there's someone singing nearby, but it's loud and tuneless. However one appreciates the effort.
My brother gets drunk, then becomes sentimental, then calls me and wants me to go up in the desert and shoot his guns with him.
Also we end up talking about what we did when we were kids. A lot of running around in the woods, diving into the ocean, catching...
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My brother gets drunk, then becomes sentimental, then calls me and wants me to go up in the desert and shoot his guns with him.
Also we end up talking about what we did when we were kids. A lot of running around in the woods, diving into the ocean, catching...
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gogobongo:
Johnny, re: suzy_kabloozy comment. The peel and iron t-shirt tranfers are good but you have to make sure they are the ones for dark shirts where you peel off the print and iron it onto the shirt. The peel off the shirt kind don't work worth a damn. Even on white shirts get the ones for dark shirts. You don't have to flip the image or anything. Then just wash them inside out in cold and they should last two years or so. They will fade and some will crackle but that makes it look cooler... up to a point. hope that helps. oh, you can get them at micro center or any computer store.
Okay, the poem below is kind of melancholy. it creeps up on me sometimes.
But I'm really happy at the moment. I love everything, even the night train passing on 21st street and the Carolina bbq pork sandwich I had for a late snack.
Make me a waterway
enough to float on, and I'm gone
like an earthquake
not felt
until over.
In my imagination...
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But I'm really happy at the moment. I love everything, even the night train passing on 21st street and the Carolina bbq pork sandwich I had for a late snack.
Make me a waterway
enough to float on, and I'm gone
like an earthquake
not felt
until over.
In my imagination...
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suzy_kabloozy:
So what type of shirts do you make? Well, I know what you said, but can you give me an example? 
In my current mood and devil-may-care attitude, I would probably just pick up and move to rural Washington. But I'm not sure you should listen to me ... I have had a lot of fun, but not much success, so it depends on what you're into.
While I am going up north in just 2 short weeks, I'm not sure if I'm going through Sacramento. I'm not sure I'm not either, to tell you the truth. I just don't even know how you drive up the entire state of California, having never done it before. The furthest I made it north previously was the American River, and a town called Colfax. That was, however, almost 28 years ago.
The coast has so many wonderful sites and while I don't have an itinerary, I would probably vote to visit Marin County or at least have a drive through ... one of my best memories in life involves me driving through the Presidio in San Francisco, in a rented convertible with my 22 year old son, who was then only 5 years old. We had the music on really loud, the Beatles first album, and I sang lead (badly) while Steve sang harmony. It was really amazing that he could pick out the harmony part at 5 but I guess that should have been my first clue about his musical talent.
Thanks for having me over for a visit ... I realize once again, even describing what I have never done, that I did lead a very charmed life. For that I am grateful.
Have a good evening!
In my current mood and devil-may-care attitude, I would probably just pick up and move to rural Washington. But I'm not sure you should listen to me ... I have had a lot of fun, but not much success, so it depends on what you're into.
While I am going up north in just 2 short weeks, I'm not sure if I'm going through Sacramento. I'm not sure I'm not either, to tell you the truth. I just don't even know how you drive up the entire state of California, having never done it before. The furthest I made it north previously was the American River, and a town called Colfax. That was, however, almost 28 years ago.
The coast has so many wonderful sites and while I don't have an itinerary, I would probably vote to visit Marin County or at least have a drive through ... one of my best memories in life involves me driving through the Presidio in San Francisco, in a rented convertible with my 22 year old son, who was then only 5 years old. We had the music on really loud, the Beatles first album, and I sang lead (badly) while Steve sang harmony. It was really amazing that he could pick out the harmony part at 5 but I guess that should have been my first clue about his musical talent.
Thanks for having me over for a visit ... I realize once again, even describing what I have never done, that I did lead a very charmed life. For that I am grateful.
Have a good evening!
I've been remembering the first time I sold a poem to a national journal. I was euphoric at the time and expected to make myself a career out of writing. I was a mere stripling of 30 at the time, and had aleady been publishing poems and stories in the local press for a while, most of them couresy of a sainted editor from Mendocino...
