Thursday, September 28, 2023

Nocturnal daylight (1997)

  

Lastly i unleash the very gem

ending the miners blisters from their 


toil, they can go home to watch TV

because it's what twits do best


Lest the miners are indeed dense

Oil must be pumped, the pumpers dumped,


old rancid pinnacles Must be replaced

detaining children's follies


behind urban playpens, costs elevate

only because tiny levers make whoopee


involuntarily grinding the slack sadness,

lastly, once else all is seated with club


in tone in tune, the city hand lost

some of the best antique marbles


very very slowly i will chew upon

art until the succulent flesh flourishes


turning levels on leaves, core heaves

symbols on edges to startle the book


of 24 hours each page disappears

folding within moment diapers


freckled speckled measurements disperse

undressing the wrappers from silken


nocturnal daylight




written with Sierra Collom

1996, Portland Oregon

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Bohemian egg (1988)

  

German atheists paint rainbow landscapes and sell

Them on the corner for a cup of coffee or beer.

They eat their manuscripts and burn

Their hair for warmth


Seven moons are reflected in the storm windows of

The testament building, each is pocked


At night they blow lint across the air,

Suspending it like pain

It rests on their furroughed foreheads if they ever sleep


Wallpaper roars in agony. Moon peels 

The carbon night away

Leaving divots on the golfballs of hunger they

Clutch and cradle


Two minute eggs

On the fairway course of bohemia 




1988

Lawrence, Ks

Motif (2006)

  

pluck from yer eye

that which re

-motely resembles myself exasperated


ulterior motives incise

decisions, interior motifs externalize

the decider


poster

-ior motives blindside backsides runnin

from the fight-or-flight

response; no plane decisions


for those on fixed winged budgets

broadsiding homeplate slides,

stagnant peace glides,


lies, embredded

with sighs

Free beer (1989)

  

they had an inedible solar powered imagination

that could generate juice off the moon's reflection

in a steam of midnight piss

so; six in the morning, off to pull a binger& harken

the roommate---down the road to topeka,

to puke ah

while renting the roadspace at the tollbooth, 

our driver  bonedaddy at the helm; our booth

operator Dora Lee tapped him on the hand,

tole us have a good day

&so blessed by the psalm olived freshness of sunrise

they shot in front of semi trucks

awful fast carting dangerous

substances of mystery

& light struck the trees from Low across morning hills

causing each leaf to shrug shoulders 

in disbelief, barns were creaking stuffed fulla

yawns of livestock, valleys swept

w/foggy headed implications of Last Nite

we was feeling so good

we mighta drove a wee bit fast cuz the passing

stormtrooper lassoed us with a radar gun blast

----a pair come crackling toward our car

and sez arright boys lets see some

eye D clear keep yer hands out on that blanket

& the harris boys say yessis occifer

squeezing the graffix bong twixt their legs

-----------O the early worm was smart

to squirm out of those talons

of that stainless steel donut disposal system

with only a forty dollar fine

so they felt super duper fine and hosed out the visine,

warshing varnish off the skull of america

cattle asleep at the breakfast table

dreamed our beautiful speed as we spit out windows

at hallucinations of their reality,

the exhaust of our old selves

made us dizzy, stench of roadkill hamburgers

from hardees, hey lets stop and get

raccoon tail hats, mister bonedaddy at the

helm smearing us down the toast toward boulder

colorado-------What is ahead

whatever is in our Heads------car the size

of hummingbird, radio singing

ballads of voodoo stock car drivers

we know we ain't make it to heaven,

we just wanna free beer

we just want it to exist, we could care less

about biggest Jackelopesr

nor 666 ounce steak deals if you eat it all

nor earrings of hitch hiking inmates

better they crawl than ride our brand,

we sting we swill we skewer

we rest at a STOP. urinate, polish our uzzi

to go hunting the oriental furnishings crapped out

in utility factories for the weak We Wanna Wear

styrofoam disco diapers,

pee in our pants with Pride,

We Wanna free beer & can imagine

it there a seventy story grain silo at the end

of this high way, spigots running out

five pound chunks of ice kicked about

by bison guarding the tankard with telepathic surgery

cutting out our reason

planting wooly lust for thunder, the rush

of the road, getting gone, sitting

in front of the page

22 going on 23

my mind races my minds purpose on the brow

faster than the guestimation station



1989 lawrence to st louis,

        then straight to boulder,

        back to lawrence, K.U.


Kvetchup (2017)

 

kvetching old lady, so sour

in her nest of children dreams on six legged horses

in her web of silk envied by burlap boys

in the pits of the olive mine,

clutching squealing canaries born to sing a blacklung song

opera of nails on blackboards driving

thru with fries and a shake and kvetchup sauce

all over the dumbphone



12-8-17 Mt Tabor

Monday, September 25, 2023

Sates the ravenous bear (2018)

  

It wasn't what you meant to inscribe

It didn't pause the particles

The tracks over space and time never to love

Unfurled it wasn't a destinynation on purpose

It was amber waves of sound sand

There drooled america into an abyss

It couldn't define quantum charades

Not on such long notice

Not with big brother's overcoat of tall glass

Chiseling tedium to binary arts

Meaning more hole

Rigmarole as the axe finds relax in summers

Kindling pile of spider babies

Writing our tome in silk and splinter bait

There vanished america into morass

Made in absense of form

Out of quark hiccups and accounting shims

Rammed to the bitgroin

The united sates the ravenous bear 




2018

Pdx

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Placid arc (2017)

  

the gravel full of fossils i learned to walk

was my home and is my home       once

mind crawls back to the splash that changed the world,

pushing reasons to meander

and collect on one's knees,

prospecting a quite golden sun         velvet wrapped by

silver night and noetic palladium trees

things that appeared to be of interest, as a child,

       such as the sky

from up there in the sycamore

from which she taught me to scout

       horizon's placid arc



October 12, 2017

mt tabor