Thursday, December 31, 2020

Damp Chilly Breezy Brisk Dawn Walk

 The insides of my pockets are getting cold, oh

Something fierce

something fiercer

Colliding with your finiteness

colliding with your infiniteness.

I was born to be on a road,

skipping gravel,

2 to 10 toes,

gripping travel

firmly on the Earth surface.

Don't stop, my mind, from racing out of the Cosmos.





Wednesday, December 30, 2020

 

දෙ   දෙ   නා   පෙ   ර   දා






Number Order Puzzle

 thousand, quadrillion

billion

octillion, decillion

hundred, thousand, quadrillion, decillion

0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 70, 80, 90, hundred, sextillion, septillion, decillion

4, 5, 14, 15, 40, 50

8, 18, 80

3, 8, 13, 18, 30, 80, hundred, thousand

5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 30, 50, 80, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion

-

-

11, 12, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion

million

7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion

0, 1, 2, 4, 14, 40, thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion

septillion

quadrillion, quintillion

0, 3, 4, 30, 40, hundred, trillion, quadrillion

6, 7, 16, 17, 60, 70, thousand, sextillion, septillion

2, 3, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, thousand, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion

4, 14, hundred, thousand, quadrillion, quintillion

5, 7, 11, 12

2, 12, 20

6, 16, 60, sextillion

20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90

0








 I am not your blue Joseph

                                              Appraisal Estrangement Derangement Arrangements Detection Depiction Dedication




Steady Waffle

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

 Talk thru sunset

The blue interior eyes black core neck bites and feeling the colorist movement thru veins capillaries red noses light pulses cannot see windows and hidden people

my mom's washing dishes

i ate two hersey kisses

we are about to china beach season 2 episode 5, women in white

slick like carcinogen evening or oil on driveways [Downsizing tran] and porches, vietnamese across lawns and suburb roads without sidewalks, oaks taller than ten people

breathing too deeply to be outside and unaware of the air

No dog plays no throws

no going to buy fireworks a quarter mile away from wooden cask fire laden burdened people

questions to and fro

the china beach theme plays on the looping menu screen

" the mirror of my mind "

reflections of . . 

time . . . .


look back

feel specks of light inside going foeveer . . . the end


Digestion Profit Rank

4 thousand

dry on your cheek

skillessly


brittania season 2 episode 7 lake of tears butterfly


moving vehicle violences to the psyche and soul of Land

,  Lamb


Reflections of Eternity


Hi



Monday, December 28, 2020

Watching a bit of Krisha, she said she's moving to Austin, and I just saw her drink from a wine bottle in the bathroom

i love people who exist

it's very difficult to exist


life is so cool, even when I knew I never had one


i love them so much

o my god, they're so beautiful


i get tipsy ,  saint brendan's irish cream

i almost want to throw up, when i often eat too much

then move around and bend over

the sun almost goes down

and i need the internet


Krisha just dropped the Turkey


First Reformed was on earlier, bfore we wnt to Austin today

i got excited to see it

it comes on at 7, i set it to record


i just replied to Aaron

he texted a link to the Texas Woodwooking Festival, in April

i asked if he is going to go


I am happy

i think


Sleep Craft


I am still asleep 

okay

i am still asleep 




 A band performs, it's Satan's Power

on live morning networks

song: Comfort and Joy


" Leave us,

corovorviurs.

Leave us,

cornonrviores.

Oh the sunny day will never come back today.

Oh you will never know how we hurt ourselves.

Satan begone, fill our shoes with stockings.  "


 Footage of Never

Skiing with Never

Directions from elsewhere:
Since I-70 is the most traveled route, travelers on other routes must be in it for the scenery. We’d advise you to follow your nav system a bit, and your heart more.


Poem Fail

Heart explodes and stops


Truncated Belch

Shared Love


jjj   j


Smooth Chicken Breakfast

Littles pillow.


" i'm a lonely german

a lonely german from

Prague. "


gimme something to say

later in the days


Give them to you


https://open.spotify.com/track/7H0ya83CMmgFcOhw0UB6ow


Space Song - Beach House




Saturday, December 26, 2020

Search History

 Me and the Hives and Benedict Wong stand in the Sam's Club gas station parking lot at Southpark Meadows looking at the Great Conjunction of 2020, and darkness falls. 



Bobby Lee and Santo do a 3 way dick suck as the internet wires crackle harmlessly 

Hypnotically

Loudly our screams cherish children and warmly our hearts overheat.

We melt likely homely candles forgotten

No one ever home anymore 

No need to hope anymore 

Drinking till blurrs became blurry

Memories forget themselves 

All is a whirl

And it whirls

And is never still 

And we are never us anymore 

You and I are everything 

So what is the same?

No needs

No nothing 

At All.


" You Take You with You ...

You Are Always with You "

al Anon

Nar anon

" From the Bottom of My Happy Heart "

sleep with friends

eternal rest

don't try anymore

if i ever was

anyone

i was

They save us

i sing 'Em

it's okay

the end . . . .


Klaus is really good.

special


Rudy Jules

Julianna tito niece

bad friend


hugs you

says sorry

and i'm here to help

walks thru

faed to yellow



 career hyphen harpoon

hello periphery

gremlin goblin gobble ream freak forget

hey, music terror begone creamate bushes goon being gone

Going home night toodle, muck neptune tree munch weeble velo drone velcro person

Venus quacks up the rest of the yolo dumb washers track the box crumb bacon crackers nubby dream tastes bad for loving human leaf hucksters 

Mars leaves remember forever. No one makes up the young yellow Hell of property people.

Saturn prostate prostrate growing green blue fuzz on the rapist sheets of frozen steaks 50 feet maneuvering lost little feelings inside of greg no one, at home below and waking up towards dear time.

Earth daemons instill juice very gay and gray jump onto umbrella sex careening Jericho left the last prophet to Jerusalem sucking  up the desert

pluto weiners dose the light

grains

popping

hype

to seem

flex heme

the Park at 4:30

You begin him and she goes 

Put the 2nd on your schedule, or 2 days, and take them over there, a 15 year old person, 49 year old, pants, diapers, towels, cushions, gas, tires

open doors, 69 degree rooms, zero light, zero dark

3rd left

10 minutes,

leave again

bye,

hi, i'm still back here

ok, hello, nice

see ya. i see ya.











Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Going to Costco on Christmas Eve Eve

i've been watching bad friends. I watched the new ones the past few weeks, and a couple days ago i started at episode 1 and just finished 3.

they're pretty funny.


my mom bought 10 things

2 pair of eddie bauer lounge pants

i'm wearing the black

they're pretty nice


i drank half the bottle of malbec

it's pretty good


i'm listening to episode 4

bobby lee's dead dad, crying mother

photographs and hysterical laughing


we've had lots of snacks and candy

we saw doug, nat, bridge and ed before costco

it went pretty well


i ate tamales and chili and onion

and half a mini rum cake

my face is pretty fat

and the rest of me


that was yesterday. this morning in bed i asked myself what's today? maybe i asked what day is it? oh ya, it's christmas eve

i'm gonna watch the rest of gmm now

we've got some cooking to do today


i'm pretty okay

kinda obsessed with goodnightmoonasmr, just posted a doctor roleplay, she is kinda unbelievably beautiful

i saw the 3 episodes of Digital Water Reviews by candace carrizales, HUNANPENGUIN.

she's pretty ,  awesome

she requested suggestions for digital water to review

i wanted to find a video to suggest, i looked at the gungan city scene in star wars episode 1, but there's not much digital water.

i watched some shenmue 3 videos, i don't think i will suggest anything

it's easy christmass

i'll make eggnog in a bit

and drink the rest of the rum


sleep early

no one else

text friend

eat . . .

watch tv, movies, internet, youtube

go outside

type words

think sing




Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Alternate Mixer by Nap Eyes

 

it's not easy to understand what it is that makes me feel this way

it's hard to know why i think, feel or do anything



Saturday, December 19, 2020

 Hello, this morning derails like a railroad going 40 miles per hour. I sat on every chair in my house for long enough to die and roll out. I ate 4.25 biscuits made of wheat, ground up, from the floor, where my toes dwell, like denizens of dirt and flesh. However we show off our machines, like trains, and our dreams, like blue tye dye pants hanging from big trees at noon or midnight, the Sleep-Wake cycle and the River of Human Doings will justify the dimension of our dissolution... into youth untolerated and freedom infallible.

In the past 7 days, I watched 36 hours of healthy-ish bums living through a wire down to the hopeful minute, on top of their merry Park-Like mini-mountains, whith  rich amenity-drenched gated neighborhoods, of the Future, themes and dissents and dissertations and the Endings of Mediocre media-units, limit of 5 hours per segment, one viewing session, one Title.

I am the past and the Present an' thee most ergonomic.

Friday, December 18, 2020

Essential Rinser

  The Elfhame Country Club of West Westhurstshire

 - watched The Holiday for the fifth time, today ( on this day )



Transcendent Because I Belong

 You tryin ' to cheer me up for a change ?

I believed in a solid wake -

fulness, a brown moon earned

on your upper arm,

where deltoid meets bicep;

You kiss your shoulders, Dearest.

No one donates 200 dollars

to No Hungry Kids on Facebook.com. 

This energetic misexchange

of valuing merchandising 

missed the first last chance 

We had to re-regulate

distasteful calculations, 

Miss in her prime,

missing the baby in the Church 

Mass at midnight. 

This was it for now, Lovelee,

No one knew you knew them too.


Actually I don't know. 

" so how you doing "  basically

Meadow State Divulsion

No, yeah, it was really great to have you here.

Open your eyes just so you can stay along




Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Favourite First Names

Abigail

Concepción

David


Jesus

John

Lily

Magdalena

Mary

Michele

Phil

Sam, short for Samantha

Sara

Sofia

Sojourner

Will




Sunday, December 13, 2020

You May Become Another Person

 a fun board and video game

                                                   Cast of Characters 


- Joanna Sojourn. Age: 22. HP: 6. MP: 8. Special item: Gate Key, with which one may pass through a gate to another place or time, becoming another person.

- Terra Bïte. Age: 122? HP: 10. MP: 7. Special item: Gate Machine, with which one may create or alter a gate. 

- Brian Company. Age: 21. HP: 5. MP: 6. Special item: Too long scarf, with which one may hide or trip someone.

- Doctor Cabinet. Age 89. HP: 1. MP: 9. Special item: Mysterious Cabinet, which when opened reveals something which will be useful to the opener in an as-yet-unknown way, within 28 days.

- Richard Phase. Age 50. HP: 8. MP: 5. Special item: Magnet that attracts the closest object of whichever material the user chooses, range of 6 miles.

- Xu Xu Byul. Age: 32. HP: 7. MP: 7. Special item: Radio station, which can interfere or override other radio signals.

- Adoba T. Peach. Age: 60. HP: 9. MP: 6. Special item: Necklaces and bracelets with rare gems, which distract and persuade people.


                                         Sydney, Australia.   1950 A. D., August 28th, 7 pm

"I heard there was a super conductor that doesn't need to be measured in thousands of decibels," Joanna says toward Brian. Brian looks across the water at the occasional nautical activity, not really listening. Neither is Joanna, to herself. She wears a white sun dress and a wide blue wicker hat, even though winter is deep. Brian's scarf hangs to the ground, a dirty 2 inches. A weak sour breeze passes, he sort of grimaces reaches for her hand, and she, unaware, jumps up and gestures broadly. 

"I could do more than 10 men! If only they gave me the tools and the time I need... I'm certain I can figure out these damn problems. I'll finish Book 1 today, then get 2 from the Library -- Automatic Intercycle Rhythm Restoration is simple really, or it is for me, now..." She trails off and Brian looks uncomfortably confused. He stands, seeming surely unsure, and says softly, "Realité -"

What's that supposed to mean? Joanna sojourns.


- An expansion to Eldritch Horror. When in Sydney in that game, you may use an action to enter this game, YMBAP.




Saturday, December 12, 2020

Tom Waits Like

 I'll stab your rainbow wings into the slaver's back.

I wish you were a raygun, so I could get my shingle snack.

Burn down the docks. Cure the seagulls' cancer.

Our valley of ravens shall beget the long lost saviour.

The bells of the abandoned church ring out our children's ashes.




 Coolidge was a tangent 

Holy mother Nancy 


If you were born last century 

Slowly pile on the sleepy tree.



Stranger than a Mysteru

 Stranger than a mystery,

My self doubt is history.

I show up in Hollywood;

Every person says I'm good.


[ audio recording from 2015, spurred by Comedy Bang Bang the podcast ]



Open to it

 Parallel Openness 

Attitude French love dig

- a dig is an insult or a harsh critique

- to dig is to like a lot, to be really into like it's your thing


The Healing Room - comfort joy hope care love content hero bliss heaven forever realness reliability trust faith truth                                   a s m r



boil sautee bake refrigerate 

Shoes toilet shower sink towel underwear bed

House town river city forest plains game meat lettuce spinach beans eggs bones Library google fiber macbook best buy geek squad parking lots


Cars. Going to celebrate holidays driving around and looking at some family talking about the next week and last year and a year away, no one knows, but we will wear more clothes and not have to take it seriously and be careful to make a decision about how to get the best of our time and what we need to know, because it will help the whole process, - the solution of history, This Dissolving Cosmos, our eternal faces spread thin on the record of our intentions and earnest natural soul trajectories, towards meaning beyond life....


