Bandit Notions

[the mingo]

" Shooting turtles is not my idea of fun. You've got real problems there, Calvin. You've either been reading too many Asian poets or you been too long without a woman. "
The Book of Dogs - Anon.

It's 4:20 a.m. - I think I might need to join Deer Hunting for Jesus Anonymous.

[stilltrucking]

only thirty three years for me
not nearly long enough I can still remember
my last Duchess, (vagina)
Some mornings I wake up to the scent of elephants
other times I smell something else


if not for my succubus I would not have any erotic life at all

[the mingo]

Ha ! New koan - "What's that smell like fish, Mama?"

Old foxes & slippery spirits - the goldfish jumps from the tank to glorious freedom flopping around on the floor struggling for that final panic stricken breath - o ain't nobody comin' back from that - beware the better days in a place like this o my righteous brothers!

Thx for the vid, Jack, goes good with the coffee.

[zero_hero]

we will circle the wagons
now that we got them pesky Buddhists on the run
who will be sitting on the throne
Jesus or Buddha
what does it matter
religion is a snare and a delusion

in the meantime



bandit notions
after space but before matter
God was lonely

after the panic of 1897
I took a deep breath
broken is the golden bowl
the fish has flown forever
listening to the old woman breathing her last breath, day after day after day, till at last no panic, she looked long into the mirror across from her bed and her face relaxed and she had an expression that I can only express with the word "beatific" serene, at peace with the mighty smitey God of her mother before her.

I hope I will have as good a death if I can not go out on an upstroke like Nelson Rockefeller. His private secretary was so distraught after his death they had to give her a gizzillion bucks just to calm her nerves.

We got a new dog, I am in love with her. i am trying to wrangle the camera from my baby sister to post a pic here.

[the mingo]

My hound is sick - slow poisoning come to find out - he has 7 of the nine symptoms to look for as contamination's by GMO's - all traced to diet - unbeknownst to me who has been feeding him just plain old dogfood of several kinds for the last few months now come to find out could be the cause of his condition - the other side of the equation is that of course there are many vendors want to help you with your problem and will sell you dogfood that will help get your animal uncontaminated - for five times what the poison you've been feeding him goes for.
So ya see how it works. Sockcuckers all of them.

God bless the God bless ...

Good luck on your dog Jack - don't feed him anything comes from MalWart or the grocery store and be careful everywhere else too - the terms Natural or Organic do not mean GMO free - in fact no distributor of dogfood or any other food product , including those for human consumption, will or can guarantee GMO-free product.

Maybe the Dame was right ...

[zero_hero]

I am sorry to hear about your dog. I hope he is going to be alright. I still remember the Chinese dog food with the melamine in it to boost the protein levels, how many people lost their dogs to that I wonder.

Only down side to having a cat or dog is they always break my heart at the end., I been thinking about calling her Daisy, or maybe Duchess. With a little luck that puppy will out live me. Maybe the cat too.

I think the dame knows of what she speaks of Monsanto et al. I remember you writing something about Russia nuking us if we don't control Monsanto. I don't know where you got that, but it is food for thought

in the meantime I keep the faith, even if it is heretical. all dogs go to heaven.

[the mingo]

yeah they will tear ya up - is he a terrier, Jack? Well, ya got Kerouac's bicycle & now ya got Kerouac's dog.

[the mingo]

blue roads bring ya here
and blue roads take ya out
jam because it's there
it's held already to a summer hand
bad & beautiful
someday everyone gonna
leave everything behind
moon animals walk the earth
don't minute
don't wall
don't wait
don't recall
above below & in the head
be from this I
be from this you
o-o Kerouac proved
don't get caught with
the wrong sand in your pockets

[the mingo]

" Are ya ignorant or is it ya just don't know much? "
The Book of Dogs - Anon.

Every word of mankind should be righteous & uplifting, every exhalation of every breath for benefit & not one toward harm. Since this is not the present case man can give no weight to any notions that there is no sin.

"... one should never be where one does not belong. " - Bob Dylan

[silent woman]

a wall of words
obscures the mystery
another brick



"Almost all the children here are boys," one of the nurses says. "No one knows why. It's been documented, but a lot of people out there still don't realize it." Short story about a pediatric oncology ward. (People Like That Are the Only People Here) Fact from fiction, she is a writer, her husband tells her toke notes because they will need the money. I can't seem to read anything long these days. Thank you for the beautiful poem today.

