I should be sleeping
Squirrel taps the fence
calls for more sunflower seeds
Dizzie Gillespie and Joan of Arc wing
through invisible curtains
...exhale on
fall, puff and click
Break and bleed
Asphalt in the coffee cup
I dive into the aquarium
Read poetry to the sharks
You blow your nose
into a roll of toiletpaper
Trilobites
and white fungus
Sugar snap peas!
Otters, tamarind and other legumes
Wake up, Goddammit!
The congregation
kneels
at the edge of
the great chasm
between blood
and intellectual feasibility
A boy walks his spotted dog down by the
creek
How did transparency get so complicated?
If we’re opposed to the war
then we should stop the war
Mall culture
Fix-a-leak
Wireless amelioration
Scorpion on the sink
Finally it’s afternoon
Stomach empty
Yogurt beaten senseless by antibiotic
There’s no better cure for greed than
starvation
What do you
believe in?
Roses aren’t necessarily red, yellow, white
There’s lilac and orange sherbert
Foxglove
Glowworms
Red Ribbons
I discover something permanent
But don’t know what to do with it
Blue butterflies crowd around bell pepper
and tomato plant
The neighbor washes bird poop off his car
Who’s your
daddy?
“Mother Nature.
. .”
Redwoods, madrone, oak
and a telephone pole
I look for an answer to life
in Bob Kaufman’s “Cranial Guitar”
Doodles
The TV inspires fear and paranoia
Corporations own the key to our salvation
Own the bombs and communication
Own the oil
Doodling makes me forget myself
I move the living rock, lithops, into the shade
There are two varieties with different care
needs
trying to survive in the same clay pot
I’m looking for an ecological compromise
Doodling inspires diplomacy
but doesn’t require it
I like to draw little lines
“Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping”
Pesty jays and crows caw and caw
Sneeze
Sniff
Cough
Sniff
Where can I get a salad for lunch?
In market places, bus stops,
funerals on any corner of the world
Prices rise and we’re better off for it
A purple petunia blossoms from a skull.
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