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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

O moved to Camp Foetid

O moved the ball,
g8 to camp foetid but the foe there mowed lawns
for summers all year,
unseasonably rich sequestrian facilities that whinny like jetboats
forcing blonde photos to don flesh
whine dine& plagarize tastes less oriental,
world economy being white
as a drained gash zone,
leaving chicago
only NATO.
blunderbus-implement of trumpeting vile patriarchs!
O can move the court,
deflate the ball, but every winter's discontent
cannot hide behind one percent's
shadow government
sponsor, for all rely on where to send the check and balance
that is why the toilets are marble
they stay put for the game,
not the players

Monday, February 27, 2012

Manning

foie gras detainee,
fattened for courtroom infamy

shackled in danger orange,
code pink protectors and grey panthers recall Pentagram Papers

while the most manly
is a cunning crossSnitcher from Crescent,

not accused of telling Truth the time
but put on show for a hawk pecking

songbird: do not eat
the gaps between bars will convey your thin ghost to the world by interNets

unable to restrain
the girth of Earth embodied in a single

winged hero
whose grain may be read by the Woulds that leave

places we can honor

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Earth to Houston: abort the Frackpipe!

"The Canadian prime minister has already said to the American president, if you don't want to build this pipeline to bring – create 20,000 American jobs and bring oil through the United Statesto the largest refinery complex in the world, Houston, I want to put it straight west in Canada toVancouver and ship the oil direct to China," Gingrich said at the debate.

"You'll lose the jobs, you'll lose the throughput, you'll lose 30 or 40 years of work in Houston."
________

And think of all the jobs "created" from the environmental damage this will allow!


Think of all the private prisons that will swell with middle class Americans that protest this for eternity!



Think of poor, poor Houston. Corporate Welfare knows no boundaries.




A State Department analysis of the Keystone plan pegged the job gains as far fewer than 20,000. The report estimated that "The construction work force would consist of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 workers, including Keystone employees, contractor employees, and construction and environmental inspection staff."

get off the Frackpipe!

"Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, questioned whether some people classified as poor or low-income actually suffer material hardship. He said that while safety-net programs have helped many Americans, they have gone too far. He said some people described as poor live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.

"There's no doubt the recession has thrown a lot of people out of work and incomes have fallen," Rector said. "As we come out of recession, it will be important that these programs promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence and encourage people to look for work."

______


"About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty.


Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population. That's up by 4 million from 2009"


_____




One hundred million hungry wide screen TVs, starved for the power to tune IN, turn ON, and drop addiction to oil.


Get off the Frackpipe!



Wednesday, November 30, 2011

millions of workers strike in the U.K.

___________




Tuesday, November 22, 2011

their answer struck forward


being soft and weak where they wish us not
predicting flaws that make virtue
pale opalescence

having frequented busy usurpations in progress
having been given indignities
while asking for help

i consider why our softness is less than theirs,
why their weakness is greater when they are us?
fraught, indelibly

writ in egg on chicken
as vets return to reruns from all wars
feather their lost nests

in limbs gathered, hunted
coveted magic ball answers,
dumb assholes.

their answer
not only objects
it strikes forward.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

the size of the ponder

quack mire easy assembly,
easily attained with blind duck
drunk cold duck duck blinks

now it is on federal lands.
used

to be
long mired by the elk in a fen
richly endowed
with his story of layered crud slop,

among coy
caged fish in a shrunk plaza

the size of the ponder
means a lot to the ideas there to grow,

without scope
nor moneykey trials

sum assembly required

working on change is a panhandler's fool's gold
when change is the currency we breathe
not elk breath

but crown victoria's subject of admiration

here to catch the falling leaves

embedded is as embedded does,
foot-rot mythosophy

don't stand out when you crate your stand
on their slipbox,
sum
assembly
re



-mired

black maria

order prevails in paralytic charm
we each get a turn to mein nothing
noodling messages like air guitar patriots
mainly for manly form
dressed in garbled garb of tarped autonomy
here i hear our dissonance departing
it is called a beat
gumshoes, or gaul lashes
fertile riotry

