small elbow to elbow grinding minerals ho hum 

In repose either going back to our elements or becoming stone and preserved

Either way it's magic 

Either Way it's science 

Our hair also regardless falls out or goes different 

That's life in acorn school.



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Brake break

  The Morrison Bridge stands at attention, traffic idles in both directions. It's grey, painted steel, as is the sky, water vapor and exhaust. Slurp, coffee. The moat below slides along with sewage overflow and trees. The potholes in my neighborhood now devour semi wheels for brakefast. Tedium mounts the curb and uses the sidewalk full of rickshaws and sandwich boards. A zip line to condos is rerouted to Seattle, for scenic purposes. Dollar an hour scooters are crushed after use by he-man trucks taking the bike line for a bowling alley. Creak creak, the bridge speaks. Evil paragliders over it with an anti District Attorney banner that also glimmers with tear gas and shrapnel. It's morning for another 32 minutes. Please set the bridge down on a coaster so it doesn't leave a dent.  



Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/fossil-fuel-industry-air-pollution-fund-research-caltech-climate-change-denial


SE to SW PDX  



"In 1917 he purchased a small refining operation.  Through growth and acquisition Champlin Refining Company became what was for many years reported to be the  

largest privately-owned, 

 fully-integrated oil company 

 in the world.  

 Its operations included exploration, production, pipelines (Cimarron Pipe Line Company), bulk plants and retail service stations. 

  In 1955, after his death, the company was sold for $55 million." 


"In 1923 the first Champlin service station opened in Enid. 

  Over the years many more stations opened with 

 770 changing names 

 when sold by Union Pacific Resources in 1984." 

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Frostbit copperhead

 Fingerless maestro


Death gobbles charismatic 


Tone deaf world 


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Frostbit copperhead


Slithering molasses wise 


Keep tail sequestered 




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Bent tent stake land run 


Possession nine tenths of law 


Indigenous myth 




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Bone flute offering 


Breath drills fire evacuation 


Music hibernation 




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Library shave hurry 


Others wait dog---earring 


Western theme whiskers 




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Shed skin polka dots 


Peacoat lapel, haphazard


Snow globe run amok 




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Community center shut 


Birds bathe harmonious dirt 


Cats lick patiently 




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Buffalo stoic 


Waiting in lines frigid 


No passing sermon 


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Common needs feather  


adornment utility 


Beauty flight home  





SE Portland 




















 




