#vonnegut
I’m shirtless after
getting too hot in the best kitchen stool spot
It’s where the dog will leave me alone for a sec
It’s a weird winter
every year now, but they say the Great Lakes are
the best place to ride climate change out
It’s been too cold, now it’s getting too hot for this time of year
so the old Watkins Glen hoodie was too much
I almost ripped the front neck like an 80s girl
but I didn’t have the strength
If walks are still out of the question,
I better start doing physical comedy
around the house like Three's Company because
I said I was going to
We could have had it all
we still could
We reached peak performance
we almost reached Star Trek replicators
The whole world enjoying life saving advancements
over a hundred years
Only for it to decline for the first time
instead of just sabotaged into a slowdown like before
Those billionaires want to stay relevant
Even though they’re beyond useless
They’re a detriment to our democratic progress
just to preserve their status as economic royalists
who decry the decline of Victorian social deference
Remember Kurt Vonnegut talking about his school
in the era of almost proficient public funding?
He was excited to have a jazz band
Until these types of things were deemed unimportant
for those who may need them most
Now we have the technology to exceed the speed and competence
of the 80s, 90s, and aughts
but the the profit motive just gets stronger and more depersonalized
We’ll teach them to fish by killing them all
Jan 23, 2024
Jan 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM UTC
when does the poem end?
creation is never ending,
the earth is endlessly morphing
but you lean back and say
enough
not because the poem
is finished,
for it is never finished,
because an exhalation feels
satisfying, releasing
but the poem never ends,
nor does the need to
exhale
not with the final .
the next poem is
but a
continuation
of the previous poem;
a continuation
of you~poem,
inhaling
and
exhaling
& morphing.
Sat Jan 7
7:57am
Jan 7, 2023
Jan 7, 2023 at 8:50 AM UTC
Drunk, we staggered home.
Aware of having been
some
other where
a while
That woman, she could answer
any question rebbi axt,
Ohhhhmyyy
she laugh and say, Dude, I got the Intent-net,
in my hand
That's more than a list of numbers, this
accounting idle words going on, on going, as fast as
lightning, at the scale, of, say
cat-ions ifiying an-ions
at random,
seen systematical, from a distance
zoom out
at the scale, of, say
Great Deep Field.
Center you, I'm no matter.
synchro
now
zoom out
Use that steam program
Universe Sandbox,
you gotta see that to imagine this, right,
and next is what you keep saying is unbelievable,
but its not.
Good things come to them
to whom
good makes more sense.
Earth from the moon POV
Confusion flux, spurtual, caused by the solar flare of all solar flares,
one side
Whooshing the Ice left from Patton's flood
into steam, the stuff, not the app,
which swooshhhesssssssssss smack
into the freezing repurcussions
from the daark side…
The Noah event, that was bad,
This one, the last one, this just previous one,
was spiritual. Magnitudes incomparable
(save in parable and example, exemplar gratis,
says the bodiless being, with a roll of my wrist and a bow)
At that very time on the side away from the flare,
the daark side of the planet, this one…
a Donald Patton nitrogen snow ball
that nearly breached Roche's limit,
too not nearly enough,
dis -integration
The atmosphere freezes
to the quark level, snap,
the cold
explosive
forward momentum
booms a nitrogen bubble now
minusminusminus
solid nitrogen
melting
any heat locked in flare fired steam,
what was once the water
that washed away the gods and locked their cities
of ivory under the ice
on the sunny side,
where now, then,
a solar flare like legends build empires upon
has passed, fires rage
there were survivors who lived to tell
and old stories never die. Old story tellers do,
Only miners survived, gold digger mostly,
few alchemists who knew the mystery in mercury,
Lost was all knowing but to a very few,
who truth be told had been the owner's
well kept servants, ministers of this and that
they perished with all the fires touched
we diggers, we only marvel
How bits of time, exact as ours, can be seen happening
all in bubble of Mercury. Cooked out red rock like these.
"Blood o' the gods of old, swat I'astold."
Messages from the gods, grandma, said, "Mercury calls for gold, gold listens, when fire's hottern fire can be,
unless
the breath of men blow on the coals", we all said that last part and blew out the light. G'night
but a story told a wee bit here a qubit there
here a little, there a little
line upon line,
precept upon precept,
'cept no body knows what I know about cept,
capere, a story starts, a provisioning tale. Wait.
it means grip. like a tool. rock breaks nut.