even order is confused
when non-charmed volks
drive paddy wagons

mein street

consensus forged
behind closed whores
now is that good business practice?
open mein street
the elk decrees liberty
contiguous, contagious

unadulterated and
wholed, hearty and not yet hale
though i lean

toward jeffersonian
anti-slavery hyperbole

dicta anathema

push me to dare you to push me
i'm a new man made old
your sorry story sold well
well deep dryness in a heart made of aquifer ghosts
libido frond shade
it ain't a tussle
castles need dragons or their parapets
sob obsolete
replete with tugs
pulling incredulity

either fertile, or sterile
procedure emanates
false dicta permeates

cuz, well, that's what dicta does

cardboard jewelry

collusion assembles regular- like,
transformenters hyphenated
background chatter squirrel massage
the park is yucky to the eye
the disreputable folks are folked up
the elk wears cardboard jewelry

shitty hall

poems are technological anathemas, cast either
from or to two toos
echoing reverberations of endorsement,
also concurring in a general disassembly
that rectitude is verbotten
sounds nasty, is nasty (but tasty


if you are shitty hall

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Obama Abides No Freedom Nor Adheres to No US Constitutional Notion of Individual Rights

The President said:


"For America must always stand on the side of freedom and human dignity.

Abroad, America’s greatest source of strength has always been our ideals.

The same is true at home.

We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution:

the notion that we are all created equal, that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it;

that if you adhere to our common values you should be treated no different than anyone else."


____________

just look at the choice of words: the "promise" of the Constitution?


the "promise" of the Constitution?

promise :" an assurance one will or will not undertake a certain action, potential for achievement, seem likely to, give an indication of,

the "notion" of equality?


"notion:" a concept, idea, opinion, vague view of understanding, inclination, fancy, or whim

one need "abide" by laws to be protected by them? since when? laws are enforced on lawBREAKERS who DO NOT abide by laws.

"abide:" tolerate, endure, stand, suffer, support, bear

and finally, must we "adhere" to some fuzzy concept of "common values" to be treated equally?

"adhere:" stick fast to, give allegiance to


I am rather flabbergasted at the grave import of these statements of carefully chosen words, coming from a Constitutional "scholar."


I am truly shocked at how plainly he is saying: we have no inherent rights.


They are all qualified by our conduct and appearance to others!



the US Constitution: inherent rights embodied by fundamental principles of governing.


that is my definition, and one of my favorite gods.




Friday, June 05, 2009

fast binders


fast friends make friends fast
don't eat: them: fast: friends: relish them,

your dog may be hot
but the bun is bland and blown with sand and grit

of which we eschew
in pickled sweetness brine

chewsy until the molars drop
not from the gums

but to the floor.
full of gold no doubt, scooped up by friends, no doubt

redeemed in lieu of having to sue.
howjadoo? howjadoo?

"and you shake their little hands/
howjadoo"

it is known as an advance

ain't no friend of mine
is a refrain i disdain like dylan on pain who caint unsplain the scrit of brain

(google calls THIS spam
their sausage servers smell it and says it's too spicy)

"i'm wild about their loving/
i like to have my fun"

how you forge friends

you put it out there
d-day style

and ask 'em to take your check
for their questionable goods:

wanna peek under the hoods
coulds shoulds and drill for oil the peckerwoods

oil that must be refined
must be bottled and divined, as to purity

for intricate cogs require lugubrious
attention: howjadoo?

you shake their little plans up and down,
how do you do?






water time

water in the basement
where it should not be

water in the knee
watered down screed

water for the unthirsty
water on the summer orchard

there is one time and place for hydration:
nature's time.

our time is a wet towel
and 6 sets of nostrils, 4 nostrils dry

it's a board decision
chess, candyland, parchesi

parched easy.
oh, swell.