Saturday, January 20, 2024

Coda thaw

 When'll she crest 


    Take rest 


       Flunk flood's test 


I dunno 


  But I'm overawed 


     Pipes start to thaw 


Gotta hike to the shitter 


    We ain't quitters us critters 


        It's a swarm to keep warm 


The menagerie don't stall 


    Penned bard on a bucket 


       Don't just say luck it 


County-n-state date rape 


    Pass cold tater blame 


       Kudos yer shame 


Yer hoarding power


       Ivory tower on icicle bower 


       Go wheeler your weiner 


Stuck on steal gleaners 


Gonzo Gonzalez our frostbit hunters 


       They're  three yard punters 


      Call up the cavalry 


Crying lord Ryan 


     Safe shelter usury promise a lullaby 


     Mapp out distress by 211 regrets 


Our thumb gone on hold 


    Our digits peck gold 


        Lifelines sold, saltless the roads 


     Slipnslide ride chaffs my pink hide raw 


    Butt I'm overawed 


      Not to blush 


          At your genocide  


Trademarked imperial 


    Empire of ponzi thumb up to fonzi 


     Roaring away to a Ritz Carlton stay 


    Pee pee the tape 


          Supervise the escape 


From hot death to tepid 


     Simmering abandon 


           Take all the credit 


It's a solid potter blanket 


     Invisible to paupers field David placating Goliath


     Peeled banana by orange 


That ascension forlorn


       Transfigured your job 


Change or die blobbing 


     Merrily on sled thru Tabor all bled 


     Blanche white by greedy


Cliches for the needy 


      Hypocrite take 


Hypocratic oaths not to harm 


     Shovel the aspirin no asking 


Blow smoke up our asses 


       Donkey away, Shrek in dismay 


         It's a closed school parade


     Customs flayed no meat on the bone 


Home alone, the candlelight 


     Vigil, the Lincoln learned Virgil 


    FDR by a fireside chatted down the nation 


    Revere on a horse said 


Reverse or stay stuck 


      Glued in oil amber 


           A parking lot gambler 


RV just a shellgame 


       Pass buck to the luckless 


I'll barter your yo yo to ma 


       That's my flaw 


Three straws for the life boat 


      Pick short and get drawed 


           Cross bridge for sale 


I see Alaska from this tale 


        Stuck in my craw 


Let's sing out our Seeger


       Don't broom away seekers 


              Kneeling fer justice 


It's mere ice to bundled 


       Donor class yokels 


           A pine thru your mansion 


     Aerate the delusion 


          It's stuffy stuff heaven 


My bear clause rehydration 


         Hibernate morals 


Till the register oops opens 


      I'll stick with the governor


           Limit our speed 


Take heed of signs 


       Don't plower or glower in fancy yak flower 


     Beds done by maids 


Elders nursed by teens 


         Care starts at home call earth ET phones 


     I'm woke if your s'not 


          Shut close your heart clock 


        Dripping on sports


Go make snow angel forts 


       Lay down and wiggle


           In endzone antic giggle 


Showboat away on MLK day 


     That's your prerogative


            It's a fascist USA


Eat the Macy turkey 


      Pumped up on Ben Franklin 


     Rich and key fishing 


          Lightning blast Prometheus


      Put it on charge 


Burn down the glacier 


        30 million ton an hour 


We'll replace it 


       Bull on that China


Shop till you drop 


        Starbucks it to Ahab 


Let's lend ya a hand 


        A leg up and doubloon


To sway the masses


        The Whale white in reason


        Crush the armed season 


Shiloh Antietam 


       Gettysburg Vietnam


           Dakota the Poncas 


                Chief Joseph Jesus 


Who's fighting no more 


       Ultra men roasting s'mores  


      Don't knock on open whores 


       Magdalene your British snores 


      The Arthurian mist 


Made shindlers list 


       Look wally 


Soda fat sloppy 


        Here comes the pod 


Mothers and spawn, push their dead calves 


    Past dawn to the frat house 


Gutted off site 


      A prank off the plank delight 


      Sheriff of Nottingham


Lay off The Hamm


     He's harried by t Ross Perot 


           Let's eat fracked snow


No sand dead rabbits glow 


       Tailor your needs to three islands per oligarch 


       Eight media outlets 


800 megawatts and a zillion happy meals 


      Go Barry Sanders 


Quit while ahead 


       And shoulders above


           The wingless doves 


In bars serving oblivion 


         Contagion the hope 


Wildfire our dope 


         Regenerate some nerve don't swerve for deer decoys 


          Take roads less traveled 


By bus bike and foot 


       Give the other guy loot 


Its weighing world down


      False charity stripper 


             High heeled in spangles 


