Zuihitsu

[stilltrucking]

got the steel blues
the blue steel blues
slouching toward Ypres

when Woody was in the White House
Watching The Birth of A Nation
and keeping us out of the war

I wonder if trump wears boxer shorts or a thong
What's next for President Tweet
Wag the Dog*


Blue Steele
still thinking about those sane moral noble upright men who brought us world war one.

In mid-June 1917, Sir Douglas Haig presented to the War Cabinet a scheme for a massed offensive by the British Army. This attack was to be made into the Flanders country beyond Ypres and Passchendaele, to swing northwards and threaten the German lines on Ostend from a flank, force them off the Belgian coast, take Bruges, and even go farther, even to forcing the Germans to come to terms.

The Naval chiefs, especially Admiral Jellicoe, backed the scheme. They wanted the Germans ejected from the Belgian and Channel ports.

Smuts was strongly for the view that the generals had made out a case for at least having a try. Personally, he thought the chances were highly favourable."

To help him make up his mind he jotted down some notes, which ran:

"Western Front remains.
(II) Larger Objective.

(1) Secures Ostend and Zeebrugge and north coast and Navy Saved.
(2) Extracts us . . . in case of French collapse.
(3) Forces Germany to Antwerp-Brussels-Namur line.
Losses at 100,000 per month—less than half a million, whom we can make good.Very serious to veto operation on which military authorities are agreed."

He voted for this Larger Objective, which was Haig's scheme, and he was prepared to lose five hundred thousand men to carry it out.


http://ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/s ... chap47.htm

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[the mingo]

I just loves me some World War One. All that senseless bloody slaughter ! Bodies in trees !
Body parts everywhere! The rats! Yes we can! Makes me want to listen to the Girl from Ipanema or maybe Cisco Kid eat the salted peanuts out the can - shit! shouldn't a done that, now I got that song going 'round my head - Birds over snow up here - white three feet deep everywhere looks like January not March -
my spacer bar giving off in fits - probably something jammed under it preventing good contact
- I look on the screen and I got woodsalljammedtogether -

I just loves me some goodcontact - I wish all the world some goodcontact this morning -

maybe some Cisco Kid too -

Word-of-the-Day is: Edacious

Thinking of Ryokan up in his hut alone on the mountain - there is a poem he wrote that really makes me see him up there in that grass & bamboo hut of his - he wrote:

~ In paddies among the mountains
girls transplant
rice seedlings -
the sound of their singing
drifts up from far away ~

Did you say you were operating a hotdog stand ?

[stilltrucking]

The Denial of Death Earnest Becker
an Edacious book

Mother Nature is a brutal bitch,
red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates. We live, he says, in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is “tearing others apart with teeth of
all types—biting, grinding flesh, plant stalks, bones between molars, pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight, incorporating its essence into one’s
own organization, and then excreting with foul stench and gasses the residue.”

https://archive.org/details/DenialOfDeath

No hot dog stand but I am was born in Hotdogistan a little country just north of Baltimore

[the mingo]

No hot dog stand but I am was born in Hotdogistan a little country just north of Baltimore

Crack me up ! Righteous.

[stilltrucking]

you must welcome steve
and thank you for finding ZUIHITSU
all i got going righteousssssssssssssss now is
fast ZUIHITSU

the worm
that eats at
the core of
my consciousness
is . . .
good gawd i am starting to think like molly bloom, ah the pleasures of bicycle seats is that all that's left .

[the mingo]

OGod Molly Bloom ! I'm beginning to think like a bicycle seat ! Yes I will Yes !!

You get it, Jack, you get Zuihitsu !

I love enamel top tables - especially those from the 20's & 30's with those art deco designs on them. Back then the future seemed possible, now it just seems inevitable. I'm sitting at one right now, got another one out in the kitchen. Richard Brautigan wrote a poem that had a kitchen in it once. A desert, a horse, a ride -

Oodles of toodles and a doodle or two - Zuihitsu !