toward the 4th quarter locker room sermon

either play ball or keep yer cajones
in a safety sack on the shelf

either way, it's take your tour of the sausage mill
because things fall off that shelf all the time

bumped off
knocked off

whacked off
offed on and off, switcherooed

it's more of how you work the ball
than play it, cuz it won't take quarters

and all work is free
while play costs arms and legs

what we do and don't
measure our can't eye levers

tipping balance toward stability.
period, the size of a ball.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

range

own a home
buy a lie

bed a dream
sleep a life

bleed a day
feed a home

rotten wood
indians gone

* * *

now, they're timber barons
begging toothpicks

for casino martinis,
slumdog zillionheirs.

*** *** ***

poor form
forms poor

farms, grown
of groans.

never needed a farm
needed range.

will show

accumulating a loyal following
is the job for flea collars

ringing miami.
a disloyal following may by definition, lead.

to shed attachments
was buddha's occupation.

to add superfluous foot kissers is to have slippery paws.
to slup is divine.

when buddha's cuisinart
lost a blade you bet he went online for a replacement.

put it on credit.
will show, honey wine.

flea collar for an equator in love

baby bird can half fly
baby duck can swim twice pecking fast

slow food moves profit lines

here, it doesn't wanna hear, it. shrillings are worth
big know. eaten, the bug

flies thrice, masted. masticated and eschewed,
with can't eye levers

sheer primordial autopilot.
if you want,

you find. water under the webfeet,
claws drawn up into torsoes not quite flying but almost not crashing

i'm in love
with agony.



what else will leave me alone?

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Revising the Revisionists with my Vision

"Jackstraw was born when rhythm guitarist Darrin Craig and lead player Jon Neufeld met mandolin picker David Pugh and bassist Jesse Withers in 1997 at Artichoke Music, a Portland guitar store and acoustic music institution. Not long after their formation, Jackstraw recorded their first album and hit the road"

(cut and pasted from the Jackstraw Myspace page)
___________


Actually, Jackstraw was "born" when Forest Bloodgood met Darrin and Jon playing open mic at the Laurelthirst in 1997. At the time, they performed as Good Earth. Soon thereafter, David Pugh, Vaughn Wilson, and Kevin Kerberg were performing at various pubs and venues, Portland's Saturday Market, and parties as Jackstraw. Kevin "bingo" Richey played the banjo when Vaughn was unavailable, and all these people recorded at Sound Impressions studio resulting in the album, Home Far Away.

Soon after the release of the CD, Forest and Bingo were booted from the band; Kevin Kerberg returned to college in Kansas; and Vaughn stuck with the band, until relocating in Colorado. Another Jesse played bass with Jackstraw as well.

As awkward as it may be to point this out, I speak the truth, and whoever wrote their Myspace blurb probably took mythology into their hands for the sake of "simplicity."

*** **** ****


Likewise, the Freak Mountain Rambler's have a much more complex and peopled "birth" than their Myspace page reports. Jimmy Boyer, David Reisch, and Kevin Richey were playing Sunday happy hours there in Feb. 1995 when I had my schoolbus-home parked at a house on Glisan where Jimmy and lots of other cats lived. Jimmy brought me in by invitation, and I became a regular player, showing up after the Portland Sat. Market, often with my daughter Surreal being attended to by Dale and Shirley or other kind regulars.

Many many players cycled thru; numerous drummers(Dead Moon's, also the tweaker who took cellphone calls while playing!), VIP guests sat in. Before Billy Kennedy offered up the name Freak Mountain Ramblers, many regulars just called it "church." When Roger North began playing drums for the Freaks, the band developed quickly from a one-show-a-week deal to a unit ready to gig anywhere and anytime. The self titled first album, Freak Mountain Ramblers, came out in 1999. I quit the band effectively in July 2000, as I had a new baby daughter, Isis. Turtle joined in when Kevin moved to California, and Paul Bisset, the wonderful washboard player of many years also quit playing Sundays.

