classic vehemence, rococo detachment, complex contours,

     cupid hacks hearts from hercule's wand;

massive pretense, mar de lago kompromat, vivid bruises,

     uranus swelters under the miss golf usa blonde


silk radiance, disingenuous accounts, poontang feathers,

    men deserve racks 2,  taxidermy porticoes, vernal odes,

sloppy second swearings, dumbfounded marbles, leather,

   hands walk down the street in buckets loads


rose bud snow light, mini stars on purple, salt spires,

   flipping dentist magazines, voting apparatus, comet slag,

undersea treason, monsoon marmots, dada tires

   twilight butters, sleigh variations dubai, quantum guano tag


frills asymmetrical circle tetrahedron anomalies

rounds whole up questions mystery family

new world order 3

sand box

our tissues mineral playground spiral slides
our minds unfathomed teeter totters 
our home either land seething or sea teeming
our people better they better not cut 
and ye shall knoe thee bye thine keystones
our old youth
our slightly fixative orbits
our particles sand boxes of people ability

harvey and marvels

it was harvey and marvel to the north

not like it mattered to my feet or mind if i wanted thru

their field of cows ever since they shot our dog

when i was a baby or later dad brought home

the squab for mom to bbq i took care of

the anthills with gasoline and firecrackers and cleaned the highway

of empty cans that their weenie dog could get

stuck in they had steep stairs with carpet

across just a ways was the split rail

which had cockfighting in the basement i was told it was

no nonsense on union and 51

where dad put his plants in the pines it was

a marvel no one saw those nocturnal angels

peppered on barn beams

noodled way different not like it mattered

*********

north down union on the gravel road

years of xmas trees, blackberry buckets, barefoot jogs,

magazine subscription cold calls,

learning to drive the datsun wagon,

walks. a backway home, later.

south on union were a few amigos, for a few years.

and the intersection a mile out

where busboys drank, leaning toward insurrection.

late show burgundy,

the scorpions or rush or van halen nothing in a stew of stars

and more oil underfoot than anywhere on planet earth

with our firebird, 280z, porsche, or vega

haunting midnight after work in the country

where headlights say hello a mile before

************

the stansfields had the brick yawn at the foot of the drive

to our three acre hippy haven and owned the

steak lobster coke and shrimp place a hundred yards away

with no windows a cinderblock shelter themed

in spats and formal attire playing joe jackson or count basie

orchestral

down he strode a dead heap of living slag

basalt born his thighs went toward the Thing

as a raven red harlot whispered at his neck in line for coffee

and her goon nervously loitered window lee to eternity

as my surf gathered girth and goon lumbered

into thick frozen fear wish to inspire that

blocking the exit in psychotic trance or brain suckered confusion

i stood abruptly black leather boots short athletic tight shirt

he quivered, opened the door and left, as soon did

the message failed lipstick coif and all

and as i followed momentarily out this very door the sky cracked

thunder followed in torrential rain and ice

so great that the hills off mount tabor were mills of water

six inches deep stream once streets

i on my bike laughing full rain gear dry made it home to vast rainbows

and when i came to my balcony there perched

the most beautiful bird i have seen,

a kestrel i believe,

oklahoma state university cafeteria (1986)

i sit and wait in the university cafeteria

for my coffee to cool. "and what about that

good 'ole boy from midwest city? he was kinda

slow." two overweight businessmen

wear ugly brown ties. ugly

okies and leering foreigners park in the cafeteria

to watch the fatassed coeds carry their heaping

salad platters. the ugly

men have notebooks graphpaper and big calculators

strewn about their tables.

the middle easterners lounge with empty milk cartons and

spilled wild rice. when they go to class

they occupy the front row and

study most dilligently while at home in the dorm.



here in the cafeteria, they watch

american bacteria socialize



OSU 1986

__________________









Tillerson was born on March 23, 1952, in Wichita Falls, Texas, He was raised in Vernon, Texas; Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Huntsville, Texas.



"At age 14, he began to work as a bus boy in the student union building at Oklahoma State University.



 Two years later in 1968 he became a janitor working in one of the engineering buildings at the university.



On weekends, he worked picking cotton."



