Saturday, November 20, 2010

S.B.T. 287

a little too late


always just a little too late, it seems. i mean in getting the point or reaching outside the stall for tissue or something. wonder if jonas salk ever thought that he had to invent a vaccine because it was already too late. invention is the mother of intention, or what was that? neccessity, a perky pinkyfinger word. the mother of invention. and thus i cant helpbutt recall the impact of frank zappa. cover that girl with chocolate syrup and love her till the cows come home


"up against the wall!"

huh ?

"I said, Up Against the Wall, hands flat in front of you"



but dont worry it turns out to be a comedian in uniform, doing this laughing cop shtick.

thats just a water pistol, and ha ha, it's fluorescent purple. wish i'd taken fuller note of that before but the excuse is that it was dark in the alleyway


at any rate, he got me

and i got him

fzzz-pishshshsh splat

just a little too late





Thursday, November 18, 2010

S.B.T. 286

there is only one and there will always be only one paul squires.

gingatao


there was so much he had to give, and give he did.

he always had a handful of something

jewelled intuitions and memory pearls and ribbons of rainbows

and with the smooth pebbles rumbling in his pocket

you could hear him coming from a distance


one must come to terms with any profound and monumental loss. this one is really gonna take some time


i remember him especially on his birthday, a day, nov 19, which from now on will be featured in my calendar as paul squires day. an international holiday written in bright green. no one works on this day and yet everyone gets paid.


but mostly, i came here to remember that what he gave to me was a wonderful world, full of color and music, people and ideas and creative genius. and here is louis armstrong to sing about it.


dedicated to paul, a great writer and friend, and a gentleman i shall never forget

and to all of the people he loved and who loved him



Sunday, October 24, 2010

S.B.T. 285



halloween


at times a work will plow new roads that echo a skidmark stretched out on solemn ground, tho usually when something begins feet first it walks closely, we witness polite repression tap six deep as he dares to say something dignified and improbable while the gestures cackle and the bell tolls magnetic tic tic

1999 brooklyn museum of art, Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary," shielded by impenetrable plexiglass and 2 armed guards on either side...the irony evident. that her breast was made of elephant dung and exposed, the accents intensely sensitive. unwittingly (or not) the work changed history at the end of the last century.

i listened at the door, they were right, right round second middle and obviously inspired but i groaned hanging passionate upright tractions and felt gloom swaying in our neatly confidential family as it grew tumultuous. the considerable effort of the century was pronounced with a shrill sixteenth note played paternally and w/o any appreciable discretion, it was saturated w/fatha. it wasnt trying to reach muthur, no, she was on a retreat with strict rules about visitors. can these dry and broken aphorisms get near any uttered consciousness? spent and sculpted to the pose we thought more than we said, in projected expression, crammed into an older automatic sort of soft carved lyrical guard.

the little picked pieces opened a robust forehead gate beyond which education lay moulded, brakes held the furniture flat, the paper almost went serious and closed. leaving artfully thin spirits waving roses. in the distance a warm house was umber and beautifully congenial in the front third forward which shone distinctly and answered rhetorical reflection so simply and lovingly that disquieting traces of dark frantic attitude created an entirely happening poetic, man

vaguely unhappy the morning news ran far younger than when it was planted but made such respectable take that there could be no question, the twentieth abruptly got ready to go and things went backwards with indolent lines off the room elastic

pedaling tight on steep hills swinging baggages will provoke the metallic spokes. riding up to methodical solidarity infinitely jolly to further even an event with some agent, a protocol practice of the curious 'know not do higher unseen modestly' ie "candy hum" (kndhum) and eventually we hope to come to a glad end tea reading.

tell me everything you heard that night the detective said, pulling the bulb down

here reasons are old and seem nameless. the meticulous work was utterly condemned. in a dirty eighteenth street warehouse basking in surrounding moments we didnt think 'lateral' but 'critical' - voiding out to catch a train reserved for nobodymen punctured panelled and pictured. anyone whose hour sank at sunset might find laid bare hands reaching though a wimpled narrow horizon line.

we began to see That Ease was perfectly spacious without any ripe nostalgic remoteness. further, the inexhaustible urge goes onward in magnificent horrible halfway stilliness, and awful pictures bathe up and sell. shouting out about conversational questions when the natural thick answer is a black bamboo brush or something leaving startlingly pleasant and indignantly simpler questions. do you ever have the feeling that everything is just all right? did you get candy?



