perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[saw]

icy stares from the hawk wind
I'm chillin' inside with my grandson
we been playin' with angry birds
sticker book and buildin' things
with blocks of leftover moldings
I painted and cut into shapes
the thermometer just keeps fallin'
and it reminds me of boot camp
at the great lakes when I was 19
shoveled snow every damn day
and that crazy first class lifer
was the scariest sailor I would ever meet
he'd put the chill in you with
the bulging veins in his neck
he was stone cold crazy as a canadian loon
but I got the wood stove fired up tonight
and I am eons away from my teens
and it's time for me to back to Harlan
we have some plastic insects to identify

[the mingo]

the girls
the girls
the girls
night this cold
easy to think about
the girls
the girls
the girls
poppa & his girls

[the mingo]

only insects
that could survive this cold
would be plastic ones
let the jam ring out
pump it full of antifreeze
i'm beginning to think
of 5 degrees above zero
as a balmy interlude

[WIREMAN]

brunch over
temp forecast
bleak
is what it is
the winds the
killer
uncomfortably numb
today
out in the shit
all week
life i choose
"how do u do it?"
they all say
no choice
its all part of the gig
im more concerned for my
guys up there 40 feet
in these gusts
ya never know
big gust can take the
biggest crane boom
treat it like a tinker toy
these are realities
extreme caution has
to be used
no 2nd chances
the guys slippin n slidin on ice
all day
in a world where ya gots to try
production rules
jammin
gots to b fun
just that
jammin rules
good to see the saw man here
a born jammer
nothing literal bout jam
it aint chat
it aint a conversation
except in a jam sense
its all sticky
lick the split
and jam on me!

[WIREMAN]

jam
total sensation
of the now
cuban bato
from below
hummmmmmm
of heater fan constant
slams of doors
laughing thai lady
snow squalls pushing thru
tristessa n jack interlude
more bato
dr. pepper
doritos cool ranch
antiques roadshow austin 3
mexican saddles
jack in adobe hut
2 flights up
dodging quakes
pleading for carolyn to come
esperanza visions
buddhist vows
catholic realities
shots of morphine
ease the pain
smoky haze
beer n bourbon
destruction
never a tv till near the end
home to mama
greyhound escapes
scents of cuban food
from below
hash from neighbors above
mingling smells
building alive
the wire waits
while i write

[the mingo]

began moving yesterday
snow never let up whole time
15 ft uhaul snowstorm fuck story
romantic as hell
get to longhouse
12 feet of snow
4 feet deep 'tween me
and the front door
romantic as hell
shovel shovel shovel
boxes boxes boxes
fucking boxes
two desks
fucking desks
more boxes boxes boxes
two chairs
one washer
FUCKING WASHER
one dryer
FUCKING DRYER
drive back in snowstorm
wipers on moving van ain't worth shit
get stuck backing in to old place
fucking joy in spades
pass out as soon as i get inside
open my eyes this morning
to hear wind howling outside
... blizzard ...
fucking blizzard
i'm balancing my 'puter on my knees
to jam this because my desk is
25 miles away
thru a blizzard fucking blizzard
and the romance of living
on Tug Hill plateau
died yesterday 10 minutes into
shoveling a trench 15 feet
thru 4 foot deep snow plus drifts
to the front door of my longhouse

[WIREMAN]

talk about tough
i cant imagine
but working out
in the shit for years
i can.....take care
of your back mingo.....

[WIREMAN]

all these little critters ....(not a haibun, more like a hobobun)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ifn i was wishin
i wouldnt be
a bettin man

ifn i was hopin
i wouldnt be
sizzlin in the
frying pan

ifn i was hidin
i wouldnt be
dyin to be or
not be with the
one i love

self confession in jam sauce....pots on, kettles boilin.....cool'd romance
yeah she kinda pissed me off...cosmic debris w/a twisted smile
jammin cold....seekin luke warm....gospels witnessed, jesus/buddha...saint of india
cabeza de vaca healing across southwest turtle island, letter to his majesty testifies
willie shakes dreams of our philosophies while joe the bartender philosophizes
with a college degree
cosmic debris...hubris...her chemise stunned me, attila the hun'd me, tamerlane too
circle....cycle....bipedal brew
an explorer of bipolar regions, late 20th century thang, whats the ballyhoo?
who dats & rabid bats, way into the getaway, breakaway, takeaway, its all a giveaway

[WIREMAN]

translations
his story interpreted
interpenetrated
im having a deja vu
right now
turn the music off
wired outlines on
my walls
maybe one more
before i head out
5-8 inches forecast
no trabajo manana
sculpting not work
more of a pleasure
mona lisa
geishas
goddesses for my new show
wanna do another american gothic too
music back on
pliers ready

[WIREMAN]

double seeing
howd that happen
fix'd dat....

[the mingo]

flushed
the
tadpoles
today
mingo out
at 2 degrees below nothin'
jam on

[WIREMAN]

snow day!
time to chill
make art
got it going yesterday
pick up where i left
off today
them tadpoles was doomed

childlike wonder
water holes in empty lot
fulla tadpoles

[the mingo]

them tadpoles was doomed

yeah that ain't no lie
with all this moving going on
i just decided they weren't going with us
had had enough of the fuckin' tadpoles
i've kept them alive for weeks
changed the water in their bowl
fed them
- enough!
funny thing is most of them
had developed rear legs
but there the development seemed to stop
seemed as if nature herself knew
there was no place for them to live
'til spring so she was waiting -
still, she never could have foreseen
the future as a septic tank
and all those buggers are there now
"them tadpoles was doomed"
ha! but who knows?
in the spring maybe a 200# bullfrog
may erupt out onto the lawn
but I'm not going to be here then
hey, I caught a vid the other day
of Kerouac reading his own 'ku
you prob' already heard it but
including the link just in case
ya know he was good at that 'ku shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJdxJ5llh5A
wire on, man, wire on
hell yeah, Mongolia!

[WIREMAN]

might produce a frogzilla
you'll hear its barking
ribbit 25 miles away
come spring

taking it easy
got 3 geishas going
in wire
sun's shining
we only got
3 inches of snow
youd think it was a blizzard
the way people react these daze

[the mingo]

aw frograts! - another book
gotta go check it out