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My Dad used to wake me up when it was warm in my little bed and frosty out of it, from my prepubescent a nd pubescent dreams into the harsh light of the kitchen, where he would stuff me full of bacon and eggs, and lead me off down the hill, in the darkness, either wet or frozen, to stand on a riverbank at daylight...
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aeryn:
Wow beautiful.
lolablu:
You have the most beautiful prose.
I'm pretty much disgusted with everything right now, myself most of all.
However I did get to see the little Sac poetry rag with a bunch of my poems in it.
They're not all that bad.
I wish I cared.
However I did get to see the little Sac poetry rag with a bunch of my poems in it.
They're not all that bad.
I wish I cared.
Let's take it for granted that all artists have stupendous egos. the thing that distinguishes the tolerable from the intolerable, then, is whether they can practice their art in without their ego crushing their intended audience.
Those are my thoughts today after my friend Bari met me outside the apartment. His book just came out, and it has its moments of grace, but is weighted...
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Those are my thoughts today after my friend Bari met me outside the apartment. His book just came out, and it has its moments of grace, but is weighted...
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Does anyone have a woodpile I can split up into firewood for them? I'll do it for beer,
You can just sit in the shade and watch.
I promise not to say anything, just swing the axe.
I would go as far as 500 miles for the privilege. Just let me know.
You can just sit in the shade and watch.
I promise not to say anything, just swing the axe.
I would go as far as 500 miles for the privilege. Just let me know.
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I'd say yes but also have the distinct impression that watching someone repeatedly swing an ax would scare the shit out of me, Amityville style.
Btw, I can't gauge sarcasm or faux-emotion on the Internet, so I never, never thought that anything about whatever relationship we've established was overtly sexual or that you were trying to make it that way (though I do believe sexuality tends to develop naturally between two people as they grow to care for each other as humans tend to do).
I'm doing acid tonight! I hope you're proud.
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Btw, I can't gauge sarcasm or faux-emotion on the Internet, so I never, never thought that anything about whatever relationship we've established was overtly sexual or that you were trying to make it that way (though I do believe sexuality tends to develop naturally between two people as they grow to care for each other as humans tend to do).
I'm doing acid tonight! I hope you're proud.
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tadzi:
funny, i actually enjoy doing this too.
Flowers spin through me
(last night you said I was dangerous)
today a crow stopped to caw
"everything is delicate just now"
later it will all harden
(because you might want me)
but you said 'don't wait,
don't wait for me
I'll call.' Because you don't know
what you want right now
maybe just a little voice
and later a smile
but that's all.
Rose...
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(last night you said I was dangerous)
today a crow stopped to caw
"everything is delicate just now"
later it will all harden
(because you might want me)
but you said 'don't wait,
don't wait for me
I'll call.' Because you don't know
what you want right now
maybe just a little voice
and later a smile
but that's all.
Rose...
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I think it's quite peculiar that I walk to a cafe to sit with a lot of other people who are all crouched over laptops engaging in wireless communication. In one sense we are more isolated than ever before, since none of us talk to each other or even acknowledge each other's presence. yet all of us are making some effort to either communicate or...
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When I Saw Bigfoot
I was lost, or, as I like to think of it, temporarily disoriented. I had spent the day isolated on a wet hillside near a swiftly flowing river. There was a bluff of a hundred feet or so at the edge of the woods, which were about half doug fir and half tanoak, with large patches of rhododendron and huckleberry close...
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I was lost, or, as I like to think of it, temporarily disoriented. I had spent the day isolated on a wet hillside near a swiftly flowing river. There was a bluff of a hundred feet or so at the edge of the woods, which were about half doug fir and half tanoak, with large patches of rhododendron and huckleberry close...
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lolablu:
Wow. A benevolent Bigfoot. That's so cool.
I see fairies with some frequency, and I also see the Celtic Green Man. I tell people these things without worrying as much as I probably should.
I see fairies with some frequency, and I also see the Celtic Green Man. I tell people these things without worrying as much as I probably should.