a dream with gasoline nearly lit
awakens one to rain under the ancient trees as the silence undoes itself in living increments
here ar four am in a sleeping bag of fog
with one's head propped on a bike with an umbrella bungeed.on as makeshift shelter as the city unaware snores
in ignorant zones of nocturnal bliss or one's own dream labyrinth stew
had to dodge a car in my crosswalk yelled at him and he stopped after cutting me off but only long enough to think better of it
then a blur eyed yahoo approaches at the filling station as i put my beer in the duffel by my bike as i unlock it
then a guy wants a dollar hy the fast-food drive thru but i give em 35 cents and a woman in her car offers me a coffee
then the stoic bus driver hauls me up the mtn volcano to one's domicile in the unpeopled park where one's tree has sheltered man for two hundred years
digesting my fries and ale and regrets
at having left the ganja in one's storage
dryly forgotten under lock for another hour and a half if the earth keeps trucking and the unrest
is civil only broken by heavy dew and scattered mind brushes
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Friday, October 23, 2020
booger squish squab
most cars at the fast grease drive up look like boogers on corn syrup hips
larvae karma in anti grandiose shells
me im not hi
my torso parking on a tree root born out my game
tabor foot hills
10 23 20
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
forest jihad bloodgood, more BS from the folks that branded "isis"
"The term “forest jihad” itself seems to have been popularized by a 2008 article published by a retired Israeli colonel, Jonathan Fighel, on the website of an Israeli counterterrorism research institute.
Fighel’s article stated that, in Israel’s conflicts with Lebanon and Palestinians, fires deliberately set by militants damaged Israeli forests and cropland. Rather than being an inevitable result of irregular warfare and shelling, Fighel suggested, the damage suffered to Israeli agriculture during its wars was part of a deliberate terrorist-led “forest jihad,” with global connotations.
“’Forest Jihad’ (forest arson) is one manifestation of the ‘Economic Jihad’ tactics, a tool in a variety of options to cause economic direct and indirect secondary damages,” Fighel wrote, raising the specter that “forest jihad” is part of a broader set of boutique jihads being waged by terrorists against Western countries."
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/16/wildfires-forest-jihad-blueleaks/https://theintercept.com/2020/10/16/wildfires-forest-jihad-blueleaks/
sleeping crag
the lore exceeds our mental grasp of the oily obvious
days slur in a musical sense of horsehair wood and catgut
a few days sugargliding
a couple weeks wrapped in the ivy blackberry train track inflatable mattress
a week bled weak by motels
two weeks brokeside breathing smoke filled with manmade gunk
two weeks in a tiny tent riddled by trees, tiny rent
blundering the aftermath with a pencil erased brow
kicked out with no coat, left to huddle in won't say where
and within a day had a rat run over my legs in the well lit park
two weeks feeding being fed up
four blows later stitched up finally in a rolodex of miscreant antics
back of the bus mini nap where's my Pegasus beanie
as the pollo floes 'round the sun? more days pour apathy
a pitter patter on leaves
clung to the giant tree over my sleeping crag,
tied to the cliff face of a volcano enticed to stay adoormant,
tent hauled out to the sidewalk
where rent infringed on the unused part of our brain 99%
10-21-10
southeast knowwhere
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
BLM Ribs, Lownsdale Park Health and Food Safety, Portland
8 consecutive days of volunteer work at BLM Ribs, camping within 20 feet of the
off-curb in the street gutter FOOD SERVICE petri dish
"The Plaza Blocks were lively places where orators held forth and citizens assembled. They are characterized in part by several large old elms and gingko trees.
Chapman Square, originally designed for the exclusive use of women and children, features all female gingko trees. Lownsdale Square was to be the "gentlemen's gathering place." Today the Plaza Blocks are still a busy gathering place, although men and women can now safely coexist in either of them.
In the center of Lownsdale Square stands Soldiers Monument, Douglas Tilden’s 1906 sculpture in memory of the Oregonians killed in the Spanish-American War (1898). The tall granite obelisk is topped with a bronze replica of a soldier in the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry, part of the first large American fighting force ever sent overseas.
