look down

                  staging
          the jumping-off place
       excursus into the never
so into these abysses where eyes draw nausea
draw down, look away, 
into the depths a certain wakefulness arouses
out of high perspectives as if suddenly

12/27/06

love song in time of drought

it doesn’t have to be perfect. 
I forget what it has to be,
where you go to the place
where it’s raining or the girls’
eyes are all watery with love,
they keep telling you it’s perfect,
and where you go it really,
really is like that, really just perfect.

12/23/06

THE GREATEST WESTERN CIVILIZATION EVER TOLD

now throw the ball
at Adam

now, try to hit Eve
with the apple

now try to get the grapes
into Adam's mouth...

they're really racket
balls but we painted them purple

a bulls-eye! you win 
knowledge of life & death -- 

what size do you want?
for the little lady here? 

12/22/06

LA journal entries

4/16/06

1950s rock n’ roll—
3rd St. Sunshine—
Los Angeles afternoon.
               Am I not one
               with the Tao?

.













“so much time . . .
and so little to say”
     —spray-painted message on a storefront,
      Melrose Ave. (created by Banksy?)
.

Marilyn’s niche in H’wood

there’s something buried in this
place, something precious.
they’ll never tear this place
down, because of what’s buried
here.
.

4/19/06

How much
did the paper
cost me?

Another circus
captured
identity.

Winds break
holes in all
this pageantry.
.

4/21/06

what a huge position to be in
.

health holiday

o gene pool
I have 
arrows
I have nothing
but arrows 
for you.

the busses
are waiting
show your 
travel voucher
and get on 
for free.

the great
oblaten
the great
telescope.

the great
perception
around the
perimeter
of the spa.

telling that
no one comes
here for their
health anymore.

12/17/06

two sketches

as though written for sacrifice

culmination toward some positive outcome still further

created an elongated shape some took for a path

or there is still no vehicle

.

after the prescience this color will fade

timing crosses our path one too many times for comfort

bears relax and sleep and so do we

trail with intention, water

the man points to everything


12/7/06

erase

green erase
no it was blue

          stamp the state
          the state mails
          statements it 
          never meant

collect in a hidden library
collect the ink and waste
pouncing like cats

11/30/06

advice

do less with what
                         do less with what?
do less with what 
do less with what
          do less
                         with what
          do less 
                         with what 
do less with what do less     with what do less with what   
   do less with what do      less with what do less with      
    what do less with what?
                                                  
   DO LESS WITH SOMETHING
do something with less
                         do something with less?
          do less with 
          do something with
do less with what something with      what anything with 
        less with something with      less with      
   anything with something 
        less with anything         less with what? 
with what? 
          do less with what?
          do less with something? 
do with what? 
                              do something with anything 
   with anything less
          do anything less with something less
                                        do what less anything 
                              
   anything something anything what
anything less with what, with what?
                                        what? something do
         what with anything 
          anything something what? anything      
   anything do less something 
                                        do what something 
   less with
                                                  
   something anything       something do what what? do
                    anything what?       
   anything less        
do something do

11/28/06