AD.

WALKING ON THIN ICE

no trombones in this 76th month

“Humble thanks to Steven the Sisyphus Smith for fine poetry and visuals on this St. Patrick’s Day, 2022! Like the rest of us, he’s rollin’ the rock right up that hill, trying to make sense of it all (a fool’s errand, for sure). Hang in there (hang up?), Smith—keep leading us by laughter! (God knows, there’s plenty to laugh at these days…)” – Kathy Kieth, editor/publisher Medusa’s Kitchen (send her some worx, folx).

78 feature past 76 months at Medusa’s Kitchen . . . 9 poems, 10 fotos.

http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2022/03/accumulation-tango.html

2022 February word harvest

2022 February word harvest
(mostly short for you poemaphobics)

2022.2.1 – My fuel
2022.2.2 – 1953
2022.2.2 – You know the bad guys
2022.2.2 – Solar Panel Installation
2022.2.5 – Vignette & Vine
2022.2.6 – Used to try to pick up wimmins
2022.2.10 – The snow drops
2022.2.11 – Burning sacred copal
2022.2.18 – Driving through fog
2022.2.20 – Sin of past
2022.2.21 – Sky fallen white
2022.2.24 – Long before sun
2022.2.26 – Trekked this far
2022.2.27 – Guru Gurdjieff
2022.2.27 – Lady sez Thich Nhat Hanh sez
2022.2.28 – I’m a lousy lover
2022.2.28 – Done poems 59 yrs
2022.2.28 – I can’t blame you

~ ~ ~

My fuel
is fear, death, anger
led by laughter

~ ~ ~

1953 . . .
where were you?
I was me.

~ ~ ~

You know the bad guys
(the old white rich male 1%, the MAGAoids,
the Repugnants, the way-too-many Corporations)
are aware they can’t win elections by voting
because we outnumber them,
so they cheat,
that’s all they can do,
they pass laws to uncount our votes,
they tell their diminishing and diminished voters
to show up armed at the polls,
they attempt a coup . . .
they’re on their way out,
but they’re kicking and screaming and scheming and stealing
for all their worth as we flush them from the system.
It’s going to take us years to clean their stain.

And you can’t blame them.
They’ve fed free at the trough for centuries, millenia,
are too fat and fogged to survive in a fairer environment.

Cheat’s all they got.

~ ~ ~

Solar Panel Installation

There’s strange men on our roof
dropping heavy things
drilling and hammering and talking to each other
happy, laughing
pulling long black metal things up with ropes
turning off our electricity
in the old Less-now-More-later scheme
they climb past windows
creep basement
poke holes in house for their fertile wires
such crude beasts
rude
following their programming
offering nice smiles, friendly nods
men strange, strange men
strong in game of planet safetime
for Borg-Babe geek of Wife

~ ~ ~

Vignette & Vine

Awaiting wife in parking lot
I watch old woman
winter coat black pajama bottoms
patterned with white sheep
creak out of driver’s seat
and slowwalk into store

In too long a time
she returns with young woman clerk
and they pull small table
from backseat

Clerk examines all sides
top and bottom
nods her head with happy chatter
carries it inside
woman returns to driver’s seat

She sits there 10 minutes
not starting car
occasionally moving hand in sun
head in shadow

I need her to leave
so I can play with their faces
in my own circus ring

She gets back out
but is now a frail old man in jeans
the black sheep pajamas
a calf-length coat with white horses

He walks around car
opens passenger door
adjusts something
gets back in
leaves

I’m thinking alien lifeform drop here

Maybe old woman alien brings piece of furniture
to young she clerk to mate with
their progeny becoming abstract end tables
in podpeople houses
collecting data for Sky Gauze

After furniture exchange
old woman alien sits awhile in front seat
reporting in while transforming to human male
for next mission

It’s almost obvious

~ ~ ~

Used to try to pick up wimmins
by sidlin’ up and whisperin’ in their ear
“I’ve got the Creature
and you’ve got the Black Lagoon
wanna do the sequel?”
but it didn’t work
never even got damp