~ predictive




Friday, December 11, 2020

Pizza Deliverance

I'm delivering pizzas at 7:30.

-

It's 62 degrees, substantial cloud cover, a bluish grey, no dramatic sunrise, a steady brightening.

I get into my Hyundai sedan.

I live to the southwest of a city of one million. It's about an hour's drive on a good day. 

I know about 55 of my neighbors by name.

Somewhere like Texas, California, Pennsylvania or a place one trillion light years away from Us.

[ We Have Amnesia Sometimes ]

-

I make them in my house. They are delicious and nutritious.

I wake at 3. I make a bowl of Quaker oatmeal and eat it with raisins and cream.

I do about 10 pizza recipes. 10 different toppings, besides cheese.


I got a big, red, insulated bag. Keeps the pizzas warm.

            I got a big, red, insulated bag. Keeps the pizzas warm.

                        I got a big, red, insulated bag. Keeps the pizzas warm.


 . . . . . . . 

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Syllable Density

Straight-laced.      2/13

Ingenuity.              5/9

Anemone.              4/7

Oligopoly.               5/9

Academia.             5/8

Idiolalia.               7/9


Strength-trained



  Big words, not lengthwise 

But words used in a big way

- Scooter

Drew Ackerman

The Santa Element



Wednesday, December 9, 2020

So for Toothbrush

 We drove back home.


The billboards lit the forest at night.

The history teacher followed, and the light was out of light.

I was getting so frustrated with my self and my life 

I stabbed my homework paper with a toothbrush like a knife 


[ originally recorded as audio. from ~2007,  revised ]




Christmas Drool

 Unassuming and periwinkle and sleep shade


Whey  in  the  Hurtfield

Here  in  the  Wheatfield

I don't know what you say


a hundred years   a hundred years

    a hundred years





Tuesday, December 8, 2020

 i can do a letter better

 

Legal Halls of Shame

Management of Lush Gods


My brother in the Wolfsburg Volkswagen Jetta

Black inside out

The day of the feast of Saint Nicholas

To a park

On a trail

Just a Dreamsong in the Dreamtime

Saturday, December 5, 2020

The Tree Thyme and You

 


Three minutes later the tree thyme realised you harvested the light dark from the yellow leaves up in the halo basket. Ten little leaves in the palm of your hand, the light dark seeped into the pores of your face. 13 light-years a light-second, the tree thyme thought through the wanders to take you over the lip of your light opera, you bumping your vision of the wing mottle to the bugle, H notes re-rehearsing, from the bottom of your head. Twenty-two feathers belied you between the fifth spaces of the tines of the tree thyme, who said, " the scent oils leak in the oxygen over West Virginia. Tommy soup dreamed the year-long book, who said, ' Tim will now join you. ' "

The grean shoots blew brown. The blinks of the ever-vanishing realness of the tree thyme swayed on the film surface, away to grape held horizon black and white cat the thinnest hair touched end to end the lonely One and the You belonging to the you here and now with us.

The End


You think you might learn.

i imagine a Hair, in a close up you see it there, floating still.

this end touches a rocky coast, like california or scotland or something. it is like a magical electrical wire over an ocean. it is maybe thousands of miles long.

it is dark but no one sees it until a few inches away.

it is perfectly strait like it is another dimension here.

it reaches toward the infinite eternal reality of One who knows better.


Thursday, November 26, 2020

Veda MRI

 As far as you're aware, do you have any allergic reactions to the MRI contrast agent? It's gadolinium-based.

. . . .

So it looks like your doctor has ordered an MRI contrast agent, which means about halfway through the test, I'll take you out of the MRI, and just do a quick injection of the gadolinium agent. That should improve the contrast and clarity of the second set of images.

Are you on dialysis? 

So that's it for questions. 

...

So, again, what I'm giving you is called gadolinium. It's gadolinium-based. It's an MRI contrast agent, and it's just an injection. Sometimes we do it as an IV, but today we're just going to do yours as an injection, and what it does is increases the contrast and clarity of the next set of images we're doing. 


. . . being in a people printer . . .




Sunday, November 22, 2020

Printer Paper, Ink

 It's 15:04, Friday, November 20th, 2,020. I am practicing my hand-

writing. That 'w' is too close to the left edge of the page.

I just heard about movehumanityforward.com.

I'm not really practising my handwriting. I wanna do something healthy

and good. It's 15:11.   - Where you gonna go? Convention center?,

the park by the freeway bridge?, your mom's House?

I listened to watched most of Adrianne Lenker Tiny Desk Home

Concert: I am little shivers on my skin, mental electricity, salt

water on my eyeballs; sailing from Texas to Hawai'i on a coffin,

I plant it vertically on a beach, open to the ocean.

I'm drinking Kentucky Tavern. Mom and I are getting Popeye's tonight. It's 15:43.

I don't know what else. 15:51, I've been watching H3 After Dark.

¬¬ it's 16:33 - I am writing more, drinking Sean's Irish cream, - that

I poured into a Kirkland irish country cream bottle, from costco.

- Sorry. I don't know. We may take a walk in our hood in a few

minutes. My mom wants to washe the dishes because they're

bothering her. " Chrome isn't responding "  I closed it.

My tablet background is a white moose/elk. I saw it on a 

home page, swedish hunters shot one.

The natives call it, Ghost/Spirit moose/elk.

I shot 3 arrows today. Mom and i set up a cardboard box

to shoot at, about 4 feet tall, i missed the first 2 and not

the 3rd. For thanks giving day, 2 brothers, Pat + Kit, + Lorena

and Bridges. For fun. Why, Who, How. ? The screens and

   Faces




Saturday, November 21, 2020

Pong Morning Sun

 Breakfust came before us

We are snow life

Happen us now.

