Saturday, September 28, 2019

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Reportage v.03, a.k.a. LSD Reportage

Invisible or 
just dark on dark...
Do you feel 
the draw of it
like I do....?

I'm being birthed 
out the end of it
the wet bottom we all share
and now as the last strains die out
we stand up and 
we lie back down

I am become 
becoming become
the time striped old wizard gorilla

wizened by my travails 
my travels internal

Silver-haired and dappled
weather-weathered
silver chested 
whit of wisdom 
once weened from 
the mysterical tit

a lifted pear 

hysterically lit
lifted toward a fading vision
recanting recollection unwoven
retelling and retold 
and with each telling
re-dying, dying again and again 
on the same floor
the common ground fading
now patterned in intricate grids
layers of curving black feathers
woven by hands into silver 
edged black paper 
Victorian frames
on the lace-lined edges
all in motion

our very own 
breathing kaleidoscope
our very own bodies 
twisting pirouettes
these sad attempts 
to record the lost imperfections
of a bounding wordless nymph

sharp like contrast
blaring whores 
of a blinding bare page
leave us alone now
barren in our losses
kicked down and up 
and wanting nothing
but to sleep to sleep 
not "the eternal..."
just for a moment 
between clarion thoughts
alarming

having witnessed and told nothing
told none of the inter-dimensional details or designs
shared with no one 
newly discovered Fraddadian principles 
once stated now muttered

hexameters of heaving stumblings
arm lengths of catatonic cataclysms
remembered rec. room catechisms 
filling summer afternoons 
with the dull insect buzz 
of ignorant misinformation

Bathories of extent extant
deep in the whole
left behind like an abscess 
manmade crater made of man
the living skin through which we breathe
the sheath that holds us gently

the folds going deeper across time 
cut they fold again they bind
the feathers overlapping 
rapidly dissipating
patterns denigrating
rapidly approaching 
lost memory tumbled by time

a perpetual "one more tale before bed"
match head never failing to strike
at the very least left alive
climbing over my own body
burning wet blankets 
wallowing in waves of sweat
wrestling around in it

savoring the last sad cherries of a summer day misspent
burning angels with what's left of it
making angels not angles
let me sleep, if only for a moment, let me sleep
but begging who now...??

I shall return to this task when I awaken


marked and claimed I be
Pentangle of the Midnight Circumference 
sworn hence
to be star bound and 
howling from the balcony
through a doorway of my own making
in a mast of some others' breaking

"For the first time ever, I don't hurt!"

come then 
earn your pearls
earn these last mad trappings
the cold dark claiming 
these leathery 
dripped strappings

Submit now 
to these last 
burning angles
angels

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Effective Usage

Walk around with no pants on 
like you wrote the book on it 
like you never got milk on your whiskers 
like your camera never runs out of power 

Pan down a little go on 
yeah the scene sure is set now 
correcting the instances of satin sublimity 

Cue the bullhorn shorn of its meaning 
yammering on in a language 
known only to the dead 
like they wrote the lyrics themselves 
on their outdated typewriters 
like they're good for anything 
more than tears and fading photos 
like their desires just ceased 
when they each left us behind 

Keep on going don't stop now 
the waffles are already on 
the proverbial dashboard 
the cards have been lain 
over the baby's face so to speak 
all the arms waving spastically 
irregular levers 
rendering no winnings 
but paying out nonetheless 
in fistfuls of filth 
and stinking dirty diapers 

Keep walking like a bass player 
behind a really hot trumpeter 
or a keyboard artist 
or running 
neck and neck 
with a sizzling drummer 
able to leap into and out of rhythm 

We all pull back then zoom in 
for a better view of the kill 
the killer groove 
shoeless and daunting 
taunting us to come correct 
in our serious jest 
in our vain attempts 
to stay abreast 

Behind the wheel or not 
behind the eightball on Eighth Street 
jitterbugging our sidewalks sideways 
beyond the satin sublimity 
of this or any other breathless twilight 
the lake does not care or matter 

