Dooby's Road
Dooby's Road
Dooby built a trail in the desert,
lined with sculptures of stacked rock.
He inscribed flat stones with Zen quirks,
and laid them out beside his works,
his Elvis in a cape made of beer cans,
his Aphrodite with full pink rock tits.
Along the road you'll find an octagonal hovel
called Sagebrush Network, good for some shade,
erected on pine limbs, roofed in hog wire and sage.
Faces of old TVs are cut into a thick netting
wrapped around the six of the eight sides,
and the flat stone inside reads,
"to change channel,
turn head."
Yes, dial in canyons or the waterless sea,
the plane of light, the faraway nebulae,
the rare air, its heady, lurching whiffs
and silent intensity in the interval,
still as cracks in the hardpan floor.
A lull to wreck your ears.
Sip a little bourbon.
See Walter Cronkite's face in a rock.
Go out on the energized plane and return.
Fall asleep under the glow of an old Zenith,
its celestial sheen, angelic opalescence,
Cassiopeia's vainglorious "W."
Solar massive will come early
on Dooby's road.
lined with sculptures of stacked rock.
He inscribed flat stones with Zen quirks,
and laid them out beside his works,
his Elvis in a cape made of beer cans,
his Aphrodite with full pink rock tits.
Along the road you'll find an octagonal hovel
called Sagebrush Network, good for some shade,
erected on pine limbs, roofed in hog wire and sage.
Faces of old TVs are cut into a thick netting
wrapped around the six of the eight sides,
and the flat stone inside reads,
"to change channel,
turn head."
Yes, dial in canyons or the waterless sea,
the plane of light, the faraway nebulae,
the rare air, its heady, lurching whiffs
and silent intensity in the interval,
still as cracks in the hardpan floor.
A lull to wreck your ears.
Sip a little bourbon.
See Walter Cronkite's face in a rock.
Go out on the energized plane and return.
Fall asleep under the glow of an old Zenith,
its celestial sheen, angelic opalescence,
Cassiopeia's vainglorious "W."
Solar massive will come early
on Dooby's road.
Last edited by mnaz on March 26th, 2015, 12:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Dooby's Road (from my old "rock" days)
great pictures to contemplate...temples of art and landscape....the Dooby Brothers..ha
loved the "to change channel, turn head".....right on !
loved the "to change channel, turn head".....right on !
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading
you may end up where you are heading
Re: Dooby's Road (from my old "rock" days)
i agree with saw, great images here
you took me to the place rather than just telling me about it!
keep writing hard mnaz
you took me to the place rather than just telling me about it!
keep writing hard mnaz
"From the sudden invasion of a mind not my own in the world. This I will record. For whom? For m y s e l f, beyond denial and beyond indifference." - Philip Lamantia
Re: Dooby's Road (from my old "rock" days)
Thanks. I traveled a lot through the desert west (as you might have guessed) not too long ago, and places like these, completely unexpected in this case, kicked my ass. They're hardly even "places," more like states of mind in all of that open expanse.
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thats cool...i lived for a short time in New Mexico....saw their petroglyphs....beautiful....reminded me of that time/place
"From the sudden invasion of a mind not my own in the world. This I will record. For whom? For m y s e l f, beyond denial and beyond indifference." - Philip Lamantia
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ah, this road is oddly familiar to me
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"Solar massive" -- yeah, a bit obscure . . . burning, blasting desert sun, that's all.
Yeah, it's a true story. The Burners are familiar with this road . . . even if they haven't actually gone down it.
Yeah, it's a true story. The Burners are familiar with this road . . . even if they haven't actually gone down it.
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this is marvelous, just fabulous and vivid imagery, nice rhythm and flow
the Doobies played in my home town in the early 80's
didn't get to see them, sure wish I did
(((loved!)))
the Doobies played in my home town in the early 80's
didn't get to see them, sure wish I did
(((loved!)))
shadowplay
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love that "solar massive".... i get the feeling i shoulda turned off one of those roads around 29 palms.....
me I feel like I'm becoming some kinda Kung fu t.v. Priest.....
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Thanks shadow and Wired. Yeah, as much as I really dig the Mojave and those gnarly Joshuas, Nevada became even more intriguing to me-- its endless, stark, wide-open vista and rock sculpture, and so many long "trails to nowhere," without fences. The Black Rock Desert is pretty mind-blowing . . .
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I like your imagination here----you created with words something beyond just description.
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