" I call it delicious spice " brawn poison water

GM Vaporwaves


How else 

Blue morning

Make me read the sway of time blood before honest reduction gallivanting galaxies

Gals, non-bin Nidorans

I hope they interact harmoniously with each other

and unknowable energies 

for the fabrics, funnily peacing 

 

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

 The Message of the Person ,   Omnipotently Actualising

Lez-Be-Franz

i listen to TEMPOREX

Open Letter kinda annoys me

the album Care is awesome

crazy he was only 16


my mom is leaving in about 30 minutes and will be back in about 6 or 7 hours

lunch with her bro and sis in austin and maintenance at the mazda dealership


living poor in a wild place with mostly mean people

 -  First Cow

elsewhere a lot of rape and murder

 -  The Nightingale

making tasty foods, making close good friends

getting better, feeling better


love a movie

love people


I am planning to do some dumb, selfish things after mom leaves

i wonder what i should do

i want to contact Eden East, seems like i should

i need money and to contribute to the health of humanity

i should call the i r s


i want to read more farm notes from essex farm and look at photos

kristin

god holy mother, noble causes, ingenious detective of the soul from Brooklyn and neighbors helping ourselves to the love and begging and foregiveness

that swallows our hope in the yellow bulging nude frog belly nocturnal nature human growth indoors holy hollow skin bone gracious grace humbling ink stained unconventionally un attractive, horses deer moose elk whiny engine motor home reset quiet alarm taste gravy black under european skies erasing killer tendencies typhoon unrest feelers beckon you open youth channels closest rights of green government diet and exercise purpose persons unconfounded and wholly all-one now and always in every possible mind to believe friends having giving thanks thank you and good night. I hope you sleep well. See ya tomorrow!

i want to go now to work on Essex Farm as long as I need to, to be a benefit and do the most good i can for the future of humans and Earth / Cosmos...


The End



Tuesday, November 17, 2020

T M O T P O A

 To undo that which must be done

that is the mission of the Protector of Alsengeal


It's a wide valley. It's a stranger out of town.

It's a wide valley. It's a stranger out of town.

It's a wide valley. It's a stranger out of town.

It's a wide valley. It's a stranger out of town.

It's a wide valley. It's a stranger out of town.

It's a wide valley. It's a stranger out of town.

Living Goals

 Live about 1 year in

New York City

L A / Cali

Midwest / Great Lakes / Minnesota / Wisconsin / Ohio / Chicago / Pennsylvania

Canada , maybe 2 years

Alaska

Hawai'i

Japan

China

India

Australia / New Zealand

Africa

Europe

Sweden


more than a year working on a farm


Total: about 15 years , maybe age 35 to 50

settle down wherever is best for me


The end

when i die

i hope i have done more good than not

the most good i could do ,  which is impossible to know ,  unless being one with eternity and some kind of omniscience is possible , 

i am certain that i could have done much better ,  ethically , spiritually , and still could be better

oh well


i'll figure something out

go somewhere

get somewhere


know people




 Please check back in a bit and fall in love even faster.



Less Than Twenty Percent

 to make good choices 

to make life better for one thousand humans

for the last one thousand years. 


Bizarres were Wonder Womans


portrait on the backs of the skies


create sinus reliefs



Guest Vocals by DJ

 and the after  meaning




The Background Waves

 Not Really

not thinking about this


These People

are not inter esting


white columns

Come back napping in ferno


by beach house

are you still your self

have you changed at all

are you not the one who you

       used  to  be


leave a lone

what you said you could


price less pay

for the world we are


push it on

when the now now becomes the how


language meets

all our selves have come to stay


come to mean


by the being shore

unconditioning  we  ask


are we not the same


where and why are we

?


by

be you layer

later



Monday, November 16, 2020

 Tu are like a party where everything is worth it

every one is okay


What if

i  r  L

meat space

the Wild


You have encounted


you are always ,  have been ,  will be


A U

and arrange

an arrangement

wut u

are trying to mean

tryin '  2  b

bless

conjugal verbs

always resisting

a restrainable 2 u

begin by relearning

keep up

and slow up

and show up

you are here

congrats and welcome

goodbye to now

hello eternal

a waiting

the You

by being your self

the every one self

the end .





 be a rumbling walk

cars and pebbles 80 miles of asphalt plus the other millions of miles and cubic tonnes of raw earth materials for production and destruction

i dont want to think about thw words i want

it is free flowing and dirty aand gross

do you want to go To Be over there on the neat sterile grass patch among the greys, smallish part of cities, dying trees, not the Correct amount of water

With me, to sit or talk, Barthel said ' than to be with You '

Thank for letting me to be

Thank for giving the option and clear choice and Optimum bestness of the words and living the Correctness of the human dying body, making me better by being To be with the other choosers walking and sitting around the life of plants water air sunlight

a hospitable place

gotta get thirst

and a craven gut

gotta use telescopes and microscopes. gotta keep detailed records of empirical data

gotta analyze critically

Man lies on the path, probably born wrong

a corporation factory

gotta dance like liquid light, leaning nowhere


i am going to eat two halves

of everything bagels


all correct,

talk to you later

love ya, bye

yes














 What do you feel, trying not to feel? 


Belinda ,  psychiatric cardiac examination explanation 

Belinder. Proper english 

And that's excellent? 


Very relaxing 

8 hour flight

Attending 

Ting ting


And water on a bed

Cellular chemical exchange, osmosis, traveling thru cell walls,  membranes 

Water weight

Plastic glass on the edge of the desk by the bed

wet saturated sinking dripping

sticky or cold

noodles or beef

ice, clouds


The sink water smells good 

Faucet water, tap water 

Tastes good

Feels Good 


google cool greenhouse bandcamp


How are you?

 I don't know. 

Who are you? 

I don't know if I'm anyone. 

What are you? 

This.

Why are you? 

I don't know if I have a choice... but Yes.

I might be because I have a choice. 


A will. A self. Belonging to our mind. A grace. A gift. Thanks. You're welcome. 

Good Bye

Yes



Sunday, November 15, 2020

Boggle direct to blogger.com

 Sold

Lore

Gore

Gas

Sag

Solo

Boos

Lobs

Tans

Sand

Loses

East

Bolos

Ante

Roles

Toes

Best

Sea

Logs

Gel

Ah yes 

 word vomit

starter  imagination

i walked on Cutting Horse yesterday eve and thought i want to make a book named Word Botching . i thought of a cover with a guy holding his hands like binoculars and a bird flying out of each eye , like song birds, robins or so. 

i saw vultures on the light lamps on the old bridge into downtown and thought of my love of birds, for birds.

i like flying flighted birds. i like penguins more than ostriches

bird by byrd by anne lamott


starter pokemon ,  racoon , possum ,  i forgot the third , i saw a photo of the 3 together on facebook. rural america . American South

i also thought of a book by me called My Memories ,  Memoirs

my life by bill clinton

i thought of posting to facebook: memory is crazy ,  electrical chemical reactions in our brains / bodies ,  neurons or synaspes store info. Something triggers an impulse, images enter our mind, feelings in our bodies, sort of almost maybe What really happened and how. What we felt and thought, words emotions. I don't know. This is impossible to understand fully. Seems that we exist not only in the present moment


.com


our selves spread though all our imaginations and memories and

all the energy, space and time we influence and connect with


innovate  itself


" Stacy Abrams "  in a low pitch voice, like slow motion, starts a mostly intrumental song, mostly a short funky catchy simple lovely bass melody , long bending string notes, light drums


When  I  was queen of the island


if you are a name ,  then you just woke up


Sounds Like a Magical Conglomeration of Memories

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Tide Pools

 Dawn Rose Mahoney,  12 years old,  March 1982, is alone at the beach house on Long Island.

