sunday breakfast

draw us in that escape, brother!
if the entire thing fuckin' all of a sudden collapsed, first:
throw remaining joint in mouth,
throw ice coffee through window into bedroom
dive through window into bedroom  or
if too late, brace yrself tight against the iron
for use as rollcage, aim for minivan roof across the street

tanks for saving my liiife

what new finds at the bottom of the sink screen
I was there, without my father, he,
who was chewing on the two
Oscars   I raised, I cleaned
rocks found on the side of the blvd
to set them at a natural angle.
One day in my uncle's, perhaps 75 gal,
I found a young albino
Cichlid, pale pink
laying at the very bottom
on the multicolored gravel
struggle struggled to take water
I plucked him out of the tank
gently pried open his mouth with my nail
and saw a bright orange pebble caught inside

'a' or chinee foo

Yeh I feel like we all trim
that stanza like a bonsai
take out the 'a' and say
while stroking beard
and holding birdcage

a place!

Ready to rock
steady de kane,
home with
arthritis African
Rift the new moon,
she making positive funs
of me, the essay
set forth the technical
                                    principles
that composition by smell of pork
and rhyme schemes

as the modern stave, I haven't
yet purchased the breath
form is ever
from the inside out, returning Onion
to its Pepper

Beauty simply destroy me
in setting, city, lamb,
where the rest of
us could not be seen

awaiting a land lord's reply
pink and sprinkled
with money

to Stir,
with Love

The Schuylkill (The New Pastoral 1871)

The Schuylkill,
Its green banks
Faire Mount
Lifted as
The height
Pours, from
The stream
Here, stranger
Which knew
Here trod

Lenni Lenape Indians
called it 'Ganshewchanna'
meaning 'Noisy Stream'.
They made Penn a small canoe,
a light birchen, quietly
propelling him.

He claimed in a letter
to the Society of Friends
that the river be 'hundred
miles boatable.'

    I flew my silken pennants down the river and found myself often thirsty and at times, bored.
   

Old Vinegar (or Old Vineyard's Folly)

a well for every heart & house
a well for my eye
though my heart is upon
some spirit drive me
more than a cen-
tury

up from Pennsylvania

Ball

Ball from an outgrowth of cricket
some ways of heaven unnecessary
 -- la di da di
I am a man of superior virtue because
I  am not virtuous
-- likes to party
as a passenger, as a landlubber,
being raised from youth to man
from the reputation of this man ( my father
early on with the name, yik, or ten to the eighth

there is a legend that prevails at Lovers' Leap
of an Indian Chief's daughter promised to a warrier
who outran all other participants in a contest.
Yet an elder warrier triumphed through the guile,
and so our lovers leapt to their deaths on the rocks below
from the highest spot on the Wissahickon

To be continuously poor is to be keen
on all instruments, knowing
my limit, my skills
seem awkward
but I got the rhythm.

what are your memories about The Simpsons?

A st., gramps chillin' all afternoon with a friend, the dad

of my childhood friend. he had some sort of  

 what

   disease

affected bone structure, however

which stood him at something around four feet

with an unfortunate humpback appearance

he had smiling dark eyes.

I hesitated too often as a child

I grew taller than him eventually,

a kind man w/ whom I was too

shy to ask

grandpa on the porch,
chillin', smokin', chattin'

a single marble I sneaked

clacked as I rose from my crouch

caught in the act

grandpa smokin',
sayin' somethin'

wrapping
myself in the fuzzy 

comforter

in a cot w/ the AC

never having an answer

to his question

my lease is up in july

put yr herbie hancock down on paper
if you look out front you'll see the houses that
converge on passyunk have interestingly shaped yards
from my window the line of 13th gives it quite the perspective
the windows never meet, think still, euclidian geometry
had plans to drink and smoke and fool around with the I Ching
but was never one for divination, just got sleepy.

news!

super telecom services speeds me audience
from France, China, Ukraine, and Russia (just the one,
now and again) 40 x faster
just the last month I blazed
past all of the previous year
in poems and paychex

floods in Sao Paolo spur advances in absorbent asphalt

haircut quyen

the best part of getting a haircut
is the several hours into that evening
having a cigarette on my stoop
and when the wind hits me
remembering that i got a haircut

giving up spirits

All my fucking loves
trample the grass in my mind
don't talk about my hut
I'll go have a boy night
and give up poetry
They strike me as affable but ah
seems I am a know-nothing mass

riches!

what is a doorbuster
really, my god, dave was so
upset when he lost his mcdonald's
coupons

she got the appointment
grows out, gets thick and square
empties out my home

a hundred percent of those girls
just want to marry a prince
wait til they find out
he's poor!

hobby

My new hobby is to draw products from The Simpsons,
cut them out and paste them around my monitor at work.
So far I have (on my own monitor, excluding ones I made for others):
Krusty's sweatshirt that reads 'I GOT SMASHED AT WIMBLEDON',
box of Grade F Meat (ingredients: mostly circus animals, some filler),
steel drum of Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel,
Disemboweler IV video game cartridge,
and shrunken head w/ tag:
20% Rayon, 80% Shrunken Head.