Now! More than ever - 8 Day Miracle Jam

[judih]

catch a prayer call
five times a day
that's a mosque in Azza calling

Over here, we have peacocks
catch a shriek 3 times each morn
that's nature sticking her neck out

When fields touch fields
and silent cotton grows
that's cooperation building

let it be

[judih]

hey man, watch out
there's a miracle heading your way
got a call from Central
tsunami size miracle, yeah

seismic waves are starting to leap off the chart
it's a big one, alright
if you're wearing a pacemaker
stay away from the puter

big one, biggest one of the year
watch out, man
will keep ya posted

[perezoso]

Weird cotton is from an arabic word:
algoton I believe: I once spent a few days with
arabic, the graceful calligraphic wall of Allah,
aleph null, the semitic freak verbs
though sent me back willingly to
to etre and avoir, ser y tener:
yet Algoton Bowl would seem
a bit odd in 'bama:
Minarets calling the word
of the Prophet 5 times
a day not so conducive to
contemplation

[judih]

you get what you came for
pure algoton t-shirt
made in taiwan

eye wah sa'alam
a small cardamom coffee
halva to melt in the mouth

peace brings sweetness of friendship

[perezoso]

Saa' laam or Shalom
The Semitic is the
voice of Being
thought many:
Milton and Melville included

I taught in a quonset hut surrounded by
cali algoton, and laughed when,
contrary to expectations,
valley rains came in September
and the boys lost a few ticks off their
bushels for the damp commodity

grow yr own cotton

[judih]

qat grows tall
lemons are lush
aloe vera thickens

where plants takes root
we are safe
rains fall so seldom

[perezoso]

citrus
also is an arabic
thing: naranja
One could be
an orange or lemon
grove gambler,
if u had a couple
hundred thou
for the property
and trees
and some assholes
to monitor your
packing shed:
a few old
naranja
packer
gals, near Fresno,
though
said
the planters
were
all baby
fuckers..
Merry X-mas Baby Fuckers

[stilltrucking]

Nabakov can make words jump through hoops you never even knew existed

I never saw the movie

but after having the book for years and years

i sat myself to read it

now I know what writing is

when you can take hemmingways one true sentence and run with it

devoured the first sixty eight pages while

sitting in a sunny lawn chair

when a wild west texas wind

the book was so old the binding shot

pages scattered to the wind

as soon as I get the nerve or money

gone to try again

[perezoso]

Ya Still Droolin':
fly on the daddy-o,

Knobakoff
n the LowLitas

[stilltrucking]

a naked brunch
when you see
what is on
the end of
your dork

[perezoso]

Could that naked crunchin'
at the end be the sound of
las labias de su madre

[hester_prynne]

coo coo ca chew?
the twain of it,
wakes me up
john,
I was callin your
name
john,
civil morning
ended it,
sleeping
with visions
of words in my head,
is a thrill,
beyond organism,
now,
empty pockets
cram down my throat,
weary
i remember the holes
sharpening me,
my kick ass,
needs coffee,
wakes up slower,
than my imagine.

[perezoso]

Daddy Bill B., reviled by suburbanites, hicks, and soccer mommies, (and he did have some moral failings), drew a fairly nice line between the Johnsons and the shits:

(when in doubt paraphrase)


The hard-core shit makes a career from
minding other people's bidness


a Johnson tends to his own bidness. He doesn't snitch if he detects pot or opium in the tenement. Ignores the local call-girls or fags

But he will give help when help is needed:

"He won't stand by when someone is drowning or under physical attack, nor when animals are being abused. He figures things like that are everybody's business."


"like Pavlov's frothing dogs"

[jimboloco]

this guy's a trip
he's gonna burst thru
no stoppin it nature take's its course
pleasin Pavlov's
unconditioned
destructured
in awe,
jugo de naranja
jugo de uvas
jugo de manzanas
i say those words
three days a week
this diversity gives me momentum
five years gone by
slow down an get more done
shoshone squaw has my child
lost lake frost.
time to get high.
my old book Leaves of Grass
hopefully the smokin kind
bought for 25 cents
autographed by "Woody Guthrie"
"Longy Beachy, 1954"
"my fav word kook" he writ
my god a power object
for a quarter
library book sale whilst
down an out, 1974
I still got it,
it still got me,
waiting for
the bookbinder.
Lost time?
Not a second of it
all in there
unbound.

[perezoso]

Off Highway 40
Walt's
Leaves of Grass
Invite your soul
Be Large
Contain
Multitudes
Inspire
Fs
Qs
Bs
n
Bleats
Innumerable

Not my fave,
but one could do
worse

Walt of the Camden
Ganymedes
hits about
200

Spout from the
Ladle Endlessly
Mocking

He was a pal of Abe Lincoln some said


"INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both --as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man....."

(Bierce)