Tuesday, February 21, 2017


CREEP

Have you heard about the
Go to nerve syndrome
new virus and the ever
changing nature of slang
can be quite confusing
like the static of a
Berlusconi media
and your jittery morning
smile as birds hover over
your fevered bedhead.

It is the itch
under the sack
in your scalp
the facial tic
the stutter in your Mom’s
hubbidahubudda Budhha
phone call now.
But, never mind the history.
Ignorance is bliss is fear
is the right to be PC
is the right to be offended.

If you don’t like the games
the lines, then
gallop over them like John Lennon
Unicorn and rain piss
on the gods or as the wombat,
if you please, rough as a boar,
hard as a table
appearing cuddly.
Fuck on the water
get weird on a raft.
Mind the outboard motor.
When the hearts of scar tissue
sings of hunger from your intestines
and Bob Kaufman ceases
to believe in your dreams.

Blow the bass player.
Burn the books.
Buy drinks for the drummer.
Listen to your enemies.
They wanna give you universal
access to anything you can
pay for with plastic.

Yuck it up at funerals. Nostalgia is for creeps.
Just as one would not show their
hand to the father, that entity that dealt it,
felt it, held it, cherished it, smelled it and
knelt down in thanksgiving for it,
lest he thwart your angst-felt wisdom;
so, too, do ignore the lists of the masses.
They are to be burning heaps,
steaming crocks of nothing
good, but for the ones who
conjured them up, wrote them down
and share the profits.

Kill the clouds and blot out
the sunshine if it omits desire
and stilts creativity and love.
Leave the world to sweat
and dream of ether.
Laugh at pain as it melts
or becomes more severe.

Eavesdrop, you Creep.
You will learn something.
She says, “Did we talk about the generator?”
He quotes the idiocy just to
misuse the word.
Grammar is for snobs.

Know your Mother while you teach
her to smuggle your conviction to
master agents of control
if you read this with your pants on
and the headphones turned up just a little
further than your buzz, dial the boss
and tell him it is for the candy-colored
bunions of your stage coach Betty.
Tell him you desire butterfly dust in
your milk bottles in the morning. Tell him.
Tell him. Tell him there is no stain without
shouting and ape shit algelbra.
Tell him you love him. Set him free.

Stir the fear into the corn syrup
and watch the world waddle
in their muumuus.
If you have to engage further,
thank the world equally for pain
and giggles; thank the idea of the cosmos
as you do another migraine;
as you would an orgasm
that cripples;
or polio and the lack thereof
and the drivers in need of
dead pedestrians and rotting birds.

Tell the story about wellness falling
on the pilgrimage into nothingness
when never allowed something to peak
into the abyss and the
rain fell up the stairway to find the
love of a wombat only to find that
they are as hard as a table, on the trail to moans.

We are a generation that consumes cultural
identities like locusts, but never digests any of them.
When you eat three, then there are nine.
But, is that true?
Try it sometime, then, yell “HA! LOCUSTS!”

Generosity begat pain and deafness, sorrow.
Tweets and writhing knew all
The buttercups and the lids of eyes
Fluttered upon a dismal mid-morning as
goats ate grass with dressing on
the side.

Yuck it up at funerals. Nostalgia is for creeps.
Tweets are crutches. Count the dead.
But, if you need them, use them.
Know that sometimes
They are best meant for pretty birdies
and Satan brought home donuts, and it's
Stanley Kubrick's fault, he typed.
He tapped it into his device.
He quotes the idiocy.

...remember a time when a dyslexic
15-year old could perform a tonsillectomy
on a raging river with nothing but a bit
of quartz and a rotary phone or
live in a paper bag at the bottom of a
septic slaughterhouse and
not lose any sleep.
The guy who made my cabinets told
me all about it. Had the meter maid
delivered to his ulcer.

Still, it ain’t over yet, but
I'm gonna miss my widget frag
My Don guy wag my wiggle in
The diggle of the wonkey lag
At Sunday do my jiggle jump
Off the bridge in your slit,
you gape guy.
Poop in the atheist member
Of mod flood, you Doufous!
YOU DO FOR US! YOU MARY POPPINS
WIGGLE WORM!!!

But, I won’t share this except
to you, my confessor.
I HATE YOUR SHOES!!!!!
What are you doing there?
They create my fear.
Where do the toes go?