Poetry ? To hell with that noise ! I want to blow that shit wide open - BOOM!

My beagle's name is Wyatt. We adopted him & that's the name he came with. Been looking for a beagle named "Doc" ever since. Blowin' down"Copperhead Road" here. Thank You very much Steve Earle.

Just saw a vid where someone's Granddad & Grandma dancing a spirited round to a boogie-woogie piano - Whew ! They was working it OUT !

I got up at 4 a.m. It was 25 degrees. Now it's 8:22 a.m. The sun is rising and it's 11 degrees. WTF.

*Poof*

[the mingo]

"A fine idea came into my head. I took out the magazine and erased the autograph. In it's place I wrote, "To a Mayan Princess, from a worthless Gringo."
Ask the Dust - John Fante

Zuihitsu catch & hold anything - even one of last autumn's fallen leaves trapped in a footprint made in snow -

Most of the time I'm fending off words or feeling them up, whatever comes first - Lots of things too close for me to see without blur anymore - tried to get some prescription bifocals from my VA - first thing they do is hand me paperwork to fill out (!) wtf - I say "You DO realize I can't SEE to fill these papers out, RIGHT ? " - I loves my VA.

On a beach in Indiana
I was 9 yrs old
heard Little Richard singing Tutti Frutti
from the top of a telephone pole - Ain't Hurtin' Nobody - John Prine

If something needs saying it will find a way to get there -

My Va won't help me with my teeth. You got to have been wounded, disabled service-connected or a prisoner-of-war before the VA will see to your teeth - being scared shitless don't count, having night sweats don't count or nightmares or suddenly getting pathologically anxious for no reason at all don't count either - you just don't count and neither do your teeth
- in the meantime you're on the dodge sucking honey cause ya heard it has anti-bacterial properties - some words of Bruce Springsteen come to mind ...

"I went down to see my VA man
he said, Son, don't ya understand now ?" Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

I heard something just recently, "It ain't nothing but something to do"

Put that on my headstone, " IT AIN'T NOTHING BUT SOMETHING TO DO "

SUCK HONEY.

[WIREMAN]

something to do
sit at the bar sell a sculpture to the waitress
a boxer dog, l love Nola
that'll pay for brunch gots to get another
one in its place

the wasps chow down
bee sacrifice a shame
weather fine in Dover

lovin the WW1 vids on YouTube, especially the Red Baron and the dog fighters.....pirates are intriguing but there's no good visual footage just a lot of talking heads....first wire driver in a few daze, tastes superb

[the mingo]

lovin the WW1 vids on YouTube, especially the Red Baron and the dog fighters

Good to know someone else watches those things too -

[still.trucking]

Read a bit about periods
in the right place they are daggers piercing the heart of the sentence or . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . something like that

Love this something to do with only one slight hesitation reservation that I am going to spell it .Shitsui one of these days.

It was the great war, it was crazy mikes's war how he got his ticket to the land of the the brave. It was a great war, bloody good war, it was righteous war and best of all it was the first one,
thinking about jimboloco and his flying hearse.

[the mingo]

What the good damnfuck happened to jimbo anyway ? He just dropped right off the map. A long gone Daddy in the USA -

There always comes the violation of law. One wonders why we make law in the first place.
law - noun
violation - verb

yesterday we were down to the last bagel. Then it was eaten.
today we have a new package of bagels and begin again -

- it takes
this long
to write
a poem -

a kiss, not being a word, cannot be mis-spelled - our minds are built out of words -
phantom thoughts - phantom words - phantom minds

Human DNA - it's said to have come out of Africa - the geese sitting on the ice at the edge of the river here this morning, where did their DNA come from ?

