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LA LA OH

moons like cream
the rivers wide
(prolli deep there baby)
windshields cleared
squeegee jockeys with
their bucket of blue
Brave ones dive in
but the tire iron beside
the emerg handle
deters the wickedly brave
Rolling Thunder
"Satisfaction" cranked
kicked out from the power
amp
custom install
Thumper II
wind whips the ragtop
sucks out the reefer
smoke bittersweet
clenched in whats left
of the teeth
Fuck em!
impala eatin' up the miles
streetlights like halos
I remember the angels
trailing back through time
like a burning town
like the pretty fires
Kerosene and bad blood
Toni the Tiger
beneath the lattice
one park light
stripped like a white Bengal
even at noon
she was pale as moondust
Powder her friends call her
white as the line
white as this moon
the giant round flat factory tanks
and burning torches of the gasworks
that smell that hung in the air
a tangy putrid rotteness that
just makes you hang on to
anything good

slowed down to double nickels
let the trucks like caravans roll
full of lights

all I wanted was a friend
from the Labryrinth of Lost
all I found was the land of
Rain
tatooed with the ecstacy
of pain...

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Comments

tough...gritty...a rarity these days

so much written, by so many
of vapid sentimentality
false virtue
signaling, signifying, nothing
except
pleasantries to please
pretensions of depth

masks of spirit rich grins
hollow echos of somebody's sameness

you, on the other hand
bare teeth and growl
tell it, tell it
spell it out in accent tones
bright
glaring, blaring
"this is how it is"
out there is where we live

stab them in the eyeballs
with images hot
let the crybabies cry
or run and hide

I know I don't care
slap 'em out of their soggy insides

you wail like a hard-bop musician

for real,

Al

LAX sizzling in the palm winds
tar pits brewing blinking bright
polished from the bare footed
grifters the granite shone stars

I hung out with a lady..a woman
of power the cult statuslands
as fucked up as the low key renter
sliders..Higher up U go the thinner
the air...the higher the odds
the greater the velocity of wind
and hits...
sadness lulls of being born into it..

Soggy insides

a hit of words my friend
Inhale and Hold watching
the spin
watching the tail wagging
the dog

lava laughed musicians
in ten gallon hats
like slag covers on a
bandaged Gibson
bottle neck slide like
lagoon static dripping
from the ease of shadows
in the slick humidity

I wear my boots to bed
she said
(didnt know she sleptwalked)
my Ladymacbeth

fiction...tumult of dreams
drams and drama farms
I pharmed the days
finding heaven and hell
in each step
and slouched respite
a Lizard King in a Halcyon
world

Oh La La is a fragrance by
Suzy Shier warmed by an
angels shoulders
she'd love this line
potent and intoxicating
it mixed well with the English
Leather knock-off brand
armour all jacket wiped
with a pad found in the
turn around
the linning tattered like an
old black sail
We all have our charms
alms and protective selves

Hard-Bop
but you learn to hop
land running
bad ankle and all

Thank U!

author comment

hello my thesaurus
Esker
your ink has not blown
my pretty poems
in dungeons of time
I feel thrown
that you must own

since a kid....my brain worked in its labyrinth
and then after some tough times 90's
brought on by self ...chronic addiction
the head knocks...I feel that the result of
all that use has indeed affected the way
even further that I see things and thought
process things...(At least the latest theory
bout what lies inside the grey material)

so of all the Unread or Uncomment
poems...there are those people have
worked very hard to make a connection
but the rest...are either too far out or
too ..close too something...So they
remain where they are....
but my thinking is that far out there...
Many of them do not make any sense
whatsoever...
a garbled wordscape like alien static
from a radio too hassled with interference
to get a clear signal

maybe if I got time over winter
seeing how it goes
I will try to shed light on what
the works mean too me
a lot of times they are like
dreams in the day that do not
really fall into any recognizable
cadence
and at night time writing
I have been seriously thinking
about just deleting them
this is not about immortality
I think that when we die our
works should die also
Like Ojibway or Viking rituals
of cleansing
one soul in the river
and realm of billions
aside of ego I am a realist
and practical

I shall either comment
or delete before Xmas
help clean up the site

Thank U!

author comment

some time a guy like me will say
wow
what poems were composed any way
still though we all must pass away
let our poems stay

on another site my 2010 11 12 13 poems
which had never got a single look
except by dust and mist
till 2013

now i see
most of them have been read
by 600 700 900 at times 1000
and a few three or four
by 3500 plus
can you believe it

here some guys say
I know FA
of poetry
what would you do its up to you
you are
HUDSON....Lawrence or and or MISSISSIPPI
Amazon may be
Stay on
the hurricane in USA has gone

Merry Xmas if you are waiting

their personal choice everyone judged
but in the end its the craft that shines
and People do come to the attic the forgotten
room to peruse
sifting through the lost..
why deny those the treasures
and many are secret readers here
finding joy in the gemes and Gewels
the kings and fools...

palatial haunts
the woods I scoured
with dog..Urban
a bridge overpass
a creek...tall grasses
railbed of cresote that
the four fifty four morning
freight in Blackness
rolls through
I used to walk her down
there..we were a spectral
fixture at that time for
awhile...like a character in
a book or play that makes
a showing

half a moon behind the veil
of ghastly mysterious clouds
how I love the lighting at night
an edgy sense to it all

excitement and the primal
fear!

xmas will arrive in its due
time after Halloween
and Remember them day...
Thank U!

author comment
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