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

A LONG CALM AMIDST A BUZZ IN THE WAKE OF A TWIT


I am not as calm as Mr. Chomsky, but I value his experience and his commentary, so check out the interview that is below.
I have been thinking a lot about the effect of this two-year battle over our minds, with the Sanders campaign and the misleading assumption that Trump was a clown who had no chance and that Hillary was horrible but would run away with the election. Add to that, we have educated folks watching the debates as entertainment, when none of the real issues were being debated.
I had a conversation with a cat the other night and he said, "There are parts of my mind that will forever be corrupted by this election. That is real estate that I don't think I will be able to reclaim."
Now, there is commentary about the effects of social media. Uh. Yeah.
Humans are watching their little hand-held boxes instead of living their lives. Clicking on minuscule, tiny headlines of drivel and re-fueling the junkfood society by re-posting and tweeting and commenting and fretting. Sometimes. Sometimes, the data is worth transmitting and re-transmitting and swimming in and chanting. Yep. I know.
Sometimes, though, shit ain't right...and maybe it isn't you that's being mislead, maybe it is your more easily mislead sidekick. Maybe S(h)e's the one who is copying and pasting the makings of a new regime of double speak and confusion. Is there a cure? We'll find out how much it works, but this is what Noam has to say"
"You combat it by being an educator; by trying to educate and organize and bring people to understand that they should use their critical intelligence to evaluate what they read, whether it is in the mainstream or on some site that they're looking up...I think it can be overcome."
I hope the man is correct. I see a society that is constantly distracted by trivialities and is rushing to busy themselves in the opposite direction of wisdom and any sense of good judgement.

I have more to say about our mindsets, but I don't think I'll get to them tonight.

Saturday, March 5, 2016

FACE


"I was sayin let me out of here before I was Even born--it's such a gamble when you get a face It's fascinatin to observe what the mirror does But when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place"
Richard Hell, "Blank Generation"

Monday, February 15, 2016

FIXES LIKE THE ANGEL OF HELL


FIXES LIKE THE ANGEL OF HELL
Delegating the pencil
to the crapper, the tweets
and hawks took over obliterating
justice in favor of the correct
There were no proofreaders and
spellcheckers and the pawns
thought they could hump kings
and that’s ridiculous and they
ran stop signs and that was fun
and they popped locks and
snapped shots and posed much
but it made them obvious
and they ended in the cages and
were convinced that they were
in the cages and they didn’t get
out they didn’t
get out and they didn’t get off
But they could have
If the concentration had been more like
The truth
My memory of you looking out the window at the beauty
And walking off into the sunset
Then
Then
We got somewhere like the truth
And there was hot chicken
For dinner
And sleep
And rest
The truth that only took
Patience.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

STOLEN GLOW

This is what the Missouri Botanical Garden looks like after dark these days.
It costs $15 to get in and experience "THE GLOW" and I haven't made time, but it is free to stay out and snap pictures through the fence...and I am half-a-block away.
So, is this the bum's view or an advantage of being a neighbor?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A couple weeks ago, I was riding my bike on a dark and busy Tower Grove Avenue during early evening rush hour traffic.
I noticed the blue tree out of the corner of my eye to my right, but just then, there was a commotion to my left. Someone had hit a cat and it was scrambling frantically to get to its feet and get out of the street, but its spine was corkscrewing the paws weren't gaining ground. I jumped the curb and stopped on the sidewalk to watch.
Cars were slamming on their brakes.
The first, to avoid the cat, and a few after that, to avoid that stopped car. Then, a school bus came roaring up behind them and nearly rear-ended the stopped line of cars. The bus quickly swerved into the bike lane, where luckily, no bikes were traveling and no cars were parked.
I went back later to take a picture of this blue tree, but they had shut down the lights for the night. I looked across the street and the cat was there.
Lights out.
Against the curb.

The next morning when I biked past, the cat was gone.
This Wednesday afternoon, I dropped what I was doing to go pick something up at the library.
I got my bike out of my apartment and noticed that the sky was in that "magic hour". I forgot to bring a camera, but rode through Tower Grove Park slowly to take it all in. The oddly warm, December air. The light through the bare branches.
I have seen this before.
One afternoon, I was dismounting at the library and took these through a butterfly sculpture near Southwest and Kingshighway.









