oh I know....punctuation, properness.
and now Im writing backwards
bad enough the reversed sentence
structure...if there is one

Hey thank U for the comments!
had a few head injuries over time
back when I was Orgami I included
more punctuation. The writing was
more of a structured 'telling' work
but this is whats coming out of late

obscura land

the birds were crowding atop the
masts of electronic today....
some days they are on the snowbanks
and i the rain the beads of water rest
on their heads like jewels
their feathers have oil...like surfboards
of the air so they dont get soggy

maybe my thinking is getting rattled like
ive been lately
but i shall continue

it would be good to try to just write
something normal
damn...forgot to bring down my coffee
just woke up trying to remember the
dreams i always have
and they are just as slow paced
and out there...

B cooking chicken....
television drones on main floor
big ol comfy basement
place here and my own are
tidy...organized...tastefully
decorated....photos...cards
celebrating events...
no clutter....no rooms of
extra...
geez its sounding like a
poem...
and im squinting into the
fog of thinking....lately
is been clouded
delving....worries..the
struggle...like all people

but thanks again
it can be randomly arranged
used to hang out with these
brainy people
had the sticker fridge word
magnets..limited but good
words...we would arrange
them into cryptic witty
and inane funny scripts

years ago now

Thank U!

W

I did like two silk screen runs of my artwork in high school
eighties...they had a machine that etched out the screens
the pottery kiln for art class was in the old science lab room
a narrow but well lit place i hung out while the art teachers
who were friends took lunch...acess to the dark room but
i had my own camera...we used sturdy old russian zenits..
but none of us had the drive...talent yes...to really create
the super impressionable works like some schools see...

was too busy sitting in the cafe watching people and actually
befriending young women! or bored of that would skip the
noon run and drive forty miles to the big bustling tourist town
listening to the stereo and laying up on the hood of the car
smoking cigarettes...by then everyone knew me...barely a
soul said anything because I would talk to people...and the
cars were all top shape...waxed...white walls scrubbed..
clean...

printing presses like typewriters...the lost art..
almost..niche now....BURKS FALLS ONTARIO..
ALMAGUIN NEWS..then..a mill town..closest to
an american feel of it..brick.winding streets on
knolls by the river..swayback hardwood mill
still going....american muffler plant going..
brass factory then making something..now
i think it does military stuff...
but the paper had the old machine..

knew many from the inside...the big nasty
prisons....the old ones too...jails.
did ten days in special..suicide watch
was looking at two years
assault
no priors...
got a conditional discharge
paid and made amends.stuck
the courses out..did probation
again...

before this my ol lady came
from a small hard rock mining
town...still going
many of her friends survived
do the crime..pay the fine
do the time...
it was this huge bag of writing
drawings..tatoo designs they
did on the inside...asked her
if I could read their work and she
said yes....explained them to me
the poetry was exceptional
the drawings detailed
nothing but time in there
then she was in her prime
tiny..cute as a button and
took no shit....those were
her bars the three downtown
pool hustler...rode with the
boys and not in cars..
hustler dad...worked hard
drove hot rods....which he
let her...

always wondered if i would
fit in...even on that resort
jail we have here..
chicken cordon blue tea
coffee...doctor checks.
organized...rituals..
stuck it out on the quiet
with another young man
who lived a tough life
but explained it to me
which I got..
in court holding the big
dudes and I got along well
five minutes in and I got it
why i was there...
our ways and the women
no one was blaming the women
they missed em

so...U got working as an artisan
pretty cool my friend!
a techie like majority of my friends!
super neat! i used to draw weird
interesting covers for that zine
ABERATIONS or something
I was always misspelling the title
in the sketch..
they were always on my ass about
my misspelled poetry..why i quit
ha ha..

ah..just lazy rebel..

thanks man..I do appreciate the nods
and I do know I am read

gotta go up and eat my ol ladies cooking
she put in extra spices....
she does enjoy making me happy!!

saw a segment on wolves
the lead wolf is at the back
the old ones lead
setting the pace..the strongest
run next in line

if u got a pack..
too free a spirit voice
and not dominant enough
to run the show they
ask U out..
why they are still around
why I like them

okay...gotta go...

Thanks Brother!

steven!