perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[the mingo]

dusting of snow on my jam
my house the clutter-farm
jumbled head
jammed mind
if i lived in egypt
i'd want to get out of there
buttered crackers dipped in honey
began my day
had to do it because the dreams
i came from last night
attacked me with a whole host
of modified adverbs
it was buddha swordville right & left
i danced a jam over their fallen bodies
then called the garbage guys
man i didn't realize DC was as flat as that!
Mongolia-of-the-mind-rules!

[WIREMAN]

It's a pic from Foggy Bottom
My ancestral home
GW university, on the roof now
Kinda hilly around the Potomac basin
Not like up here in Fredrock
Like these jams
U b rolling
Little stories in each line
Thought flashes
Jam nations
Sticky for sure
Brunch now
Noisy in here
Low 40's outside
Vacation pay in my pocket
Like a rocket I wanna spend it
Hard to concentrate here
I'll be back

[WIREMAN]

Quiet now
Hum of fan
Reading Ko Un
Feel the chill
Even w/heat blaring
Feel like a movie
Big Sur on amazon?
Lincoln was interesting
Slightly surreal
One Bloody Mary knocked me.....out
Sitting on top of the world
Bright lights big city
Went to my babies head
Saturday night, wanna lay low
Write and read
Get ready for art shows
Dec. 7th & 14th
Gonna be Santa on the 17th
@ cafe Nola bazaar
Time that had to come
I got that look
Job guarantee for old age
Got senior fare on local buses now
Ain't this exciting news
Sitting on top of old DC
Maybe time to go out for a promenade
Like old Dexter Gordon says in round midnight
Night cap would be nice
Come back read some more Ko Un
Jam a lamma.....

[the mingo]

just finished a book of his
on Kindle - First Person Sorrowful
his shit is full of tidbits like the one you posted
i hung with it all to the last word
sky spitting snow here
stayed at the lodge all day
put plastic up on the windows
makes a big diff in this old place
when the wind is out the northwest
bikes covered in snow out on the porch
it's just a cement slab with a roof - no walls
i call it a porch because
it's just the romantic in me -
i gotta get my rides into the cellar
you got two shows coming up?
Santa? - ha crack me up!

[WIREMAN]

Always pushin the wire
Show at my place the 7th
@Kayleigh Montgomery's 14th
&cafe Nola the 17th where I'm
doubling as Santa in a Photo booth gig
The girls at the cafe asked, hey watcha gonna do?
Needless to say life should be interesting
in the weeks to come......
Back to jam:
Boom Shaka lacka
Got tha big sur movie
Looks good @ start
Need wifi, wait till mañana
Jack demise
Jack over the falls
Jack throwing in the towel
Jack old man at 40
Jack wore out
Jack frazzled
Jack Saint Jack
Steak
screwdriver
Salad
screwdriver
Hang w/friends
Wedding party pops in
Babes in finery
We oooooo&ahhhhhh
Crowded scene
Step outside
Freezing
Head home
Cross Patrick st.
Here I yam!
Ready to jam......

[the mingo]

late november night
i should stay away from keyboards
paper
pencils
pens
on nights in late november
never do myself any favors
on nights like these

[the mingo]

man getting so
i tap this stuff out
then hit the submit button
before i can think about it
life-on-the-edge
a danger edge to it
got to be quick
no left hand knowing
no right hand told

[the mingo]

you're right, Mark
more folks should get down here
first thought & no thought afterwards about it
the cry-baby slackers -
this shit gets greatly addictive
ya get to breathin' it
& breathin' it
hell yeah

[the mingo]

8:51 a.m.
21.9 degrees
sure as truth
sure as truth
i got the basics down
just had to remember
i was already breathin'
good morning america
you twice-sideways boogie child
what's the jam down
there in fred/rock wireman wireman?

[WIREMAN]

Wifi found
Watching Big sur
It's way better than
On the Road
Way better!
Friends keep comin in
to this place so I decided
Break time ....intermission
Jam time
Easy time
Talk n jam
Walk n jam
No thought n jam
Let it flow
I do chk spellings though
Kinda finicky in my old age
Santa and all
But if u get
Into that jam place
That sweet spot zone
It's amazing
It happens in performance too
Sometimes I'll get the show going
Get into the flow of words
Seeing the visions
Then when I look up the place will
be packed
Sends me off to the races
It's better for me to just flow
I got my pieces I know off the
top of my head to get me going
Then I just riff and jam like a .
Jazz musician
Taking the sound of my vocal up and down
Gettin it loud at the right times
Gettin there attention when they start yakking
There's a power up there
When u use it wisely
Definitely took me a lotta years to feel
totally at ease in front of all them faces
And it is better with. will on keys
Worth the money
We been doing this gig nearly 3 yearsl
Gettin away from jam
Although it's all spontaneous

Ko Un
Nanoa Sakaki
Gary Snyder
Lewis Welch
Joanne Kyger
Saint Jack
Ryokan
Basho
Ikkyu
Hafiz
Rumi
Ikkyu
Li Po
Wang Wei
Stonehouse
Bodhidharma
Buddha
Red Pine
List goes on and on
Jammin
Never slamming
Judging
Just becausing
That's not a word
Spell chk fulla bulla
Mongolia
Genghis blues
Tuvan throat singers
Road to heaven
Amongst white clouds
47 ronin
Zatoichi
Musashi
D t Suzuki
Alan watts
Han Shan
Cold mountain man
Jam be the plan

[the mingo]

i was checkin out the trailers
for Big Sur last night -
that's the notion i got too
whatever the writer's & director's take on this
i think they nailed the darkness there
it was all catchin up to jack
and about to crush him beneath the wheels
cassady too -
they was learnin' no such thing
as the eternal child
you mention the tuva throat singers
been listening to them since early autumn
mongolia singers too
& the inuit way way up north
yeah -
got to go google now
some of the names on your list
some there i don't recognize
cold & dry up here
cold

[the mingo]

yeah - you're in a ritual stance up there in front of people -
speaking ritual words
in a ritual atmosphere -
it's an old old old thing you do
so old the need of the beginning of it
is lost of time -

firetime storyteller - yeah

[WIREMAN]

Relaying the verbal
Storyteller tradition
maybe lost in written word
It's funny, we'll not exactly funny
But there are 3 rod busters I sign
in for every morning, just figure they
Never had the opportunity to
learn the read and write
Don't ya know they are 3 of the best workers
Seen that a lot over the years
I've read that when people of an oral tradition
do learn the read and write, that they eventually
Forget how to relay that oral tradition.
Interesting
Sense of values
Like the amazing Mali blues man Ali farka toure
Never learned the read and write
Total oral
Knew the Koran by heart
Maybe that's what I'm tapping
Never thought of it like that before
All I know is them words is powerful when
delivered orally
Written words are powerful too.

[WIREMAN]

Big Sur
Scored a hit
I'm relieved
Now I don't have
to poo-poo another
Kerouac movie
The director let
Jack do the talking
and it worked

Onto jam
Muster words
Mustard poupon
Walls color
Yellow she said
Mission probable
Daze flying
Cold outside
Heat roaring
Hum of fan
Zivy walking
High five ing
The wireman
A Becky Jane day
Carpets for us both
Gobble-gobble day coming
Went to the farm
Did some shopping
Jammin' on the night
Maybe a screwdriver or 3

[the mingo]

verbal - written
always thought they needed to be
expressed with a slash -
verbal/written - like that
they both parts of the same
but not the same in the way they reach out -
don't know what the sense is but
just how i think of it -