Nemesis spake

Finally Nemesis spake, her truth a rake,
clawing man's crime piles he takes/takes
   for granted, till spark make bonfire;
   good, party ----get a marshmallow, dear

said Nemesis, whittling weeping willow
switches, laying castor&pollux egg on a pillow;
   mother of helen, cause of collection,
   armies assembled to die, perfection;

ceo, senator,  jocular newsguy, trump:
Watch for a chariot of griffins Clumped
   Yer frivolous Insolence and heads i remove
   Shrieked Nemesis      (her army approved)

daughter of  Ocean, her dagger primeval,
dim man-blood meet Nemesis, measured arch rival

lava

mexico colors

instrument

a body of poplar and nerves silver bright,
long cracked and nyet-played, artwork tonight:
   diadem glass bauble: ocean glass smooth,
   gleaming hot fuchsia lozenges: glued:

her guitar persona and curvy appeal
from trash heap i rescued for honor annealed
  a day on the workbench a few bowls of weed
  what once made music, woden child's steed

instrument then, mind relic now,
how similar the human and all time allows:
   re-purposed, our instincts to mechanical sloth
   shackled in process, normality's cloth

tree liked his wood, once it were his own
guitar had a chance, now art has his loan
   

ixion

The centaur bow aflame in absolute fire,
breath cloud via spectograph no liar,
  primordial booze of all make and kind
  ethanol, vinyl, no wonder centaur's blind

a black hole of methane, tongueless profane,
formaldehyde crib has all life to gain
  loaning out a cosmos to spare
  a rib boomerrang returns for its share

half man horse his core brighter by far
hera dumbly his target, zeus affixed Ix like tar
   spinning eternal from fucking that cloud
   at hearts distillation, purely not allowed

  big bang banished, moby dick subsumed,
  punished with powers all self-consumed



"Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) is a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust that is located about 120 parsecs (390 ly) from the center of the Milky Way.


 This complex is the largest molecular cloud in the vicinity of the core and one of the largest in the galaxy, spanning a region about 45 parsecs (150 ly) across.[2] The total mass of Sgr B2 is about 3 million times the mass of the Sun


The cloud is composed of various kinds of complex molecules, of particular interest: alcohol. The cloud contains ethanol, vinyl alcohol, and methanol. This is due to the conglomeration of atoms resulting in new molecules. The composition was discovered via spectrograph in an attempt to discover amino acids. An ester, ethyl formate, was also discovered, which is a major precursor to amino acids."

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"However, Zeus had pity on Ixion and brought him to Olympus and introduced him at the table of the gods. Instead of being grateful, Ixion grew lustful for Hera,[6] Zeus's wife, a further violation of guest-host relations. 


Zeus found out about his intentions and made a cloud in the shape of Hera, which became known as Nephele (from nephos "cloud") and tricked Ixion into coupling with it. From the union of Ixion and the false-Hera cloud came Centauros, who mated with the Magnesian mares on Mount Pelion, Pindar told,[7] engendering the race of Centaurs, who are called the Ixionidae from their descent.


Ixion was expelled from Olympus and blasted with a thunderbolt. Zeus ordered Hermes to bind Ixion to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.


 Therefore, Ixion is bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity, at first spinning across the heavens,[8] but in later myth transferred to Tartarus.[9] Only when Orpheus played his lyre during his trip to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop for a while."

geeze-geeze Looeeze (2017)

Looeeze, all snowy clumped, against powdered sky blue
stood timeless watch o'er bridges half-true
   arches fire fashioned, not all that stable
   thunk imperial Looeeze (all ice-minded regal)

Her thought clouds drift sweetly, both brothers attendant
Pawtoe and Widast decked cedar fir resplendent
   courted Loo hotly, great magma swells spelling
   the words flowing time-stiff into forms telling

over great waters all four legged depend
until raven undid the wedding band blend
   joining one shore and other
  then halting the commerce of brothers
  
   now see, we're CCd on bureaus of greed
   wow geeze Looeeze geeze Looeeze geeze-geeze

Lost Pleiad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)

verboten crevasse (2017)

Her heart-mountain crevasse fern hidden
His unassailable sail, mast and midden 
                 taut distance all measure,
          stole time's noisy treasure

his hart earth-plates slid, quaking earth restless;
his wolves moon sheltered, puzzled peaceless;
        tales entwined the sun winnowed down
      to mineral veins sorrow-drowned

evolving loveevol, leveling fast escape
the troll eve eloped, clad in red tape
   their apple still hissing in cinnamon blister
   their stingray corvette calls every cop mister

all thread long unraveled, the story forgotten
our menu a planet, nothing verbotten