       Hydrocarbon moose dangles 


        Bench warm our kitten 


Born on basalt altars 


      Alter patterns destruction


Painting insurrection a viable abortion 


         Stuck not on love 


That chain of Tina Turner


        Go Fonda an elf in Montana throw medals over Kerry's fence 


     It's not remiss to question 


           The auto fill placation 


Crosshatch the sketch scene 


        Dimensional gelatine 


Can of spam kerosene 


         Dylan antipathy in soliloquy wannabes 


        Put on grunge Kurt and principled 


       Stand for fellow man 


Wobble not eating 


       Go vegan quit cheating 


Cannibalize amoebas after tunacan snuffing 


      A species a second 


Go mine asteroids for God bleedings 


      Rewire priority 


Frankenstein ms Shelly


      Home birth and fathers stay at home lovers 


       Write your skyscraper story


      Don't thermite your joy beams 


         Don't look away, Kate blanchet can play 


Don't look up it's divine 


        To John waters our brine 


Melt off bit by bit 


       A torrent of guilt 


            Recipe of action get way better traction 


    Studded in hades 


Trek Everest no Sherpa 


          Take what you need and plant seed in sherbet 


Amuse self with nature 


       Its exit call stow 


Divy the Vatican among indigenous heathen 


       Our brethren victims 


Our perfect children 


            Free goldfish not crackers 


        Tread softly the grasses 


Don't bling overmuch


       Flaunt by the crutches 


            Joke at expenses of the overdrawn withdrawn helpless 


      Blot out garbage 


Create baggage of resources


      Hand it to friends unmet 


Have new sacraments 


           Use crassness in moderation


       We're hooked cynical guinepugs 


       Docile as the wrestler


            Mickey Rourke outsider


SE Hinton and bev clearly 


       Elementary class reading 


          Twain joins our dimensions 


      In civil war healings 


Indentured who ain't


         To apocalypse saints 


Come march in the bedlam it's a slumber party sitcom 


       Shove popular Clints assward 


     No Race is Science 


We're equally fragile no gun ever saved alec Baldwin 


      Eagles protected 


Salmon on headboards 


     Aquifers not tapped like NRA lavatubes 


      I'll Ginsberg the Lenny Bruce Lee Squiggly 


   Incorporate duality 


Redistribute monotony and party line chatter 


      Take a turn and head healthy


          It's our cards the blessed got sleeved 


       Trust is earned gratitude latitude 


       Judge with one eye 


And forgive transgressions 


          Harken the morning 


Midwife the four directions 


       Sage smudge our tracks 


Our brothers scars lessons.     Jealousy has roots 


        Untangled in times slap down 


        Grant us Ulysses 


Home Ithaca welcomed 


Freemen not wined suitors turned to swine 


      Calypso the Fandango


Zz top Neruda Jerry Jeff's Walker 


      Oil the tectonics slide to ocean 


       It's ponyo every Friday 


It's yesterday in a VW beetle 


         It Sargent and Bailey


             Dagwood sandwiches in real paper funnies 


      Erma Bombeck and Berk breathed heavy 


On iran gate keepers what's his name North 


        Abe ham Jehovah


Dionysus and Jane Goodall 


            Footsie at the coliseum 


Don't sharpie your initials 


    Or say youre Canadian


         Just to pass scrutiny 


First Nation owls give a hoot, 


      Smokey 


Pemican ain't Amazon 


       BezosBozo huckleberry hound 


I'll m n m Eminem and leave as stains on my fist 


       Palimpsests of pooretree 


Garnish and harness 


           Graft of homeless funds frozen 


Mom squealed at ossm 


       As bureaucracy watched OKC McVeighed 


              No license to kill 


Old zTestament zombies 


         A nice cup of T 


Wood be Thorpes anti infamy 


      Jesse Owens spit on Hitler 


              Would be a Guggenheim bestseller 


      Is this Howl for today ask Larry rivers Ferlinghetti 


      Publish in art but actions tangible monastery 


             Withstand tempests 


Old redwood, Joshua tree still life with Nader 


      Don't jet about w/, Epstein, Einstein 


      Or Barber your openheimer maneuver 


       It's opera on acid   


Etching earrings over buffalo nickels 


        Flattened by Union Pacific land barons truck pox blankets 


        Believe it Or not 


There a Newport Cannery Row 


       Steinbeck bottles new wine by underwood women straight as diamonds grow 


       In fists resilient 


Under pressures unknown 


          Needing no Clarke Kent State to instigate 


       Overthrow 


Levitate the Pentagon


     It's a howler monkey mantra 


     The fugs and Abbie


            Panthers conjoined evergreens in a distempered show 


