Was it a crouching child...
then a mini stegosaurus
turned toward a neighbor's
back tree and proceeded
straight up the trunk at pace
Another neighbor's tree
is home to vultures who
seem to feel relevant now
and ignore threats from
us our pets vehicles they
circle and repopulate
beam in on all that's weak
gently bobbing sleep
from the strongest pine
can see who's in pain
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Today's dog walk
today's dog walk yielded
neighbors voices set up
chords and sounded edgy
overall, but the words
under my radar, perhaps
not M'Lady's, those are
utterances at focused
determined desperation
within rooms self-talk
moderate to low volume.
and yes sure lower levels
of hostility and or spleen
which one's grateful for
not sustainable and only
the views of hundreds of
millions of elastic tape
cinch it and now you can
every home a vector not
goat tied to a stump for
and they'll keep winning.
neighbors voices set up
chords and sounded edgy
overall, but the words
under my radar, perhaps
not M'Lady's, those are
utterances at focused
determined desperation
within rooms self-talk
moderate to low volume.
and yes sure lower levels
of hostility and or spleen
which one's grateful for
not sustainable and only
the views of hundreds of
millions of elastic tape
cinch it and now you can
every home a vector not
goat tied to a stump for
and they'll keep winning.
Monday, April 6, 2020
Flack
These are real hours of the day
They're not stolen hours
Except that they're stolen from myself
Staying up late as if no one can see
Or imagine my non-participation as
they sleep
I've stolen these hours for safety and
reflection, a safe space for flights of
fancy and abandon
Not like the halogen lamp towering
dark above the settee, alien in a
mid-century nostalgia motif
I can wander the home like Nixon or
Ray Miland, experiencing life as
it is
While you rise early and clean yet
clean again, and tip-toe across the
dark like it's some foreign enemy
It only takes me minutes to say what
I have to say to the day
and a minute tomorrow, sure, for the flack
Jackie Lush
They're not stolen hours
Except that they're stolen from myself
Staying up late as if no one can see
Or imagine my non-participation as
they sleep
I've stolen these hours for safety and
reflection, a safe space for flights of
fancy and abandon
Not like the halogen lamp towering
dark above the settee, alien in a
mid-century nostalgia motif
I can wander the home like Nixon or
Ray Miland, experiencing life as
it is
While you rise early and clean yet
clean again, and tip-toe across the
dark like it's some foreign enemy
It only takes me minutes to say what
I have to say to the day
and a minute tomorrow, sure, for the flack
Jackie Lush
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Beautiful thing
It was a beautiful thing to get to know black men, black-as-black men who took me in.
But did I get the reputation, among them, that I was a type of white-and-into-them men.
How can you not love black men when you are standing in their den and they're alright
and relaxed with you there, showing their delight that you're a special theirs-with-them
I receive the red rice and beans, up until the sleeping part of the crib, where there are
coal-red blankets twisted, instead of a proper bed, silky bare mattress, authority, agency
There never was a more generous give-and-take relationship as there in those rooms,
above a business, removed from patrimony between the government cheese shipments
Ja-taym, pour Hoolie
But did I get the reputation, among them, that I was a type of white-and-into-them men.
How can you not love black men when you are standing in their den and they're alright
and relaxed with you there, showing their delight that you're a special theirs-with-them
I receive the red rice and beans, up until the sleeping part of the crib, where there are
coal-red blankets twisted, instead of a proper bed, silky bare mattress, authority, agency
There never was a more generous give-and-take relationship as there in those rooms,
above a business, removed from patrimony between the government cheese shipments
Ja-taym, pour Hoolie
Dragged behind me from 1980
rage
foul moth
fossilized dance communication
two chords
self-regard as
sick, damned and therefore
exempt as the dead
terror of nuclear
Montgomery Ward striped jersey
photos
standing next to a wrecked car
brave young
poseur
counter-whatever
smash
anything in the dark
beacon invert
letters and cards
black
disdain
comfort
cash
hungry trail
chain of gossamer
some of the men
relics of others
by Santorabo
foul moth
fossilized dance communication
two chords
self-regard as
sick, damned and therefore
exempt as the dead
terror of nuclear
Montgomery Ward striped jersey
photos
standing next to a wrecked car
brave young
poseur
counter-whatever
smash
anything in the dark
beacon invert
letters and cards
black
disdain
comfort
cash
hungry trail
chain of gossamer
some of the men
relics of others
by Santorabo
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Trapped in that everyone knows where I am
The accoutrements are still.
