I am Jane Goodall's Tanzanian monkeys typing about bananas. My fingers are Santa's little helpers. My hope is a sporadic rainfall - yet a torrential downpour in all creative environments. I am Theseus, unspooling golden yarn. Sisyphus, sweating uphill. Bukowski, scribbling away in rooming houses. A river always flowing. I am the nightmare of stagnancy and a God of Imagination.
Monday, August 31, 2009
thinkingofmoving
and when I put words down again
and when sometimes
I think that I know what I'm going to say
it gets lost right before the fingers start to type
even if my mind had already begun to write
I thought, tonight that
for once
it might, be alright
to entertain the notion
of writing elsewhere
And when I'm there
and roots are planted once again
and when I'm thinking that I want to go back
I'll think, that night that
wow
it just might, be alright
to entertain the notion
of finally writing
about the things that I always
meant to write about when
I was there
And I'll be far, far away
from here
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
LION CUB...
Do you remember how we met?
Silhouetted by the lights...
You were drunk and tried to take a mental picture with your hands
I was thinking about that
And a bunch of other things
Stop looking at the floor...
I need to pour out this expansive dose of words.
I can't explain...
I need to be alone.
I know the timing isn't great
But these things, you just can't plan.
I just need a little time
So I can find myself again
'Cause I get buried underneath
All the things they think you are
And I'm too tired to pretend it doesn't hurt
To be left out
I had a pocket full of dreams
But I gave them all to you
Now I think I want them back
So can you tell me if I'm crazy or confused?
Don't ever change
The way you are
I've never loved anyone more.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
A guitar string broke
rightbeforeyoushowedup
and
rightafteryouleftmyhouse
I about threw down
more melodies
more lyrics in my head
soon to be forgotten
is it best
to let dead be dead?
Our odd is pretty odd
so that makes us pretty even
You may be god to my say ten
I meant my satan to my god
my god, my god
times ten
Oh, dog
nehw? nehw?
A string rewinded in my heart
tonight at night
and the heart string you plucked
isbackagainbackagain
ready to played
againandagain
ready to played
againandagain
ready to played
againandagain
andagainandagainandagainandagainandagainandagainandagain
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
re re post
Writing
On pages 9 and 10 of his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Follow the bubbles...
I broke the surface.
My aching lungs filled with oxygen.
I started walking towards the shore.
To dry land.
Home.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
I love my cheapy-ass UKULELE but will probably buy a better one by next week. Yet, I suck at playing the guitar - go figure...
"The General Specific"
If your trials end, are really getting you down
We had a close call, I didn't even see it, then another one, I hardly believed it at all.
What the writers say, it means shit to me now.
Plants and animals, we're on a bender when it's 80 degrees, the end of December was coming on,
Only for you and me.
When the showing up ends, going back to the south, where hungry necks that I know, and runnin'
A blender in a lightning storm, disguised as a blessing I'm sure.
Knowing up here, there comes a fork in the road, pants have gotta go, we're on an island on
The fourth of July, looks like the tide is going home.
In time I'd find a little way to your heart, down to the general store for nothing specific,
Gonna wash my bones in the Atlantic shore - only for you and me
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
KRS 6
Thursday, May 21, 2009
UEZ...Y?
all of you
are asleep by now
but will be morUning birds
that wake
and sing praises about the dawnE
I want to
but it's way too late for me
like always
I'm just hoping for better daZys ahead
Y?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blom Mi
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Saturday, May 09, 2009
notaprizebutperfectinastrangerseyes
I have my moments, at least
not a bad guy
flawed
duh
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Everything Must Go...
and all of this
and of this all of this
started to make sense even when it continued to not do so
and my fingers and my eyes would crackle the nails would bleed and the eyes would start to tighten
and im still here
and im still doing this
and im different and not cool for you or anybody and ive compiled so many regrets and beat myself up so much and I know that you all might want to beat me also
and
please forget me all if you need to you
its best
i understand
but understand
that i never will...YOU.
all of this. EVER.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
Saturday, May 02, 2009
repost = compost
Maybe Deja-Vu Is...That somebody in an alternate universe is reading that book about you, the comic book or watching your movie and either had to re-read that sentence, chapter, etc. or rewind to the last part before the phone rang or having to feed the dogs.