      Laverne surely drank Dixie and bottled some nails 


      In a spinoff from happy days Homer Pyle travails 


       Arrested Development


There at the Roseland 


         Citizen Kaned the sled home, Brando in moccasins on the waterfront 


     A contender in Orson Welles 


      Our mineral wrongs far right in a generals Iggy schlong 


       Verboten fruit Eve swiss army knife  


     For Adam to relish 


Mixed with deuterium vodka to wash the antifreeze down 


       Hotdog bun sated 


Beatnik brain juiced 


      The hitchhiker handcuffed the last mohicans towel for nose wiping success 


A call to the architect engineer manager 


        Put finger in the dyke or Dutch boy rides to Arizona 


       Let's Chuck D oligarchy 


As it Noah's off to space 


     Bonneville cascade locks can't Nestle away our ace 


         Water hydrogen two parts one water 


       Zeus marvels at Poseidon's charter 


         A litmus test pin prick 


On desolation crow 


      A murder of archangels by devilsdozens voodoo stow 


        Away hints Elijah 


Who's that say no more, say no more 


       Monty Python sillywalks down hooplehead row 


      It's deadwood ms. Bloodgood signed CIA agent Couchman 


       Left back in Schoharie


An aerie of fledglings 


Grow 


        The most prehistoric forest turned into columns


    Medusa glazed tears 


Memory sculpted Rodin 


        Sam Hill the Quaker


Rigged Seattle with power 


         Played chess with Romania and Stonehenged rock-'n'-roll 


         A picnic in the park


Atop camas root treaty 


               Plug in tune out dance our Nicola Warren Beatty 


      Reds loped the czar 


His foreskin a hindrance 


         At Sundance and Tazikas paddock barn dance 


           Doodlebug out down by a vet with good aim


     Check their teeth first 


First teeth Earth first gamed 


    At cello falls dipnet suare 


The Dalles dam churns out the oldies display 


         Regalia not shining 


Our country fair Kesey


          Throw a wrench thru the window or a sink if it please ya 


      Popeye on spinach


From Columbia sweat 


       Snake reskins itself in barklike cement 


     Lime potash and fire 


The Mayans glue emanates from Palenque 


       All zeros and ones and arithmetic slinky 


  Up the stairs creeps sun by the Shadow 


       Hunab ku sinks a ball court 


       By asteroid clinker 


Subsumed by a dinosaur ushering out grandiose 


       A ocean takes the pebble 


To tsunami our gout 


           Two miles high of starfish and granite 


       Postcard the process as Loki plans it  


     Cheyenne Indian Agency cocksuck 


          Mt Rushmore vanity 


Mirror Wes Anderson deluxe 


       Chocolates like Life gibbers savant Colonel Tom Hanks 


      On a bench warming appraisal couchcasting place 


      Let's steam clean the universe for octopus garden pace 


       Communicate by splatters


Hieroglyphic foray 


        Ridley Scott towels wipes it away 


     Just a dab will do ya 


            Message in a towel by a girl in a big ole highway 


      Heckuva job Brownie 


FEMA at Edmond a Bush medal Hundred Years of ineptitude 


         Romance and fossils 


Trilobite glory an arrowhead in my Hughes drill kit


      Look daughter take it school with a soda straw gimmick 


        Deep water horizon 


John Malkevitch magenta tie Poseidon 


    Upside down a swim in the tubing 


     The titanic Shermerhorn Astor's last Mohican 


         Cameron the abyss 


Ocean our treasure 


              Tin can submersible tourists in balloons that know which way the China blows 


   Over our border 


      Haha it's UFOs says NORAD and Dr StrangegLove proctology  


       The yellah submarine


Lunch box hunches thru potlash aquamarine 


    My cumberbund and bow tie as neat as as prom 


    For fort worth it road trips  


To stuckeys and refinery spoils  


        Grew up on Dallas 


Not Jr Ewing but grandmother


      Harry Byrd Kline gave the courage to Hal Holbrook under the IPA guise 


    Be TWAIN ok I'm the calaveras frog 


     Leapt from anonymity blog 


Pinned to a matt 


     Like an OSU wrestler 


     Only for fun and Olympic gestures 


        Thorpe was my neighbor


Down in  Yale, skull and bones 


     We dug up Geronimo


And set him alone 


                Freebird they cried 


Burning lighter thumbs 


         Until SCOTUS was bribed by vacation to Gnome 


           Sic twas Rome


As and Peter king of Sicily 


        The Soule in me fights fascists 


       Like a Guillermo Basque 


Pan in the labyrinth


     And the milkmaid with a stiletto 


     Give a joker grin to hightail it to the Alps 


       The hills are alive 


With doe a deer a female drop of sun 


         Who needs men 


We got a mixing AI machine 