   

the Green Barrow (2017)

the green whalebarrow versus a forest ox,

out of the chute into a huge steel box------

now psychic therapy has shorn my locks;

now; future pours out a sauna detox



the barrow was full-brimming verdant,

designed deep in oceans luminescent-------

the box asked filling, the ox born reticent

from hedges of stars unpruned, sans quadrant



pits, crawls, pitfalls and spittle.

stumbles, freckles, scrapes negligible------

quarter minus, stringline, rakes indispensible

tendon, ligament, and aspirin. a little



clod by clump by shovel by ton

ten yards in a dumpster, i'm not done-----

thousands more pounds on the camel's son

prep path in gravel dust, how the west was won.







mt tabor 2017

Powder blue, Celeste, Periwinkle, Baby

Powder blue, Celeste, Periwinkle, Baby;
the tones of the sky, winds of a lady
   fierce; Teal and Viridian, crossing lights eyes
  Indigo watched, their verdure her prize

as mother Zafire her Indigo embraced
giving horizon a  long Steel pause; Cyan his face
   etched empty promise, Cornflower-lies,
   skin of soul's ceiling, Palatinate demise

devolving Royal Duke Dodger, their cards in the trash
by Ultramarine's ocean stairs stares Iris, smashed;
   plural the blue in varied display,
   Byzantine mirror of peace portrayed

  action describing, the morph and her flavor
  his tongue yon mountain, a glacial savor




2017
Portland friggin Oregon
  

surreal baby hawaii

designated deity

King Winter breath-octane pushes jalopy
lead footed off eggnog, driving purt-sloppy
   over the hills he goes, laughing all the way
   he's got the hat and schnapps, illicit tesla-sleigh;

reindeer scatter to avoid his careening,
geese go bald-ducking his swan ugly evening,
   the Winter King neighs, frost his accelerator,
    before him valleys shrink, neither debate nor

wall of heat to hold this snow,
no summer kept forces force back winter-foe;
blizzarding function, enemy of May
    whose cuddle deep soft nests makes rest a play,  

   snowdrifts his crowning most peaceful attire
   water reduced in rank, a gutter squire

citgo fire Rosneft Trump

"In 2015, the Corpus Christi refinery was processing 16,337 barrels of crude oil per day coming from the Amazonian rainforest"
__________________

my fire she sleeps in shells and seasons
kindling all reason, pearling our treasons
   my ear to her bell a fucked up noel
   no river no hydrant can soothe our spell

her angel faced flames make quick ghosts of groves
even the redwood and hermit crab know
   leaping sleeps flicker from transient bracken
   uprooting, returning, man what he's packin'

garages of garbage yet humans on sidewalks
ware house and where house and city hose talk
   put out inferno tamp down the response
   my fire he woke dilatory grey poupons

  go muster, you must heard, all bread knife& shovel
  her fire's afield, california the hovel


12-25-17
portland

___________________

" - A small flange fire broke out on the reformer at Citgo Petroleum Corp’s [PDVSAC.UL] 157,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery on Thursday night, a company official said."

Platformer 4 was shut on Dec. 14 for repairs following a heater tube fire. The reformer was expected to restart in early 2018.


Reformers convert low-octane refining by-products into high octane components of gasoline."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-refinery-operations-citgo-corpuschris/citgo-says-small-fire-broke-out-on-corpus-christi-refinery-reformer-idUSKBN1EN1BP

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citgo, corpus christi, amazonian rainforest OIL, russia, trump

HOUSTON (Reuters) - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-refinery-operations-citgo-corpuschris/citgo-says-small-fire-broke-out-on-corpus-christi-refinery-reformer-idUSKBN1EN1BP

A small flange fire broke out on the reformer at Citgo Petroleum Corp’s [PDVSAC.UL] 157,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery on Thursday night, a company official said.

The fire began during pre-startup of the 20,000 bpd reformer, called Platformer 4, in the refinery’s East Plant, the official said. The fire was quickly extinguished. No injuries were reported.

Sources familiar with plant operations said the fire was caused by a leak and Platformer 4’s restart was halted on Thursday night.

