perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[WIREMAN]

yeah i didnt know
they had it on kindle
till today

[WIREMAN]

jammin to music
mixed bag
guitars wailin
words ascending
"Money!"
scramble
all the weather angst
gone tonight
i mean i dont flip
and make a raid on
the grocery store
but it does effect
my work status
got the wire goin
had a nice midday
out for food n drink
some jazzy hippity hop
shit on now
this wire, the 20 gauge
got lotsa oil on it
makes for black fingers
still thinkin bout
that travelin man
basho
reading bout henry m.
via erica jong
very enlightening read
stonehouse coming
read a bit of his stuff before
a kinda han shan character
"everybody fightin bout that spoonful!"
the wire waits
time to get back at it!

[the mingo]

reading the Knapsack Notebook -
the writing on the first page knocked me out!
i ain't got any farther
keep re-reading first page -
wow

[WIREMAN]

oh shit
the stonehouse stuff
is magnificent
content
length
form......perfect
of course red pine
is the best chinese
poetry translator/interpreter
its more confirmation
that this is the best
way to go poetically
feeling nature
feeling place
little dwelling on ego/self
im getting sick of the
me me me....love love love shit
allusions to life and its mysteries
is what i seek
the chinese have it so right
for millenia
even the war poems
of tu fu and the influence
he had upon basho
elude to nature
but u know they're
talking about the
futility of war
enough
jam on me
we got a taste
of what u been
going thru weatherwise
this week....& it sucks!
all hail mongolia!

[the mingo]

i'm heading for the stonehouse when done w/Basho
i'm glad I got that book
there's so much in it already
to re-read
what Basho said in the
beginning of knapsack notebook
about poetry still
knockin me out out out
must be the time of life
i find myself in that this stuff
is slamming me up the head
radioactive wows all down the page
quiet around here weather wise
sky was blue first trip to the longhouse this morning
but overcast now -
biggest thing temp up to 25 degrees
almost feels good to what's been happening
i been reading poetry since i was 11
writing since 12
Basho says i don't know shit
and he's right
hell yeah, Mongolia !
twice!

[WIREMAN]

yeah that basho book
is an education
sam hamill another
poet translator
supreme
the book flew by
i'll be back in it
soon, been immersed
in henry miller last couple daze
stonehouse last night
blew my mind
the poetry in that book
a thing of beauty
its like discovering han shans
angel brother
gonna try and savor this one

cold front movin in
pipes burstin all over town
this week
got my fingers crossed
sprinkler system runnin
through my place....ugh
last year it burst
but outside my place
callin for "thunder snow"
at 6pm.......my sake date
had to cancel another burst
pipe at her place.....jeeeezzzz
off till monday
gonna keep the wire rollin
takin skye and samantha to
a concert tomorrow night
lovin life.....

[the mingo]

you're having way too much
fun down there -
it is frigid up here
you speak of "thunder snow"
i think the rumbling sound i hear
is the grinding of continental ice sheets
heading my way
frost patterns on the inside
of the bathroom window
i'm gonna stand out in the field
and meet the ice sheets head on
with short-form poetry on my lips
it'll be the mingo's last stand !
Hell Yeah, Mongolia !
... yeah, i know - too much winter,
too much snow ...

[WIREMAN]

its a cold that gets
inside everything
even this food
gets cold fast
my place is toasty
most times...cept now
erica amazing writer
this miller book astonishing
might go back and read
fear of flying again

jam
cafe chatter
lunch time
steak salad
coffee
reading poetry
corso
no work all week
been wiring
& chillin at the cafes
suns shinin
might suit up for
a walk today

when asked by a
disciple " does a dog
posess buddha nature?"
Joshu replied, "Mu"
not like a cow
more in chinese like
yes and no
needless to say it is a
famous zen koan

[the mingo]

yeah I know,
had a book about him when I was still in the service
i loved that book
"then wash your bowl" - o hell yeah
looking back on it from now
wish I could remember what the
title ... damn! i have google!
i'll be back !

[the mingo]

FOUND IT !

Radical Zen - Yoel Hoffmann

[WIREMAN]

wow justgot it free on terrebess.pdf for kindle

[the mingo]

Good! I'm not gonna go too far out on the limb but I think you may enjoy it . How did you get it free ?

[WIREMAN]

on that terrebess site as a pdf....theres all kinds a good work available as pdf's there....

[WIREMAN]

hard love
hard reading
hard life
hard times
is they coming?
some seek the
simplicity
others look for
mixing it up
still more confront
the impossible
wondering
wandering
no choice but
to swim
hard do
when everthings froze
the cold permeates
more snow manana
all day in fact
was good to see em
rockin here in frederick
last night
me and my friends up front
feeling it
jammin
more like sliding
all hail mongolia!
jam on me!

[the mingo]

more moving today
it's like the ocean
it just goes on & on
new bed to pick up
and get it through this door
on the longhouse
it's the narrow way
well, we are here now
short form poetry
has come to Tug Hill plateau !
Hell Yeah, Mongolia !