~ ~ ~

The snow drops
the sun shines
the dog messes the yard

Pains come
not all go
accumulation tango

Rock, meet hill
hill, meet rock
I’ll be your server today

~ ~ ~

Burning sacred copal
smell of wisdom and experience
taste of cunnilingus

~ ~ ~

Driving through fog
real fast
fuck resolution

Got no cud
so I chew my kid
laughter all around

Trying to kill myself
by living one more day
then another

I’m alone
with me
I need better company

Me
the cold
the fool moon

I want to be smoke
rise into nothingness
slow disappear

Short wait at long light
turning in the fog
going nowhere

~ ~ ~

Sin of past
sin of lack
weight back

Time bong chime
but slice of splice
temporary rhyme

Beginning ununderstandable
end ensues

Circus sounds
coming and going
monkeys all around

Hit the wrong notes
play em loud
gonna pay anyway

Yesterday’s triumphs
soon tomorrow’s tears

Ask the dead
they don’t care
they’ll agree to anything

I’m out of my depth
in dry heave
walking gone water

So much for me
whatta bout you?

~ ~ ~

Sky fallen white
cold ground
brand new coloring book

Moon round earth
earth round sun
sun through galaxy
galaxy galloping away
cosmos collapsing

Seek pre-dawn deer
fox, coyote
find frozen tracks

~ ~ ~

Long before sun
hits dark valley bottom
freight train rumbles

Spent much my light in the dark

~ ~ ~

Abandoned bird
and unfinished monk
scaffolding extra

~ ~ ~

Trekked this far
hope to make the rest
son of Sisyphus

Yesterday, today, tomorrow
rinse
repeat

~ ~ ~

Guru Gurdjieff
caught brown birds
and painted them yellow
to sell as canaries
to finance his expedition
to buy a book on spiritual truth

True or not
it’s true

~ ~ ~

Lady sez Thich Nhat Hanh sez
Everything’s the baby Buddha’s butt

Does that mean Reality’s essentially one big diaper?

~ ~ ~

I’m a lousy lover
but give good woo

great out of the gate
after I catch em
I don’t know what to do

~ ~ ~

Done poems 59 yrs
fotos 64
(1st yr 4-H farmboy w/ camera)
art 58
mutant musick 13
blog 16
fame & finance 0
but o
the friends
the life
the wife!

~ ~ ~

I can’t blame you
for you
we’re all looking for likes

u got time, i got rhythm rhyme shuffle . . .

u got time, i got rhythm rhyme shuffle . . .

Jesus Walking on Water – Violent Femmes
If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time – Lefty Frizzell
Law (Earthlings On Fire) – David Bowie
Trailer Trash – carolesdaughter
Fantasy Island – Clinic
Never Say Never – Romeo Void
Because The Night – Patti Smith
Beezlebub – Beats Antique w/ Les Claypool
M – Music I – Inside C – Curved E-Entrances – Terry Riley
Lost Highway – Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys
The Collector (and the Art Mob) – Terry Allen
Eternal Consumption Engine – Primus
Bow Legged Daddy – Maria Muldaur
Deep Dish – Ani Difranco
Restin’ Bones – Primus
Backlash Blues – Nina Simone
Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On – Leonard Cohen
Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues – Larkin Poe
Bang Bang Boom Boom – Beth Hart
Rehab – Amy Winehouse

who knows where the shuffle goes . . .

who knows where the shuffle goes . . .