At the base of this monument are two howitzers used in the defense of Fort Sumter (misspelled as 'Sumpter' on the plaque) in 1861. They were brought to Portland by Colonel Henry E. Dosch.
Because the cannons were used by both Union and Confederate troops, it was Dosch's idea to face one north and the other south.
"Park Location or Entrance
Lownsdale Square main entrance
SW 4th Avenue and Main Street
Portland, OR 97205
Get Directions
Open hours
Park hours: 5:00am-midnight
"The City of Portland ensures meaningful access to City programs, services, and activities to comply with ***Civil Rights Title VI and ADA Title II laws and reasonably provides:
translation, interpretation, modifications, accommodations, alternative formats, auxiliary aids and services. To request these services, contact 503-823-4000 or TTY 503-823-6868."
***(No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.***
TELL THAT TO THE PORTLAND PARK RANGER WHO TOLD ME "YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES TO PACK UP" WHILE THE BLM RIBS TENTS ARE ALSO NON COMPLIANT WITH EVERY RULE THAT APPLIES TO THIS PUBLIC SPACE.
https://www.portland.gov/services
"rain washes the twenty gallons of dish slop
down the gutters along the federal building,
crows have better mush to nibble
in the park where riot ribs
hang out under the molting trees
in a francis bacon meets goya meets basquiat world
forking spuds like gogh in a van quick
here come the pig with eight hanging off the side
going in flashing circles, chasing their tails
we smoke copious pot
billowing around the beers in the park across the jail
court injustice theater, the tricked out blm ride
with a p.a. system taunting the night
kill me now, cowards
***
yesterday, got out of the soggy tent around one
the blm booth had collapsed from ten hours of water and wind
i set things right, swamped out the trash
and heard the elk had been deherded from main street
by proudboys in pickups, shoulda seen it coming.
made bleach water and cleaned the public toilet
which ranks among the worst rank homeless shit magnet
around, bleached the sidewalks, put food out on the table
and greeted passersby, helped put up the new
canopy knowing how they assemble and attached
two by fours to the legs for weight,
got offered a beer, then two by a pretty girl
from the pendleton blanket shop
greeted more people, then came nate and we
shot hoops for three hours by the war memorial
with howitzers from fort sumpter 1861
more spraypaint on it ever day
there's drumsticks on the grill, people are happy
for free hot food, all sorts pass by mostly simpatico
a drunk russian almost causes trouble
but his buddies pull him down the street
and the loons show up, wiggling under the cedar tree,
doing incantations, waving sticks and kooking out
the protest at the jail release a few blocks away
spits out random individuals or groups amidst
cheers jeers and beered unclear
one Native man shares long candles
i attack to a gallon can with no label, he comes back
for lighter fluid he pours into a water bottle
after cops take away his candles
the kooks come in droves and then amber in black
chatty and wants to share the only beer
the last pair of kooks almost have a tussle
around four am, i'm soon home walking thirty feet to the tent
a mini riot still reverberating a few blocks away
fuck it five am
i depart to southeast and my storage and carla won't serve
me coffee so to my storage full of money
and i drink coffee
all i want
fuck you
and back to camp with this and that in tow i hear the
dickboys came thru again and messed with my *new friends*
while i was away and i do again the swamp out
hallelujah"
10-11-20 blm ribs
jp gone, gone for hours, returns full of empty excuses
and lotsa lip and a short fuse sticking out of the petri dish
of unhinged anarchy with a new biz license
no propane for 48 hours plus and no way to cook or kill microbes
no charcoal and a cooler full of half warming meat
human shit dog shit loose trash rain slop runny nose festering wound
haven, the two hours of scrubbing pots
with a greasy sponge buy me a few moments of half gratitude
until the Park nerd boy scouts show up at 10pm TO HASSLE
the houseless and look the other way
covering for the con men taking donations online
and unable to perform basic tasks or figure out how to
organize the operation with volunteers, none of whom know other
and are largely white boys like me
as the main man
plays on his skateboard, or scooter, or megaphone, or takes a girl
off for several hours as the ragged downtown deranged and
disenfranchised settle for a piece of bread and an apple
while cases of canned soup, uncooked pasta, fresh produce
from the Oregon farms----spoils or is sneezed on by the
crazy lawless cars that rush past only a few feet away.
