Coyote Trails

[the mingo]

i have looked outside - still raining - spring - (imagine an exclamation point right about here)
may get a chance later to ride - it will be glove & coat time on the bike though - bit colder today than the one just past - watched a documentary last night about lands beneath the sea - flooded
over at the end of the last ice age melt cycle - fishermen bringing up mammoth bones and others in their nets - especially from the north sea - drowned river systems -

while still a young boy my mother gave birth to my imagination with Twilight Zone episodes that taught me every moment was to be evaluated on its own merits & not on those of acquired education or knowledge or experience - Rod Serling's zen was creepy solid & rose up with the smoke of his cigarette -

I have seen on my bike rides all the new refuse that has gathered by the roadsides over the winter being exposed with the going of the snow cover - broken glass - old fenceposts beyond trailing barbed wire -

we are all members of a species of voyeurs - our entertainments, movies, television, youtube et al geared to the mind & curiosity thru the eye - the whole world & even the universe is pornographic & we like to watch -

roads black with rain - bones in & on the earth - time traveling gypsies - final destinations a matter of speculation it seems - maybe the Twilight Zone -

[the mingo]

when I was about 5 years old my father took me to a real traveling tent circus - action everywhere ya know if you have ever been - sights, smells, & sound - the clowns freaked me out - in their presence was a fear - the fear came because they were real - masked & painted & breathing - it took me decades to realize why the fear - face-to-face with a clown you are looking into the mouth of time - time that brought you forth into being & time that will erase you as if you had never been -

the kind of shit was meant to keep ya focused - so now I thank the clowns - and the circus

[the mingo]

when the first white men made it to the prairies they found them covered with millions upon millions of copies of the Windows Operating System - plus quite a few Indians who preyed upon the OS as a food source - Indians who never wasted a single part of any Windows Operating System they brought down - the Indians were well known for accepting any & all gifts of the Creator with a marvelous sense of humor - the Windows Operating System became a major tenet & totem & even origin story in the beliefs of the various prairie tribes -

[judih]

windows remain as reminders
one day, we, too, will open to no vista
click to unknown refrains

[the mingo]

judih -

[stilltrucking]

Bill Gates is the antichrist
brilliant riff all of them


mourning rounds, speaking of refuse this bit stays with me.
"The offer was met skeptically. “I already have one,” the girl said."
(pregnant teenager refuses offer of books for her child)

My mother surrounded me with books, and there went my imagination
my father crazy mike, taught me well his hell, he knew my fears. I would burn in hell just to be able to tell him everything is okay now.



the Lutheran cemetery
Lonely as a ghost in a graveyard

[stilltrucking]

I wish I knew how to use BB code to do "strike outs"
I would strike that last line and change it to
"I would ride through hell on Sunday just to be able to tell hem everything is okay now"

[the mingo]

I have quit winter quarters & winter ways of thinking - did the run into town & back yesterday -
pump pump pump roll roll roll - today sweet pain - overdid it of course - hell yeah mongloria!
to say I am untoned by the winter is to put it obviously understated - hey Jack where are all the headstones in the shot of the boneyard you posted? Ah - the turning swirling earth! read last night how Washington & the Continental Army lost New York City to the British - then an army of 8000 British regulars set out from Canada to link up with their pals - bunch of American sons-a-bitchs up there in northeast New York & Vermont started in on that British force by picking off the Indian scouts working with the Brits then went to work on the officers - used .50 caliber
rounds & long guns to get at the minds of the Brits - sent them back to their mothers & wives & families in England with a good case of PTSD - ain't no terrorist like an American terrorist -

[stilltrucking]

It is a new section of the yard, maybe two or three graves that you can't see in that shot. I got picture of my favorite bench and grave but I think I better photoshop the names off the tombstones, Vietnam Vet, his name on one side of the stone with his birth date and death date, on the other side his wife's name and date of birth with a blank space awaiting her death date, two hands in twined and two rings linked together, and the inscription, "Jesus loves me"

Not sure what the right or appropriate behavior, is it disrespectful to sit on that bench, to drink and eat? I am used to Jew cemeteries, all you got to do is make sure to wear a hat, and you can smoke all you want.

