Get Off the Road - Get on the Path

[mtmynd]

Get Off the Road - Get on the Path

no more on the road
i need to get off
the road is the same
interstate modality
running its course
the macplastics
the boogerkings
the wendygrease
the jackoffinthebox

enough!

take the road and shove it
had all i can stomach
time has proved its sameness

off the road
with 4wheels
lurching across
the virginity smiles
tasting the exhaust

no! No! NO!!

return to peaceful
return to the arms
nature spread thick
over the earth beat

yeah the earth beat
the taste of magic
the thrill of no thing
running streams
tall mountains
pines to the sky
deserts pulsating
naked so fucking naked
the chaparral struggles
but the effort is true

truth! Truth! TRUTH!!

send me the goddamn truth
no fedex
no u-p-s
no air mails
send it strong
arrow shot
straight into
the heart empty

fill it up
to the top
and more
more of this
i need it
junky love
for the spoils
of nature heaving
her breath into
webs of desire

fuck! Fuck! FUCK!!

that is it.. now
fuck in front of nature
unclothed look at me
see my prick standing tall
watch that cunt open
eagle voyeur
limb standing
watching
owl wisdom knows
bears shitting wood
the tumultuous benign
and the seven seeds shoot

star blotter sucking dry
the visions lost to cody
the road is unfit for man
kindness lost to greed
the spills evaporating
into clouds of darkness

rain! Rain! REIGN!!

Nature look at me
eye to eye
tell me now what you see
i am real. i am.
eye to I see the conditions
and what they have wrought
from your steamy coals
baked in ovens breath
the delight of life

escapes ... fumes rising
the coolness of nature
fried into patches of residential
disharmony....invasion of tract homes
sneaking across your goodness
your life giving
stolen by thieves unable to connect
to your style

let me fuck you one more time
before you descend into trash dump worlds
with stupidity crawling over your mass
picking up the pieces to fit together
into puzzles without end
the collages of trash reassembled

monstrosities of junk landfills
have become hallowed grounds
that harbor relics of your once proud
beauty now forsaken into attic mold

dissolve! Dissolve! DIS SOLVE!!

on the road is gone
jack is fucking dead
allen is fucking dead
gregory is fucking dead
the beat never fucking dies
just goes on beating
within without within without

the road is fucking dead
the road is fucking dead
the road is fucking dead

get off the fucking road
and get the beat from her
mother nature will beat you
spank your fucking ass
until you come
come all over Her

get off the fucking road
inner states await you
beyond the interstates

Cecil B.L.

[WIREMAN]

off the road
fuck the car
4 1/2 years
never felt better
ride the train
feel this place
fuck the fast food
been so long
the taco bell makes
me sick
mcshit
boogerpauper
drunkin dunkin
$5 vegan donuts
the worlds gone nuts
buy yer house hotel
pay your insurances
ride that drain
swirl down to the
ulcerific bottom
where they give
ya a watch that breaks
on the way home
ssssshhhhhhiiiiiitttttt
did i say enuff
life in all its glory
aint it a hole???.....

[mnaz]

Yezz,
give up grease and concrete,
give up eight lanes for four,
give up four lanes for two,
and two lanes for dirt
two lanes are too fast,
ya can't see a picture
Yezz, get on the path ...

(but I still take my rig out there...)


Great stuff ...

[judih]

walk the path
or sit
still-life blooms

[mnaz]

On the road, get off the road.
Hell, the whole thing is the road.
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting
some prophet or poet of the road, and all of
the anticlimactic speeches when you arrive,
and all of those dead-ends, the anti-road,
it's natural, we wander and know better,
we can't seem to get over it,
but where is it going?