Raise your horns 
toward the summit 
like you wore this trail 
into the side of the sunset 
with your own flat feet 
like you're never coming back 
down again 
like you'll never settle 
for anyone else

This Stormy Saturday



Clouds come and go
drag heavy fists
gray with rain
water like grains
escaping fists
clenched overhead


icy electric wind
cold on the skin
on the glass
raindrops flatten


not reflecting absorbing
surfaces light up
sucking light in
allowing light in


moisture slides
food blood and air in
through a condition of permeability
through the skin
glass-like pores
sliding and allowing


storms blown past
over other people
on a street
we may or may not know


even in electric quiet
behind thin skin
of glass
windows wet and windy
small trash blown
invisibly outside

Sunday, June 28, 2015

The Only Birds That Stay

unwanted and rudderless
on another underground Sunday
flub-dubbing my way
through the weeks 
the months lost 
like episodes of shows
I don't watch anyway
lately few words come to me
fewer thoughts stay
landing for a moment
on my wires
then gradually
but inevitably 
fluttering away
my hands 
the only birds who stay
busy doing other things
driving cars 
flicking lighters
rarely touching anyone
mainly holding tight
for another 
friendly fire fight
the train I'm on rocks 
and roars me through 
tunnels dug by 
dead men

Saturday, May 02, 2015

Fully In Character

If there's an anthropomorphic cat we are screwed I'm just saying when we get in there elbow-deep in the shit together don't forget what I told ya the music really cues you the music really kinda gives it away but in slow motion oh and watch for the trip wires they're fucking everywhere and no I don't think it's weird that you're cool with doing it in the middle of the Van Halen "California Girls" video set soundstage dressed as "Sonny and Cher"-era Sonny Bono and the full-grown human-in-a-fake-fur-suit approximation of our entire solar system pinioned to a mattress saturated with fear of any color planet other than a white white planet like bleached nearly to rotting holes burned through all over the place can you hear me alright because sometimes I can't tell when I wear this mask/wig combo

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Honey Walnut Pron

You're like Chinese food
for my cock
dropped off in a 
slightly soggy box
hidden wrapped
in brown paper
like you're ashamed
dirty secret fortune cookie
cracking up at the bottom
slurping you already
I pay the man

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

San Francisco sunset: DOG SHOW


For you, while you're in L.A.

This book lies unmade
a bloody bed sandwich
What is it between us
makes the whole world
lay down flat
folding neatly at the corners?
All my strings still vibrating
from your last utterance
Are you kidding me, Universe?
All this and more?

Monday, December 29, 2014

hunting

born in a rusted trap
gnawing off another piece again
clenched in a doomed attack
metal jaws chomp through the meat of me

not dead yet
this unrelenting morning
wretched piece of meat sky
leaving behind an attempt to survive

the day flashes in and out
I'm still here
my broken rhythm still pounding
slow blood pulsing out

bleeding until floating drifting
splayed out but legs bent
twisted breathing comes fast
cold water climbs inside of me

soon my lungs will sail
across the bent and blackened grass
just another part left behind
congealing

I can crawl a little distance since
the night came on indifferent
the sky doesn't try to hide itself
the trees offer nothing

whispering and dancing overhead
I cry
when I find the strength
but the frogs and crickets don't listen

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Metamorphosis

This place filled with people
runs rampant
these people run rampant
they are all from somewhere else
wild-eyed or pie-eyed or both
Nothing can be anything
larger than a bonfire
and because it's smaller
they call it a village

this place
these people
lounging in the street
ignoring the deadly nature of traffic
they laugh at the illuminated screens
of their decorated phones
they don't say much
just drink their beer
or margaritas yelling
throw spent butts on the tired cement
of the ground around
the 
black battered ashtray
Can the world ever truly know us?
know the ceaseless exertions
of our night burning minds?
we burn electricity like charcoal 

or whale blubber or teardrops
grown under the auspices
of cruelty 

or of an ignorant disregard 
for the raw nature of kindness
some of us hidden
alone in our dark soups
Sometimes hand claps are gunshots
are you scared enough?
when we all wake alone
in the wind of a 
valley
or a canyon high
made of stone
or at night on any Tuesday
outside a bar fading
a neighborhood forced 

to bear witness
to witness youth 

being wasted
spilling out of themselves
onto the pavement
"It's okay," I say
in a 
series of dry short coughs
their wet-eyed antics
their pedantic actions
precipitating 

scattering travesties
and when we try
to ignore them
we already were them
or become them
even more readily