Janitor Of Lunacy – Nico
Oh Lord Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb – Charles Mingus
Torches And Pitchforks – Cracker
I Saw A Cop – Jill Sobule
Salivation – Terry Allen
Wild Side Of Life – Hank Thompson
Moanin’ – Art Blakey
Sun and the Moon – Clinic
I Walk The Line – Johnny Cash
Dissolve / Reveal – Tom Verlaine
Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer – Morphine
Peroxide Beach – Sloppy Jane
Walking In The Rain – Grace Jones
Rumble Of The Diesel – Les Claypool
OD’d In Denver – Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Eyestalk (Gurkaran Waraich) – Love
Chinese Mike – Tuxedomoon
Wet Dream – Wet Leg
Tits On The Radio – Scissor Sisters
Jesus Was A Social Drinker – Chuck Prophet
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo (Transformed) – Echo And The Bunnymen
Piano Sonata No. 1: III. Allegro con brio – Steven Beck
You Will Never Work In Television Again – The Smile
Different Trains: After The War – Steve Reich

Frankenstein Earphone Radio

Bill Gates by Critters Buggin, 1997

LOOK AT THE PICTURE!!!
See the skull, the part of bone removed,
the “master-race” Frankenstein radio controls,
the Brain-thoughts Broadcasting Radio,
the Eyesight Television,
the Frankenstein Earphone Radio,
the Threshold Brainwash Radio,
the latest new skull reforming to contain ALL Frankenstein Controls,
even in THIN skulls of WHITE PEDIGREE MALES!

DEADLY ASSAULTS, even in my yard with knives,
even bricks and stones,
even DEADLY TOUCH TABIN or ELECTRIC SHOCK FLASHLIGHTS;
even remote electronically controlled around-corners-projection
of DEADLY TOUCH TARANTULA SPIDERS
or even bloody-murder “accidents”

These hangmanrope sneak deadly gangsters,
the judges the police
trick, trap, rob, wreck, butcher, and MURDER the people
to keep them TERRORIZED
in Gangster Frankenstein earphone radio slavery

Look up and see the Gangster Computer God
concocted NEW FAKE STARRY SKY!
The worldwide completely controlled deadly degenerative
climate and atmosphere through the new world round
Translucent Exotic Gaseous Envelope

You are a terrorized member of the “MASTER RACE” worldwide
4 BILLION eye-sight television camera guinea pig
Communist Gangster Computer God MASTER RACE!
You’re LIVING, THINKING mad, deadly worldwide
Communist Gangster Computer God SECRET OVERALL PLAN:
WORLDWIDE LIVING DEATH FRANKENSTEIN SLAVERY

~ ~ ~

Critters Buggin used a portion of one of Francis E.Dec’s rants as lyrics for Bill Gates on their 1997 album Host.

Critters Buggin is a Seattle, Washington rock, jazz, funk, punk, ambient, electronic band (1993–present) — they’re strange, all over the place, and have at least 9 (to me) fascinating tunes.

Francis E. Dec 1926-1996) “was an American lawyer and outsider writer who was best known for his typewritten diatribes that he independently mailed and published from the late 1960s onward. His works are characterized by highly accusatory and vulgar attacks, often making use of conglomerate phrases like “Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God” to slander people, groups or companies that he believed were engaging in electronic harassment against him, and gained a cult following from the mid-1980s onward due to their comedic incoherence.” – per Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_E._Dec).

bit of a scuffle shuffle . . .

bit of a scuffle shuffle . . .

Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi – Jim White w/ Morecheeba
Another Man Done Gone – Odetta
New Sensations – Lou Reed
Female Jesus – Johnny Dowd
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do – Billie Holiday
The Destruction Of The Superdeep Borehole Tower – The Mountain Goats
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo (Transformed) – Echo And The Bunnymen
Piano Sonata No. 1: III. Allegro con brio – Steven Beck
Backlash Blues – Nina Simone
Boots Like Emmy Lou’s – Janis Ian
Mother’s Rope – Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band
Death Came A-Knockin’ – Ruthie Foster
Letter From Abroad – John Cale
Moanin’ – Charles Mingus
In C – Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki
Music For A Found Harmonium – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
To Zion – Digital Underground, Shock G & Solo Piano
Like A Freight Train – John Hiatt
Addicted – Amy Winehouse
Ghost Town – The Specials
Chills & Fever – Samantha Fish
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – The Andrew Sisters
You Will Never Work In Television Again – The Smile