I stumbled haggardly out of the station; I had no more control
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Hot coffee, fresh cup, goes cold quick around here because I get involved in writing shit which follows its own self down paths unguessed by me at the start - next thing I know I reach for the cup and contents are cold -
I think Ivanka Trump has the longest neck in the world. It goes on for miles. I get a glimpse of that neck next thing ya know I'll be thinking of rock art in Africa - another place in the imagination same as Lowell, Massachusetts - Dr. Sax in Kenya - Lee Morgan playing Sidewinder in Morocco -
I got gigged the other day for punctuation in one of my pieces on another site - so next poem I wrote was made entirely of punctuation - I submitted it expecting tons of praise and cries of Brilliant ! Brilliant! but they didn't think it was funny - ya know, this online poetry game is strange days can't get no satisfaction hard rain gonna fall all over the girl from the north country old friends & bookends - PS Mr. Tambourine Man, everybody's talkin' to me -
I want to do some kind of surrealist anarchist piece about trash and old wood and cast off children's toys all lying together on a hillside with the landlord coming along and saying to me,
"I'll pay you to clean this up." -
So far I have 3 misses & no hits on the scoreboard for that project.
Made contact with a couple of guys from my first ship the last few days thanks to the 'Net -
lifted me up ya know - played chess last night with one of them on the 'Net - he's no pushover but the game took more time than he thought so he offered a draw which I accepted - the game would have been mine if I managed to avoid any blunders ( beats fists on chest )
Met a woman recently who likes to "zero out" God, not only for herself but also for other people - it's her religion & she's evangelistic about it -
Zuihitsu gets on his bike rides over the bridge gets to the crossroads hangs a left - Basho should have had a bike -
This poem, in the early years,
before incorporation, was known
by various names -
but there is no time for me now
to get into all that
you see, I was headed west
ended up going north
now all I want to do is go southeast
and get home
the whole thing was a goof
a sad endeavor
and to listen to it
blows a fine blues
makes me want to moan
all love is wilderness in america
and there's no way I want to
go anywhere near Pittsburgh