Bombay

[stilltrucking]

Bombay her name was
She was big and gray
and she took a shine to me

Held me to her
With her proboscis
Put my hand in her mouth and sucked

And I was shocked that I felt so aroused.
Ok so I am a pervert
But I do have some morals left

no amphibians
no reptiles
warm blooded only

Speaking of cold blooded
the morgues are full
in Tijuana and Juarez

[Lightning Rod]

the mare was clearly looking for an apple or some sugar

(suggestion: lose the last stanza)

[stilltrucking]

they are cows
Clay
not mares

big old gentle gray seven thousand pound cows that never kicked or head butted me.

And I got the scars to prove it.

if not for Bombay the alpha female

I would have wound up a greasy spot on the floor.

It is all about the last stanza clay

Really nothing to do with Bombay at all

Just the coincidence of the name in the News.

Just a meaningless juxtoposition

I am a juxtoposition freak I guess

It is about the thousands dead along the Tex Mex border

And the dead in Mumbai

And Cecil's sunday stream about sex and suicide bombers

and the worm at the core of human consciousness.

But thanks

for the critique

no sarcasm Clay

I wish I would have sat on my fucking hands and not said nothing about the last line to thanksgiving day.

in cyberpalship
jt

[Doreen Peri]

I wish they'd quit changing the names of places.

[stilltrucking]

Yes it took me months of hearing Mumbai in the news till I figured out where it was
But I guess
it is nobodies business but the turks

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Pakistan and India on the brink of war a few years ago.
I think that is what it is all about.
To provoke even more killing


Back in 1998 I think Pakistan was close to launching a nuclear strike on India. Maybe the best day Bill Clinton had in the white house was the day he put and end to that threat.

Meanwhile all this violence on our southern border that never gets any ink in the main stream press.

[stilltrucking]

Thanks for reading Clay, you may be right about the apple or sugar.
What they really loved was tobacco. They got a little thumb like thingy on the end of their trunk. They would break the filters off with it and eat the cigarettes.


She would put my hand on a certain molar. Looking back I wonder if she had a tooth ache. The molar was the size of a six pack. It took a certain effort to trust her. I could not quite get the thought of my hand smashed to a bloody pulp out of my mind
Bombay was the only one that reached out like that and pulled me to her.
She is the only one that never hurt me.

The most amazing thing is how they could curl their trunks up under their chin and lash out with them.
Catch me right on my chin
like getting hit with a fist
knock me flying
sometimes hit me twice before I hit the ground

I hope I did not sound like an ingrate. I am honored you read and took the time to reply.

Nothing to do with nothing
Just thinking about the news
and random associations
and coincidences
of names and places


it is all working out fine
in the free market
Mexico sends us drugs
We send Mexico weapons

Just a random association of stories in the news

A lot of people being killed in Mexico
But you know it is just in dribs and drabs of three or four or twelve a day,
maybe a few hundred a month
4000 so far this year
makes me feel patriotic when I smoke domestic
from a fellow patriots' victory garden

Nothing news worthy
Does any one in the Unitied States notice?
I don't see much about it except in the local news.

I suppose it is a comment about the news media

Yeah that was what this was about

something like that.

Elephants are my totem animal I think.

[e_dog]

when did mumbai become bombay or vice versa?


blame the Americans.


War on Error.


barak obama is king.

[stilltrucking]

I have decided to blame everything on the British Empire
Elizabeth is Queen

BaBama is still cool with me.

Even if he lost the war, ruined our ecconomy and undone all the progress we have made in the past eight years.

I have taken a part time job as a writer for the Rush Limbaugh show. That is going to be our script and I am sticking to it.

I lied when I took that job with the circus.
And the boss lied to me.

I told him I knew how to drive an 18 wheeler
And he told me that those elephants were big old gentle cows.

Bombay is a the name the colonial power gave the city. I am sure it was always Mumbai to the Indians.

What I want to know is what happened to Peking Duck?

More foreign trade with Mexico
The Aztec gods still walk the new world

We don't need no islamo errorists
We got narco errorists

All that shit moving across the border
Both ways.

I am optimistic for the future.
That the american empire will last a thousand years

And if it don't
Well
we will always have Paris.

Good god almighty
I must be crazy
I have always been crazy
I just discovered America
The Beautiful

Go get um tiger.
thanks for reading and making a comment.

[stilltrucking]

WMD Attack Is Likely, Panel Says
Terrorists likely to use nuclear, biological weapons before 2013, congressional task force reports

Nuclear or Biological Attack Called Likely

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 2, 2008; Page A02

The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a bipartisan congressionally mandated task force concludes in a draft study that warns of growing threats from rogue states, nuclear smuggling networks and the spread of atomic know-how in the developing world.

Report Sounds Alarm

The sobering assessment of such threats, due for release as early as today, singled out Pakistan as a grave concern because of its terrorist networks, history of instability and arsenal of several dozen nuclear warheads. The report urged the incoming Obama administration to take "decisive action" to reduce the likelihood of a devastating attack.

"No mission could be timelier," says the draft report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, which spent six months preparing an assessment for Congress and the new president-elect. It adds: "In our judgment, America's margin of safety is shrinking, not growing."


The report, ordered by Congress last year, concludes that terrorists are more likely to obtain materials for a biological attack than to buy or steal nuclear weapons. But it says the nuclear threat is growing rapidly, in part because of the increasing global supply of nuclear material and technology

Can I share my nightmare, no my daymare.