[the mingo]

" ... and I meet her somewhere and she comes in with these goddam white gloves on or something. I don't know. "
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes - JD Salinger

Sat down to tap out my thanks to you & out of nowhere I hear a helicopter - far away though and only for a few moments - it must have been a military bird, they make a different sound than the civilian units do ... happens more and more that whatever happened before this point in my life happened to somebody else & that the dreams I have are somebody else's dreams ...
I get that notion a lot these days - maybe someday it will be more than a notion - I'll wake up and find that it is a fact - I imagine that will be quite the moment.

One thing I know for sure - I gotta get the hell off of unemployment - I am way too old to be threatened & bullied by bureaucracy for that damn check. All my life I have paid into that fund and now when I need it I find that I am at the beck & call of whoever to do this or be there or else my "benefits" ( they do actually use that word ) will be "terminated" - there's a good word. Bureaucracies & administrations are in love with that word - they exist just so they can use that word. I was "terminated" a couple months back for missing a meeting.

Occurs to me I'm going to be a hell of an old man. There is a part of me that is quite excited at the prospect. I pity the world.

[silent woman]

From the Venus of Willendorf to The Virgin Mary, a short history of Mrs. God. by tinker jack
for the fat lady Jesus in the front row.
Sometimes I think it is a snare and a delusion to have one religion for both men and women. The natives had their secrete women's society, and men had theirs.

Franny and Zooey of all his books the one that stayed with me most. I guess because it was so much about sisters and brothers.
'I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.'



Hester_Prynne had a government job as a social worker, I knew she was not going to be able to hack it. she has far too much soul for that job. The only thing that can save you from a soul dead bureaucrat is compassion.

WE need all the bad old men that we can get. take care amigo

[the mingo]

"It is even less obvious that bless is related to blood (the former was originally a derivative with the meaning "to mark with blood"
Wikipedia article on Etymology

We do not know whereof we speak methinks. o sleep tight me widgens! The morrow is open but to continual evil and we be hoop-hopping all the day long!

I love etymology - other men have dabbed much more seriously & efficiently into this area of study but me? - I do it for the boots!

Kitty Soft Paws for ever! I don't know what stuck-away-in-a-dark-place writer came up with that name for Salma Hayek's character in "Puss and Boots" but he/she is a bona fide genius.

[stilltrucking]

Re: june ku
by the mingo » June 15th, 2013, 9:00 pm

that there may be a future
does not mean
there will be a tomorrow

I peddled on that for a few miles the other day

fuel for thought

words are a trip for me too
jimboloco called me his favorite word kook, I felt honored.

almost logged in as short timer
this morn——

listened to a sound byte on "rituals" the other day, I have to check the etty mollo gee on that, as soon as I look up the spelling on etymology again.

philology, I got to look up the spelling on that too

morning rituals
morning haiku
morning and mourning melancholia

i got a little red word book I keep in the john, i used to read the dictionary as a kid
had not seen you for a few days, I was hoping you were out on the water. seems to me it is the peddling and the paddling
that keeps us going by the sweat of our browls
this bike the most fun I had since I used to sail on J. D.'s sailboat off old cape cod
almost logged in as short timer this morning
just a mood a flash back to baltimore a long time ago during the war
armed forces radio
i wish i could hear this right now
old cape cod andrew sisters

[the mingo]

"... good ol' boys drinking whiskey & rye ... "
American Pie - Don McClean

Going kayaking today - finally - would have been more this year but kind of stuck here while Nancy works - been looking for a bike myself so I can get out in the wind these days got a canteen one of the things for my birthday - I hope it don't leak, gonna take it in the boat - next kayak I get gonna have a cupholder - it's always the little things that determine what's what and who's who.

Even with your eyes on what might be up around the bend a certain kind of nostalgia hits me heavy & hard these days - and deep - so much so that it can make the present moment with all it's life go pale - almost transparent ... don't know how to describe it ...
it's not really a looking back but more like a deep re-experience ... plunged into something ... and a longing ...

i read the dictionary too - but more I go for the history of words these days - just draws me in - the words become rich - full of freight & changes - like the word becomes a person that you are getting acquainted with - I've been word-drunk since I was about 10 years old anyways

I find what I miss most about folks I have known is the sound of their voices ...

ain't rained for three straight days - the creeks will still be running high though - time to load the boats on the Cherokee - catch ya later Jack

" and the three men I admire most
the Father, Son, & the Holy Ghost
caught the last train for the coast
the day the music died
and they were singing ... "
American Pie - Don McClean