Dear Jam Motor Company,
I hope you'll quickly come-for-me.
We're not just talking a stall, you need a recall.
This car will never start. It'll take more than a part.
It's an automotive stumper.
It seems my tongue is stuck to the bumper.
Oh, won't you please, I'm here on my knees.
If only you will, my nose is pressed up against the grill.
The night's becoming colder, and I am getting older
Just beginning to wheeze, what if I sneeze?!
Then my tongue it would tear, leaving half there,
and the rest just a stumper.
My tongue is still stuck to the bumper.
Can't you send a mechanic, I'm starting to panic.
There should be some tool, I'm clearly no fool,
I know there's a trick for making a bumper slick.
I'll never lick a bumper so yicky, if you'll come quickly.
Oh, won't you make haste, I grow tired of this taste.
My life's in the dumper,
My tongue is stuck to the bumper.
"you can trust your car
to the man who wears the star.
The big, bright Tex-a-co star!"
I got ad jingles from the '60s
stuck in my head for some reason
no reason for it, no reason at all.
I can still see the grainy reception,
the bad graphics, the rabbit ears,
the aluminum antenna trees...
hehee
roll a six lane hangover
to the old hangars and shot-up factories
down the vines from hangar nine, the boys
used to wire their mammoth pratt & whitneys
wipe oil from their brows, feed screaming raptors
we won the war, built some highways
gas pumps, roadhouses, neon swoop,
jet age swing, runways and factories
lots of factories, roll those six lanes
oil-slicked over twenty rotted rail spurs
desert rising rusted on peeled billboards
broken barstools, past the Atomic-a-Go-Go,
the old coffee shop, taped vinyl, cracked formica
bacon grease and black joe, grainy reception,
old ad jingles, tangible, pre-digital grime.
he witnessed the fateful battle
when physics fell to hordes of circuits
forced underground, binary, something changed
music was shinier, vibration more petrified
pain a little less real to touch
he can't put his finger on it
sorry, just riffin' on the "urban desert badlands" thing.
not sure why.. stole some of this from my old pomes.
don't mind me...
hope on board
Ferlinghitti's choo choo
to the gone world
that is disappearing before our eyes
welcome to the future
will have been
meanwhile
Generation X²
Is busy being born
Watched over by
machines of loving grace ("And I'd like to think
the sooner the better!)"
so...
to end or not to end!
sharpened vision
too much rain
or too much tv
(that were the hypothesis)
back from animal planet holy faith countryside weekend
the unusual visitors:
three little grey lechuzas,
a big design iguana
and a brown to shiny-green caviar eyed
chicharra´s silent metamorphosis
urban night continuation
damn! wham!
the jam is still the jam!
thank you, ma'am!
got a last minute
reprieve, a by your leave
from the guv-her-ness,
she of the round-robin
avatar,
thanks for the jar
and the jam inside.
this toast landing
jam-side up!
whatcha up to
jammin like this
in themiddle of the road
are you ca-razee?
well, ya,well uh huh
middle, out and under
jam
a fourth day of a twenty ten
and here we hangin
jammin
please pardon me
as one year scribbles into next
I got
static in the attic
bats in the belfry
naked to the lidless eye
to find the spirit in the desert
the whirlwind that spins my soul
so many thousands years gone by
and the memory lingers of a god who was there
The gone world lingers in architecture
Doric columns or synagogues
Fasces on government buildings
Pyramids on the money
the past is never past
the lies go on
we need them
cold comfort
cruel comfort
that the truth can be
I heard someone say human thought took a wrong turn thousands of years ago.
Yeah we should have never climbed down from the trees
what sort of god is this.
No more manna
just a banana
Banana god
yellow and mushy
I would have preferred coconut God
A cargo cult
What was it they heard
when God spoke to man
I am that I jam
beatific weekend
laid carole jean
to rest, memorial
@ fleckenstein gallery
hampden, baltimore
family and lotsa friends
2 angels took me
there, amy and audrey
on a cold cold night
smiles on our faces
and tears in our eyes
back in fredROCK now
to rock with the handsome creatures
and sing a wired song
life goes on
so does jam
oozing and winding thru time
perpetual
like rome
like that volcano that is hawaii
like the eiffel tower
jam
fulla words
full of desire
come on baby light my fire
ride that crystal ship with
o say can't u see
jam on me!!!!!!!!
me I feel like I'm becoming some kinda Kung fu t.v. Priest.....