Friendship

[stilltrucking]

“In the spiritual and political loneliness of America of the fifties you'd hitch a thousand miles to meet a friend,” Genesis Angels

[still.trucking]

in the decadence and desolation of the twenty-first century not so much
except click your heels together and you can see and hear and read all the friends you need with a click of a mouse
even so
abominations abound on the net
what is it like to be young these days
what does that look like?
my perceptions are filtered by the media
mind massage by the electromagnetic womb
I see I know I think I buy what I am
the rugged individualist




don't mind me I am high on the real thing
"a powerful gasoline™ containing" tetra-ethyl lead
"and a shoeshine."

hang in there young republicans of Texas
keep cool with Coolidge

[mtmynd]

the climate of the 21st century
began as a curious and outcast idea
that is slowly giving birth to the New,
aglow in a light made of l.e.d.'s cool
to the touch but comfortable with
the beat of promises just beyond
the horizon whispering imaginings
of tomorrows that make today dull...

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catahoogah! the terror of the mind
undefined but seriously within it
knows no cure for our talking disease

[stilltrucking]

the climate in Texas is not for sissies
but the winters are kind in san antone
I think I got aspergers but I am also a hypochondriac

71°today at 5 PM
was hoping for the wind to lay down but daylight is beginning to fade
got to ride to live
going to try and catch the wind on my bike
here we are with that ribbon of highway between us
sometimes I feel like I can look down that road all the way to L.A.

immortality
I call it tomorrow
the nightmares are for tonight
today is a gift

Lew Welch had a lot of friends
it was an art form with him
been a long time since litkicks amigo
twelve years on the net is a lifetime in dog years
thank you for being a cyber pal

[silent woman]

'friends-are-god-s-way-of-apologizing-for your family'


many delusions and illusions ago
when the sun rotated around the earth
I was
a want -to -be -beatnik
I wanted to be Jack

now I am old
almost as old as Old St. Jack Kerouac when he died.
I have outlived him by over a quarter of a century
and all I have done with my time is scribble on a couple of social network sites.

oh well

when I try to chat with you, I keep in mind that you have known me a long time and you are aware that I don't know jack shit about Zen.

RE: disease to talk

a disease called man

Zen saints if there are such things that is my opinion of Jack Kerouac he is my patron Zen saint of my nightmares with people.
I try to have more compassion for people who say common place things
I am getting old and cantankerous It hurts my eyes when that blue that light pops in my eyes constantly.

It is a young man's game. He got old so young. He was older than me when he died, and I am seventy-four years young.

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

we be just a popin away over here in the valley
not much mellow with the family these days

[mtmynd]

60F here in Phar Lepht, at 16:37 hrs... but the air seems cool and so I put on my sweatshirt and play out the rest of the day...

good to hear you are stilltruckin' even if it is on a bike. here we have to drive muy defensively, there are so many bad drivers who either can't see others or think the right of way is theirs no matter what. hope it's better in SA, (552 miles from ELP which google claims is about 7.5 hrs, not including pit stops. Austin normally took us about 8-9 hrs depending on pit stops and traffic).

FaceBook eats up my time, needlessly, I might add... but it's another way of talkin'. Lot's of oldtimers hang around there) Also post lots of my LK oldies on Arcanum Cafe (mtmynd) where Doreen and "mnaz" hang around talkin'... other than that life is moving faster than a west Texas wind and not much to show. SooZen and I had our 41st anniversary yesterday. That is difficult to believe, believe me. But all is cool, Nathan is down with a long streak of gout in his left knee, unable to walk... but he's doing alright despite the disability.

You recently had another birthday, if I'm not mistaken... November? 72-73? keep goin', keep truckin' until health says otherwise.

[tarbaby]

I am not that healthy but I am pure.

I ran across there a million miles
San Antone to L.A. it was my easy money run
24 hours about 1300 miles I think
and that was on bubble gum coffee and hill billy music never could do the hard stuff

581 in texas
164 in new mexico
391 in Arizona
210 in California

[still.trucking]

"I wasn't born this way
I was born innocent and trusting"


I got to ask—
Are you a bot?

in you are not
please pardon my asking

old friends are golden
new friends are silver
friendship practically a religion for me.