Pardon moi.

March 30, 2012

i have been solicited

on the street by pregnant mother

from people i dont know who call me

saying i owe them something

for something i have done.

interruptions.

isn’t there a sign on my door?

how can i get a boundary for my cell phone interference?

change my number most likely solution to eradicate all problems

have all the money in the world to give everyone every penny they say they need and want and that i have used and wasted and lost and forgotten and dont even know where it is to give it to you if i did i would.

 


oh, i think he…

March 30, 2012

oh, i think he’d just say, ” i wasn’t really feeling myself that day ”
I’m coming over to write my name in the dust on your mantle.
dingus is running for mayor,

a seat

that is supposed to keep my attention?

over there

i wish it was here.

get your name in the neon lights,
carry around a lava lamp.
watch Pina
going for a walk.

Plugging Other People


Old Painting New Shadow

March 27, 2012

Old Painting New Shadow


no. 21 (these “poem” posts are now legal)

March 4, 2012

what does the signal returned measure? Does this mean i can get calls at any hour?


no.20

February 14, 2012

THAT MARK SHOULD GLOW IN THE DARK TOO


Mixed Rain, Body-Curls

February 12, 2012

Again we could only use the empty word “instinct” to explain the inaudible voice of nature that instructed this creature, as a tiny youngster, to search for an abandoned snail shell of suitable dimensions to put on as a suit of armor.  Crawling alone into the big world, it was never in doubt about what to do.  Inspecting old and vacant snail shells for one of suitable size, it seized the one of just the right dimensions and skillfully threaded it on behind as a protective covering to its soft and shrimp like body.  The body curl had been made by nature to assume the shape of the spiral in the snail shell, and one claw was made much larger than the other and of precisely the right shape to serve as as a close fitting lid to shut the door of the stolen house.  With time, the young hermit crab out grew its childhood dwelling and began to look for a more spacious apartment.  With all its vulnerable hind body curled up inside the snail shell, the long legged hermit stalked about with its borrowed house always on its back, inspecting the available supply of empty shells in the sea or on the beach.  When it found a vacant shell, seemingly tailor made for the period ahead, the dissatisfied tenant positioned himself with his old house beside the new one and only if the size was correct did he cautiously extract his long body-curl from one house and thread it into the next.  His brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles did like-wise and although no other vulnerable animal would think of this ingenious solution for body protection, hermit crabs in all oceans know this is just the right thing for them to do.

Thor Heyerdahl
Fatu – Hiva

p. 115 (Taboo)


sky phenomenon (fireballs underwater)

February 2, 2012


no. 19

January 8, 2012

HERE’S TO RECIPROCITY LAYING LOW.  SHAPES ARE GOOD.


Susan Sontag “On Photography”

December 29, 2011

Unlike the fine-art objects of pre-democratic eras, photographs don’t seem deeply beholden to the intentions of an artist.  Rather, they owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject — mediated by an ever simpler and more automated machine, which is tireless, and which even when capricious can produce a result that is interesting and never entirely wrong.  (The sales pitch for the first Kodak, in 1888, was: ” You press the button, we do the rest.” The purchaser was guaranteed that the picture would be “without any mistake.” ) In the fairy tale of photography the magic box insures veracity and banishes error, compensates for inexperience and rewards innocence. ”  1973, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, p. 53.


12.24.12 The Disengaged, Stranded, Shuffle Fix

December 24, 2011

In place of all the cards i did not send. Much Love

1.  Moby — South Side
2.  Boards of Canada — Apparatus
3.  Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – Stranded in Your Love (feat. Lee Fields)
4.  Nick Drake — Poor Boy
5.  Pavement — Stop Breathin
6.  Ryan Adams & The Cardinals — Cold Roses
7.  Counting Crows — Another Horsedreamer’s Blues
8.  A Girl Called Eddy — Kathleen
9.  Billy Carroll  — Shy day, Side B Announcement
10.  Jolie Holland — Stubborn Beast
11.  Four Tet — As Serious As Your Life
12.  The Beatles — I’ll Get You
13.  Calexico — Track 02?
14.  Jamiroquai — Bonus Track


Get it Got it Good

December 23, 2011

no. 18

December 23, 2011

MAKING RESCUE


For my brother, on being friends:

December 16, 2011

Emotive Portland People singin judgements in the streets.

you rubbin off on me, nothing complete.

it always gets to the point where its

incomprehensible

where it’s childish to consume

where everyone wants to get angrier,
shake and then pretend they haven’t made anyone upset.

when someone else helps them get better.

never mind how it looks on the outside it is not how it feels on the inside.

why’s it feel like we’re all waiting for the girls to start singing in the kitchen?

the kitchen where everyone has the exact one they take home.


No. 17

November 19, 2011

RIBBIT, HICCUP, SNIFFLE, DROP IT


EXPANSION

November 15, 2011

The words come together and fall apart. They don’t stay attached, strung to each other in the way they were that one time, when i wanted to write it down, before now.

The fleas bite, he leaves.

Going away to a new love that helps us grow.
I can’t say us any more.
He said it’s not “we”, “this is all you”. Everything to be your own artist.
Your own artist.  Your own art. Your own. Your own.
Why does ownership over ride everything?

Collaborating with others, working together, feeling equal.  Weight can be respected.  Confidence builds in the things others can’t see, the things i feared. They are just things i feel. Others feel too. There are things i could not see before, others could not see before. The periphery, what was at one time out of bounds, is coming into focus. The picture is growing.

Apart, i remember there really is no canvas. It, not we, not only me, not only him or her, can grow infinitely bigger. Health abounds, and sadness. They will grow.  There is no stopping what we have started.

I slipped again.
Not We
You
Me

I am admittedly slow.
I slip at this speed.
Do you keep up?

i am reminded of mortality, growing old before, before, before. Do it now or never. Like that bad Shepard says : “Only the Rebellious crave for happiness in this life.”