2006-11-30

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

2006-11-29

Learning on the job

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

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2006-11-26

wrong wing

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

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almost home

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

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2006-11-25

those who don't remember

Iraqi quagmire
no one wants to own this mess
Vietnam redux

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2006-11-22

mind/brain problem

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

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Rochambeau

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

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2006-11-21

absurdistan

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

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Convection

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

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2006-11-20

enlightened ant

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

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2006-11-18

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.

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psychocosmology

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

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little death

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

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2006-11-17

no such thing

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

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QED

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

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kludge

Seeing no agent
smelling none, savoring none
posit deities

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projections

the compulsive mind
intent on causality
creates deities

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search terms

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

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2006-11-16

compulsive mind

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

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2006-11-15

anima paradox

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

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2006-11-13

Choose your world

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

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2006-11-11

No more

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

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2006-11-10

Baby steps

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

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Musth

Foley, then Haggard:
a fucking epidemic
rutting hypocrites

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his home, too

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

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2006-11-09

Newton's first law

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

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Clear blue future

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

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2006-11-06

the loving pastor

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

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2006-11-05

vigilance

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

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2006-11-03

gop perversions

carrion whores mount
the corpse of the republic:
necrophillia?

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2006-11-02

Partition function

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

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Conditional rights

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

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2006-11-01

gloom

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

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