If every chirp or high whining or hum were a voice
we'd be at wedding level
oops sensitive word
the furnace sucks and pushes
as if the dog is on a ventilator
yet I must remind myself to breath?
I have to stand vigil at the windows
Being saved from myself, my
driving, alter ego of hope-to-die
stock car racer; saved
from every awkward or otherwise face to face
medium grey sky, shadowless
indoors and out, fading not
falling, what if the sun were a
moving motion sensor
and if it could see your fingers type
it would snap back up to twelve again?
I want to suspend all movement to
sit and let the star sink in the dark
Para ti, Eduardo
Santorabo
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Peenbo M'Shang
Googa day
getch wuntz
aney cumatcha
awtam wiyut
bushma buntz
talam-laka boa
peenbona
peenbo m'shang
by Reptily
getch wuntz
aney cumatcha
awtam wiyut
bushma buntz
talam-laka boa
peenbona
peenbo m'shang
by Reptily
Saturday, March 7, 2020
0
i was sleeping a lot
but a couple nights with one eye open
but i was also dreaming my ass off
uhm one guy he was a gentleman
his other half, also a waiter, wore
white while he wore black
and the same people sitting around
as i spin the wheel
their influence is an ocular trick
mostly it's not about trying to become
but what to do once
you are one
the unique smells and light of madrid
mixed with vinyas and this
house, here in the cobbs
por Santorobo
but a couple nights with one eye open
but i was also dreaming my ass off
uhm one guy he was a gentleman
his other half, also a waiter, wore
white while he wore black
and the same people sitting around
as i spin the wheel
their influence is an ocular trick
mostly it's not about trying to become
but what to do once
you are one
the unique smells and light of madrid
mixed with vinyas and this
house, here in the cobbs
por Santorobo
Labels:
Santorabo
singed bridge
singed bridge singed bridge
I don't care about it
singed bridge
no longer does what doesn't
kill you make you stronger,
no longer
what doesn't kill you also
kills you but it
just takes longer
stronger was just another
click on the dial
the bright face of times past
stronger, now more,
has gone to the next
man's flower
I don't care about it
singed bridge
no longer does what doesn't
kill you make you stronger,
no longer
what doesn't kill you also
kills you but it
just takes longer
stronger was just another
click on the dial
the bright face of times past
stronger, now more,
has gone to the next
man's flower
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Angry portero
What does it matter if i empty the
garbage when the cubos are inside or
outside when he´s mad either way?
garbage when the cubos are inside or
outside when he´s mad either way?
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Futuristic Joint
respectable example of a category
humming and high-pitched ubiquity
hold your hair up in a fist bun,
everyone; blow out your assumptions
humming and high-pitched ubiquity
hold your hair up in a fist bun,
everyone; blow out your assumptions
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
rough and fine
Matanza
en estas mismas colinas
huyeron a la playa
La mujer se ha convertido
la cuna en un sofá con
almohadas
No importa la altitud de
los techos, te vas a romper
la cabeza
por Santorabo
en estas mismas colinas
huyeron a la playa
La mujer se ha convertido
la cuna en un sofá con
almohadas
No importa la altitud de
los techos, te vas a romper
la cabeza
por Santorabo
Labels:
St. Dick
Thursday, February 6, 2020
routine psychedelia
there was a center forming images
barely able to find its vision in a
field of flag-waving motif
it was a foetus but not a baby
not a fox, but then a dog i know
then the consciousness decided
to self-freak, self-prank, and i
was having nothing of it i said
bring it on, your worms and teeth
it can't hurt me, and i like the horror
so in his passive-aggressive wisdom,
Braino sends a tap-dancing suit of
armor, and this was how i could tell
that sleep had vanquished spirographics
Love, Illyn
barely able to find its vision in a
field of flag-waving motif
it was a foetus but not a baby
not a fox, but then a dog i know
then the consciousness decided
to self-freak, self-prank, and i
was having nothing of it i said
bring it on, your worms and teeth
it can't hurt me, and i like the horror
so in his passive-aggressive wisdom,
Braino sends a tap-dancing suit of
armor, and this was how i could tell
that sleep had vanquished spirographics
Love, Illyn
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
street cred
Despite the moral and health risks i still cherish my connections to the dark side, stated La Chama. They give me the street cred i need with some of the flakes. They fill blanks in my self-mythologizing. Let me tell the shiv in a ramshakle temple until morning and my spirit will be ready as the scored flesh of brother Ilyn, as he rolls, in his square-wheeled cart.
