Sometimes a book can transform your life
For me it was David Markson

I read him literally thousands of times
While others listened to Kelly Clarkson

Who is this guy?  I kept asking
And what have I discovered?

His last four novels, if you call them that
A reading experience like no other

A toast to you, Mr. Markson
And your wisdom way with words

You are now my companion
In this life grown American Absurd

You are a true genius.
Have they heard?

David Markson in Mexico
   never really been, so I don’t really know
           but Cortez the Killer told me so ...

Tenochtitlan, City on the Lake,
        wonder and exile from El Dorado.

Vincent's eyes were green
Like mine
This can seem a minor point
But it's important to me
(Thank you, Mr. Markson)

Don McLean was wrong.
Green, not China blue.

Vincent, this world is meant for you.

                         Me too.

I am moved by David Markson
New York City night
Me on the Dublin bus
2 green lights

Account for Joan of Arc
Account for your unusual books
Als Ick Kan in Portland
Powells. Aye: Gadzooks!

readind David Markson again
thinking about France
and this quote
then placing his
beautiful yellow book
back upon my shelf:

"I used to say to them
Go boldly among
The English.
Then I used to
Go boldly myself."

How much will get through?
No way to really know
New York City sky
Seattle cedarsnow

I'd like to help my boys
Protect them as they grow
I'd like America
Emily to show

Melville, Markson, Yo.

One must go on working
And one must have patience

Both we wounded west ones
And the mystical Asians

The Republican Party circles the drain
Que selah. Selah.
Mr. Markson quite correct
Can't say he didn't warn ya

Rain all day today
Hath the rain a father?
Probably'll rain all night
3 prayers for 2 daughters

Bought a pachinko machine
Let the good times roll!
My childhood in Taiwan
Japan: good for the soul.

               Arigato!

quiet little library
memories in my mind
Coastal California
San Francisco signs

i like misty mountains
oceans gone bluegreen
David Markson books
she and i between

i might sleep till 2
don't know what I'll find
for my future friends
water worlds unwind

       Johnny 99!

one must go on writing
and one must have prime patience

I’ve lived a time in Europe
and longer among the Asians

if I could I surely would
take Venetian vacations

but tonight I think of Trappist 1
and ponder benign divine invasions

The Jesuit kicked me out
No more Catholic book club for me

I posted Mr. Markson
He didn't like to see

Got my car to travel
Travel quietly

Just live my little life
Prince and Sting cds

No cosmic battle
daily destiny

Soon to see my 3!

cheap hotel, internal pain
    dawn again, grey day rain
                Als Ick Kan!

5:37 a.m.
     beginning birdsong
                is 50 for me late along?

I cannot endure to read a line of poetry; I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull it nauseated me.

Says Darwin's Autobiography

My mind is full of quotations
David Markson forever!
Sacramento Mark
Sacramento Heather

I'm tired, often tired
Disability
Diabetes. Gout. Bipolar.
Please protect my 3

Grateful for small victories
Analogies. Connections.
Grateful for my troubled life
Grateful quietly, no perfection

I like so many movies
For instance, Galaxy Quest
I'll die and be forgotten
Still - to do my best.

                      Amen.

Avoid the company of women.

What if one of them should speak to us?

Remain very awake, Ananda.

so sad the ‘Mercan story
       racist violence is not glory
                greed indeed just bores me ...


                           Selah.

Martin Luther's own words, re the origin at Wittenberg Monastery of the key principles of the Protestant Reformation:

This knowledge the Holy Spirit gave me on the privy in the tower.

You can't possibly have read all these books.

Not one 10th of them.
I don't suppose you use
Your Sevres China every night!?

Pope Joan

Aka John VII
855 - 858

Who died when taken in childbirth
In a papal procession
From St.Peter's to St. John Lateran

The ambiguity is my friend
Wait o wait o wait!

My letter to you is destiny
Destiny, not Fate

Emily, Melville, Mr. Markson
The hidden holds the Great

Little way, next step next
2037 is the date.

vast torrents of reading
    both silence and pleading
             the Impossible

an unthrift: ah! true, true
but (I hope) also an honest man

no need to candy coat
just want to do the best I can

this world’s a horror story
but other worlds again began

North to the San Juan islands
Peace to the old Cheyenne

I've never seen a situation so miserable that a police officer couldn't make it worse.

                            - Brendan Behan

Think you Petrarch would have
Written sonnets all his life
If Laura had been his wife?

Drinkin' turpentine
And breathin' Fire.

But I did not **** myself
Because I wished to learn more
About mathematics.

I have never been surprised
To find men wicked
But I have often been surprised
To find them unashamed.

Said Jonathan Swift

As I write this highly civilized people
Are flying overhead trying to **** me.

No coincidences for quite awhile
Epilogue of Thomas More
The king's servant, but God's first
Quaint and curious forgotten lore

Not following Chicago now
Philadelphia in my view
He remembers Juneteenth
I remember 2

Gaps in Markson's consciousness
Light, he said. Flooding.
Hovering Adidas
Mexico. Spain. The Strand.

                5th volume? And ...

Gonna get to East Lansing one day
Go to the library and read
If I reach Lacedaemon, said Xerxes
Not one ****** will I leave unturned

                  The Spartans: If.