Tuesday, August 17, 2010

On A Roof 1967

First heard Sgt. Peppers…first time stoned…
on a roof with my friend, Bill the God,
throwing firecrackers into the street
to see what the cars do…so easily distracted,
those cars….funny…maybe we can change
the world…

Bill the God is dead….suicide…we didn’t
change the world so’s you’d know it…
and, as Dennis Hopper said, just before he
died: ”It’s like the Sixties never happened.”

We could see it that night…the future…
maybe we were seeing a more distant time.
We’ll get there…dead or alive…we saw it.
A vision like that you don’t see all at once.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Vision Of Katya

Friday, the thirteenth, August, 2010, 7 P.M. Tepoztlan…
vision of Katya…her smiling face in front of me…she’s
still here now, in fact.

She’s wearing a light red dress….not pink…pastel red….
long sleeves….slightly puffy…she’s relaxed and smiling.

I talk to her, but I think she’s here for the Indian music I’m
listening to right now…yes…I think that’s it.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Incoming: A Prayer

Oh what, oh what? Oh Incoming!
That makes me fall down in abject
Submissiveness? I don’t even know
What I’m afraid of…but I know
Something is coming in…I know!
Go over that way a little…give me
A break…Oh! Incoming!…forget
About me in your fist of perfect
Indifference…let me go on for a
While after you have arrived!

Keith Dowman: Dr. No

Keith Dowman, Dr. No…
neither accepts nor rejects…
enjoys his food and wine…
all the while in no land…
the land of Dr. No…..
anyone is welcome…
if you can let it dig itself…
turn your dark light off…
turn your love light on…
whatever you think Is part
of the music of the phenomenal
world….your senses… no need
to pay too much attention…
it’s a big joke that is sometimes
funny, sometimes not….the big No.

Tintin In Limbo

Tintin in limbo....

...there is only "Tin"...

...no echo.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Sleep

The twelve hours or more a day that I’m awake
are….like…”Oh, what, this again?’
…not that there’s anything wrong with your world,
it’s just that I’ve had about enough of it…I got it figured
out and it’s way overrated, albeit, ( I always love it when I have
a chance to use that word) there is some fantastic
beauty and fun to be had….but the good
thing about not postponing gratification is that if you get
enough of it, you don’t want
it anymore…which is the privileged position I find myself in.

Sleep is interesting….I get more useful information
from my subconscious…if that’swhat you want to call it…
than from CNN. And it coincides with what the old song
says: “Life is but a dream”….the Buddhists know better
what I’m talking about.

People don’t talk to themselves normally…they only talk
to others and have nothing to say…meanwhile, the internal
monologue is incessant, and they keep the T.V. on…
I talk out loud all the time…I call it: “rehearsal”….in case
I had to have that conversation with somebody in the future…
in case I suddenly become a comedian, or, accidentally,
have an orgasm…

Same as “to be or not to be”….that IS the question…well…
we probably haven’t BEEN much time in relation to eternity…
even less as human….so…what to do with this? I think, the
first thing that happens when you hit the drop zone is to get your
bearings….in my case, that took over twenty years. Everyone was
telling me what to do,but I didn’t listen to them, because I knew
they were stupid….it was almost a plant like
discovery of how to get your leaves out there into the sun…

So, now, having life under my belt, I enjoy sleeping because
it’s like the transition between life and death…my new hobby.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Seizure

I had a seizure for about thirty years…
it was called plumbing…
it turned me into a temporary maniac
for about thirty years, or, one could say
it made me realize my maniac potential…
…isn’t it good to realize one’s potential?
Dr. Jekyll might be proud….

my career was a helpful seizure…
my hobby was saving the world…
now I’m reduced to poetry…
dead man's curve.

Smart People

Where are all the smart people…
the one’s who can see a crock?
Where are the one’s that know
what’s going on..all trying to grab
a piece of the life raft before the ship
sinks? That stinks….I don’t think so…
No…we’re out there outlaws as usual …
No one else knows life is still worth
living.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

To All The Women

As a sampling…
all I’ve loved…
I place you all
on the highest
pedestal…you all
taught me so much
to not be shy or afraid…
that life was just life…
that the beauty of
intimate love was not
a myth…you all are
my muse with different
faces…the best that life
has to offer.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Where The Street Ends

It ends when I close the gate
When I enter the coffee house
Or, another friend’s house
It ends when I’m in a field of corn
When I arrive at the top of a mountain
When I lie in bed and let the dark and rain
Bathe me in it’s kindness
When my boss tells me “We don’t need
you anymore.”
When I gave up all allegiances to
institutions…when I realized I knew
the truth. The street ends...
the path goes on forever.