JAM HERE! The Annual Spring Equinox Poetry Jam

[WIREMAN]

there comes a time when,
it's not like ur throwing
in the towel or anything
like that per se,
but a realization hits
that there's only so much
time left in this existence
at 62 how many good ones
are on the horizon
you can fight it or you
can proceed and accept
maybe this jam thing ran
it's course or perhaps
it's in a lull, not my call
the stats from earlier jams
show it's down by at least half
in the way of responses
jam is like life, and in it's living
incarnation it will have it's
ups and downs, someday it will
cease to be, like sinatra sang,
"That's life!"

these are my observations, please read them carefully, they are not meant to be negative in any way, shape, or form.....

[judih]

time is relative
my time is impossible
wish we could talk

[Doreen Peri]

OK. It is finished.
I got crucified last night.
Well, they tried, but they
couldn't kill me yet.
I'm still alive, sort of,
fighting for survival.
I await the arrival
of an apology which
will never happen.
Perhaps, if the crucifixion
is a success, I'll rest
for a while and then
be reborn from the tomb
through someone else's womb.
I could use starting all over.
Then again, who would want
to experience the suffering
once more? I hate to bore you
with this, but life has, for the most part
been a huge disappointment.
Please email me some holy ointment
so I can baptize myself in it.

[WIREMAN]

jam into easter
like the way
buddha just laid
down and died
with his disciples
at his side
but its easter

"he is risen!"
my mother in law
used to say
always surprised me
1st time she said it
thought she was talkin
bout the easter bunny

1st memories of mine
are being in a suit
in 1956 and standing on
a high wall in cincinnati, oh.
mom was pregnant and in
a big straw hat
easter jammin'

[judih]

sugar eggs
sweet as promises
disguised as a game

[the mingo]

hey no school I'm at the window
testicle no flowers there too
you can office now top tailors are the camera
yeah I know & when I took the dogs out of it ...

pay no attention to
that last message man and
see we're talking adding realize
the phone or at ill at,
nope, attention to that previous message
either did you so sensitive
the diet iowa have to keep going back
... you're getting rather high cool
in your methods of communication -

( i'm just a high cool kind of guy )

to second oh my god
nope...it's all high cool now -

o my god no no i don't think
we could eat that way. Deficit two chairs
and two of my way -
that needs to be cleaned just do this
way ahead of us - baby come back here
aww man that's not as now
clean up the kitchen -

I've had that same thought twice -

twice well if I you got tomorrow off
and I'm getting on the bike shop
why when where the other yeah who's
the dick?
i think I'm the dick.

Yes I'm off tomorrow and yes I'm
going to go jump on a bike too...
at least I think that's what you just said...
more or less -

[WIREMAN]

ugh...visitors
comin in morn
lookin at art
here
rock n roll night
cd release jam party
good times
my kitchens been
buried goin on
8 years ...serious no bs

[the mingo]

my kitchen fairly shipshape
this morning but not now
bike parts all over the place
table, floor
you name it -
finish tomorrow -
this after-market bike accessory business
slick and sly & a moneymaker for some
shit -
fashion & fad dictate how bikes are sold
not necessity -
bikes used to come standard with fenders & kickstand
& sometimes lights built right into the frame
those days long gone
long long gone -
standard - something no one understands
or even demands much less expects anymore

Mr. Schwinn, where have you gone?

I'm adding the necessities myself these days
it's a dangerous thing to let
any man or woman understand
that the necessities are up to them to straighten out
dangerous indeed -

[Doreen Peri]

.
Oh. My. Diedonnacross GAWD!
I had more fun than humanly possible
celebrating the death of OUR LORD
who ART in all heathens,
I cannot even begin to describe it?
I'll put it this way, I survived it
and all those younguns ain't heard
nothin' yet 'til I grab that mike.

I''m coming to the end of wholy weak.
I'm getting ready to rise to the occasion!

[WIREMAN]

hide the eggs
bonnets
shirt and tie
these memories
chocolate & belly aches
mom was a catholic
beat by the nuns
they ran me outta
catechism so many
times i cant remember
always did love the latin mass
dad started gettin a little
religious near the end
said better to be safe than sorry
im still waitin for a sign

[WIREMAN]

heading to knife store
get a key made
hopin its open
on this hippity
hoppin holiday
there's poetry in
this....somewhere....

[Doreen Peri]

.
I woke up before
Christ exited the tomb.
After he got out, he stopped by
for breakfast. We had eggs.
Easter eggs. I asked him about the
symbolism of the egg and what it has
to do with him. He said, "It has nothing
to do with me. Got any orange juice?"

[WIREMAN]

oj & vodka
brunch
ragun cajun omlette
kids playin golf
skills contest
on the screen
me perousing the net
low volume at the bar
= not too many people
knife store closed
by the way
doin wash
wrappin wire
jeff buckley on the tunes
on the lookout for jammers:)

[Doreen Peri]

.
no more alcohol in the house
have to drink the lemonade straight
....ahhh... but i've been resurrected, reborn,
ain't that great?

three cheers for omelettes.
easter egg delights, not hard boiled,
much more light

hope you had some cheese in it

[WIREMAN]

laid back
there was cheese
no toast
no jam
nice short weekend
sleep time