[saw]

the masses have lost their way
their under exercised brains are now
capn' crunch
someone i know just back from acapulco
she shows me pictures of the mall there
like that's normal behavior, i bite my lip
and me just back from shads landing
pocomoke river state park, with day trips
to assateague island, trippin with the ponies
waves and sand in the sun
at night drinking a few dark and stormys
maybe sharing the peace pipe
our guitars play softly for many hours
into the night of tall straight pines
we jam like there is no tomorrow
or better yet like this is the best day ever
fuck that megalomaniac mickey D
fuck that sadistic looking king of all the burgers
"you gotta live mas" ????.... give me a fucking break
that's death....slow fucking death ....on the road
get off the road !....fuck the homogenization
get off the fucking road !

[mtmynd]

on the road
get off the road !....fuck the homogenization
get off the fucking road !

it's no longer Kerouac's America we're living' in...
corporatizing of the world has lead to mediocrity
and 'we' all become subject to that mentality
more fearful of freedom than the lies of security

Gracias, SAW... enjoyed yr read.

... and thanks to you, Naz and Wired whose paths were cut by your own vision.

[WIREMAN]

ya know the shits fucked when u watch a football game on tv, it blows me away, the commercials,the my team attitude and hero worship going on, even with a new star falling every day....sitting in a cafe it blows my mind these daze to hear the conversations going on, these people aint dreaming or even tripping, no its a delusional society thats going on, makes ya wanna cry when u think of the honest hope, sincere hope we had for a better world....these kids act like they knew jack or neal....its crazy.....they look at me with wide eyes when i tell em about my times in the village, san francisco and palo alto, and old downtown DC, there was a freedom that is gone now, something that u had to be there, in that time and space to be able to understand, its incomprehensible to understand what it waslike to be in those times, unless you felt that freedom....just as before us they had even more freedom than we knew with the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over our young heads....its a viscious spiral to the bottom, will it ever end???

[mtmynd]

these are dark times and these are brilliant times
when the two forces step carefully on the edge
not wanting to tip the delicate balance that we
all count on to continue moving forward hoping
tomorrow will bring an end to the madness but
in reality we seem to know it will get much darker
before the light blinds us all and we embrace our
full potential to create a far better world than that
from which we all came, one step at a time, on a
new path cutting through today's bullshit and stench.

thx, wired, for your insight...

[the mingo]

I'd say madness balances just like anything else but what the hell do I know?

[mtmynd]

I'd say madness balances just like anything else but what the hell do I know?

I'd hope you know more than I do, amigo.

[saw]

well its been exactly 30 years since Orwell's dystopian novel, that is ringing eerily true as I type.....Edward Snowden has revealed to us the omnipresent government surveillance known as the work of Big Brother back then .....but no different really except maybe even more all encompassing than 1984 could have imagined....the novel spoke of perpetual war and well, isnt that exactly where we are...The Ministry of Truth is a combination of the faux evening news and the advertising they assault us with in the commercial breaks .... propaganda that has zero investigative reporting as the source of the stories, but rather strictly scripted bullshit from a prostitute editor with his hand in the till....Qceania is alive and well

Its difficult to be hopeful, but when you have children and grandchildren you cannot come off as the cynical dark man that is related to them by blood, and only preaches doom and gloom...no we must encourage them to change the world ! I always tell my kids, the world needs critical thinkers...people that are innovative, adaptable, determined, and willing to fight the status quo....sure it's good to learn your math and english, your science....but most importantly do not follow the leaders like lost sheep....forge new pathways....question authority.....though Timothy Leary descended into madness, this is what he saw when he was psychedelically experimenting ....didn't turn out so well for him, but he was on to something...as was Andrew Weil, Huston Smith, and Richard Alpert ( Ram Dass)....all of them at Harvard at the same time.....what a time that was ! get off the road !

[mnaz]

I know what you mean, saw. Disconnecting (or at least critically viewing) our propaganda boxes would be a good start. That has already started, really. Learning how to translate political "talking point/buzz-speak" would also be good. Get off those roads !!

[Atehequa]

Beautiful,
peaceful, then stimulating. It took me places while steering me away from others.

Thanks.

[mtmynd]

Beautiful,
peaceful, then stimulating. It took me places while steering me away from others.

Thanks.

Thank you for taking time to read this... the written road can be dusty and rusty but the view just might be worth it.