This all goes to state: the band has deep roots, from the late 60s certainly, but also from 1995-2000, when the Sundays were an inclusive hootenanny, and anything could and did happen. Here's to music, memories, and added perspectives to history. And thanks to Jimmy, Dave, and Roger, for showing me the ropes.


*** *** ***

obviously, it isn't so much when a band is "born," but when it is rebranded, by its adoptive parents.

wah wah wah!

can't take off the tattoo, now.





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The Freak Mountain Ramblers present a unique blend of Rock 'n Roll, Bluegrass, Alternative Country, and Country Blues. With a lineup including 3 members of the inimitable and notorious Holy Modal Rounders
The Freak Mountain Ramblers present a unique blend of Rock 'n Roll, Bluegrass, Alternative Country, and Country Blues. With a lineup including 3 members of the inimitable and notorious Holy Modal Rounders/ Clamtones amalgamation of the '70s and '80s, FMR has its roots in the underbelly of the alternative music scene that existed at that time both in Portland and across the country.

During the past 7 years the Freaks have accumulated a loyal following in the Portland area by dependably creating beauty and bedlam at their live shows

/ Clamtones amalgamation of the '70s and '80s, FMR has its roots in the underbelly of the alternative music scene that existed at that time both in Portland and across the country.

During the past 7 years the Freaks have accumulated a loyal following in the Portland area by dependably creating beauty and

ing thring the past 7 years the Freaks have accumulated a loyal following in the Portland area by dependably creating beauty and bedlam at their live showe past 7 years the Freaks have accumulated a loyal following in the Portland area by dependably creating beauty and bedlam at their live sho

Monday, May 25, 2009

mum's the sword

i'm on strike with strikes.
just like you. lie.

you lie.
you strike, liar.

i'm struck, lain.

by lies.
take a stand, meet the lie.

laid, or not, by strikes
we're struck.

mum's not the word.
'tis the sword.

Monday, May 18, 2009

spoon fed robots

if it looks like censorship,
stinks like censorship,

it is sensor shit.
they say "our robots

think(haha
that YOU are a robot

my pot thinks your kettle is black,
too.

alice and wonderland nonsense=spam
james joyce=spam

modern poetry=a refuge
from the robots

yes, i don't spoon feed you.
you must lift the food

to your own
open mouths.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Saturday, October 04, 2008

achille's jockstrap: google

achille's jockstrap: nothing to hold up.

odysseus's siren: hear nothing see nothing do nothing sign bill.

hercules's agean stable: muck out the elephant stalls for some donkey crud.

zeus's leda: swan song for mcpalin.

oedipus's rex: kill the constitution and marry the bible.

the trojan's horse: a maven maverick.

classics most would ignore with a wink and a rip van winkle nod.






why censor the classics, google?

Friday, September 05, 2008

failure of government exemplar

a DARing "rescue plan"

this is the thousand day swim, buddy. should have left the six pack back on the beachbush.

wow. what about "pre-emptive rescue plans"

better knowed as ABSTINENCE FROM SWINDLING

.addicted to what?
add dick to what?chain bush, now. wusscheney
.is this echo chamber working, or

on TRIKE?three failures of government:

executive
judicial
postpartum

don't rescue fanny and freddy, push them into a big green pillow

fannie and freddie are lost in the woods of the world market
they are scratched and a bit bloody by the attack of twigs
and the ravenous bark amidst blackberry catacombs of loserliness avenue

who will rescue poor poor freddie, and fannie.
with the names of orphans from bergman, dear waifs kicked to the winds
by overpilled Execs enamoured of pecks from roostered rosters
and pecuniary impostors

fannie and freddy may have to mate in the wild
to keep the breed going
may have to eat one another, then mate.

who knows, but the tears of these small giants whimpering amidst the cobwebbed horizon
strikes a curdle in my milk. i cannot sup but for their wayward plight.





