crack a smile

"every time i see a smile, i wake up / happiness is my alarm clock"

-- graffiti seen on a guardrail at kwaaymi launch, mt laguna, san diego

Learning on the job

Dubya never learned
if you break it, you own it.
Daddy can't help now.

wrong wing

High over janie's
i gaze south along the flats
home-bound from philly

almost home

BART reached the airport
but i rejoiced too early
nice tracks bring no trains

those who don't remember

Iraqi quagmire
no one wants to own this mess
Vietnam redux

mind/brain problem

is the mind constrained
because skull contains the brain?
Mind knows no such walls.

Rochambeau

Flesh encases brain
the brain gives rise to the mind
mind soars free of flesh

absurdistan

predators quibble
over the size of the kill
the jackal's death dance

Convection

Spurn the planet's grasp
dance in the sun's warm bounty
spread your wings and soar

enlightened ant

Can I shrink so small?
Returning from the mountain
Squeeze into this hive

sucking on the finger

"What to do, guru?"
"Only you can walk your path."
"Well, what would you do?"

projections

Heaven lies inwards --
like hell and all the rest.
Outside, we're just folk.

psychocosmology

God the creator,
every totem and daemon:
all dwell within you.

little death

The body rebels;
alkaloids disrupt control!
The mind wanders, freed.

no such thing

the god of logos
insists on causality:
the spirits don't care

QED

Actions need actors
or so our minds would insist
men need deities

kludge

Seeing no agent
smelling none, savoring none
posit deities

projections

the compulsive mind
intent on causality
creates deities

search terms

God is not 'first cause'.
"Which buddha makes the grass green?":
Answers lie within.

compulsive mind

Whence this "god" concept?
Must we always impute cause?
Can't it simply be?

anima paradox

a dark horse thunders
through the center of your soul
yet you know it not

Choose your world

I dream of waking
Would the clock put me to sleep?
No reference frame

No more

One more dead soldier
can't give any more meaning
to a senseless war

Baby steps

Rumsfeld found an out.
He can't get out of Iraq --
but he's out a job!

Musth

Foley, then Haggard:
a fucking epidemic
rutting hypocrites

his home, too

claws held up en-garde
a scorpion glares at me
from my own wood-pile

Newton's first law

Haggard screws call-boy
and then, metaphoricaly
call-boy screws Haggard

Clear blue future

When the levee breaks
the people assert what's right
ditch the monarchists

the loving pastor

Haggard knew his flock ...
as a shepherd knows his sheep
naughty pastor Ted!

vigilance

vultures prowl the sky
waiting to recycle me
maybe not just yet

gop perversions

carrion whores mount
the corpse of the republic:
necrophillia?

Partition function

One brain, one penis
vie to control man's choices.
Which one gets the blood?

Conditional rights

Jose Padilla:
detained, hidden and tortured.
Why not you or I?

gloom

one ray lights the hill
as sol sinks below the clouds
then night swallows it