By the time, I left the library, the "magic hour" was gone.
I rode through some alleys and cut East on Shaw and then South on Tower Grove where the traffic was urgent. The stops and starts of the end of this fucking humpday workday were annoying to the commuters. Again, to my right, the lights were glimmering as I passed slowly; as they appeared through the grates and between sections of stone wall. Eerily, bell music and some other kind of music sounded, but was barely perceptible over the rush of the hour past my left shoulder.
I dumped off my books and a DVD, swapped shirts and rode out for a few pints.
Later, I returned to the blue tree with a pleasant buzz, a camera and a friend. It was a December, 2015 version of the knothole gang.
What?
What is the moral of this story?
One man's magic hour is another man's rush hour, or something.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Anagrams

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A Burled Retrod Towns
A Burled Worsted Torn
A Burled Rotted Sworn
A Burled Trowed Snort
A Burled Drowns Torte
A Burled Drowns Otter
A Burled Drown Tortes
A Burled Drown Otters
A Burled Downs Retort
A Burled Down Retorts
A Burled Sword Rotten
A Burled Words Rotten
A Bustled Retrod Worn
A Bustled Reword Torn
A Bustled Drown Retro
A Bustled Down Terror
A Blued Drowns Retort
A Blued Drown Retorts
A Blued Sword Torrent
A Blued Words Torrent
A Blued Word Torrents
A Lubed Drowns Retort
A Lubed Drown Retorts
A Lubed Sword Torrent
A Lubed Words Torrent
A Lubed Word Torrents
A Bend Worlds Torture
A Bend World Tortures
A Bend Wouldst Terror
A Bend Wolds Torturer
A Bend Wold Torturers
A Boned Worlds Turret
A Boned World Turrets
A Browned Older Trust
A Browned Older Strut
A Browned Oldster Rut
A Browned Retold Rust
A Browned Retold Ruts
A Browned Slurred Tot
A Browned Rustled Rot
A Browned Rustled Tor
A Browned Rustled Ort
A Browned Strudel Rot
A Browned Strudel Tor
A Browned Strudel Ort
A Browned Ruled Trots
A Browned Ruled Torts
A Browned Lured Trots
A Browned Lured Torts
A Browned Retrod Lust
A Browned Retrod Slut
A Browned Rotted Slur
A Browned Old Turrets
A Browned Lord Truest
A Browned Lord Utters
A Browned Lords Utter
A Browned Sold Turret
A Browned Olds Turret
A Browned Dolts Truer
A Browned Rod Turtles
A Browned Rods Turtle
A Browned Trod Rustle
A Browned Trod Sutler
A Browned Trod Ulster
A Browned Trod Lustre
A Browned Trod Luster
A Browned Trod Result
A Browned Dot Rustler
A Buttoned Worlds Err
A Buttoned World Errs
A Burdens Retold Wort
A Burdens Retold Trow
A Burdens Dwelt Rotor
A Burdens World Torte
A Burdens World Otter
A Burdens Wold Retort
A Burdens Trod Trowel
A Burden Oldster Wort
A Burden Oldster Trow
A Burden Retold Trows
A Burden Retold Worst
A Burden Retold Worts
A Burden Dwelt Rotors
A Burden Worlds Torte
A Burden Worlds Otter
A Burden World Tortes
A Burden World Otters
A Burden Wolds Retort
A Burden Wold Retorts
A Burden Trod Trowels
A Burned Oldster Wort
A Burned Oldster Trow
A Burned Retold Trows
A Burned Retold Worst
A Burned Retold Worts
A Burned Dwelt Rotors
A Burned Worlds Torte
A Burned Worlds Otter
A Burned World Tortes
A Burned World Otters
A Burned Wolds Retort
A Burned Wold Retorts
A Burned Trod Trowels
A Bends World Torture
A Bends Wold Torturer
A Bunted Worlds Retro
A Bunted World Sorter
A Bunted World Retros
A Bunted World Resort
A Bunted World Roster
A Bunted Wolds Terror
A Bunted Wold Terrors
A Bode Trundlers Wort
A Bode Trundlers Trow
A Bode Trundler Trows
A Bode Trundler Worst
A Bode Trundler Worts
A Brooder Dwelt Turns
A Brooder Dwelt Runts
A Brooders Dwelt Turn
A Brooders Dwelt Runt
A Borrowed Lend Trust
A Borrowed Lend Strut
A Borrowed Trend Lust
A Borrowed Trend Slut
A Borrowed Turds Lent
A Borrowed Durst Lent
A Bored Trundlers Two
A Bored Trundlers Wot
A Bored Trundlers Tow
A Bored Trundler Twos
A Bored Trundler Stow
A Bored Trundler Tows
A Bored Trundler Wost
A Bored Trundles Wort
A Bored Trundles Trow
A Bored Trundle Trows
A Bored Trundle Worst
A Bored Trundle Worts
A Bored World Entrust
A Bored Drowns Turtle
A Bored Drown Turtles
A Robed Trundlers Two
A Robed Trundlers Wot
A Robed Trundlers Tow
A Robed Trundler Twos
A Robed Trundler Stow
A Robed Trundler Tows
A Robed Trundler Wost
A Robed Trundles Wort
A Robed Trundles Trow
A Robed Trundle Trows