verily.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503351_Comments.html



one doesn't rescue(risk lives in the attempt)----------enormous Corporations from
untenable precipices. one Pushes them to the right




landing spot.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

spent shells near the columbia


like easter eggs whose candy has flown the coop
clustered on a nest of basalt

lipstick tubes whose missles have sputtered the clay pigeons into dust

chinese handcuffs for one-armed men

periscopes for the stupid attempting to spy on the sky

new-aged icecream push-up pops

litter gathered from a scattershot response to a silent sunday

eggr0ll wrappers married to brass

spent shells along a bankrupt beach whose crabs walked away,
washed away by the sulfur smell and the allure
of floating amidst a haze of misses
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

maria martinez bowl quintana gallery

someone buy this so i can buy new mud-digging shoes!


http://www.quintanagalleries.com/htmls/historic/pottery/pages/fbpt0001.html


my great-grandma emma and her tubercular son john bought it somewhere around 1925 for a few bucks i imagine. my how this appreciate, when they are appreciated.


thank you maria for your skill and unique expression.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

antitruthlessnessfullness

and how is it that the Offal Office can't keep, as by law, the emails for 450 consecutive days, and they have ROOM to spare for sifting thru millions if not billions of transmissions at the SAME TIME in NSA datamining?

Saturday, December 15, 2007


one must use care.


as evidenced in the precise incongruity of free living. gosh b, less.
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ekone living planter car


food of all creation; rust. and an imperfectible sense of wildcrafted whimsy.

don't look too far for the joads...
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ekone horse camp

turn out for the barrels.


summer in southern washington, ready to hit the trail.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

behind ray; bison windmills of revolution

offerings of plenty to the mightiest of allies.

a million years old, buddy.
ray, off his horse; an unnatural sight.
and behind ray, the windmills of the coming revolution.

who'd of thunk it...ekone...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

ray's place, home of the good spirits

the lodge; first good snow of the year, dearly december.

trails, paths, footsteps; snowpadded expanses. every breath a dent upon the silence.

a parallel insistence coddles the horses in a blaze of white, horseshoepits rendered seasonally bereft
of potence. the snow is dry and the air is good. firewarmed rooms await.
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Saturday, December 01, 2007

siamese stuntvaudes

mr. whipple and eveil kneivel are now seen as siamese stuntvaudes:


we have little sense, motivations, or strategies of the key players. Baghdad is held by the Ghraibists, who are lying, slinking for now. Basra is uncontrolled chaos, with Sand families in a low-grade, long-term struggle for power. There is now a relatively coherent question:why isn't the illegit guvamint of the usa listed by klink as a key player

I think that's Clearly the situation on little sense of the long-term motivations or strategies of the key players. Baghdad is held by the Sapfists, who are uncontrolled chaos, in a low-grade, longstruggle for a relatively coherent potential militilitia of explosive questions of who controls the lock, for the key players.

their anti-war leader has taken this position. their anti-war leader has taken this position.

their anti-war leader has taken this position.

war leader has taken this position. this position, occupied, was taken by both sides, as the coin stoodunder its antiwar head.
with the extremeties of threats mostly under GAO oversight, FISA gobbled ulysses...but i digress.
with the extremeties of threats mostly under GAO oversight, FISA gobbled ulysses...but i digress
these are uncontrolled chaos. these are the abdications of the Salivafists. Clearly, Jown owns his J!
Or, that gasoleeny stuff,can be rusted and reapered. send our gallons home!
no wonder murtha was g. washinpun's naynay.
(i'll be a transparent referee when you're a magnetic fieldgoal.)
after all, what's the mission? our excellent oil, squeezed from the humpback Democrat. characterized to the point of elucidation, the last key player has ghraibed this position.
murtha is repaired. 70,000 executive persecutions and you can google eyes that ulysses missed. coherently, the surge carried the troops hours, the troops trojan horse, the troops apostrophic syphillis, the excellent oil of mhyrrtha. franken'sense was burned, premature.
lee abdicated to grant, suffi to sunni, though turks will kill all ways the miss moffet kurds.
continue to raise the hackles. shackled, the key players will sing.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

tasers at show and tell

a cop did a little show-n-tell at my 2nd grade daughter's class the other day. see my riot gear? see my baton? check out my taser! he actually turned the fucking thing on.