Platformer 4 was shut on Dec. 14 for repairs following a heater tube fire. The reformer was expected to restart in early 2018.

Reformers convert low-octane refining by-products into high octane components of gasoline.
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During the 2000s, Citgo faced several legal actions over the operation of its Corpus Christi, Texas oil refinery. In 2007, it was convicted of a violation of the Clean Air Act for operating an oil-water separator without proper pollution-control equipment.

It was found not guilty of a charge of emitting illegal levels of benzene into the environment.[29][30] In 2009, a fire at the alkylation unit of the same plant resulted in the release of toxic hydrofluoric acid and the injury of two workers, one with severe burns.[31][32][33]

 In February 2011, the company was fined over $300,000 for the incident.[34]

Citgo has been cited by environmentalists for using crude oil from the Amazon region, at their Corpus Christi and Lake Charles refineries in particular

. In 2015, the Corpus Christi refinery was processing 16,337 barrels of crude oil per day coming from the Amazonian rainforest
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"President Trump is exempting Citgo Petroleum Corp., owned by Venezuela’s government, from the financial sanctions imposed Friday on the country."

Citgo has three lobbying firms on retainer, including Avenue Strategies, which has ties to the Trump administration.

A senior administration official said that officials are also watching out for whether Rosneft, Russia’s state oil company, takes a significant stake in Citgo, which Venezuela put up as collateral for a loan from Russia.

Such a transaction, or trading that collateral for an interest in Citgo assets, could trigger new action against the company since Rosneft is already subject to United States sanctions, "
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/348007-trump-exempts-citgo-from-venezuela-sanctions
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"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.

Champlin Oil Co. was founded in 1916 by H.H. Champlin of Enid.

Corporate headquarters remained in Enid until the founder's heirs sold it to Union Pacific in 1954. Union Pacific sold the refining operations to Sun Co. in 1983. Sun closed the Enid refinery, and PDVSA acquired the business in the mid-1980s.

http://newsok.com/article/2330274
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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
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" Venezuela’s oil minister confirmed on Wednesday that state oil company PDVSA is negotiating to swap Russian oil producer Rosneft’s collateral in Venezuelan-owned, U.S.-based refiner Citgo,

State-owned Rosneft holds a 49.9 percent collateral in Citgo for a loan last year of about $1.5 billion to the OPEC nation, which is reeling from low oil prices and a severe recession.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-russia-citgo/venezuela-confirms-discussing-citgo-collateral-swap-with-rosneft-idUSKBN1C9242

stag

from the Guardian, today.

may day 2016 march black block swarm

black block may day nonsense, portland oregon

interrogation tactics, reality winner

"Kim told me that he was disoriented during his interrogations. He had never been the target of an investigation and didn’t know what to do — he didn’t realize, for instance, that he should stop the questioning and ask for a lawyer.

 His experience, and Winner’s, demonstrate how a coercive environment can be created without handcuffs or prison bars.

“It was surreal,” Kim told me. “What are you supposed to feel? You don’t feel anything. You’re dumbfounded.

 Have you ever been hit really hard, like playing sports, or you ran into a pole, or somebody hit you?

At first you don’t know what hit you.

You’re kind of stunned. … I didn’t know what was happening.”

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/28/how-the-interrogation-of-reality-winner-reveals-the-deceptive-tactics-of-exceedingly-friendly-fbi-agents/

forest 1992

the hill my sweater
my shirt the snow 25 years ago
__________

sweat shop sweet

hera's hook his hart heard

Hunting with music apollo you're familiar
Did woo yon hydra, tie astrid's mane smooth;
  Chinookian chieftess to shore conjured particulars,
                  with an anklet of eagle-flight moves

atlantis that postcard you hide under pillow,
our tabla, your crust-tidal history;
  mermen of whale stock, their radars billow
  mars back to whence waterless mystery

scooped indra's net, stars silver-anchovied
atop drying racks celilo arrayed, (celestial
                     pemmican egyptians envied)
   in the amazon real, piranhas request y'all

Swim, slow swift; dance anomalous under;
formless cloud masters, music lone sunders

