optically limited resolution

occupational hazard
the carpools passing
through tunnels
the acres and acres
back behind
the eyes
where you cant see
and just have to believe
after a while
it all starts to seem
glass half full half flail

turbulence

from here to there
on the way to where
the avenues are tortorous
twisted and backwards
inverted and spinning
always spinning the infinite
tendency of traveling by
wheel through water

the threats to freedom

the threateners are threatening
freedom

unabridged desire
o the spirit howling
in the wilderness

like a beaver creasing the water
or an eagle sailing in slow circles
around the sun
bound to no one,
free to eat as much sugar
buy as many guns
shoot as many  bullets whereve wheneve howeve
free to get diabetes
free to be bad
free to be good

freedom is generous portions
its french fries with extra salt
the self determination to wear xxl shirts
its the love of the smell bbq in the summer
and a stack of pancakes at aunt jemimas house
in the winter

its threatened
the right to die of a heart attack alone in a pick up truck
is going to be taken away
its being regulated to death like the dodo birds were
like the sabertooth cat was not allowed to have fangs so long
because its too damn dangerous



they say that we are entering a new age
a new age of mass extinction

but its really a cover up
trying to distract us from recognizing

the extinction of life liberty and the american way

matter

as a solid
I can speak for myself
when I say

yes, I am, I am solid
I am solute
I am stored energy and other carbohydrated stuff

Sometimes I'm rich in iron
Sometimes I'm defficient in sodium

but of all the puzzle
 pieces most are missing

what the dickens

got the noseeums
bad slapping myself like
a man on fire
bugging out behind my knee
tickles up the shin
bitten over and over again
by an over active imagination

as they say
you might be a bit of undigested beef, a a
a boiled potato!

slim pickens

the grill lit
slowly
heating thin bars hot

and I couldn't help
no I couldn't help

but think
what idiot
 decided to put bars so small
that a hamburger cannot be supported
at all

as
I was fed
the fire was fed
scrambled beef
lean pickins

coulomb

the day started
with a bang
a double dutch rumble
the splatters pattering
ricochet down the jungle plants
the dirt slaked thirst
puddle brown blood
deep enough to drown a snail or
two spider webs ripped to shreds

and the night started the same
a reflection of dawn on the other side
of the horizon
black to back to black

the rupture, though,
of a flash, non-directional, green electric light
that color of fear
and the simultaneous crush
and doppler shift

a sneeze

out the window
an exhallation
the sky prespires
and worms come crawling
fast at first
and then faster later
wriggling into a pool
of fresh water with
a dust suspension

an ejection of snot
falling onto a room full
of worms

and do they even notice?  themselves
self conscious as they are not
always covered in a self-slime
 

duck weed, murk, mud, rock bottom

straight out the swamp
what more can you want?
black hot mud
flies harmonic
trying to find blood
the breeze stirred
by red wings
from pine to pine
sun baked sticks
bleached bones
frogs floating alone

lost an edge

my hips are permanent
and the bruises on either side
there for years now
show the spot
where the femur balls up

the ice is solid
and cold too
but I can only say how
hard it is for sure

stick it up mister

do that
I wouldn't do that
but that

hands on your hat

take the meat off the fat

villanous haze

whats above a haze
or bellow
the view from a hot air balloon

a boiled pear loom
weaving mushy fruit fabrics
steaming sticky stacky the most unpleasent
shirt to put pon your backy

pitch pine black

The trend can also be read that
as the temperature differential increases,
 the residual is increasing.  

the residue of a life unlived
its
like the skin of a raisin
really, its just all thats left of a grape

a grape that was something else
and now is a reason to believe
in the skin within a skin

digitus humongous

its four in the morning
get the hammer
start hammering
hit your thumb

hit it again
make it bigger than a toe

watch the blood curdle
and fill a pool
deep enough for a cuttle fish
to swim through
but just barely.

x

trackless trucking
this here brick frozen in Minneapolis
bound for a different minnessota
than the one always loved.
over two bridges and halfway acrossst
a 4ourth
At the break of day the wheels turned into
yogurt and dozens of roadrunners perished.
an hour later, the oil pressure tap read
mullberries and marry-me-good lilly buds.

xii

I seen a train
sixteen miles long
I run that train
sixteen lunches long

long lunches
keep on coming down
cmon baby
you know Ise aint breaking the
law

tuesday the thirteenth

guess whos coming to dinner
not a dreadnaught
a draught of thought
missing pieces puzzle problems
deepen still sleeping

listen to your heart beaten
bleading in bleading out
breathing brief bulletins

its that time of day
the dead watch is telling time

blues is the mutter

whether its better to stand
hands in pockets under
the yellow lamplight corner
drifting lazy mothlike drunk
off the heat the cement secreted
sweating a haze of the air
humid as the breath
human expelled
 the sun so red the fans slowed down
melting into the icecream cone
mirage horizon

just let it rain
let it pour

summer_started

flitting through filtered rays
the days are getting shorter
but sweeter and hotter
as though dipped in butter
muted soft miles and miles
of sky high
balancing black silhouettes
that chirpple and chase eachother
aimlessly endlessly
flashing silver now and then
ultra high momentarily visible

its a wonder the cottonwoods
need to be so tall
since the fluff is not heavey at all

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ALMOST EVERYWHERE
REFUSING TO ISSUE
RATHER GO TO JAIL

the fourth

the fourth year
was a state
of independence

and now
approximately 26.732 years
if we count by three fifths fractions of years
since , round off error compromised?

its a state of states
a peculiar brand of faces
some smiling some
some dying some lying
some trying to make a plate
of gold out of fools

and can we really be blamed?
try blaming the water for being wavey
or the sky for being windy
these places are vast and indeterminate
as the american people are dissolute yet
all fluid at the same time
that defines us and binds us by our intrinsic
properties not our person place or thing
a country of jeopardy categories
scattered
answers
lacking
questions

the many headed hydra

the luck of the draw
to be born on a planet
that doesn't rain alcohol
or some sort uric acid
and instead evaporates a denatured
state of two pairs hydrogen
one atom oxygen
a particular blend
that is good for everything