Phyllis, embedded
Phyllis, embedded
Saturday, January 25, 2020
K's Fly Spread Eagle
Green-grey monkeys dipped down from the overhang with the moss and the misters swinging between the ukuleles and the hats and undress you and dress you up again in little outfits while you walked past the shop windows perhaps with a rum-and-fruit drink and without even slowing you down unless you wanted to stop and admire your reflection. These little guys had amazing taste, a trained eye for the right ensemble and all by guesswork on the measurements.
For this reason La Chama had become accustomed to strolling topless through the streets even in the evening after work with a nice wool skirt and a briefcase. Her shoulder monkey, Jock, covered his bald head with his silly, long fingers in feigned embarrassment at all the attention his mistress would get from mammals and flakes and the deities and the bitches and the College of Cement. Ranging from a lifted eyebrow to a flash of angry, swollen anal gland from the packs of male K teens.
Some say Missy emerged hideous from the perfect chrysalis of the Chama as easy as a zipper. Because the K's had a visceral reaction of hate when they see her as if she were an archetype of that which circled over their nesting caves in their earliest memories even though she has the perfect soft brown body of a flake.
by Phyllis, embedded
For this reason La Chama had become accustomed to strolling topless through the streets even in the evening after work with a nice wool skirt and a briefcase. Her shoulder monkey, Jock, covered his bald head with his silly, long fingers in feigned embarrassment at all the attention his mistress would get from mammals and flakes and the deities and the bitches and the College of Cement. Ranging from a lifted eyebrow to a flash of angry, swollen anal gland from the packs of male K teens.
Some say Missy emerged hideous from the perfect chrysalis of the Chama as easy as a zipper. Because the K's had a visceral reaction of hate when they see her as if she were an archetype of that which circled over their nesting caves in their earliest memories even though she has the perfect soft brown body of a flake.
by Phyllis, embedded
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Da Badonkuments
Da badonka donkuments bedda be deh
Be day onca-mockument o da tacomen
Cuz ivdey donbe ocu-lockumenz we gon
upan sockyo polka-munny sum taybo sun
by Jan
Be day onca-mockument o da tacomen
Cuz ivdey donbe ocu-lockumenz we gon
upan sockyo polka-munny sum taybo sun
by Jan
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Remorse of Battle
If good men, both victor and vangquished burn from remorse of battle
if you have been vicked or vanged, maybe you could be good
Any machine without hate would quickly move on
La Chama
Fgmt. unknown
if you have been vicked or vanged, maybe you could be good
Any machine without hate would quickly move on
La Chama
Fgmt. unknown
Monday, January 13, 2020
How I Experience Communication
Do you see anything like a lip moving on my face?
No. That's because I am talking to you, and I don't do it with a mouth. You are only even hearing the English because it's my organic empathic system that makes it not even matter and it's the biology of your no-K braino that turns it into recognizable symbols. In fact, did you know that if it weren't for the human capacity for what you call "denial," your flakes and no-K's could not even reproduce? Would not be able to.
So... I wish you would look me in the eye, an organ we have in common, and state your credentials as a professional by implication of your manner, sir.
by Missy
No. That's because I am talking to you, and I don't do it with a mouth. You are only even hearing the English because it's my organic empathic system that makes it not even matter and it's the biology of your no-K braino that turns it into recognizable symbols. In fact, did you know that if it weren't for the human capacity for what you call "denial," your flakes and no-K's could not even reproduce? Would not be able to.
So... I wish you would look me in the eye, an organ we have in common, and state your credentials as a professional by implication of your manner, sir.
by Missy
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