The beach is big, clouds everywhere, some mist, some ice. Her coats are big, the windows are big, the neighbors are not close, her parents are in Manhattan.

She eats some frozen meals, watches TV, her parents call, some animals outside try to survive. 

Her father comes in around 7 p.m. He leaves between first light and sunrise. Dawn often wakes then . . . stands facing east. Weekends her mother holds her.

One day infinite, alone again, except an infinite matter slow waves of Nature, one stray mutt in Babylon, frozen squirrel by a green dumpster at a closed county beach park eleven miles away, the muscle of a pig in the fridge, mussels floating on the low tide, the fake light coming, only just Dawn breathes heavy waiting the purpose and reënact, dozing news anchor, water trickles, four thousand, Or, safe, to the dark sky, (full life) in the body - perfect warm soft changes.

She wakes up. Red segments read 6:47. Quietly the front door closes and locks. An owl hoots for the last time. 

Dawn sits cross-legged on the pale cold sand, 20 feet from the weathered walkway stairs and from the high tide wake receding. The sun sets in 20 minutes. The long trip home waits for the wavering voices of her parents. 

. . . .

The waxing gibbous illuminates the blue darkness. Wet winters become warm springs, across the northern oceans, the widest continents of massive land, endless global horizons continually curving. Dawn breathes in for 5 seconds and out for 7. 

. . .

Her mind rests and rejuvenates. Her hair stands on end. 

The End



PS [ many moons later , 9-11-21 ]


13, the deepest Summer,

at the mahogany table

a deepness like red.

Their riches, their heirs, like molecules transfered in the consuming of the sea food... [ slurf song ]

The monstrous galaxy

The latte in her auburn hairs.


I have never really wanted to hate and interrogate anyone as much as 

people who litter on the Beach.

. . . .

This is Our Earth Please 

Fuck off with that shit.


Seagulls, morning birds, the monumental clouds cover the vain sun rising, ready for the storm. 


- Saturdays, [11-10-21]

She lies on her back on tidy brown sand, little clumps, comfortable for her. She sleeps like a blanket.

The warming sunlight is coming in, coming in the East.

Trying harder . . .

Hermit crabs scale the deadly cliff of the wake pool beside her, skitter and fall and creep up, delicate technicolor fluorescent skeleton limbs. As deep as her neck plus her head, half-submarine, they all squint in shafts of yellow atmosphere. Elsewhere clocks keep to themselves, here the steady hums and hushes of more water than anything, but also with the Us ... will anyone know or care? -  - Then seeing the readiness of Christmass, cold wind telling our skin, she is me now.

Softly rest the hairs, the honey, murmur the names, make safe the little life . . . .

Amen


Bye bye  [-:



Monday, August 29, 2022

Hope Sand Dolor

 This is the sequel prequel to Tide Pools. Hope is Dawn's mother, born January 3rd, 1939, a block from the sea in East New York.


On Hope's 44th bday, she looks through her daughter's desk, 14-year-old Dawn. On the first page of a black and white composition notebook begins a story about Dawn Sunday. She's touched by her daughter's imagination and empathy. 


She tries too hard not to cry.


Starfish, Uncommon rarity, Dawn holds her right hand open face up. Hope holds her left hand, as if mother, as if friends. On the beach, perfect weather, warm clouds beckon the girls to be released, as gasses in the sky, in 2 to 5 minutes. 


Infinite greys, bluster in the faces, safe alone together owning property generational comfort, affluenza deride debilitated, after a movie theater so many lost childhoods in one. 


Action, to relieve humanitarian effort, Hope calls for them... and weak coffee water cooler slowly begins another weekend, hearting rental arrangements 


Blowin implication set up to being convenient facts, engineered ecstasy, survives the societal obligation And She Finally breathes ....






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 This Light Ocean

Sleeps Low  Slow Slope

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Walking Alone to the Beach with Enough Light

 The power of mind

The mind of love

We give God what

They need from us


Too many people at the pool


Children's Spa


The tiny pool is that amazing


Equals one times values and sales

Triple shank the size of the deal


I don't fuck

10 years ago, my younger friend, in the middle in between minds, softer afternoon light, kinda quiet neighbor hood, short thick loose cotton clothes, smooth tight brown buttock skin.

 Two lips down a side street to the end of the road. Closed eyes, wind through our ears.

See a really big Apple

You want to be a nasal Farmer. 

Saturday, September 26, 2020

 DNA  portfolio

it's a crime of time



Suzanne, alternate

 Suzanne rearranges your hands on the snow-white delivery

She bakes you enchiladas when her mother flies to Haiti

For hurricanes and earthquakes are bounding toward your Eskimo igloo

The night is tearing open as she slakes your wounded salty brain

Suzanne takes your down pillow and surprises your tango-fleeing relatives

She talks you down from deer-born misgiving, like a bowl of the Sun.


to be.

continue?



Wednesday, September 23, 2020

 eat while you eat

wait while you eat


oh what a point of you


the mates of state


point out the views

lookout point ,  makeout point

the point of it all


pointed questions

pointy people

anoint


 1 to 1

Still 1

Administration next of kin

Coco, brown orange black white of course nothing is absolute

What is changeless 

Just 1


Which is a beautiful love ratio


We can go to the Circle C metro park disc golf course 

We can cry like a lightning bug 

We can lie about Austin. Del Valle. Garfield. Cedar Creek

Bastrop Smithville 71 Cedar Street

My friends' hair

Decks porches artificial light waning sun light thin slivers shivering bare arms

Dying tree leaves 

Electricity 

Indoors

A/C

Repair People 

Technical College.  Where and how would we be? What would we do without your careers cars trucks factories shops books and micro Science cosmos organizational Time Life Mind recognize Saint angel


Every Human Is a Cell Phone 

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Free write 11:29 am Saturday - ACC irrigation

School is brains swell, big data sweeps

Our life scraps on organ toast for human

Health span. Svedka, green Tea. Natural

Bliss, sweet cream. Love your cells and tissues

Atoms, quarks, dark energy, consciousness.

Everyday feeling evil spells

Good Meat, Aaron's Mind Soul Eternity

a book for remembering, Re-solving

Puzzle mystery, problems, helpful hints

I'm a shade, a tree of autumn de-lights

Tropospheres, toggling, a hairy sky dangle

Wafts in the blue breeze, toe child sheds

A Pop, Sleep Eyes, Greenwhite voices

Bounce on suburb walls a brick falls, full

Of our bodies, hum a loud hope, Sincere Silence.