the con men have no literature or propaganda for BLM
nothing but nicer clothes than the sidewalk crew
that lurk across the terrain
without shadows
and without anything to wipe their asses with other than
cedar tree splinters and wax cups from the gutter:
Monday, October 12, 2020
Sunday, October 11, 2020
fort Lownsdale canon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter
The attack on Fort Sumter is generally taken as the beginning of the American Civil War—the first shots fired. Certainly it was so taken at the time—citizens of Charleston were celebrating. The First Battle of Fort Sumter began on April 12, 1861, when South Carolina Militia artillery fired from shore on the Union garrison. These were, both sides agreed, the first shots of the war. The bombardment continued all day, watched by many happy civilians. The fort had been cut off from its supply line and surrendered the next day. Major Robert Anderson took the flag with him as they evacuated.
Proud Boy Trash Talk
" The message, he said, was directed toward Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Mayor Ted Wheeler and all the elected officials in Portland.
“I’ve set a precedent.
I can do what you want, I can take what you want, I can set fire to what you want, and that’s OK,” Pappas said"
"Pappas already has a warrant out for his arrest in Clackamas County, alleging failure to appear on a second-degree criminal mischief allegation, accusing him of damaging another man’s vehicle on May 9 and not appearing in court on the case on Sept. 30, according to court records"
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https://theintercept.com/2020/10/10/portland-tear-gas-chemical-grenades-protests/
The commonly used formulation contains 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile, a compound that was designed to induce immediate pain but can also have long-term effects, including chronic bronchitis. In early September, Wheeler ordered the police to stop using it.
Tear gas is banned in war but can be used to disperse crowds of civilians.
"After federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security descended on Portland in July in a mission dubbed “Operation Diligent Valor,” the use of chemical irritants to control, drive away, and confuse protesters and obscure the actions of law enforcement grew and intensified.
Among the products that federal agents appear to have used during the military-style crackdown is a hexachloroethane “smoke grenade” manufactured by a company called Defense Technology and sold as “Maximum HC Smoke.”
"he health effects of hexachloroethane include nausea, vomiting, central nervous system depression, and kidney and liver damage, according to the compound’s material safety data sheet. Zinc chloride, a compound released by the grenades in even greater amounts than hexachloroethane, has “long-lasting effects” on aquatic life, according to its manufacturer’s safety data sheet. The toxic compound also causes fever, chest pain, and liver damage and is associated with anorexia, fatigue, and weight loss.
Although the grenade’s manufacturer, Defense Technology, markets it as “military style,” the Department of Defense appears to have begun phasing out the smoke bomb years ago because it was incredibly dangerous.
A 1994 report of the U.S. Army Biomedical Research and Development Laboratory notes, “Exposure of unprotected soldiers to high concentrations of HC smoke for even a few minutes has resulted in injuries and fatalities.”
The Department of Defense did not respond to an inquiry about whether it had discontinued use of HC smoke grenades.
But a 2012 report by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, the Department of Defense’s environmental program, indicates that the U.S. military was at the time exploring the adoption of several less toxic “obscurants” because of the serious breathing difficulties, swelling of the lungs, severe liver problems, and death associated with the grenades."
" In a report released Thursday, Physicians for Human Rights documented a “consistent pattern of disproportionate and excessive use of force” by both Portland Police Bureau officers and federal agents during the protests throughout June and July.
The report details brutal injuries from rubber bullets, other impact munitions, and tear gas canisters thrown at protesters in the city, which has logged more instances of police brutality during this summer of protest than any other U.S. city."
