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you put the schwag in the rolling paper


English: Diagram of a cigarette. Filter made o...

English: Diagram of a cigarette. Filter made of 95% cellulose acetate. Tipping paper to cover the filter. Rolling paper to cover the tobacco. Tobacco blend. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

sister had some papers she got them in a crime
brother bought a bag he trade it for a dime

he put the schwag in the rollin’ paper
he roll a joint up
he put the schwag in the rollin’ paper
he roll a joint up
he put the schwag in the rollin’ paper
and smoked that motherfucker up

called his dealer, woke him up
and said:

Hey man, this shit is pretty great
Hey man, can i get another eighth

you such a silly fucker
let me tell you watcha do
meet on the corner
at twenty minutes to
you better have the money
or you’ll walk home feeling blue

with no schwag to put in rollin’ papers
you gonna sit and stew

brother gave him 30 dollars, dealer told him what to do

you put the schwag in the rollin’ paper
you roll a joint up
you put the schwag in the rollin’ paper
you roll a joint up
you put the schwag in the rollin’ paper
and you and and your favorite dealer smoke the fucker up

 

 

 

only fragments


Pippi Rag Doll, close up

Pippi Rag Doll, close up (Photo credit: Katy Kristin)

A vision, once, on a small planet near a shining star,
expectation of supernovae in the air, a crowd, but
not crowded, as far as the planet curves, and the coolest
girl in the Universe with a hula hoop, gyrating her
hips next to me.  Red hair and freckles and singing a
Siren’s Song, a Pippi Longstocking, perhaps Pippi herself,
The throng turns toward the sun and then the Star bursts
and the Light washes over all of Us.

And We are back on this small planet.  Pippi hulas the hoop
again and the Star bursts and the Light washes over all of
Us again.

And a third time, We are back.  Pippi is standing next
to me and smiling and holding onto her hula hoop and
hulas once again and the Star bursts one last time, the
Light washes over only Me…

And I trail off into fragments, only fragments.

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maps


 

CnutusDominion

CnutusDominion (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

maps
inside my head
roads retrodden
grooves worn
into my navigation center
in my brain

the familiarity
getting lost in a radio song
and realizing you’re where
you wanted to go

like a needle on a phonograph
following one and the same
lonely track

but

the music
can be
oh so sweet

 

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culture of vermin


A pair of In-N-Out cheeseburgers.

A pair of In-N-Out cheeseburgers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

culture of vermin
cross-pollenating freely
across continents

 

indigenous homes
subject to search and seizure
hand them all cell phones

 

faraway jungles
eaten for fast food wrappers
will we ever learn?

 

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perhaps


Oil Tanker Bertina

Oil Tanker Bertina (Photo credit: kenjonbro)

 

I dreamt
only
(perhaps it wasn’t a dream)

wasn’t a dream at all
walking

across wasteland
looking down
eyes looking down

nothing forward
nothing passed

and there
in the middle of orange scrub
bumped into an oil tanker

or perhaps
i was a garden slug
encountering my house

perhaps

 

grinding gears


English: Motor oil, Mobile 1 bottle blocked out

English: Motor oil, Mobile 1 bottle blocked out (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

they’re still talkin’
’bout Mopars and Hemis
on Diamond Street

grindin’ gears
and wishing wastefully
in between beers and shots

somewhere
everywhere
people hang on
to dreams we dreamed
dreams we have forgotten

halcion days
of gasoline and motor oil
in the backwash
of an American Dream

 

i’ll show you yours if you show me mine


Young Couple in Relationship Conflict

Young Couple in Relationship Conflict (Photo credit: epSos.de)

 

 

 

i’ll  show you yours
if you show me mine
let’s gather wool together
for the winter’s discontent

a few problems, yes,
i have with you
and
i know you got yours as well

let’s show and tell
and settle this thing

keeping it in
is inflaming the voices in my mind
and their cries of derision
i can
no longer stand

we never speak
of these things

we hold in our anger
hoping it will pass

why can’t we talk to each other?
let the waters flow under the bridge?

why can’t we be honest?
are our hearts too tender to handle the Truth?

let us speak
and clear the air

i’ll show you yours
and you show me mine

 

imperfect Geometry


English: Tic Tac Toe Logic is a next generatio...

English: Tic Tac Toe Logic is a next generation board game! available only through AppStore (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

Was gonna write ’bout how the Winer shit his pants in Huckabuck but that
will have to wait for tomorry night.  Here is a poem instead.

 

 

 

imperfect Geometry
that has no room

for extra Squares
ways out of the Humdrum Conundrum

Absurdity that tic-tac-toe
be all We have to Play

next you’ll be telling Me
You made all of this up

out of My Imagination

 

underwear i own


Mitt Presley

Mitt Presley (Photo credit: JonMartinTravelPhotography)

underwear i own

i steals into the night
i steals into your home
i heads straight for your pile
o’ dirty laundry
and back to my place i do roam

ma favorite pair of dirty undies
is some magic ‘uns i took from Mitt
they made o’ underoos
with magic symbols
even got a stripe o’ Romney’s shit

ma next favorite from the Dalai Lama
they smells like rosewater and really glow
he the cleanest mutha fucker
ever wore a Saffron Robe

I got Obama’s whitie tighties
hangin’ from a barber pole
in ma little crippled city
(where a big sign say sumpin about an American Recovery act
or sumpin like dat)
ya think i’d smell what comes from his asshole?

To the Hamster Foc’s’l!


Graphite Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment core

Graphite Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment core (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Ugh, that’s what I forgot to do the last time I checked into the

asylum, find the freaking secret sub-causalian complex I imagine is

there somewhere, at least maybe I dreamt about it.  Actually it was a

dream and then I turned into a cartoon manning a control panel on one

of the central reactor core consoles.   Really not my type of work.

So maybe I best stay away from the ward…  besides, whose gonna man

the hamster fo’c’s’l?

The kids are all grown and don’t believe in my nonsense any more.

Maybe I should attempt to reason with them?  That would serve them

right, li’l bastards.  Strummin’ guitars in corner coffee bars and

getting  high on Information.  Can’t blame me for leading a few astray

and giving them a dose or doses of Imagination, but then I’m just an

Ol’ Hypocrite.  Hell yeah.

It’s the Capitalist Septic System, it’s the corner Nirvana, it’s

everything you ever dreamed you wanted and less.  Wait, yah right, we

don’t say Hark! any more these days, we oughta bring it back, oh yeah

but I hear Gumbytron’s footfall in the closet bowling alley…

STRIKE!

You know that Gumbytron knows her way around a good smiting, He’s

taken, She’s given, but that’s a story for another day.

And all of a sudden I been noticing the critters wisin’ up an’ I

wonder if theyze gonna keep any of us maladapted simian’s around or

just gang up on us.  I swear three o’ Pop’s cats was chewin’ on my

ankles last night before I had to wrestle with the Jungle.  You know

what,  I been thinking, the Amazon sure would make a right fine

landing strip for alien spacecraft if we jus’ stripped all that would

outa there and dozed it flat.

Then may I can leave this Gumbytron forsaken planet.