 Ozley ,  british  psychologist

Even if the bark on the brooklyn bridge were too homegrown to belong to the socialist elite

Learn more about my new palm pilot

The time zones deplete in reverse order

Redo my second step son

He makes candles to belated

.



Thursday, September 17, 2020

a politician speech . . like a bad lip reading


If anyone is left, their fathers will be My friends. - No more old potatoes out in the static space. No brown haze. No grey white... I made monkey bread. My guns are stuck to the floor!


' Everything constant for a minute '

my love of God


C o u r r t n e y y  ,  write it down in case you lose your teeth.


I forgot my husband wanted different strangers




Wednesday, September 16, 2020

places and years

 Austin 2015

Los Angeles 1995

Queens 1975

Berlin 1955

D. C. 1935

Paris 1915

Florida 1515

London 1015

Athens 515 B. C.

Central Park 2222


Past, future,

Significance, connection,

Want, need,

Safety, comfort,

Now, Eternity


Time, Travel

Freedom, regret

Risk, acceptance

Will, power

Boat, bridge

Oceans, atmospheres

Surprise, delight

Play, tragicomedy

Practical profession, perfection


Grace glory love hope

Amen




Tuesday, September 15, 2020

A Real Sign

 Ashley stole my kitchen. 


Water   makes   water  makes.


I love a solid gas, such as A field across a farm Road , Who I Give a Friend 

                                     All of us 

I cry again ,  making Human Plans ,  a Foreseen Light toward the Inside of our Thought and 

Living mind of living trinity 

Words ,  embody Understanding ,  the panoply

 - ' we must live as we wonder why and how to live '

Hydrate ,  Nourish ,  Cultivate ,  Advocate meaningful Helpful

Neighbor , niece nephew brother sister mother grandmother spouse Friends 

Children

Awake to the Necessity 

Aubrey   Light the Neck   Ties


. . . .


No example, no evidence

No motive, just an attempt of motion spirals out a feeling chain of nutrient rich

And the second half puts forward Reason to cling to, Learning from behind. On top of oneself and one's first hand environment, 

One will stand up for the meaning-making mind

To understand the anything, which is here and now



Monday, September 14, 2020


I don't feel well

Pop cap in the wheel well


Cat sat on a window sill

Look at my face, 80 degree A/C

Less than 80 years, homo sapiens death


childhood adult bank money paycheck house car phone weekly morning ,  same person on Earth still

life sleep beach sun screen wind sand clouds moon horizon water . . . my mom brothers and me

ghost of god . . . , faint memory TV dim light switch online redirect, the last effect rooting feeding cause

of our next breath

Saturday, September 12, 2020

 E-pay: A Whole Range of Starbucks Collection Bandages

The Extra-Dark: Where It's Gone and You Can See


Sri Vasana  Ghandi



Wednesday, September 9, 2020

 

Epistemologically, eschatologically, I found the sound of the brown round Legal documents on fly paper.

We four lounge on the living room floor beside and against the sofas, late at night, after all, Alyssa singing her famous soung; we transport, close to sleep. Our acquaintance [ Devon ? ], standing, tells us he saw Lil' wayne in the guest bed room with the rapper Dynamite . . . " He's just so weird " . . . .




Monday, August 31, 2020

Nature Census

 At Bastrop State Park, near the swimming pool, a pretty big grasshopper flew into my face, my left cheek, side of my nose. I waved my hand at it and made a little noise of surprise.

It was really nice. I'm happy that happened.

At the front door of the refectory, I almost stepped on a little brownish snake. It slithered to the entryway corner.

On Green Oaks Drive, I drove by a hawk on a fence to the right, about 15 feet away from the road. It turned to look at me as I passed.


At Morris Memorial Park, behind the graveyard, white, colorful ducks and petite painted turtles swam in the pond and sat on the shore.


The secluded well kept more wild and shaded area


light-soaked  days

more light than heat

john green


a   fifties   futurist   fairy-tale

Mid - Sentry , 20th of the Lord Jesus


I drove Mom and I thru Easton Park. Or myself. Or maybe also . . . just her

We were impressed.


Infinite Aloneness

Not an infinite amount of time being alone

Just at any point in time or beyond, an infinity of aloneness ,  or solitude ,

eternity of being alone


this is good though

this is how we exist

i know i am

you know you are


we are   alone


the soul of one person

the souls of all other people


together

by God



Tuesday, August 25, 2020

My Lives

  i was wasting   space

Everything takes too long

I live two lies at the same time

My Lives



Monday, August 24, 2020

a walk thru a Roy G. Guerrero baseball complex and Byound

 

Shave me . . . shave me

Days, open the door

Days, always more of them


Shave me . . . shave me

Days, what are they for ?

Days, always more of me .


it's too bad. i heard about you.

I'm pretending to die.

I am always a Really Good Guy.



I am familial with my friends

 

i am familiar with the essences and hopes of Friendships


i exist thanks to the Essential Friends


why do They

become Their friends

all Our Own Friends 


okay

that friend

be a friend

we are the best . . .


- GW

Medical Evacuation

 The challenge is up at the Glass



Sunday, August 23, 2020

Doing Anything

 

I am a sensitive bodily Christian Jew

I do not care about any life beyound mine

My life is taking over, dominating the Universe

I have infinite Love and an infinite curse

for the insensitive anuses sucking the life from my eternal soul


I finish the work of history 

[ for the benefits of a great wonderful grand mother  ~  ]

solve the mystery of Divine Humanity

swallow every sun

then fall asleep and never wake up . . . .


I am happy to be dreaming of the End of Everything

I wish I were There with Them, Doing Anything



A Mature Elephant Dolphin





Waking Bell

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A Definition of Finity

 

Facebook friend Paul.
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The divine as countable.

The state of human beings as a finite set of consciousnesses.

The inability of human beings to attain sublimity due to the finite nature of their numbers.
Human beings are divine (god-selves (fiction)) but they can never be sublime (infinite self-gods).

Human beings try to reach an infinity of sets through sex.
by sandrashine December 29, 2018

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Advancing to the 2nd Level

Advancing to a Second Limit

The Next Finity


I squeeze you for a new soul mission  .


I am good   to think I may be okay  .



Friday, August 21, 2020

Farthest

You can always be farthest away in time.

You can always be farthest away in space and time.

You can always be farthest away from space and time.


You can be furthest

You can always be 

You are the one person

The other person is the farthest....

Then you.

From You.


You always go

away to the end

of time and space

.

This is a question

of logical choices

of metaphysical physics....

The you you are is

The mind of the We we are.


Everything Everywhere Always Now Everyone EveryWord

Yes.



Start with Nothing

 I reach my hand inside myself -

I'm not me or anyone or anywhere.

I'm no angle or direction,

No shape or idea.