Water dripping from the ends of icicles sparkling with trapped sunlight - the stuff of dreams -
Sunday morning and I can't help it, I'm gonna sing along with this hymn - Ethan Allen & the Green Mountain Boys would have loved this tune too -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omaRXzjUBC0

[still.trucking]

too late
I come back to edit my zuithitsu for today
mingo already come and gone again
and i am sitting here waiting for my steel cut oats with chopped dates and dried cranberries with butter and cinamon to cook and thinking about riding lawn mowers
I kissed my bike good bye and went shopping pretty soon
um grammar and commas and stuff like that
speaking the future perfect past present
read about a town in New England that lost a few million dollars because of the oxford comma

some say the earth sucks
but I carry and extra 50 pounds of body fat
just to hold me down in case
mother nature revokes the law of gravity

gonna kiss my as good bye if I dont get to ride today
out on that hill billy highway thanks steve

[WIREMAN]

40% power....the power of mindless destruction, senseless slaughter getting out of hand....and we learn.....right!....alamand left, now bow to your partner...Time slipping into a future, Stevie guitar Miller .......Henry Miller .......big sir n them oranges of hironymous Bosch .....fuck all the spelling for now ....scream back your a cow.....cold breeze today.....Seasons, call it spring....at jojos again listening to steppenwolf .......Herman Hesse ......wherefore we do we go from here?...whiskey in yer water, sugar in yer tea....Zuihitsu shogun, Richard chamberlin.......loved that beautiful lady mariko....I think it was.....aka a man called horse....pinned to the rafters by his chest......alls quiet on the western front...Ernesto .......give me a gun I wanna shoots me a rhino.....the horn man the horn, pure aphrodisiac .......32% power, women's lacrosse on the tube, led Zeppelin on the tunes, the light of the love that I found.....

[stilltrucking]

Star-crossed,
paper will burn

yes yes and so will gasoline powered lawn mowers

spring time for h*tler and Germany
the will to power
ii grow weaker every day
hardly a will at all these days

but ifs ya give me a sign I'll be willin
to be moving

I know the pleasures of three fingers whiskey the pleasures of drinking
but moving does more than the same thing for me

poetry is a blood sport for women
or so it seems to me
seems like most of the women poets I love
are dead by their own hand
I read somewhere that women can't get Zen

Met a hilly billy princess once
a six foot ex vegas show girl, by way of the Shenandoah valley,
she told me she was twice the man I am
but she did not offer to prove it
I should have asked
gave some wimpy answer

I don't know about the percentages
except man or woman we are all great apes
primate pecker-heads sometimes
maybe the Neanderthal vector

absence makes the heart grow fonder
but after forty years their is faint memory of my last bicycle seat.

the madman tells that the will to power is our primary drive, our primal instinct

yes I remember the war against the cows.

as much as I have been beating around the bush i finally got to write what sitting smack dab in the middle of my thoughts just off a bit in the back ground because this zhitshu (so much for spelling0), punctuation too, I intend to learn as I go, let my my mistakes aside for now, it is (Shitzsu) is a great relief for mental anguish, like a dose of good karma caused by bad, friends back in the seventies usta to tell me I have shitty karma, not not so tragic just can't get the vision of my brand new one hour old thirteen hundred dollar riding mover sitting there going up in flames, tires popping gas tank exploding. WOrd of today is Eidetic, been toying with that word since a night in the shipwreck Bar in Reveire Beach Massachussetts
when I fell in lust with a woman looking for a grudge fuck. What a tool I was
I woke up in love turned to her and smiled in the blue sober morning light and said good morning and she said "Asshole" short romances used to be my specialty back then.

well not to dwell on the bad
times once their past
that kind of thinking gets you
nowhere fast

[tinkerjack]

i sold my soul to the company store
not a moment to lose
fall back spring forward
it was cold clear April day and the clocks were striking thirteen

when did the last time I kissed a woman on the lips
become the last kiss

fall back to College Park, Maryland
Red brick campus with Georgina porticoes
Under the portico of the Anthropology bldg
her lips wet with the April rain

44 years I been out on the road
and I see pretty Alice in every headlight

smiling da miles away
on steve earles lost highwy

Ahchoo Zuihitsu