Which Is Where We Are Now

  • I’m in a parking garage. I’m renting three cars at the same time and use one key for all three of them… because they are the same make. It’s important I have three going at the same time in order to accomplish something.

    I’m on a ramp facing traffic. There is a police officer checking the speed of the cars as they pass. I turn the key. My car battery is dead. The police officer starts to drive over to give me a jump. I start ignition again. The car starts. It’s important I keep going to avoid having to accept a jump.

    Without checking traffic (and right in front of the policeman) I go onto the street. My seat is schwounced up and my face is almost pressed against the window shield. I can barely move to steer. This is embarrassing just in front of the cop and even worse if I get into an accident.

    Avoiding Jumps and Being Scrunched

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    29 Mar 2011
  • Only when we are grown up
    do we understand our innocence
    is as beautiful as our savvy;
    we leave that part out.

    PG

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    29 Mar 2011
    dragonfly book
  • Pa,
    I know the stubble of your beard.
     You kissed me goodnight
      after you missed dinner, working late.
    I take that stubble to my grave.
    I tell God about your stubble.
    
    Those nights you let me
     shine the light for you
      under the car
    I have absorbed all of that light.
    I am full of that light.
    
    When you hinted
     I might be another Einstein
    I am an Einstein
     so as to fulfill your pride of me.
    
    Your insight that
     I need no other guidance
      but my own
    I turn this straw
     into gold.
    
    Pa,
    perhaps this story
     is incomplete
    It is enough.
    
    Thank you,
     Dave

    Rumpelstiltskin

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    27 Mar 2011
    heart book
  • Hard to explain this blubbering
    ’mid forest woods
    near silvery stream
    tugged along
    by black and blonde
    dogs
    hunting twixt moonbeams

    Outburst in Emptiness

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    26 Mar 2011
    dragonfly book
  • It's hard to carry a tune
    Some, singing from their youth,
    seem naturally talented
    We are such picky receivers
    Yet, what a delight when some song
    pushes our buttons
    over and over again
    playing ourselves
    back to ourselves
    Winds up in a mystical collection
    Yet no way to share with another
    the depth of its echoes through us
    the hidden–spot tickle of its touch
    Agony unshared
    A dread to share
    As like it falls on deaf ears
    the horror of triggers missing in another
    the tip–top registers of our soul
    And this some polished piece of painstaking production
    How much more terrifying
    when we play ourselves
    I trip along as the band plays on
    I might look queer, but I'm certain
    no one holds a candle to my music

    Torch Song

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    25 Mar 2011
    dragonfly book
  • First, the finding of the cloth:
     something to cling to
    Then, the pulling, wondering:
     what will it lead to?
    Then, an acceptance of its never–end
     and the assured fashioning
     clothes from its threads

    Magician’s Trick

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    24 Mar 2011
    dragonfly book
  • Forgive my bluntness
    when I insist
    I’m eternal and wise as the universe
    In perceiving you
    I see you in me

    There is my heart, in you
    You, flapping around,
    doing your own thing
    When shall we tea in the kitchen?
    heart to heart

    Perceptiviteapot

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    23 Mar 2011
    dragonfly book, heart book
  • Perhaps a mistake
    to forgo the ache
    making of one’s self a human
    With spiteful tenacity
    takes herself as lover
    A joyful bed
    in loving herself, loves the world
    Gobbling down gleams of inspiration
    indulging strange urges and combinations
    to satiate the little one
    secretly nursing, growing embarrassing
    From a patchwork of snacking and digesting
    miraculously combining
    into a self–contained story
    its own life
    Flesh and blood for others to see
    critique, abjure recklessly
    Perhaps to glimpse fragility
    imbibe what magnificence might come
    if they too put out
    be awestruck and taken–in

    Artistry

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    19 Mar 2011
    heart book
  • I’m not sure
    and my curious desire
    allows me to be
    carried away anyway

    Faithful Seduction

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    19 Mar 2011
    heart book
  • GI Senators in the 50s created an every increasing military bases government, leading to a very warlike 2nd half of the 20th century. Actually all the modern wars are result of the explotative capitalist governments since 1850.

    That’s what Grandma Anderson and I discuss. I leave to town to pick something up. When I come back grandma has killed herself. A large puddle of bright blood stands on the floor. She lays on the ground. I call 911. I get the hospital’s hold muzak. Then a newspaper lady reporter comes on the phone, one I had met earlier at the hotel. She has come to visit and is at the front door, which explains how she broke into the phone call.

    I emotionally yell “Grandma is dead.” She feels bad, apologizes, hangs up, and leaves. Then grandma, with a bright smile, raises her head and says she’s alive. She flexes her body and it seems very taut and fit indeed. And the large puddle of bright blood goes all the entire width of the floor… how and still alive? But this is good. I put my attention back to the phone call. I here a message from a doctor explaining he’s to busy to take any calls at the moment. What?!

    Grandma Dead and Reborn, Hospital Shenanigans

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    16 Mar 2011
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