Friday, November 14, 2014

I KINDA WANNA

I kinda wanna fuck both of you
right here on the sidewalk
right here in the wet spot
right now with our hands wet
right here with our pants hot


what's up with the hot shit?
what happened to the laugh track?
right there in the blood clot
slipped right through your mail slot


I kinda wanna fuck both of you
fast-forward to our cumshots
you'll wonder where the time went
feet dancin' to bebop


at the 5 Spot The Black Kat
The Magic Room The Cracker Jack
The Rickshaw The Flip-Flop


I kinda wanna fuck both of you
right there where your folks slept
right there where their minds went


collude with your ranch hands
smash down your weekends
lay flat your pop stands
get deep into mind scans
traverse all your lifespans
crouch low into handstands


I kinda wanna fuck all of you
right now while the moon wanes
while our love flames
while the lowdown strung up
truth still hangs
feet twitching over


last ditch piss stains
I wanna make it
with all of you
while it still matters

Tchotchkes

for Jennifer Brown
What are we all doing here?
other than nothing

Ian What's-his-name 
barely singing the lyrics
technical bursts 
of metal growling sounds
right in front of Joan Rivers
she's modeling the height of 80s 
plastic surgery technology
the TV is a trap 
designed to be a trap
his Da calls to wish 
a happy birthday
Aw!
the band hiding their faces 
behind greasy styled hair
kinda puffy, but definitely 
supposed to look dirty
doing the Vinnie Barbarino 
heh-heh 
in the background
hired guns 
L.A. guns on a set in L.A.
draping all over the gray couch
like vines wrapped 
in shiny black leather
(digital farts 
coming from 
actual butts!)
that rescanned TV buzz
so distracting in 
the near-silent nowadays
(the same way 
"Christicles!" 
is a contraction of 
"Christ's testicles", 
actually)
the fan makes clean white noise
drab cocoa carpet
unfortunate stain color
camouflaging
honky tonkin' 
on a Sunday afternoon
hiding in a shaded room
is it sad that no man 
wears a sash?
papers just some 

business papers
forget about the Creedence

Monday, September 15, 2014

Doing What I Never Do

My body covered
with scars
some I chose
many I simply 
survived trying
hard to 
let them heal
not pick until
the blood returned
like a bad man 
lightning nightmares
cutting deep
the delicate skin 
of dream
Fellow wizard
do you live 
by the shapes 
of your nights?
Of course not
of course not!
The mirror 
would never 
allow it!
Triangles, rectangles
the geometry
never quite made 
sense holding order 
by its logical throat
never rendering 
the correct amount
of perfume 
to grant normal
dismissive glances
gawd
the streets render
with a crayon
made of something 
worse than shit
I don't know but 
that covetous feeling
comes from 
so many directions
The most unexpected 
human history
told in honest layers 
of micro-dirt

Derek Plaslaiko Boiler Room Berlin 12 Hour DJ Set

Friday, September 12, 2014

Photo and Flowers by Suki Jones.


single jingle (a prayer for survival)

run rampant tarantulas
scrabble and scramble down
the scattering basset hounds
astound the 'round massed crowds
with hoary feats on hairy feets
aground agog
heading toward 
the roar of sound 
or inlet tide 
riding up the shore 
toward town
children drag families 
expound the merits of 
merpeople versus werepeople
and studies have since found
that minus the fur 
but plus the scales
you would be 
hard pressed to declare 
with any certainty
which was which 
when found
dead and flattened of life 
at the bottom
of a barrel
a river or thereabouts 
in sandy vicinities or parts 
nearby or around