A Robed Trundle Worst
A Robed Trundle Worts
A Robed World Entrust
A Robed Drowns Turtle
A Robed Drown Turtles
A Border Letdowns Rut
A Border Letdown Rust
A Border Letdown Ruts
A Border Trundles Two
A Border Trundles Wot
A Border Trundles Tow
A Border Trundle Twos
A Border Trundle Stow
A Border Trundle Tows
A Border Trundle Wost
A Border Rustled Town
A Border Rustled Wont
A Border Strudel Town
A Border Strudel Wont
A Border Untold Wrest
A Border Untold Strew
A Border Wouldst Tern
A Border Wouldst Rent
A Border Wold Entrust
A Border Rotund Welts
A Border Untrod Welts
A Border Downs Turtle
A Border Down Turtles
A Borders Letdown Rut
A Borders Trundle Two
A Borders Trundle Wot
A Borders Trundle Tow
A Borders Rotund Welt
A Borders Untrod Welt
A Borders Down Turtle
A Suborder Dwelt Torn
A Suborder World Nett
A Suborder World Tent
A Burrowed Lend Trots
A Burrowed Lend Torts
A Burrowed Lends Trot
A Burrowed Lends Tort
A Burrowed Trends Lot
A Burrowed Trend Lots
A Burrowed Trend Slot
A Burrowed Trend Lost
A Burrowed Lord Tents
A Burrowed Lords Nett
A Burrowed Lords Tent
A Burrowed Dolts Tern
A Burrowed Dolts Rent
A Burrowed Told Stern
A Burrowed Told Terns
A Burrowed Told Rents
A Burrowed Dolt Stern
A Burrowed Dolt Terns
A Burrowed Dolt Rents
A Debtors Trundler Ow
A Debtors Trundle Row
A Debtors World Tuner
A Debtors Wold Turner
A Debtors Wold Return
A Debtors Word Runlet
A Doubters World Tern
A Doubters World Rent
A Obtrudes World Tern
A Obtrudes World Rent
A Redoubts World Tern
A Redoubts World Rent
A Browsed Trundler To
A Browsed Trundle Rot
A Browsed Trundle Tor
A Browsed Trundle Ort
A Browsed Retold Turn
A Browsed Retold Runt
A Browsed Rutted Lorn
A Browsed Told Turner
A Browsed Told Return
A Browsed Dolt Turner
A Browsed Dolt Return
A Browsed Trod Runlet
A Debtor Trundlers Ow
A Debtor Trundler Sow
A Debtor Trundles Row
A Debtor Trundle Rows
A Debtor Slurred Town
A Debtor Slurred Wont
A Debtor Rustled Worn
A Debtor Strudel Worn
A Debtor Worlds Tuner
A Debtor World Tuners
A Debtor World Unrest
A Debtor Wolds Turner
A Debtor Wolds Return
A Debtor Wold Turners
A Debtor Wold Returns
A Debtor Drown Rustle
A Debtor Drown Sutler
A Debtor Drown Ulster
A Debtor Drown Lustre
A Debtor Drown Luster
A Debtor Drown Result
A Debtor Down Rustler
A Debtor Sword Runlet
A Debtor Words Runlet
A Debtor Word Runlets
A Redoubt Lord Strewn
A Redoubt Worlds Tern
A Redoubt Worlds Rent
A Redoubt World Stern
A Redoubt World Terns
A Redoubt World Rents
A Obtrude Lord Strewn
A Obtrude Worlds Tern
A Obtrude Worlds Rent
A Obtrude World Stern
A Obtrude World Terns
A Obtrude World Rents
A Doubter Lord Strewn
A Doubter Worlds Tern
A Doubter Worlds Rent
A Doubter World Stern
A Doubter World Terns
A Doubter World Rents
A Bodes Trundler Wort
A Bodes Trundler Trow
A Bowed Trundlers Rot
A Bowed Trundlers Tor
A Bowed Trundlers Ort
A Bowed Trundler Tors
A Bowed Trundler Rots
A Bowed Trundler Sort
A Bred Would Torrents
A Bred Rotund Trowels
A Bred Untrod Trowels
A Burred Letdowns Rot
A Burred Letdowns Tor
A Burred Letdowns Ort
A Burred Letdown Tors
A Burred Letdown Rots
A Burred Letdown Sort
A Burred Oldster Town
A Burred Oldster Wont
A Burred Retold Wonts
A Burred Retold Towns
A Burred Slotted Worn
A Burred Wolds Rotten
A Bursted Retold Worn
A Bursted Trowed Lorn
A Bursted World Toner
A Bursted World Tenor
A Bused World Torrent
A Debt Trundle Sorrow
A Butted Rewords Lorn
A Butted World Snorer
A Butted Drown Sorrel
A Debut World Snorter
A Tubed World Snorter
A Blond Turreted Rows
A Blond Redrew Tutors
A Blond Redrew Trouts
A Blond Rewords Utter
A Blond Reword Truest
A Blond Reword Utters
A Blond Worsted Truer
A Blond Dowers Turret
A Blond Drowse Turret
A Blond Dowser Turret
A Blond Dower Turrets
A Blond Rowed Turrets
A Blond Trusted Rower
A Blond Rutted Rowers
A Blond Drew Tortures
A Blond Dews Torturer
A Blond Weds Torturer
A Blond Wed Torturers
A Blond Dew Torturers
A Blond Turds Rewrote
A Blond Durst Rewrote
A Blonds Turreted Row
A Blonds Redrew Trout
A Blonds Redrew Tutor
A Blonds Reword Utter
A Blonds Trowed Truer
A Blonds Dower Turret
A Blonds Rowed Turret
A Blonds Rutted Rower
A Blonds Drew Torture
A Blonds Wed Torturer
A Blonds Dew Torturer
A Blonds Turd Rewrote
A Bold Returned Worst
A Bold Returned Worts
A Bold Turreted Sworn
A Bold Downers Turret