I will be so happy to see January 20th come and go.

I am not so concerned with illegal immigration, I am not so concerned with drug smuggling.

We can not control our borders. Tons of of dope coming into the country, tons and tons of it. What else is coming in with it?

Upto four million people going to be in Washington DC on January 20 th.

I would like to hear more about what we are going to do for Mexico. We send billions of dollars to saudi arabia and Israel. Poor Mexico, so far from god, so close to the USA.

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Then there is our border with Canada.

And the millions of shipping containers that still come into the country uninspected.

Yes Superman is in deep shit.
And we have pledged Israel that we will prevent another holocaust.
Maybe it is time for Israel to find a new friend. A country more reliable. Maybe Europe should step up and take the pledge to defend Israel by any means necessary


"Nothing wrong with being paranoid if you are paranoid" Somebody on Litkix a long time ago.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

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[mtmynd]

truck... your words threw a load of thought on the table... a thought banquet, if you will. what to sample first..? hmmm hmmm hmmm

[Doreen Peri]

say Bombay 10 times real fast and it starts sounding like Mumbai


(sorry not adding anything worthy of the discussion .... terrorism terrifies me.... )

[stilltrucking]

I did not really want to delete it.

Paralell threads in my mind [sic paralell Cecil, I have looked that word up a thousand times and still can't remember how to spell it]

Those guys in Mumbai were not suicide bombers cecil.

Listening to the news the other day the secrete service says it is easy to protect the president elect on innaugaration day. Just got to limit access to Pennsylvannia avenue [sic also probably] So who has to have access to the Penn Ave to to wipe out the us government.

Yeah I don't kinow

What the hell can we do it about it not a thing

I been thinking about going for a walk today. I am roaring to it,

"my dearest friends are

the west texas hemingway

I have noticed the government of Israel is backing off of certain positions they have maintained for the past eight years, doing things they have said they would never do, certain prisoner swaps, ectetera ecetera [sic too probably]

I think they are looking to survival post america. A good idea I think.

How long can we maintain the military posture we have Cecil.

Got dam the british empire, India/Pakistan another one of their disaster like Iraq. Did you know the Brits used poison gas on the kurds?

Dav asked what Gandhi would have to say.

He was against the partition of India and Pakistan, he did not celebrate the independence of India. He wanted no part of that partition. He was murdered by a hindu extremist who hated him for being too pro muslim

Were they thoughts
or maybe it is blood sugar nightmares, back to the chicken or the egg

do I create my thoughts do my thoughts create me
are my thoughts affected by my blood sugar
the skunk weed I just smoked

I was really going to delete it this but I was hoping someone would reply

thank you

[stilltrucking]

so while i am typing this i an talking to an old old friend who is wracked by guilt about her son,

and it is a bummer

and my thread here a bummer.

I wish it was jaunuary 21st and I hope the hell I am a paranoid old fucking fool.

Those guys were selected for their willingness to fight to the death, which is a little different than a suicide bomber I think?

Interesting book called Life Against Death, about repression and the death instinct and a disease called man

Reconsideration of Freud's little book called Beyond The Pleasure Principle.

[stilltrucking]

Sorry Doreen I missed your post

Unique New York

I used to like to say that real fast ten times
better than rubber baby buggy bumpers

Yes I guess that is the point of it Doreen
To terrify us
Sorry I have added to it.

I have had not the heart to listen to much news about it. But I did hear one soundbye that said the purpose of it was to stay in the headlines as long as possible. For example they took hostages, but they planed to kill them. The point of the hostage taking was to slow down the army's responce[sic?], to keep the story in the news as long as possible. A suicide bombing happens and a day or two later the news moves on.


Sorry about this bummer

I want so much to read something beautiful today

I need a new poem

or a song

a painting to look at.

I need to take a walk, autumn has finally come to san antone.
I wish they would call the got dam ceremony off, let Obama take his oath at an undisclosed location. Don't ya know there is a war on?

After the innaugaration Obama would give Bush and Cheney 24 hours to leave the country or face prosecution for high crimes and disdammeanors.

That is my pipe dream for today.

[stilltrucking]

you are always so clear in what you are about Clay
Your poems always go somewhere
You always look for the universal
unlike you I don't know what I am about
why I went from an elephant named Bombay to a morgue in Juarez.

From something happy to tragic
from light to dark
from life to death

I had only the foggiest notion of that until your suggestion about the last stanza brought it into focus.
gracias.


I am always trying to catch up to myself, look for reasons after the fact. If I only had more foresight and less hindsight, I would probably be a grandfather now instead of a recipient of a Darwin award


how does that bit from the old book go

old men will dream
and visions Joel something or other

Now I wish
I wish
I had not
thought about Black Swans and improbable events


another sound bit that comes back is that there was no intelligence "chatter" about the attack on Mumbai. Unlike our September 11 attack.

no chatter about innaugration day I think I read somewhere.

I am going sit on my hands now

I am reminded of the Douglas Adams quote

"Nothing travells faster than the speed of light with the exception of bad news which follows its own special rules"

I would sure appreciate some music old friend,
thank you
have I thanked you for the music lately?
thanks clay
wow was that passive aggressive

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FACT CHECK
I am wrong about the the Mumbai attacks and no chatter, apparently there was plenty of warnings and chatter that something was up.

And sincerely hope I am just paranoid and wrong about everything else.