follow the yellow brick road

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follow the yellow brick road

Post by stilltrucking » March 17th, 2017, 10:43 pm

mingo wrote
the same way I'm forgiving of the politics of most of my fellow citizens.
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yep
me too
or at least I am trying to


Thinking about a scene in the Dharma Bums the old ranger and Kerouac talking about Gary Snyder. The ranger said something like where ever he goes whatever he does he will have a good time doing it.

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Post by the mingo » March 18th, 2017, 8:29 am

~ 8) ~
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.

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Re: follow the yellow brick road

Post by WIREMAN » March 18th, 2017, 10:29 am

Gary is still doin it 86 years on...... 8)
me I feel like I'm becoming some kinda Kung fu t.v. Priest.....

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Re: follow the yellow brick road

Post by stilltrucking » March 19th, 2017, 12:44 am

thinking a lot of clay these days
miss his commentary on politics and poetry
while looking around in the studio eight memorial garden for something to read
I found this gem


Walking on Water

Postby jbrianlong » Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:27 am
I spend the change of my days
in the slick car bays, down hard
in the rust of the seeps.

But the gaskets I slap
neath the hood of the Dodge
drip drips to the lip of the pan,

and the pipe-sleeves I pin
to the cracks in the chassis
slip slack against the rack
where it’s split.

Nothing holds. All I touch

either weeps or it bleeds;

stops pop, gush sludge

at the brush of a wrist.

But then she plops in my lap,
damps a kiss at my neck, leaks
all this work with my hands
makes her wet; O,

she is sail, she is lee,
she is naiad and anemone;
in the cup of her hand
and the cleft of her breath

drift the low dream-sounds
of the sea. Let the o-rings
plip, let the petcocks spit,
let the pipes hiss grey
water snakes down the drain;

she treads the troughs and the scends,
waves a lull over the main;
she is Christ to my faith in me.

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