Paper covers rock, but scissors are so far in the future
that now, my time, my mind wanders after whys
this authoritative telling of the story, in it,
none know the terminal tale.
As in times past, there were survivors who lived to tell
and old stories never die. Old story tellers do,
Tho' here's a clue.
Meek's not bad,
stupid, for no reason, is.
Living long for the sake of a song heard once,
in dream luring me on, promising right now, I'll
know what it's like to see, oh
POV I made this clear some time ago,
time is less predictable than any imagined, before 2018
when, you know…
Even those tales old drunk Hesiod sold
in the Hittite tavern at Delphi,
Chronos thought wrong in those,
he ruled but for the merest gleam o'
Time, then a bubble gen erated by the thought of
opposition to transition,
nothing to something,
pushing /pushing back
stretch/snap/spark
that takes power, pulsing power, throbbing power
push/stretch
glow/snap
you know, imagine, glowing - cheat, think 2018 CG
glow/snap
Planc time,
each time the bubble pushes back
a ripple
imagine a clock, later, if you believe then, you must.
Now, see the bubble of all men have imagined,
since the time when such a bubble was only evil,
continually.
It went viral.
Noah we know for sure, almost, survived, Cushites kept records. In Africa.
Akkad kept record, too.
Some Hopi survived somehow and they have a tale.
They say they know the story is ten thousand years old,
I've been to a crossroads
on their journey,
stories
tell of it, still, today.
Holy means marked for good reason.
Marked with clues, not riddles, maps
Sacred means secret means hidden away for use,
not common, every day, quotidian use, right use.
Time, the opposing force, is precious to us all.
In time, we do all we can and die,
in ever, we expand, in no time at all. I imagine.
You fill it. Now, Your expandable mind's time,
time pushes from the outside,
wisdom pushes from the inside,
And so it goes, life goes on and music grows on ya,
Amusing how they do that, teeny muses dancing
shiva on the tip of my tongue,
singings songs in tongues I've never known
if they
are words on tongues
or sounds on tongues,
notes,
Baysian Binary Cross Validation
still ends with some people thinkin'
"it is finished" left them with a ton o'weight,
that's wrong, insist resistance.
Some, heavy duty, leaders of lambs, they claim
power in their mouths, spoken from fixed hearts,
but fixed upon, is truly the song,
said, words are only
little bits of whole sym ulacrum of re-ify-ing
where broken things re-pair, and life goes on…
"fixed, my heart is fixed",
no, your heart is machine of the most magnificent design, perfected,
a time at a time.
Flexing, pacing time itself, faster slower,
try some time
alone
be still, pond still
I know the story broke,
I could not hold it.
In the night, bitter cold
Frozen fragile...
There are pieces scattered every
where, everywhere
there is time, there is at least, a point
a story may stand upon and ask an angel
to dance.
Dance, give it some flare, what do we care?
Nobody's watching, but that fly.
Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 8:58 PM UTC
So many people
will come and go before me
But who will be
now?
Jan 27, 2018
Jan 27, 2018 at 11:20 PM UTC
A man once told me, "Never write a movie where a man is left shouting after a woman who is sure to return"
I was raised by wolves and Don Quixote
lead with(in) the heart; regret with(in) the brain
dead weight hangs hungry in my chest
I see fear creep in my knees
my teeth are looking to be tested
my skin is stained like a constellation capricorn gemini pisces
I am my own galaxy:
only porcelain angels looking over me
backstage pass to my caterpillar identity crisis
My imagination (machinations of muddled emotions) was waiting for someone like you
His laugh rattles my subconscious and decomposes my rigor mortis
kiss youmeus like your tongue was made of money
finger me as much as I do my hair
I like sinking into your mind; it's warm in here
Eggs&Bacon;
bread & butter
you're the apple pie to my adam's apple (with all the cavities)
I'm a headless chicken framing instant coffee amber memories
ice cream melts the closer I get to the sun...
It rained today.
Some statues talk, some people have nothing to say;
who will you dip in gold and call your temple?