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Tillerson

astrid undoing

Astrid her marble mind unrolled three moons,

     Revealing a cornice light-lingered;

Oceans bloomed boiling awake,

     Birthing Astrid's columnar granite fingers.


Comet shreds raining, night dazzled arcade,

     Astrid's stride many wakes blazing;

Water wall syncline, harbinger promenade,

     Gasping fire tracers liquefied pacing,


Her pegasus hooves red-snowing, mineral fusions,

     Astrid undid sphere's buttons atoned;

Uprising eternal, core blasted confusions, contusions,

     Answering mountainous, forlorn.  


Bang bigly my mantle, Astrid announcing life,

Heap zillions neath time, make oil your knife.


12-14-17 portland

Husk

Poetry dried up to sleep centuries in mud
No one noticed other than rain

Face first
in tongueless
dusty whispers

snowmobile oil

O'er the hills we go, ne'er mind the Sno

"PDVSA also owns 100 percent of Champlin Refining in Fort Worth, Texas, Young said. Additionally, the Venezuelan enterprise owns 50 percent of Unoven, a Chicago-based refinery. The other half of Unoven is owned by Unocal Inc. of Los Angeles.

PDVSA's acquisitions are part of Venezuela's strategy to shift its marketing strategy from being a mere crude oil producer to also being a refiner and marketer of petroleum products."

1990



Read more: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/01/31/Southland-completes-sale-of-remaining-interest-in-Citgo/8254633762000/#ixzz5apb6zv2O

1971 XMAS tree great grandmother emma

Xmas for Vlad, CITGO

" As allies go, Venezuela is a relatively cheap one for Russia. But the potential returns on Moscow’s investment there could be priceless.

In exchange for modest loans and bailouts over the past decade, Russia now owns significant parts of at least five oil fields in Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest reserves, along with 30 years’ worth of future output from two Caribbean natural-gas fields. 

Venezuela also has signed over 49.9 percent of Citgo, its wholly owned company in the United States — including three Gulf Coast refineries and a countrywide web of pipelines — as collateral to Russia’s state-owned Rosneft oil behemoth for a reported $1.5 billion in desperately needed cash. "
__________________

"CITGO Becomes Wholly Owned by PDVSA

1990 Fox Television’s animated program “The Simpsons” made its television debut; “America’s Funniest Home Videos” was the most popular television show.

1990 CITGO became wholly owned by PDVSA.

1990 The former Champlin Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, which was purchased by PDVSA from Union Pacific was integrated into the CITGO refining network.

1990 CITGO acquires the Seaview Asphalt Company, headquartered in Blue Bell, PA with a refinery in Paulsboro, NJ.

1990 CITGO honored with the prestigious Petroleum Marketers Association of America Supplier Cup.

1991 Soviet Union collapses.

1991 CITGO reports increase in income from operations while its competition reports losses.
1991 CITGO spends $283 million for construction of new refinery units and upgrades.

1991 CITGO invests more than $40 million in environmental protection projects.

1991 Six persons are killed in explosion and fire at CITGO’s Lake Charles Refinery “A” Catalytic Cracking Unit.

1991 Persian Gulf War.

https://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO/CITGOHeritage/CITGOHeritage1990s.jsp

_________

"
The Venezuelan national oil company will merge two Oklahoma-born companies "to achieve a stronger position" in the United States refining and marketing industry, company officials disclosed Thursday.

Champlin Refining and Chemicals Inc., based in Irving, Texas, will be combined with Tulsa-based Citgo Petroleum Corp., Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) spokesman Kent Young said at a Tulsa news conference. The joint headquarters will remain in Tulsa."

https://newsok.com/article/2330274/champlin-refining-citgo-plan-merger

"With the integration, the merged companies will have revenues in excess of $7 billion and a refining capacity of 480,000 barrels per day. 

Citgo's refinery in Lake Charles, La., has a capacity of 320,000 barrels per day and Champlin's Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery has a capacity of 160,000 barrels per day.

Citgo has 3,200 employees, 900 of them in Tulsa; 1,600 at the Lake Charles refinery and 150 at a packaging and blending plant in Cicero, Ill. The rest are scattered at terminals.

