April 2007
90 posts
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At 20 I asked:
What is it you hate the most?
I’ll grow to be THAT
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Yet I sell my soul
Each day in the dusty world
Han-shan in the mist
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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My name is Han-shan
In my imagination
Cold Mountain my home
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Yet my whole career
I’ve been a sworn official
Of the Emperor.
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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I’ve learned not to trust
The court system much more than
Local government.
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Now at 62
I want to become myself
At 20 again
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Not to be eaten
Maintain a predator stance
Don’t let on you’re prey
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.”
– William Blake On Doubt
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Sping follows Winter,
Each year blending in a blurr.
Only stories last.
- for renice (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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“These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end, These...”
– Edward Rowland Sill 1841–1887 The Fool’s Prayer
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Sunday evening blues:
Now the weekend is over
How fast it flew by.
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Traditional yard:
Plant corn, beans & squash in mounds
Dead fish in each mound
- for tinfoilraccoon (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Marks on twitter tape
Pixel patterns on ur tubes
We agree are tweets
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Olfactory bliss
Jasmine hot pines honeysuckle
What do the dogs feel?
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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First bloom of jasmine:
The smell a psychoactive
Spinal stimulant
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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“Twitter is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears...”
– After Gustave Flaubert for dlangendorf (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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He returned to sing
Songs of roots America
Deep with human love
Boys I’m Going Home (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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A Humvee jockey
For 15 months in Baghdad
My son lived in dread
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Much like Turing’s Tape
The twitter strip marks on and on
But with no program
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Doc says: “Eat my meds
Each day or you’ll surely die.”
Got me believing.
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Deep Satisfaction!
Heron’s tumblelog set up:
TWITTERKU DOT COM
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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“Better do it fast
Whatever you plan to do.”
Workday morning sex.
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Men don’t mittleschmerz
They pretend to ovulate
To fill empty guts
for renice (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Can’t grock mittelschmerz
Stuck @ tripart gate of [+/?/-]
Far from reaching {—>|
For renice (via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Burst of rain at dawn
Cleared deck of works in progress
Left undone for days
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Monosylables
Only Chinese is richer
Than Anglo-Saxon
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Not toy, not statement
This bike’s how I move on earth
When walking’s too far
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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All day with two dogs
Just a member of the pack
Can’t tell who’s alpha
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Memory is snuffed
Puked but where or what unknown
Anesthesia
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Nothing but Bill’s bitch:
But every XP install
I yearn for Linus
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Though it’s death on trees
Nothing’s more erotic than
Honeysuckle’s smell
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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When you’re unemployed
No one answers your e-mails:
Even your lawyer.
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Worked hard this morning
This afternoon I worked too
But at noon I napped
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Motherboard yanked out
Between two loads of laundry
Eats hard drives alive
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Doing the laundry
Rinse water drains in buckets
Washing machine broke
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Those cats! Hard to tell
If they’re fighting or fucking
From the yowls they make
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Loud rock radio
Carries across the dusk cove:
Shut it off with Bach
(via Twitter / John Hicks)
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Blood red streak at dawn
There’re so many ways to drown
Sailor take warning
— After Alan Furst Blood of Victory
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I will sleep until
(through dog pig cat and bird song)
I want to get up
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At the Blue Cactus
My favorite restaurant
Eating be bim bop
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At Cafe Strudel
He recommends del.icio.us
Young man with nose ring
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“We’re a group of destroyed people infected by idealism.”
– Jose Junior, Grupo Afro Reggae in the movie Favela Rising
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Completely alone
With nothing to hold onto
Is not a problem
— after Pema Chodron
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This Spring’s first osprey
Flying high west towards sunset
Returned from Brazil
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The purple martins
Fly again at Lake Murray
Swift bugs flee in vain
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Not met our sweet pig?
He’s the perfect gentleman
Answers to Hamlet
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This bright day closing
Dogs and cat and pig are fed
Time to get wasted
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Next to the toilet
My black cat sits beside me
Purring his heart out
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How can you be sad,
The monk asked Jack Kerouac,
When you have a cat?
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Last chance to make love
Before she’s gone for five days
We’re not in the mood