perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[WIREMAN]

jam
jam sticky
jam slow
where did all
the jamsters go?
we're back to slow
oops did i mean snow
here a snow
there a snow
blowing snow
fine snow
wet snow
snow mix
calling for 3-5 inches
better than feet
snow me a river
frozen white
place where harry houdini
gets trapped under the ice
but its really tony curtis
best part he ever did play
ceptn maybe in some like
it hot with marilyn bless
her angel waze
jam sticky
jam on and on
lets get down
lets laff
ha ha ha ha
before u get stabbed in the ass
ouch....all hail mongolia!
blessed be yur jammin day.....

[WIREMAN]

wanna call it
one last blast
winter ragin
mean mix on
the streets
walkin careful
wondering when
i'll get back to
the construction site
enough already
no trabajo=no dinero
plenty of folks at the nola cafe
people lovin the snow
out there in it
watched the new movie
"Interstellar" tonight
was pretty damn good too
what a change from
my chinese poetry studies
at the cafe they say "what u writin there wireman?"
i say "chinese style poetry" they say oh yeah
" i like haiku" i just smile

[the mingo]

moving van stuck in driveway
put poetry under wheels for traction
still no help
curse creation
still no help
van don't even move
just wheels spinning
i bet a mammoth could
pull that hunk of useless
metal out of there

[WIREMAN]

that woolly mammoth
musta hauled ass
right across frozen
lake erie
jammin
finished erica's
miller book
onto stonehouse
and millers black spring
which i read 40 years ago
jammin
diggin deeper n deeper
toward china
discovering japan
korea too
diggin them throat singers
coming in for a landing
jammin!

[WIREMAN]

no herds
no words
no birds to sing
no heat to hum
no rockets red glare
no tracks or trackers
no palms
no poison berries
no pitchforks
no albatrosses
no fairy tale endings
no will come true
no fifth dimensions
no mamas and papas
no way to san jose
no haiku
no senryu
no basho or issa
no baseball
no tetherball
no thrill of it all
in the end

[judih]

lots of nothing
more than we expect
in the middle of nowhere

[the mingo]

$108.00 to tow a van
8 damn feet to pavement
+ tax - the laws of dead men
laid on the living -
i'm in the wrong fucking business
enough of this! - from now on every 'ku
gonna be $50.00 + a dead man's tax
+ delivery charge + surcharge
for a grand total $72.50
and be damn glad I don't
charge by the line
or by the word
and if ya want Scripture
that's gonna be extra

[WIREMAN]

frickin worlds gone crazy
even crappy vegan donuts are
5 dollars
at cafe nola

one month till spring
time changes march 14th
the wheels will meet the road

wire is rolling in my mind
octopus
owls
breasts
lovely locks of hair
it's when i see
the wire unravel
that's when it comes
out of me
it's like all i can see
one more day for
the wire......

[the mingo]

... we all got
that one thing
or two
what keeps us
just this side of forced medication -

good thing too

[WIREMAN]

for me its john lee hooker
boom....boom...boom....
saw him at cellar door in '78
front table at that old d.c. club
what a show it was, old hook kept
checkin my hot girlfriend out

[the mingo]

i just realized you said $5 bucks for a donut -
Holy Smithering Smokin' Bombs Away Dream Babies in the Morning !
- put me in mind of what Basho said about sharing a drink
with a peasant villager who brought out two cups cheaply lacquered
he said in the city no one would have gone near them
but there in the mountains they seemed exactly right
don't know what he would have said
about 5 bucks a donut

[WIREMAN]

"vegan" donuts they say
they are tasteless crap
vegans should be eatin kale
not donuts the worlds goin crazy.....fast!

am cold
like 8 degrees this morn
they told everybody
"go home!" this morn
hope my taxes come thru....ugh
poet money got me audited
past 2 years
made me quit the biz till
i retire...just too much $'s on top
of my regular job earnings
poor man fucked in america
must send up a red flag with irs
took the obamacare fine too...ugh
they all suck....politico fuckers
what else would i expect out of
a buncha lawyers, they'll get yur $'s
one way or another
nuff said
jammin
sun shinin
witches titty cold
steam horn moans at the apple sauce factory
lunchtime in fredROCK USA

[the mingo]

snowing
ain't even finished my first coffee
and it's snowing
can't even see to the other side of the road
fuck the road !
where the hell is the sun?
rhetorical bullshit -
folks think because they got
their electricity
& internet
& cars
& a fridge
that this ain't wilderness
but it is the wilderness
and the wilderness
ain't no lie

[WIREMAN]

snow manana here....ugh
felt good to b back at work
wooly baby rhino found in siberia
ummmmmmm!!!
what else?
oh yeah jam
stonehouse is mind blower
content....form.... the best
makes me wanna mountain man it
its like he constantly is saying
what me hurry?
just take a chill pill
look at the mountains
listen to the stream
write poetry
grow yur own food
live......
he musta been a helluva jammer
i know he was into reading han shan
fact......

[WIREMAN]

National Geographic
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ice preserves
ancient steak
who made salad
fung shun
jung sun
erica jong san
tundra conundrum
above steppes
winds on tien tai
mercury below
cold permeates my depths
they're celebrating
legalize it in DC tonight
i'm out here pickin
4 leaf clovers in the
ice and snow
plum blossoms in
the winter
hint of spring
that will be sprung
ancient crocs
devour wildebeasts
while lions can only
watch them chomp
in the shallows
on the banks
of primordial rivers
where the robber
meets the ghost
all hail mongolia!