Got my shades on

[the mingo]

Jack you locked the topic! I went to reply and I get the notice that the topic is locked. And all I was gonna say was the if Islam didn't have Israel & the United States for enemies it would have to eat itself.

And I'm gonna have to start callin' ya LT for locked topic

[stilltrucking]

Sorry Steve, I knew I was going to delete it or edit it so I did not want to leave anyone's post just hanging there.


in the spirit of Friendship
jt

[the mingo]

Ok, was wonderin what went on there. Ten hours on the water yesterday. When I hit the sheets last night I was asleep before I could close my eyes. Been taking the tandem kayak we first bought last year out myself the last few days. After we bought the single kayaks we never used the tandem again. The big girl has surprised me no end. Got it aways up the Salmon River yesterday against fast water too. Nobody more surprised than me. She's not like the smaller boats though in fast current, she starts sliding sideways you got your hands full to bring her about. Thing that surprised me yesterday though was she got alot farther up the river than the smaller boats did once we hit current. I would not have guessed that of her.

[stilltrucking]

August 6 and there is a bright light in the east
"they say I was a rebel till I reached the age of five
it was then that i got caught up in the struggle to survive
It came to me one rainy August morning like a flash
we might all wake up tomorrow in a pile of smoke and ash"
Peggy Wilson songwriter and waitress Atascadero California


it is good that August 6 has come and gone and no one mentions the bomb any more
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Beautiful image in mind thank you for the picture.
I got nothing going on for pleasure outside it is just too dam hot
I can't take the heat.
it is a bitch here.
or maybe I am just old and out of shape
I can hardly venture out
my god dam tomato plants are six feet high and not a tomato
fuck them I have stopped watering them

on the up side I am feeling much better
the physical therapy helped a lot
and it was good to feel the touch of a woman's hand

looking for a job
I need a job
oh well
life is good
it is sweet
a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi mud
dam i wish I was in a kayak too
enjoy it and thanks for the picture.

this was not a poem
it is nothing

[the mingo]

I here it has been miserable down there for sometime now. I am glad you are feeling better though. I wish too you had a kayak. Did you get your unit, the eGo ,and how is that going for you?

[stilltrucking]

I have not got it yet. The money keeps getting away from me.
I am hoping to get one soon.

I keep seeing my death at a stop sign somewhere. I stop look both ways and the pull out into the street and a semi which I failed to notice plows into me and I say Oh god, and just like that there is a loud noise, the sound of breaking glass and metal tearing and then terrible pain and then it is all over.

I think about that when I fail to notice a banner in the rotation, there is one that i notice just as I am click on another post and just before it changes I think I want to save that one to my collection of studio banners but it is too late just as i try to save it, it changes to another one. And then i think of that stop sign and me looking both ways but not seeing.

I like that banner rotation a lot, it keeps me on my toes. I wonder what that means, "keeps me on my toes" sounds like a ballet dancer.

I used to think it would be better to die in a Ferrari then a Ford Pinto.
I am not as death obsessed as I used to be in my younger days. According to the actuarial tables I got another six years to go. Ha. I hope so, another six years I would take, but I won't make it like this.
I been thinking about your August 5 poem, Nice one

I finally managed to notice this one and save it
summertime in watermelon sugar with Richard Brautigan
do you ever put salt on your watermelon I read that novel forty years ago and really liked it but can't remember anything about now except the title

[stilltrucking]

I decided to delete this from the poetry board
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"all flesh is grass" so much better how the KJV says that
much better than updated more literal versions of the book
"All men are like grass" NIV
just not the same
you just can't beat Shakespeare when it comes to scripture

I love the sounds leaves make when they scuttle along in the wind.

thanks for the poem
I will never get used to Texas
the live oaks are so strange to me
they drop their leaves in the spring
I think they have read too much T S Eliot and think that April is the coolest month.

[the mingo]

I always put salt on watermelon except if it's not around. Read Watermelon Sugar too. it had the commune called ideath and then there was Inboil and his gang down at the Forgotten Works. No wind today & the sky overcast but not feeling like rain. Suppose I ought to see about adjusting the clutch on the lawnmower. I told myself I would but I tell myself a lot of things these days. I don't think I pay too much attention to myself any more. I've just become a big hassle to myself seems like from time to time. Thx on the poem Jack, glad ya enjoyed it. Always enjoyed the Japanese writings, struck by so much in so little there... always amazed me. I more or less fumble around with everything. it's always been how I discover things or not. Time for toast & peanut butter. And then a move on. Catch ya later.

PS - I could never get used to Texas and that's not a slam. It's way too open and dry for this forest boy. I like the trees around me and the sound of water.

[SadLuckDame]

I loved Watermelon Sugar, loved every bitty inch of it and I want to read it again. I think I lent it out, prolly won't be returned.

Great big green fruit on the trees out back where the big animals go. Green and beautiful. Jack, could be green for you, too. Then, you, mingo and I will sit around in the shades with our shades on.

[stilltrucking]

Hi dame, just noticed I never got back to you on that. Watermellon Sugar is a very sweet memory, I can not remember anything about it except I know I read it at a time in my life when I really needed to read it I found this quote I like a lot

"For the desire to read, like all the other desires which distract our unhappy souls is capable of analysis" Virginia Woolf. Not sure what she means by that, but I like the sound of it. "the desires which distract our unhappy soul" Brautigan gave the blessing of distraction when I was in desperate need of it

Another interesting quote I found in the same book — a book called "A History of Reading" the book I was telling you about on another thread somewhere — (That maybe a sentence in desperate need of punctuation.)
"But who shall be the master? The writer or the reader?" Denis Diderot