how odd i thought...i was just reading about bernard kerik's federal indictment, about his publisher/lover judith regan suing newscorp for 100 million dollars, about his disgraceful history of corruption which kept him from being homeland security czar....and about his stint as taser salesperson/chairperson of the mob:


In 2002, Taser brought on former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik as the company's director. Kerik had attained popularity in the wake of 9/11 as a law-and-order-minded hero; the company had seemingly picked one of the best spokespersons imaginable.

With Kerik's help, company's profits grew to $68 million in 2004, up from just under $7 million in 2001, and stockholders were able to cash in, including the Smith family, who raked in $91.5 million in just one fiscal quarter in 2004.

lest they call it a non-lethal weapon: Ryan is one of nearly 200 people who have died in the last five years after being shot by a Taser stun gun. In June, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would review these deaths.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/44455/?page=entire

actually, it just happened AGAIN:

The launch of an inquiry and the apology by Les marked quick reversals by the Liberal government since the release of a recording last week that shows an agitated Dziekanski being Tasered by RCMP officers on Oct. 14, just moments after they arrived at the scene. The footage, shot by fellow traveller Paul Pritchard of Victoria and since seen by millions worldwide, also captures officers pinning the 40-year-old man to the floor until he goes limp.

by moments, they mean 46 seconds. i guess 4 cops have better things to do than wait for a translator.

so is it appropriate for an oregon officer to show off his taser to schoolkids, to fire it up in the class room?

Les refused, telling the house it was a "very complex issue" and that stopping Taser use could put people, including police officers, in jeopardy. Les said provincial justice ministers decided last week that an immediate moratorium was not the right step to take.

just what did police ever do BEFORE tasers?

"I still can't believe my son is gone," he says. "The fact is that these Tasers can be lethal. No matter how they're categorized, Tasers shouldn't be treated as toys."

exactly. not toys, and tasers don't belong in show and tell.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

November 10, 1987: koyaanisqatsi

Life out of balance

20 years ago today

half my life ago

lawrence, kansas, hoch auditorium(later struck by lighting and burned to the ground)

by the will of goshheckndamn

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

rove is on the washington dc madam's no fly list
old boy gizmo ironsides has collapsed and a hole is being drilled to ensure he is dead
the college dropout that stole a nation has taken his iraqi antiquities to hades

moving in next to tom "the cat dealy"delay
writing encrypted memoires, after he clears some brush, with the padrone,
in an undisclosed bunker imported from prescott's nazi collection

rove sees himself as Moby Dick and congress as Ahab
who was supposed to be lusting for oil not revenge on a dumb brute
what part of Moby does he most identify with? the broken-off lance

of course from when congress and special persecutor man left in him
though he took a leg with him by god
and "gets away" in the sense of swimming to mortality and bad reviews

lest mccain's swift boat comes back to find him
for calling him crazy, or kerry learns to count votes as well as his wife's
stock options, or gore pulls the horn out of his own ass to trumpet a timely truth:

rove was without ruth and this be his finest dastardly quality,
ruthless and biblical old ahab will smite him from within even as gobbled
he is incorporated into the whale's belly

bush was treated for lime disease because he couldn't twist the tick fast enuff
and the denatured tequila was gone on air farce one
now there is the rub that really pisses moby: denatured, ticklike, a quitter

who doesn't wait to be cast off like a honorable thief
one who slinks off to favorable jurisdictions
where amongst the reefs full of sharks kraken and derricks one may mistake

the boy genie for having swum of his own volition,
not carried by the currents about him, wreaking havoc on mortals nations
and basic civil rights with a flick of his pen and tail and

may he find the whalers of russia and japan eating his heart for
unregulated waters grow larger menaces than texas may imagine,
while spending time with one's family, answering summons with bonfires