         It's multi track just as Sargent Pepper was hatched 


      There to pet chicks 


On highway 51  they holes in the box 


            Asparagus harvest 


Kinda like peyote, ancient 


         It hydras with care


A reburied repast 


        Wipe dirt over the cut part 


          Don't watch the kettle boil 


        Give babe the blue ox some pancakes by twin peaks toilet 


          Db Cooper and Angelo Badamenti, that dancing midget as nd strophe lights 


      That infrastructure outside 


The line men from Underground 


        Baltic as Heck 


Don't bomb the zoo you Nazi eggs, that's inhumane 


     I'd suggest 


Live secret Anne Frank 


      Not squeak nor glow she 


The Spotlight at Cannes your diary bestowed 


         Clapping for hours  Voldemort musk in the breeze 


     Twitter is Twitter not X nor CRAY 


           Kxry radio you spin like Rapunzel 


     What's my name pyrite as antidote for Black Widow programming


     Just kicked rhyme  


To free range my barbed wire flower bouquet


        Don't get cot 


I was late unsick at Multnomah worm convention 


     Froze to the sidewalk 


            A trophy for showing shoeing my grit a 4H hybrid orphan 


         I'll PP my way out just as the otters 


       Bouncing off curbs 




Land on a Holly Would moon my fat ass .


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Sensitive content?


It's a poem.


It was Flagged before it was published. 


I read the community rules just now. 


I violated none of the stipulated rules. 


I criticized Google recently.


The poem references "sensitive topics." 


This action is spurious. 


I'm guilty of mentioning local politicians, criticism of oligarchs, sarcasm, irony, dark humor, and lampooning far right corporate fascism. 

 

Guess I hit every button. 


Bingo. 


Feminist

Pacifist

Vegetarian

Father of three adult daughters, women.

Poet admitted to Columbia University grad school 1990.

Artist.

Laborer.

Violinist, musician.

Homeless.

Former landowner.

Former capitalist owner of Fort Anomaly, the Dalles.

IWW member.

Former Democrat.

  

Oh, some schmuck from Facebook or Willamette Week is a teeny twit?

The Pentagon is threatened?

Commerce is affected?

The CIA has jitters?

AIPAC didn't get my donation?

Nazis have lawyers in primary states?

Google in the Dalles and Columbia Gorge has thin skin. 

 Retribution is Business. 

Where's my Scarlet Letter.

I mentioned Ginsberg adoringly: Blacklist.

The List of Heresy.

Vatican Priests. 

Spotlight.

Kill the Messenger.

Free Speech but not examples or Facing Accusers.

 


Coda Thaw 2/3. 


Pathetic, Overlords.







 


        




        






         










             




        




















SE PDX


(The Musical) 




The world is her acorn (2018)

  

She was due when the animals

Called her out, join us, join us

Midwives circumspect guess

All wrong, mom in labor 30 days

"Early" as I hurry back

From La honda art festival

Cuz someone spiked our driveway

Lo and behold

Good thing I got back when I did

Was it one week later?

You went into labor

Out in the woods

In our straw bale stone floored oasis 

With toddling Isis,

The malamutes and ducks

Ready for regular

Primal programing, you at 10 pm

Already dilating with an oak smiling moon

We call pasha our midwife

90 miles off in the city,

She's worried month early? No,

Wrong due date, and being sage safe wise

We abandon our plan

To birth in natural seclusion 30 minutes

To any hospital, and drive to

Portland, the birth canal wide by the hour,

Howling the landlady awake

All night, she arrived

Over the narrow pass into father hands

Same as sister Isis

While big sister surreal the midwife welcomed

With me looking on, learning

Mother exhausted, roaring in peace trials,

Loving and hating life

To say never more, once perfection

Such as mesa arrives,

A 6 pounder, like sisters, like me,

On time and squeaky fresh

Doted on by two grandparents the day you

Made the journey,

No name at first other than sweetums

Surreal had just left for Iowa,

Now 16 yards later in the inchworm stampede

Your pet squirrels

And dusty longboard, friends, pet rats, peeves,

Swimming the width

Of the Columbia at age 4

That was remarkable

Even for a ninja whose name rumi

Has compassion by the leash

As she cares and carries the family wait wait

Weight, not afraid of the crinkles

Anymore, only tepid to 

Ford the unseen road runs under life's creek

The mesa scoured stands, a castle

For her rumi to thereby survey

A lofty mind

A broad and granite base

The colors of mineral creation 

Hair thick as night ever dreams

If you want to be an astronaut, just do it

Like Hawthorne gray

At fort anomaly in 1899, trained to break

Hearts and records and fix imaginations outer orbs

Mesa rumi

Mesa rumi

Mesa.