yesterday's news

[constantine]

death takes the fun out of life
sometimes, i don't even shave
tortured by anxiety, waylaid
by the encroaching inevitable
death takes the fun out of life
and there's nothing you can do about it
you can write the iliad - the odyssey
and rail against the the coming of the night
but it arrives like yesterday's news
and there's nothing you can do about it
death takes the fun out of life

[stilltrucking]

I have heard yesterdays news tomorrow
when today will be yesterday

Henry Miller said it leaves no choice but to live in the moment.
I don't know why your poem cheered me up
nothing I can do it about but live in the moment

nice poem Constantine
you never wrote a bad poem
I think I have read most of them so I don't guess it is a lucky streak
I mean how long can you keep batting a thousand

thanks for writing

[constantine]

i really should shave. i like henry miller - some of his passages when he gets in the poetic flow are really beautiful. i'm glad it made you smile - i didn't intend it to be depressing though i can see where it might. comedy - tragedy, they're really the same creature.

[constantine]

wish i had one of those chocolate bunnies; it's not the same if you buy it for yourself. but what the hell - i do want one regardless. a good quality one though - not that waxy shit. imported from belgium, italy, or perhaps argentina.

[still.trucking]

I like the new avatar
do you remember Sal Mineo?

I thought he was cool. I wonder how he is doing, has he got yesterdays news yet I wonder.

No chocolate bunnies this year but I like tom waits chocolate jesus a lot.

This is probably not germane, but I am reminded of a quote from Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws

Good poem dino another little gem
or did I already mention that.

[stilltrucking]

Lordy, speaking of yesterday's news Sal Mineo died in 1976

I read on his wicki obit that he was the inspiration for this painting

image source
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/coll ... ct=2005.35

[constantine]

watching the patty duke show - can't figure out who i like more - cathy or patty? i fluctuate - back and forth. it's rather unsettling. i'd like to go to new york and hit the museums. killer painting - the installation- utilizing the corner was a hip idea.

[constantine]

always liked mineo - he played in dino - the movie. of course, i liked him in rebel without a cause as plato - which i guess is his signature role

[still.trucking]

I sent you the deleted post in a private message

That is the first post I have deleted in months dino
I hope can let me slide on that one

I know more about Jack Kerouac's private affairs than I want to.

I got more to say about that but it will have to wait till I change sock puppets.

You are not rich and famous I don't understand that
you write these little poems that I think are bloody fucking brilliant
but you are not rich and famous although you do have 160 friends on facebook
I suppose that is because you would rather be thin than famous.

I was going to log back in as one of those jerks cause i wanted to riff on the tagline but I can't remember what it was or why

sorry about the private message dino
I dread those things

I did not know what a horror story the yellow press made of his death, I was just wondering if he was still alive and how he had aged.

I used to look like him too.
in my younger days

[constantine]

no problem, jack and thank you for those kind words. notoriety used to be important to me - i really wanted to be known as a poet, but then i see poets that are well known, and, for most, i can't fathom why. i think you really have to promote yourself, or have an in, or just blind luck - i don't know. i would just like to be satisfied with my efforts - to really feel like i hit it on the nose. but beyond that, life is so fleeting - and when the light goes out, will it matter if you're famous or in the library for posterity? still though, it would be nice to go out knowing your work will be remembered - it would be satisfying - until the light goes out. i've become a fatalist; maybe i'll shake it off.

[still.trucking]

"the worm at the core of human awareness is death"
The Denial of Death

Sometimes I wonder if the worm at the core of consciousness is boredom and loneliness.

What do we know about death, we can only speak in mataphors, when the light goes out of us. Where to next?
Cosmological Dark Flow

Why I am not a sadist
by stilltrucking » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:21 pm

Neuro Theology one oh one

a deeper shade of black
the worm at the core
of consciousness

don't drink the kool aid
least you should perish
from the truth.

Your poems are light and easy
but there is something else
deeper and darker to think about

Lonely is
something I hardly think about
but I guess I must be
lonely too
except for when I am writing or reading



thanks for writing Constantine

[SadLuckDame]

Make a million bucks, mr. u.
It's good grit heart.