Why does it have to be art and not just us?
you're just another outlet mall; your sheep are in Leeds
the shoes are from your closet and I need reupholstering
my feet will go where they dare but
the yellow brick road is turmeric and
shame
I'm on a deserted island and all I see are birds
all my doors have a neon EXIT sign
It began and ended with the Space Odyssey-
"Martha!"
Aug 10, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 at 11:13 AM UTC
they say god is perfect.
that holds true for me, too.
no concept contains me in totality.
Stirner wrestled with the undefinable:
an indefatigable Unique,
anarchic,
lacking category.
Camus perhaps said it best,
"i rebel, therefore i exist."
i strive to personify resistance.
i find the answers
in harmony with Counterparts,
defining *The Difference
Between Hell
and Home*:
"i am what i am
and i am an outcast."
an outlaw,
a nobody
akin to Nietzsche,
returning infinitely—
stretched like so many grains of sand
on time's flat surface, orbiting
eternally around the creative Nothing
at half-past 3:00 in the morning.
a singularity,
deconstructing
Derrida's Différance.
a nomad on the margins,
wandering aimlessly,
roaming perpetually
with Deleuze and Foucault,
an astronaut arranged
along the endless frontiers
of an ever-expanding cosmos.
Vonnegut recognized
the periphery affords
a radical view
to the few who choose
to embrace that which cannot be Known.
a zero-sum game
between Death and me,
staving off manic-depressive ennui
if only momentarily.
Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 2:55 AM UTC
Some people endeavor to portray a persona.
Some people perpetuate the beliefs of their parents.
Some people pretend to be somebody they've seen on TV.
Some people have trouble accepting that they're actually existing.
Some people perceive themselves as being unlike anyone else.
Some people have an aversion to personality profiling.
Some people just can't help themselves.
Some people feel a need to place everyone they've ever known into categories.
Dec 5, 2015
Dec 5, 2015 at 3:23 AM UTC
— for the American Mustang
Strung up on one leg, bled dry while alive,
unloaded off trailers crammed full
of the crippled and blind —mares
giving birth on three legs, foals trampled
by stallions, and a wave of fear
hovering over tossing manes
like the sea after Moby **** surfaced
for the first time. Last year,
135,000 horses died —
rounded up in hundreds and sent
off to slaughter like feeder goldfish,
three stops from Canada
or Cabo, displaced from plains
once revered for their livelihood.
In 1969, Vonnegut
wrote, “And so it goes…”
In 2061, our children will ask about the wild
horses who used to live in their backyards
as they catch the last fireflies and bottle
them up in jars, flickering and dying
like tired bulbs giving up on electricity —
2015 sees Henderson, Nevada grasses paying tribute
to power-plant-lines and a suburb built
on Tralfamadore fiction: house-mounds
and picket fences caging domesticated dogs,
curb-lined streets and caution signs, billboard
warnings of humanity’s fixation with progression,
combined like coffee with an overabundance
of half-and-half and too much sugar — only 99 cents
at Dunkin down a little ways, and home
to the dreamers who forget the word freedom.
Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 4:05 PM UTC
Let’s bomb Dresden
with the black fire
of thousands
of bookmarks
with poetry
of poets
far and
wide
-so it
goes-
and
each
side is
printed
with verse;
flip flopping
through the air
each to land on
Dresden’s ghosts.
Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 2:34 PM UTC
If fools could speak of geometry,
you would be the right angle,
while me, obtuse,
I find light in the darkest places,
where the glint of the moon turns back time,
I look back,
And find you cloaked in fog,
traipsing towards me,
with no rhyme,
strafing while they bleed,
we are cogs in the handset,
we are all lost teeth,
broken and shattered,
fallen to those underneath.
Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 4:28 PM UTC
billy pilgrim knows
knows what will
happen to me he
breathes down my
neck warm and
gentle my skin
prickling like
stepping into the
cold post-rain
autumn desolation
there is no why
plaids and dead
sheep have appeared
skin shields shilled
by the new age saviors
mellow melancholy
as everything crumbles
around me meat hooks
and bungee cords
*billy pilgrim has
come unstuck in time*
every look is a story
every story is too short
unless stretched to
translucence porous
and fragile tangled
in my hair like cobwebs
or a month of wearing
the same black hat
a bug trapped in amber
i am my legs eyes and
mouth and a broom
sweeping invisible hairs
Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 9:20 PM UTC