 Champlin has 150 employees in Irving. Hall said Thursday he doesn't know Champlin's total personnel, but estimated the number to be between 700 and 900.

The merger is part of an international restructuring intended to "extend PDVSA's global reach," Hall explained.
__________

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/VedLkQ1yNvestYNNSakalMsZB1s=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/5SJG7GACCMI6TFMMBJQBEJX7NM.jpg


When Russ Dallen, a Florida-based managing partner at the brokerage Caracas Capital Markets, sifted through court filings in Delaware, where Citgo’s holding company is based, he found that Rosneft had reached a deal that had pumped $1.5 billion into Venezuela in exchange for a lien on the other 49.9 percent of Citgo.

With assumptions that Citgo, if sold, could be worth between $6 billion and $9 billion, the arrangement amounted to a sweetheart deal — and, in addition, the Russians had managed to lay claim to almost half of a major U.S. oil giant.

_________

"it hired Avenue Strategies, the firm co-founded by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and campaign adviser Barry Bennett.

Since then, Citgo has paid Avenue Strategies $160,000 to lobby the White House, the Treasury Department, the Justice Department, and the Energy Department on the “potential impact of U.S. energy and foreign policy restrictions on CITGO Petroleum Corporation's operations and valuation of assets,” according to disclosure filings.

Two Avenue Strategies lobbyists were specifically tasked to press for Citgo sanctions relief: Bennett and Bud Cummins, a former U.S. Attorney and the Arkansas state chairman for the Trump campaign. Avenue Strategies did not respond to requests for comment on its work for Citgo.

Citgo sought favor with the Trump administration even before the president took office. It pitched in $500,000 to fund the president’s inaugural ceremony, according to Federal Election Commission records— a break from previous inaugurations, which the company had not bothered to finance.

Gilmore Meadows

Surreal cake princess

Old wild art

Indomitable idiom sic

Party on garth

5 fat russians
A bunch of
Fun

100 days plus

Thank god
For insurance
That actually helps
Injured workers.
Shitbag bosses
Fuck them
Fuck them straight to hell.

Captain Gray's menu the dalles

Glowing corn, swoon, JW hog

To Hanna love Isis

Columbia university grad school letter, Kansas Univ papers

Flaming lips, butthole surfers, set lists Lawrence Kansas

Rug the clown, Portland Saturday market

1998 Stillwater home, flb

Hi

1992

Liar liar liar

Not too Eiffel sic sic

Beautiful, beautiful
The women doctors 
Said, putting kind radar
To my shoulder
Sounding the musclescape
In real time 
With cool jelly instrument
Gliding, not a whale
Not a bat
Conversant dialogue in
Mutual esteem like aliens
Visiting foreign
Male land.
Beautiful, my injured sphinx
Phalanx, the tissue canyons
In a fly-over
Ending in a big needle
Not awful not Eiffel
With a third nurse asking
How are you sir
As I closed eyes, whistled
Thru the unknown
Alleys of my arm

Egmont v. Inquisition table hockey

Your message hear 67$

Worms

Comey claims to not know what collusion
Means. Does he know what conspiracy, fraud, racketeering, money laundering,
Treason, and espionage involve?

Gosh, boy scout. 

Does he know what "worm" means?

Forest long ago

Work photos 2016

Mother's day Columbia gorge

Nature is Life pt 1

measure

Renaissance music within, winter wind
Without remorse tears
Summer's subtle subterfuge to bits,
Bent prone as moss 
On the measure.

Rex Tillerson,
OSU busboy

ditchtown traditional

1.jole blon ( trad.)
2.on a lark/red apple juice (Conover,trad.)
3.peg'n awl (trad.)
4.the L& N (trad.)
5.cry baby cry (Conover)
6.hesitation blues (trad.)
7.little Sadie's cuckoo bird (trad.)
8.bucket hole (trad.)
9. O death (trad.)
10.railroad bums (Conover)

a magnet of crows

Add caption

Trees, and....NOT a "murder" of crows
Rather

A magnet of crows
A montage of crows
A mandate of crows
A mansion of crows
A matrix of crows
Etc etc etc