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Interesting sidelight to pic of great grandfather above....my dad always had told me he had lost a leg in a train accident.....it wasn't till the other night that my sister found out the details, which are kinda interesting, being as how he died in the poor house in Chicago.

Poor old Walter G.
Never did get a break
Poor man's destiny in
the Good old US of A
Maybe a cosmic payback
for leaving his wife and
2 boys and heading for sea
There's always a reason
To blame is in season
Sometimes things just make
you run away, like hurt
So who's to say?

The lesson for old Walter was "watch where u step, it just might b the abyss."

time the unbending deserter
love in the now
clicking my heels together
for a Shenandoah Christmas

Oh Dixie
now your done
got them Mason Dixon blues

run children run
Golem and God
Mr Peabody's coal train

Oh lordy don't get me started on railroads
our only hope is to incorporate the children
cause only corporations will have freedom of speech
screw that
future fears
women are such optimists
our biological imperatives
don't mind me I am monk
GOD INC. ™
Freedom of religion for corporations
can you get your head around that

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the ...
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The railroad corporations are persons with the intent of the Fourteenth .... that the Court 'avoided' the issue of corporate personhood, why did Davis include it?

Freedom of Religion - News - Times Topics - The New York Times
Commentary and archival information about freedom of religion from The New ... and first to consider whether for-profit corporations have right to religious liberty.

biological imperative by ~k

after us the savage god
Buddha BUddha my heart
compassionate master
Jesus broke my heart

Paul Klee, Tod und Feuer (Death and Fire), 1940

for Crazy Mike and W.G.C.

for poor old Walter G.
rest in peace

Gotta find that Santa card
Keep losing all my files

Shoulda listened to Doreen
Miss her round the holidaze too

Jam
Got a nice invite for dinner
Gonna go at 4
Ravens game afterwards
Been in a funk on this day
Since CJ went to hospice
4 years ago, time to leave it behind

Old days gone
Older days way gone
All them lives
I've led
All them loves
Lost in time
O the women I've loved
The turkeys they cooked
The people who sat at the
many tables
The football games
Wishbones broke
Memories like ether
Like dew
Like rocks of age
There, yet slipping away
All about the NOW!
That's the GOT.......

all about the children
for those of us who are childless
at least for me
if only fucking was not so much fun
who would need to be a Buddha

don't mind me mark I am too stoned to use this machine Going to see my Diamond Lil today before she disappears
she almost still recognizes me
talk about precious
this soap bubble of consciousness
tenuous as the surface tension of a child blowing soap bubbles
Alzheimer's so strange
the mind thing this consciousness
I get tired of Buddha guys preaching Christian platitudes at me
not that there is anything wrong with that
but I have become grateful for
my heavy duty jam buddies
we just jam
forget about the words

st jack
my Buddhist Catholic saint
I will fear no first thought




what ever happened to non sum I wonder
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Hey ST found Santa pic
Waded thru perpetual

U jammin buddies
Is the best

A lil jam time fun
Orson Welles
Dream within a dream
W/ Alan Parsons Project
Also a track of the Raven
Nevermore!!!
Quoth that raven
Implore
Sweet Lenore
Waves to the shore
Sands slipping
Feel gripping
Nevermore
This here
Concrete jungle.....jungle....jungle...
Bob
Marley
Where is this love to be found
Instead of concrete jungles
Me in it
River deep
Catoctin high
Laughing like a clown
Pick myself off the ground
Loving them sisters Clemm
Down on East Fayette St.
Laid old Edgar to rest
All the towns wanna claim him
Richmond
Philly
New Yawk
Boston
The man got around
Took a Frenchman to put him on the literary map
Baudelaire
Fleurs du mal
Howlin Wolf
Evil goin on
Got the blues
In this here
Concrete Jungle.....jungle.....jungle......
Sweet life
Jamma jam

where is this love to be found





where is this love to be found?
for me it is found in
my literary angels
in disguise

Twenty-first. Night. Monday.
Silhouette of the capitol in darkness.
Some good-for-nothing -- who knows why--
made up the tale that love exists on earth.

People believe it, maybe from laziness
or boredom, and live accordingly:
they wait eagerly for meetings, fear parting,
and when they sing, they sing about love.

But the secret reveals itself to some,
and on them silence settles down...
I found this out by accident
and now it seems I'm sick all the time.


Anna Akhmatova

I wish they could all be California girls
Anna I love you for your courage
ain't she beautiful

Smiling in my sailing shoes

That one for D
I was really joshin
Sometimes u gots to be
literal with the fair sex
Eh ST?
I dunno
If there's one thing I've learned tho
Ya better use your words wisely
N do say what ya mean
Cause they never forget
Anna I'm gonna chk u out!

But listen, I am warning you
I'm living for the very last time.
Not as a swallow, nor a maple,
Not as a reed, nor as a star,
Not as spring water,
Nor as the toll of bells…
Will I return to trouble men
Nor will I vex their dreams again
With my insatiable moans.


Anna Akhmatova

literal friends
where have all the flowers gone

I don't know nothing about women
except what I learned a little from their poetry

a woman is a woman is a rose
I am still within her aura
me and getrude stein and her daughter Baltimore Maryland circa 1945

i think my mind
is going
thank God I been waiting
for this for years
company all day
now i'm shutting down the lodge
one light at a time
coffee & a good juice to vape
roads bad
snow
warm place to sit my ass
& a good night to be sat & warm
the dog is dreaming
i'd wake him up but
i think he is chasing something
across dream country
chase on my friend
chase on

mind going going gone
but I don't mind
I can live without it
it is friends I need

sitting here in the
after glow
of another family gathering
going to sleep on that