perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[WIREMAN]

hot sake
cold sake
sushi
sake bombs
more sushi
more hot sake
a b'day party
then nola for beer
music
more beer
more music
more beer
then its way past
midnight
i get up at 4
yeah 4 am.
now its time to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Doreen Peri]

Really cool photo, 68!
Where is that?

Wireman, I don't know how you do it. I couldn't drink sake and beer and party past midnight then get up at 4am and go to work. Your liver must be in better shape than mine. You must be a young buck.
I thought we were the same age.

[68degrees]

Badlands...South Dakota. On the way out to Mount Rushmore.

I used to do what Wireman is talking about. Used is an automobile word these days

Fun is past tense, a former kind of language, a different movie, a bigger font to read the directions when putting things together, hell, not worrying about how to put things together, left over parts, who cares, who cares fun is in the eye-of-the-participants, must be over fifty to catch a discount these days, but who's counting except the young punk behind the counter, he's counting the minutes before his fun starts...

68degrees

[the mingo]

hell yeah let the punk rock on
in his own little creek
when he reaches the sea
he will pee
fuckin' cold up here - damn!
damn!
ain't taken my hound for a walk
the whole last week
and where is the Wired One?
that slacker -
he's gonna end up the LiPo of Fredrock

[the mingo]

Wireman - finally into the poems
of Journey to the Interior -
wow - you right 'bout reading
this thing too fast
Holy Soup Sandwich on a Stick!
good thing I didn't discover this work
'til now because i wouldn't been worthy of it
in any of my life previous to this
hell yeah Honshu and away !!!!!

[the mingo]

found myself imagining Basho on a bike today - track frame - 700c tires - deep v dished rims - 3 speed internal gear hub ( he was dealing with mountains after all )
rear rack to strap things needed to -

he'd have to ditch the clogs though - no way he could pedal wearing those things -
quick! lets get up a collection and send him a pair of flat bottomed sneakers !

then, o yeah, an mp3 player so he could listen to shit like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEzbFxEbB8 as he was surrendering to gravity coming down one of those God steep japanese mountains on Honshu -

can ya see that old man rounding a curve on one of those mountains? I know ya can - bike leaning at a 60 degree angle fighting tooth and nail to hold the groove - his eyeballs big as teacups - lips tight - the wind nothing but roar in his ears -

then sailing off the incline at the bottom still at speed looking around realizing he had made it all in one piece and singing at the top of his lungs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRVPLPFoJL0

i know you ca see it - are ya laughing yet because you can ?

PS - just as Basho was coming to the flats he looks down the road and sees a traveler there - as he got closer he saw the traveler had a young zen nun in one arm and the other arm stuck out with its thumb in the air -
Basho came to a halt and the traveler bowed - he said "My name's Crazy Cloud, how far to the next inn?" Basho said "We will find out together if you teach me that song you were singing."
Crazy Cloud said "sure, it goes like this," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLZWJes08Z4
and off they went singing and the young zen nun smiling mysteriously

later jammer!
mingo out -
jam on !

[WIREMAN]

jammin da jamzzzzzz
slackin on the puter
needed some sleep
im no pro drinker
just steady
birthday parties
sake b'day parties
and its miko bar the door
this thing wid sake
came late in life
duh
like last month
always was a sushi guy
used to hang at akiras
in b'more till the girls
behind the bar ran it outta
bizness
ah now dem was the daze
livin in a firehouse
music palace
welding shop too
in the hood though
with rats as big as dogz
them eyes would lite up in
the dark when i started
the car
no car no more
& ya know what
i love it
ifn i really need one
i rent one
most times friends take me
to shows
where i live theres a plethora
of restaurants and bars
within 2 blocks
im livin the life
have been since mid 90's
always stayin where
the action is
keeps me gettin
on that train
to make that daily bread
full tilt at it with
my new wire show
gonna b a party
austin nuckols startin it off
then plaeground for the dancin
and yes i do still shake it
jam on me!

[68degrees]

I'd pick you up if I saw you on the side of the road. In the sun, at night, on a two lane or on a dusty road. The pix above me (by one Mark Nazarenus) shows a 50's (maybe late 40's) pick up in the desert, a river in the background, no driver, once a driver, no more a driver, not even a horse, tumbleweeds, somewhere in Arizona or New Mexico or Baja or Death Valley, the valley we all will walk through at some point in our lives, All in the Valley of death rode the six hundred, and I will fear no evil. Not me after seeing your picture. You handsome devil.

68degrees

[the mingo]

jammin' up the river
jammin' down the page
we rant
we smile
we rage
o the doctor has his pills
northern new york has it's hills
the big blue sea is sometimes green
c'mon everybody
jam with me

[WIREMAN]

jam on me
jam on u
jam on everybody
read basho learn from the journey
be the tale
grab the tiger
hold on
no one's gettin outta here
alive
don't cry
just smile
the next phase is a
new begin
where u came from a mystery
where your going a further
mystery....mysterioso.....journey to
the other side....there is no hiding place
accept
embrace
it is our destiny
and whilst we're here
we jam!

[the mingo]

snow storm rage up here
temps dropping
paleolithic jam going on
in the darkness outside
man it's roaring out there
i love good walls
topped by a good roof
mingo out -
jam on!

[the mingo]

The moon rose, shining on the sea, day turned suddenly to night ... Drifting with winds and clouds, it was almost like a dream.

Journey To The Interior Basho

man o man o man
man jam!
Honshu jam!
mountain jam river jam island jam !
on the road with Basho jam!
i can imagine this guy on a bike
i really can !
mingo out -
jam on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WIREMAN]

he'd a loved the ride
evening firey brown
shadows long
houses from train window
vintage 30's....40's....50's
then we round the bend
cold fields runnin rocky
to the catoctins
track houses big as hotels
new ones desolate
then a funky farm
racing boat in played out
cornfield
sky azure blue
me reading desolation angels
mexico section
jack spilling the beans
in a world where
basho rules!
jam on me!

[the mingo]

i think Lee Mellon
that ol' Confederate General from Big Sur
is actually Dr. Sax in haiku disguise
a notion just come over me
i can't explain it
below zero again tonight
the term "polar vortex"
has an erotic rig to my ear
or a pornographic bang
graffiti - more Latin
sex for money might be
the most honest approach
to the subject
everything has the same appearance
in the dark
what would it feel like
to be in a pitch dark ocean
full of pitch dark sharks?
i wouldn't want to be
a bicycle messenger
in Death Valley either
mingo out
jam on

[WIREMAN]

blind lemon jefferson
sam chapman
odilon redon visions
louis satchmo realities
louis prima mambo
dextor gordon round midnight
herbie hancock head hunters
the lonely hunter
lovely latinas so proud of their beautiful
long tresses
they work with us guys
lovely women
accepted
totally feminine
especially when they let their hair down
transforming into goddesses
in the parking lot
they call me poppa
i smile