Wish I had something interesting to say today, I do want to tell you about the weather which is gorgeous cause you still stuck up in the arctic circle, NY and Points north, yeah spooky country for me, I remember the first time I saw the Adirondack mountain range, never seen mountains like that before, not like Appalachia at all, but maybe even more beautiful.

Thinking about a song called the road goes on forever, and I think bullshit, ask any old trucker he will tell you never run out of road, cause when you do it is the loneliest feeling in the world, you feel like a stranger in strange land.

I ran out of road for about half an hour last week, thought I was going to have to hit the road again, and wondering what I was going to do with my bike.

sorry for the long boring ramble
yes American terrorists do it better
I have always been partial to American Nazis too,
fellow here on studio eight a long time ago was offended because I used a Navajo rug with the swastika in the design, oh well, Ricky Nelson went to a garden party, but he would have rather drove a truck

you will be paddling a kayak up shit's creek any day now,
winter got be over any day now
keep on keeping


only thing beats being on the road is being on the water



about time for me to go

[the mingo]

Nazi's corrupted that symbol forever - i was born six years after the end of WW2 and it was actually what happened in Germany with the Nazi's before I was born gave my first extra-curricular exploration into history - which led beyond them to all sorts of other histories so that today the sum of all that reading is that I'm one of those jerks who has forgotten more than he will ever know -

don't know about paddling the kayaks - my woman spends so much time at her job now that we didn't have much time to get on the water last year - it's one of the reasons I got
back on a bike - because I could just walk out the door throw a leg over a bike and go -
we get out on the water when we can - wish we had more time to camp out of the kayaks though - we did that a couple of times & enjoyed the hell out of it -

no Jewish boneyards around here - which surprises me because there is a synagogue here - I don't believe it's operational anymore and not for sure but think it comes from when the Jews were brought here to Oswego to Fort Ontario from Europe during WW2 - today that bit of history is called "Safe Haven" - only one Jewish girl here when I was going to school - she was beautiful and my first real crush - her family moved away to Florida and that was the last time I saw or heard anything about her - the house she lived in is still here -

your rambles aren't boring

[the mingo]

Post-veteran & never drove a truck - i have to watch what I'm writing because if my thumb hits the touchpad it sends my cursor flying and next thing I know i'm typing right in the middle of something I've already typed - pain in the plumbing - dinosaurs would have been a great aggravation to us all had they survived - we would have had to extinct them all in order not to be forever on their menu -

[judih]

"dinosaurs would have been a great aggravation to us all had they survived - we would have had to extinct them all in order not to be forever on their menu -"

vegan dinosaurs resent that mis-representation

perhaps organizing an Occupy as we speak

[the mingo]

Way I figure it the plant eaters bring meat eaters so if I were John Wayne & my teeth were made of steel instead of plastic I'd tell 'em to just bring it!

[stilltrucking]

night rider
got my bike all decked out with chicken lights
all I need now is mudflaps and a coon tail.

I too figure you figure correctly
"First food"— Hatchet
unless you are a poet or artist
then all bets are off

just look at my teeth, omnivore
we are eaters and breeders
not as noble as tigers but more prolific
we are the crown of creation
made in G d's image

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous." Barbara Ehrenreich

[the mingo]

Jack - was gonna get some of those chicken lights too but shot near my entire wad on the bike - probably strip the lights off the Coyote & put them on the Tripel for now - been checking sites for bike lights - man you can light up your ride like a carnival these days - you can go down the road with your rig lit up like one of those long haul truckers with lights everywhere ... ha, if I had the scratch already would have done it the Tripel makes very much a minimalist statement for a bike - it's clean looking without a lot of shit hanging off of it - handlebars uncluttered except for the shifter - everything that counts is pretty much packed into that rear hub - the gears & the coaster brake - want to add a front handbrake, it's already drilled for it, just in case I lose the chain one of these days - chain goes so does the coaster brake - course you had to go & mention 'coon tails