wip cut excerpt




Monday, September 27, 2010

S.B.T. 284



on the right a mile down a fire
freedoms fall like cinders
his gun? why it meant a lot in the day
of ransoms for the whole father
easier to unthink wishes than narrate
standing kneedeep in a narrow riverbed
casting to catch the red-eye and give
up raspy whisky fairly straight

swore on a business idea
hey
elephant money for miles of monstrous morale
fat minutes shacked
together in a tight mancave spare p o w camp
sweaty morning scattered with showtime skiff
drunks and a lot of friendly dialect collected
asleep
a makebelieved hatter cussed out any reckoning
and cleaned up well later, looking ratty raddy ready
anyway, dying dollars spent over longer days
busted and shoved into ahundred trusted secrets
we hung out late and talked lonesome about
a ragged police door everybody went through
old regular goodness with no luck underneath
shooken we never wrote anything slim
every extreme from a greasy devil to the
name dropping of an hornery derringer
those around who lived never understood
in kitchen clothes respectably ignorant
nice breakfast tin
of hot-crossed bad blood genies
minutes passed till new hands ticked talked
lamps rolled and we hunted a quick forever
laughing a polite robbers oath
the light sent sure as candles
but something was left waiting
a number like howmany hogsigns
till nothing is forgotten tho better off gone

curious,
we pulled into mindtown
half past clay and white sand
the last fool looked at the coming mouthful
of broad rubs awakened in the nighthouse
stuck his ground with wanted wants
for a palace in which to lay uncomfortably
and came up against everything
six ways times 6 stock things drop
by mean books, time and a shaky rimshot
get going, get the country cabin judge and his fish son
they slid in and were soundlocked you know
away past parts mixed back before we won trouble
and cried out landishly

anyhow, the boy caught
a tale and hooked our supper
from atop mighty loose logs long and heavy
still on short notice
uncommonly beautiful brothers sleepy and wonderful
dropped crawled shed who knows?
we take miserableness warn out and bear
hardly a smooth olé from the bull



Monday, September 20, 2010

S.B.T. 283

how deep is the water


floating sensations
sealed in wax
like waning coincidence
like paper-rustling cats
a measure of moon pennies
in no cent bank
where we wade

in wait

love knowing bliss
some words will glow
wander about buoy chimes
the foghorn calls intent oh
Ananda sails so pretty
deepak raag in wind
gently exhales

slowly breathes in






Thursday, September 16, 2010

S.B.T. 282




la, la, la
lahlah lah luddy dah...


we r waltzing, me and the ghost ashley gone scarlet with the wind carolina marble nightshade deep carved velveteen by vermeer abreeziated in treetop T and ease
round n round
a wind-up dancing toy ballerina in the bottle of Bols the gold-flecked licuuuuure
same as atop precious kheer a cure for sure
served on bone china

diamond studded lacquer base kept in the secret jewel case

gothic glances interlock and watching from afar
a johnny masquerato on the ladder of my cohorts shadow

la, la, la
dahdah de duddy dah...

cameo dis appearance
languishing language in
langston blues


Tuesday, September 7, 2010

S.B.T. 281

stranger from merrywhere



where the thin line spray emanates at the perceived edge of water meets fizz/ native formula b4/ the cool blue air. nomansland comlient element

transposed boundaridissolvings and birth flags snakecrawl cross the 'film'

a complex convex projection w/same give/take

as eyes have when they

shake hands the first time on some new deal

in oyster colors like flamingo and china peapod


he smiles while trembling with fear or excellent searching for

something seen up close

dash 2 open the sewing basket, for a piece of a snipped zipper or a braided cord in shiny gold and metallic red, handtwist my hair into the same shape

with tangled ends round a thin tin of odd buttons w/a dent in the couture lid

is this it? i am asking, when i stumbled over a velvet pouch gathered at the top with twine and filled with various rare words he nods he nods at every little thing

all there or anywhere

speakin loungepowder like i never heard b4

oh yes, a boddhi, allknowing buddha child

enlightened ha ha thought makes me shout

'u couldnt be cruel even to save your life'


this inkling blinking thing

connects to the neoprene casing

his heart is dressed in, for deep seaventure

cold and dark one thousand leagues below sav ancient knowing

psychedelic fish pulse neon lines and bangle bars

phrase n blacklight tubulur rhythm there only a mojowoman

dares to dive