' Did the Fall happen yesterday? '

          Semi de Coco

I feel an object. I exact the definition dimension, data-space-time. Can I do without a word? Am I before a word? Electronic re source. Light user. Animal reanimal. Grower, Liver. Neighbor, 40 years, 33 miles, 10 years, 2 days... She, he, they cross a street. One week schedule. 10 hours on a bed. Air-conditioned 2,000 square feet. Industrial bakeries, soup factories, 500 acre ranch. Feed Lot. Backyard Garden. AaronAndee's front yard. .... 6 books, 7,000 pages, 1 million words.

Speaking Friend

Listening Friend

Understanding Friend


David Lynch Theater

Weather

Meditate

Stay home and Work

Why bother with all that bad outside?


My mind changes

I try to think of what is good

Still what should I do?

Better

I relax

My sleep posture

Better pain

Comfort

Less distracting

More Eternal


I change my mind

I find an answer


The End . . . .

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Alternate "Atomic Number" -Neko Case

 Versions of Eternity

Names and Numbers




Wednesday, August 12, 2020

 If there were only 2 people

and it's 1992.

I am special because

I am never more special than you.

If it made any more sense

We would be a tractor on the dreams of tomorrow.


-

Let's watch Defiance, Ohio

and weep over Ed Harris's head.


Is Ed Harris alive?



           Let's make love at the video store.

- Twin Peaks - Surfer Blood





Sunday, August 9, 2020

The Hartford Call

 

I wonder what that Hartford call was.

. . . ?   Hello



Friday, August 7, 2020

Yellow Bathing Suit

 Alea Gott

- Teal bikini

- white and orange surf board


Marian

- orange top, teal skirt

- black and blue board


Clive


Franco

-


Xu

-


Brave Moon

 

Sleep on me

I'm going down

Sleep toes


Brave Moon, 

Why You coming down?


Brave Moon,  Yeah




Holy Ghosting

 

Got an old wooden sawhorse and two old satellite dishes


You think love is real.

it  is  a  space  holy  ghosting


The Local Vestibule of Bicuspids




Wednesday, August 5, 2020

The Feeling Mill

I didn't make any mistakes with your turnip greens

    you were holding off on me.

I made a pact with a goose.


Huge Rant


I made peace with the chickens.

They made me out to be a villain.

I am okay with everyone's every decision.


. . .   

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Ellen Burstin's Negligible Proximity

Let's go to 

a Beach we never been to

Let's go back 

to Las Vegas

and Relax

for Once



Hell and Hollywood


Life tastes too good

Please don't give me any choices

Hell and Hollywood

Save my life for other voices



Monday, August 3, 2020

job, on paper

8:30 ,  1st day   hours .

_________________________

1 hour online "class" training , U.S. cen
                                                     sus  beaurou . . No.

Any thing to Know. White Lawn, Hot Canine

hot head Leaf Let, Neighbor Wonder, Pressure

  Fatigue, Gun, Scape  Threaten, Scrape Nite

Leaving and Never recover Nerve   it's

Over Now, For ever.   " E - Numerator. "

Leave us alone. - Never come, here.

Department of Commerce.   Statis

tician. Protection, Laws, Fines, Prisons

TIME,  LIFE .  abject health .  Policy

Perjury. Fools. Wastes. Mine. Politely Begging.

Brev-   - Purgatory . . .  Simul - Facsimile.



Mugsy

Mugsy Bogues made a buggy low

He made up for a magical loss

He cast a spell thru his toe nail

He froze the nose of the Devil

wearin' Nylon Hose



Sunday, August 2, 2020

Conseco

Stab me in the heart, my name is Jose Conseco

Swap the baby for the Majorca   neighborhood .



Awake in Nanjing

the instant the sky wakes my eyes are shut I’m listening to the rainfall huh 
 huh huh listening to half a lifetime of rainfall isn’t romantic
the sound of rainfall approaching unites with the sound of a solitary car
the car going away pushes the sound of rainfall away but maybe it’s not pushed 
 away so much as letting up
like someone’s existence maybe it’s not the person disappearing so much as 
 lightening

imagine raindrops hitting the ground umbrellas raincoats scenery soaked
one two three four five six construction sites of silent scaffolding cranes no 
 workers climbing up or down or all around
a shop owner figures umbrellas and raincoats will sell in weather like this

strange
light rain from the country falling on hard heads in the city
apricot blossoms in the light rain peeping through a window at a poetaster 
 sipping tea this is my image of Jiangnan

this is the Jiangnan of the scholarly landlord and the peasant in concert with 
 the maxim that houses of gold and jade-like faces are contained within 
 books
but are the Jiangnan of the small-business owner and the day laborer still 
 Jiangnan the capitalist’s Jiangnan
is definitely not Jiangnan since jade-like faces no longer seek shelter in books

why don’t the birds sing is it the morning’s fault or the birds’ fault
don’t they know I’m searching with ears of the blind
in Beijing the birds start singing at four a.m. but here what time do the birds 
 start singing this is a Shakespearean question

or else the birds have signed an agreement not to sing
Meng Haoran died about 1,300 years ago and for 1,300 years the little poem
 he wrote about birds singing has lived in his stead
that’s a long time for an American but won’t impress an Egyptian

Meng Haoran was used to a life of sharp mountains and clear waters so we 
 can infer how sharp and clear he looked
but we can’t imagine how he could make a living as a poet without ­representing 
 advanced social productive forces

it wasn’t strange for him to get something off his chest from time to time 
 and tell it to the river
is this why he stood apart from the crowd how trading up on his grievances 
 he associated with Wang Wei and Li Bai
but Wang Wei and Li Bai never acknowledged each other when they were 
 both in Chang’an they looked down on each other

the river flows on night and day oh the river flows by my bedside oh this is 
 too much

I’ll withdraw it

the river flows by the door of my hotel in Nanjing or Jinling or the ancient 
 capital of the Six Dynasties
is this a hotel or an inn or is this a guesthouse or is it a resort
to friends on the phone it’s a resort it’s an inn to me

what’s the difference the ancients only lived in inns and wrote poems on walls
but in the Republican era Fang Hongjian got a girl in bed only to find a dirty 
 ditty on the wall behind the pillow
written yesterday

girls girls though red lanterns are still raised over the river Qinhuai at night 
 there are no more seductress spirits just snack food
on a clean white bed lie four white pillows I use only two
body comfortable erection comfortable I’m in my yesterday not in my day 
 before I’m not in

in the symmetrical room in the mirror is another me are you the me I’m 
 symmetrical with
the red light in the left lower corner of the black TV screen is on to show the 
 power is on like the Young Pioneers showing they’re ready at any minute
use me
a press on the remote control and it’s the world of media