Eyes on the Director (Get off the Frackpipe)

all aboard

Thunder swore how he sword, his word no hoard.
Given boom boom plunder, lite-fast all aboard;
  wave cracking, ship slipping, storm keeling---
  curse eloquent, blot specific, nature kneeling---

hearthstone of man, leveled on goddess pure sand,
dulled by time's plow, but good were it soe;
   steep ornery wise; yet mean to reprimand 
   (gravity honeyed) how thunder flows

shudders thus owned are goose bump financed,
offshore sea serpents serendipitous; 
   muster old woden his namesake swan dallianced,
    ornate furniture splendiferous

  accrued his crew, crude
  blot his sacrifice, true
   

columbia river, the dalles, good waters

stone wood steel oregon

klieg lite threnody (2017)

An instrument balm, her voice aphrodisiac
booming emphatic enough to cardiac
   arrest any sheriff, or bailiff of cupid
   tasked to swoon swains;  stupid's

mead-merry eyes, drinking all wenches,
in bleary bleak praise, half-glued to benches
   teetering toward such sultry-smooth bait
   odysseus and frank sinatra can relate---

---mermaid her siren thigh shimmering tone
---oceans of strange fiends atonal, bone
   reaped of sheepskin the razor reefs claimed
   the toll song extracting, not first explained

Bombing a silent salient hero
searing ear pleasant (math with all zeros)





2017
Portland Oregon
flb

winter feathered sketch (2017)

today a sketch,  a balk to the park;
get oxygen moving, give muscle some spark,
   towering trees ice tipped and holy,
  fog overflowing horizon a bowl we

sup slowly, no hurry bestirring
that work past word's lark, demurring
   to leave a limb so warm clung
   to sing rare hollers, never'fore sung

flying most prescient, tail feather serves
over the tennis court, winter unnerved
   squirrel eats fir skin, there high by the sun
   warming a paunch and nuts by the ton

planting ice needle drip heat feeds the mosses,
stellar jays hunting, what frost heave tosses
   


Mt Tabor 
12-28-17

crate-wood (2017)

charlotte's web had a seedy underbelly
spelling good smells later shown on the telly
   saved that pig a magical spider,  
   that girl fern, all animals abide'r,  or

perish, alone no strands debonair
amelia earhart's arc to the fair
   bathed in the buttermilk all mothers make good
   trucked in the lie all-fathers crate-wood

get in you'll be fine, our truculent swine
free speech tongue so tasty in populist wine
    while templeton gather the script of the trash
    politics weave some pastoral cash

   fragile yet strong, brave and devout
   feminine spinner, transient bout
   



Portland
flb

k street hooker (2017)

"Within low doors the boozy boors
Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light."-----herman melville

___________


the k street limo, there stripped to the rims
afire with treason and glorious hymns 
   sloshing with rubles, tipping in shit-coin,
   gropes the flagpole, salutes his own groin

dragging the nation behind republic balls
every sensible human recoils, appalled 
   lobbyist borscht in caviar vases
   coors lite gals to handle the cases

panty hose bandits their paws on the triggers
fraud festive faces gloat on their sniggers
   sabot their high heeled, indiscriminate ways
   hooking in cowboots, branding the strays

   demoniac bubbles arise their champagne
   gleeful that greed has an American name




Portland OR
2017
   

raucous hocus pocus (2017)

Whereso snock yon nobleman, besmirched
Yon maiden tent in showers autumn-gold,
   Young jim there spilled his bloody perch,
   His fighting fish, on lawn:     vomit-bold

Far removed from gut-spilling biddys
(Who booze-pumpkined) young jim whils't strum guitar,
   Last Prance charm trance, everyone giddy
   Blankets, weed, trailmix; wine in jars

Twenty bands of the city, a barn off the grid,
Folk dopehead goddesses, rich from sold lids;
   Capping the captains, down in the mess hall
   Raucous rock weekend, welcome were all
 
  Die o dionysus, remit gut's remainder
  After such show, such gallant retainers




4u snakes
Portland, Or


 

Witch Belles of Batwater (2017)

oracular history need nest in no mystery
just ask the Belles of Batwater;
   like towels wrung from sister seas,
   tales drip from hoodoo alma mater.

fields full of cars and attending tent homes,
riverside dock, the stage;
    yachts intermingle with hobos and gnomes
    our children magnificently crazed

pot luck spreads mimic the Columbia,
dish after dish the best hippy grub ever;
   music sunset chases, if moribund ya
   just go fer coffee& talk witty-clever

   swooping gnat gobbling, night denizens party
   the Witches of Batwater, nocturnal, less warty
   



12-28-17
Portland

THE BENCH OF BOORS (Herman Melville)

In bed I muse on Tenier's boors,
Embrowned and beery losels all:
            A wakeful brain
            Elaborates pain:
Within low doors the slugs of boors
Laze and yawn and doze again.

