perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

[stilltrucking]

word licked today
talking all day at work
to women mostly
seeking the fountain of youth

If I ever get reincarnated as a woman, I would like to be born old from day one. Seventy at least.

I ain't had my head out the door in eight hours
This morning just before sunrise
cool breeze
not exactly cool
by Maryland Mountain standards
for for may in texas it was sweet.
overcast sky
and the wetherman says 20% chance of rain
Petter Sellers being there
"Chance Gardiner"
Trying to attune my body to mother earth
at long last
thinking about a two word jam
and gardens

more ramble


got no beat
but I sure feel beat

going to walk my foo dog
feel alive

[WIREMAN]

cool morning
baltimore day yesterday
publication reading
Buck Downs & Chris Toll
@ MInas Gallery
took some wired ones
there and Minas set up a
WIREMAN display, he's also
selling the Raga Blues CD
we all went to a spaceship bar
after the show and had a good
time, then I headed down
to Fell's Point and the
Zelda's Inferno poetry workshop
@ the Daily Grind on Thames St.
nice night saw a lotta old friends
and wrote & read some poetry before
heading back to Frederick late......

[WIREMAN]

freedom saturday morn
tappin on the cyber side
coffee house connection
keepin the monster outta
the house, i mean the net
it's easier that way, get's in
the way sometimes, studio's
for creatin music and art
relaxin, takin my shoes off
on my own over 2 months
really chilled feeling comin
from within, no more sink
or swim, no more someone
else's expectations, when i
wanna lay low now i do the
limbo..........

[WIREMAN]

place to lay mi words
in perpetu
santorum
mysterioso
was watching the
coolest dvd lastnight
mysterious religion in iran
dervishes still doing the
sufi way
zorastorians lighting the
eternal fires
dervish women baking bread
going into trances and
eating fire
wow what a wild way
watching lonewolf & cub
the baby cart from hell man
right now.....entertained..........

[Whitebird Sings]

last night
blends into the night before
and the day,
(sigh)
--
but tonight
is club night.
(smile)
strangers gather
and exhale
and inhale
poems to a beat.
stories laid out in hallucinatory form...
and,
(whisper)
we pretend
we're other people
(pause)
because we wish
(we all do)
that we had been there.
THERE!
with ginsberg and kerouac
cassady and corso.
(shout:)
and the women?
where was their voice?
what was their voice?
(sigh)
perhaps they'll be there tonight,
instead.
it's club night.
(smile)

[WIREMAN]

Beat women
Diane Diprima
awesome poet
have you read her memoirs?
Ann Waldman an awesome
poet and performer and
co-founder of the Jack Kerouac
school of disembodied poetics
I recently have been
reading the work
of Joanne Kyger....she went
to Japan and India
with Gary Snyder....Her journal
from the India trip
far outshines Gary's......
the Beat lives and
finally with a semblance of respect
for I do remember
when Jack was a laugh
and the Buddha was a joke about a sitting
fat man.....

[stilltrucking]

The clock is ticking hazy lazy
May daze
I been stoned for a week
Tomorrow I try again

sitting there in that high seat
stone cold sober
high on my number one drug
which is #2 deisel fuel
rolling thru the night
desert starry nights
white outs on interstate 80 in Wyoming
slidding down the mountain side in Colorado

I don't get around much any more
but I take delight where I have been
an old man remembers joy

now I nailed my shoes to the kitchen floor
looking for vicarious thrills
I cruise these internet highways
still addicted to the grind
and Gary Snyder asked
"Why do log truck drives arise earlier than students of Zen?"
because there is no other life.



Women of The Beat Generation

Table of Contents

Muses or Maestros?

[WIREMAN]

perpetually an early riser
saturday too....to do the
shopping....yeah i hates the
crowds...........
jeff aug and nico lai (Floating Stone) just arrived from
munich for a miny u.s. tour i'm sponsoring
the frederick show on monday night
should be a real blast and special night
2nd anniversary party for downtime coffee house
chk out floating stone http://cdbaby.com/floatingstone2
http://www.myspace.com/floatingstone

[WIREMAN]

jams jonesin'
blues growin'
times escapin
arts a hangin
hallelujah day
3 days man!
wahoooooooooo!!!!!!!!
yahoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
ever been stung by a dead bee?

[WIREMAN]

10 minute countdown
on library computer
i likes the limits
good for a puter junkie
coffee house sitting earlier
myspace sifting the bands
all of us fabulous
all of us on the pedestal
call it cyber realm
floating on word clouds
and how we do shine
2w0rds 3 words even 5 words
lil by lil
heading to the studio
much to do yet not work
more like a passion
visions emerging from
a life spent on the edge
manana i'll go back to sowebo
and see what i left behind
never permanenetly gone from the hood
it is my destiny deep down inside
frederick a welcome respite
but definitely not a hide-a-way
it's a happenin here
and i'm a glad i came with my wireman raga game.............

[stilltrucking]

ten minutes to GO

rose of sharon blooming at my front door
my second spring here in the hood
ten of us geezers living here in this senior village by the rail road tracks
just off the end of the run way of the air force base
which is about a hundred yards on the other side of the tracks.
from my back porch I have an un obstructed view of the passing gaudy graffiti spray painted box cars.

A lot of trains rolling this memorial day. But no war birds flying overhead today.

the clock is ticking and I am still living like a teen ager
as if I am going to live for ever

I am never far from the road, somehow those passing freights are like temple bells for me.

nine minutes
one minute to go
arbitrary limits
I am lost in time
body and soul entwined at last

I hope this was a good day for you Mark
I been almost on the verge of tears a couple times today
reading soldier's stories on the blogs.

times up

[WIREMAN]

days cool
dreams heavy
inspire-wired
yamaha keyboard
at ready
new toy
ravi shankar & ali akbar
in the morn
bangla desh
so many people
one of many..............plights
let's get small
pink floyd's the wall
coffee house cyber-sploring
too much bob evans
down on the farm
wooooooooo---------hooooo!!!!!!!!!!

[WIREMAN]

the hardest day
Mon-day-o
sittin' in the big
library atrium
sneezes abound
me cyber tappin'
excited bout my new
yamaha keyboard
and all the input here
in my new abode
the past becoming more mist
the way it should be
the sea awaits
beatific.....tranquilo....wired........

[WIREMAN]

in perpetu.....uno....dos....tres....
bethesda 40 miles away
bawlmer 50....west by god
just over the horizon.....
becoming a one man band
got my alesis drum machine
riyaz electronic tabla and
raagini electronic tambura
backing me up and a yamaha
keyboard playing the sounds
of the world....along with all my
drums and harmonicas and flutes
i'm in heaven these days.....great
diversion whilst i wire up some new wired ones for
my upcoming show in july-august
coffee house cyber tappin and thinkin'
bout the beat.........

[mousey1]

coffee
house
cyber
tapping
wonder where it leads
to sipping
thinking
dripping grape thoughts
through green leaves
elevating the dimensions
corresponding motivation
with need

heady demarcation

and behind the eyes
leaden repose