I open an eye and then shut it

who will die today whose nude photos released which factory explode
which police department will commit brutality today which bridge collapse 
 which politician detained

at 7:20 I hear the birds singing that’s incredibly late am I in some deep ravine

in the split sense of reality in my mind the birds started singing hours ago
I’ve never told anyone that the birds in my mind come from Jingting Mountain 
 not far from here
Li Bai saw the birds on Jingting Mountain all fly away but never learned 
 where those birds went they flew into my mind and won’t stop chirping

they’ve divided into sixteen competing camps and decided to hash it out in 
 my mind
hashing it out they have no idea they’re singing for the rising sun

while the birds singing outside do their best to satisfy Meng Haoran’s 
 eavesdropping
as if the world outside the window weren’t the real world only the world 
 where accidents happen is the real world
a world where accidents don’t happen can’t convince people of its reality like 
 Baudrillard’s simulacrum can be unsure sometimes

so someone who jumped off a roof was caught by someone on the street 
 stretching his arms
the one who stretched his arms to save him was crushed into paraplegia the 
 townspeople were so moved by the appeals in the newspaper they 
 donated money and goods
and the one who’d been saved refused to make a donation the turmoil in his 
 mind the night before he jumped
and the shocked parents of the one who was saved thought there’d be calm 
 and peace in the world

sounds of people in the hallway the bacteria in the carpet eat up all the 
 sounds of footsteps

at 7:25
the residue of a dream
Xia said the water in the pool was too cold so she got out put on a shirt and 
 went back in
the manager told her to get out he said you can’t wear shirts in the pool if 
 you’re cold you’ll have to put on three swimsuits

at 7:27
the residue of a dream
Feng hears someone knocking at the door asks who is it on the other side 
 someone says in a husky voice it’s me well good guy or bad guy
Feng asks what is it and on the other side someone says in a husky voice I’m 
 not sure

is a dream the past
if a dream isn’t the past why does the past try to keep up with dreams

I hear a toilet flush I’m alive others are alive too
the water-treatment plant in the vicinity of the Yangtze might make a 
 difference of thirty percent

but to piss directly into the Yangtze I won’t do that like Mencius ate meat 
 but kept clear of the kitchen
it’s a little hypocritical it’s the hypocrisy necessary for civilized behavior
if I can lie in bed looking at the Yangtze I will hypocritically and happily give 
 thanks to both legal life and illegal life

outside the inn at night there must be Chinese sturgeons swimming by in 
 the Yangtze but what kind of fish is this
such a grand name such a mundane name who conferred it is it an endangered 
 species
why isn’t the giant panda called the Chinese bear

the sand barges on the Yangtze ride low in the water paint blotchy not a 
 single boat is new
the women baring their breasts to the water at stern and bow all women’s 
 women not a single one ugly

Du Shiniang threw her treasure chest into the water
of all the pretty flowers on the banks not one blooms because of this of all 
 the cheery lanterns not one goes out because of it

thus eastward do the torrents of the river flow

last year I took a trip here and gazed at the river from the Yuejiang Tower it’s 
 reconstructed all wrong
I pretended I was the painter Gong Xian gazing at the openness of the river
I tried to pretend I was the poet Gao Qi ascending Rain-Flower Terrace to see 
 the river emerge from ten thousand peaks but I couldn’t get it right

the Yangtze changed its course from Rain-Flower Terrace you can’t see the 
 river as it was in the Ming dynasty

from my bed I can’t see the river either which means I’m not Emperor 
 Kangxi I can’t see all under heaven
I can’t see the teeming multitudes in Guangzhou I can’t see the teeming 
 multitudes in Chongqing
I may as well accept my fate as an ordinary man at least I have nothing to do 
 with the plight of the empire

reading the paper reading online news worrying about everything under 
 heaven it doesn’t do shit read short stories instead
my grammar-school teachers my high school teachers they ruined me for life 
 they trained me to be an observer
an observing peach or plum tree doesn’t even need to blossom
the paulownia trees in the city have been felled the property developers have 
 friends in city government
if I were the next mayor I’d have all the Republican-era paulownias replanted 
 back where they were but this is impossible

so I don’t make that kind of friends

I don’t drink my dad doesn’t drink my grandpa didn’t drink

so I can easily open my eyes at 7:30 my bleary brain just lets in the light
I look at the ceiling obviously in luxurious European style but it’s made of plaster

who gives a shit about mountains of plaster wealth so lofty it’s scary
who gives a shit about the three beef patties that fell on my head yesterday 
 who gives a shit about a modicum of fame
accomplishment comes too easily for engineers accomplishment comes too 
 easily for masters of arts and crafts

who gives a shit about liking to pretend not to be so vulgar it’s vulgar who 
 gives a shit about average talent but even that isn’t easy
but who gives a shit

power and influence were of supreme importance to Han Feizi but Zhuangzi 
 didn’t give a shit about them

my brain is wide awake buzzing for my soul to wake up

which is greater that which can be understood in history or that which 
 cannot be understood
how can refined taste be propagated in a crass age
propagating refined taste means propagating the seeds of the collapse of the 
 country take the Northern Song dynasty for example the new tycoons 
 aren’t buying it

ugh the discontent you can’t speak freely and the complaints you won’t make 
 out loud
I should get up and shower bedhead makes people think you have nightmares 
 every night but that’s not the case
I should lose some weight my teeth need brushing I have bad breath when 
 I get up
Han Yu wrote a poem about losing his teeth it must have been before he 
 turned fifty

at 7:35 who wound me up like a watch to make me take such good care of myself
last night I flipped every switch I couldn’t figure out how to turn off one 
 light so I left it on until now

sounds from last night’s banquet still linger
two men hugging each other they drank so much two tongues fattened 
 by alcohol
one said I just went to Frankfurt look at my bag the other said I just went to 
 Paris look at my shoes

they were talking about package tours to Europe man see ten countries in 
 nine days
Confucius traveled through the central states if he’d kept that pace there’d 
 have been no degeneration of the rites under heaven 2,500 years ago
but running through Europe just proves there’s nothing to see there
or else proves they come from a lately developed country it’s not easy for 
 them to relax

but it’s nothing like spending time in Jiangnan and watching the river flow
from different angles
when Emperor Kangxi came it must have been a real campaign

it’s almost Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival doesn’t mean anything in any country it only means 
 something in Jiangnan and Jiangnan is this area beneath my bed
it was the kingdom of Wu but was it also the kingdom of Chu

I have friends from Chu I have no friends from Wu I do have some friends 
 from Jiangnan but right now I’m on my own
how far into the distance stretch the roads inn after inn along this road 
 reduplicating themselves to the end of the sky

I toss off the blanket slide my feet into two paper slippers

a deep breath

and I stand up

—Translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein

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