In dreams they doze, the drowsy boors,
Their hazy hovel warm and small;
             Thought's ampler bound
              But chill is found:
Within low doors the basking boors
Snuggly hug the ember-mound.

Sleepless, I see the slumberous boors
Their blurred eyes blink, their eyelids fall:
             Thought's eager sight
             Aches---overbright!
Within low doors the boozy boors
Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light.


Herman Melville 

HERBA SANTA (Herman Melville)

After long wars when comes release
Not olive wants proclaiming peace
   An import dearer share
Than stems of Herba Santa hazed
   In autumn's Indian air.
Of moods they breathe that care disarm,
They pledge us lenitive and calm.

              II.

Shall code or creed a lure afford
To win all selves to Love's accord?
When love ordained a supper divine
   For the wide world of man,
What bickerings o'er his gracious wine!
   Then strange new feuds began.

Effectual more in lowlier way,
   Pacific Herb, thy sensuous plea
The bristling clans of Adam sway
   At least to fellowship in thee!
Before thine altar tribal flags are furled,
Fain woulds't thou make one hearthstone of the world.

              III.

To scythe, to sceptre, pen and hod---
   Yea, sodden laborers dumb;
To brains overplied, to feed that plod,
In solace of the Truce of God
   The Calumet has come!

             IV.

Ah for the world ere Raleigh's find
   Never that knew this suasive balm
That helps when Gilead's fails to heal,
   Helps by an interserted charm.

Insinuous thou that through the nerve
   Windest the soul, and so canst win
    Some from repinings, some from sin,
The Church's aim thou dost subserve.

The ruffled fag fordone with care
   And brooding, Gold would east this pain;
Him soothest thou and smoothest down
  Till some content return again.

Even ruffians feel thy influence breed
   Saint Martin's summer in the mind,
They feel this last evangel plead,
As did the first, apart from creed
   Be peaceful, man---be kind!

             V.

Rejected once on higher plain,
O Love supreme, to come again
   Can this be thine?
Again to come, and win us too
   In likeness of a weed
That as a god didst vainly woo,
   As man more vainly bleed?

              VI.

Forbear, my soul and in thine Eastern Chamber
   Rehearse the dream that brings the long release;
Through jasmine sweet and talismanic amber
   Inhaling Herba Santa in the passive
Pipe of Peace.



Herman Melville 
   

A REASONABLE CONSTITUTION (Herman Melville)

What through Reason forged your scheme?
'Twas Reason dreamed the Utopia's dream:
"Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.


Herman Melville

COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY (Herman Melville)

Sailors there are of gentlest breed,
   Yet strong, like every goodly thing;
The discipline of arms refines,
   And the waves give tempering.
   The damasked blade its beam can fling;
It lends the last grave grace;
The hawk, the hound, and sworded nobleman
   In Titian's picture fore a king,
Are of hunter or warrior race.

In social halls a favored guest
  In years that follow victory won,
How sweet to feel your festal fame
   In woman's glance instinctive thrown;
   Repose is yours---your deed is known,
It musks the amber wine;
It lives and sheds a light from storied days
   Rich as October sunsets brown,
Which make the barren place to shine.

But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
   Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
There's a light and shadow on every man
   Who at last attains his lifted mark---
   Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
Elate he never can be;
He feels that spirits which glad had
hailed his worth, sleep in oblivion--The shark
Glides white through the phosphorous sea



Herman Melville  
 

SHILOH (A Requiem) April 1862

Skimming lightly, wheeling still,

   the swallows fly low

Over the field in clouded days,

  The forest-field of Shiloh----

Over the field where April rain

Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain

Through the pause of night

That followed the Sunday fight

   Around the church of Shiloh---

The church so lone, the log-built one,

That echoed so many a parting groan

      And natural prayer

   of dying foemen mingled there---

Foemen at morn, but friends at eve---

  Fame or country least their care;

(What like a bullet can undeceive!)

   But now they lie low,

While over them the swallows skim,

   And all is hushed at Shiloh.



Herman Melville

1862

  

smile naturally texas 1976

thou bring back pancakes dancing& lo

la musica (1991)

woodstock 1994 with surreal

 Pudding.

 forest and surreal in our jewelry booth, Woodstock 1994

Surreal T.S. bloggod     1994