NINETY FEET OFF THE BEATEN PATH

---------------------------- I had a craptacular, five-day weekend of work and came home in a funk last night. Even the Four Roses was sad. I slept well, though, and didn't have anything pressing this morning, so for the first time in over a year, I got on my bike and rode through Forest Park. My knees have been an issue for months, but I'm back in shape now. I will never be 100%, but I felt fine continuing my ride to University City for lunch at the U-City Grill.
It is just past noon and surprisingly, the place is empty, except for Hyo, who puts the "man" in this one-man show. He owns the place. He takes your order, he prepares and cooks your food. He puts it in front of you and he cashes you out when you are finished.
Fine with me. I'm fucking hungry. I order bibimbap with an extra egg and hot sauce and Hyo goes to work, chopping vegetables and dropping two eggs on the grill as another customer walks in and sits at the counter next to me, a couple stools down.
There are delivery truck drivers and passers by making banter with the porter from the bar next door. No piped in music at this diner but that type of street life.
The bowl of bibimbap arrives quickly and I go to work. Anyone who knows me, knows that I like to eat out of a bowl. Soups and stews, sure, but also noodles and pho and homemade concoctions featuring brown rice, seasoned veggies and eggs on a bed of spinach with lots of hot sauce. Bibimbap is my kinda dish.
Delicious!
I was about halfway through my fast-breaking lunch when someone trips in through the open door over my right shoulder. It is some pinhead holding a gift bag. He sits at the counter. His partner is staring into his cellphone and carrying a backpack.
"Hello", Hyo offers.
"Hi! Um, I read all the reviews of your place here!"
"Yeah, I don't know."
"You don't read them?"
"No."
"You are the owner, though?"
"Yes."
"What's your name?"
"Hyo. H-Y-O."
Hyo is preparing food, moving back in forth between a bowl, a pot of rice, the grill and some chopped vegetables.
"Oh, O.K. Well, I'm from LIVING SOCIAL. We do promotions for restaurants and stuff like that. Is there a better time that I could come by to talk to you when it is not lunch."
Hyo peaks down into the dainty little gift bag sitting on the counter.
"Sure, but you know we don't do any sort of online promotion. We don't even take credit cards."
"There's no computer in the store."
"No."
"Do you have a smart phone?"
"No. I am anti-technology."
"Oh, heh, well can I come by and talk to you sometime when it is not lunch?"
"Sure."
"All right. Have a good day!"
"You, too."
The hucksters shuffled out and a relative quiet returned. My heart is grinning.
Ninety feet off of Delmar Boulevard, a breeze blows through the door and a beer truck runs up on the sidewalk.