JUST WAITING ON MY LIMO...

THE MONSTERS ARE HERE

pawn soldiers juggle hand grenades dancing a death waltz 

machine guns, bombs making love to a dying planet

the generals/politicos reap most of the oil/money/land spoils

along with the financial vultures who bet well on Wall Street

mass murder massacre as common as the blowing wind

hard selfish hearts engulfed in anxiety/fear

fearing extending the helping hand may get it bit off

the rigged game provides millions of distractions

blurring reality/fantasy with a nice Xanax chaser

TV/Internet provide fictional heroes and universes

as millions rise every day to another unemployed day

as millions rise every day to another homeless day

some how knowing that they have not already won

SLEEPERS AWAKE (KENNETH PATCHEN)

"THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN MUCH, SHALL NOW BE

SILENT;DEVOURERS OF MOUNTAINS AND BURNERS OF

WILDERNESS, HAVE YOU THE WORD TO FILL THE NEEDED

VOICE! FOR ISLANDS HAVE BEEN PLANTED THAT THE SOULS

OF REASON AND TRUTH MAY REFRESH THE WORK WHOSE

SUN IS FOREVER ALL. WE WHO HAVE BEEN STRAITENED ON

EVERY SIDE, HAVE NOW ONLY A PATH TO THE SUN. OH

GLORIOUS SHOW OF THE SEASONS, SHINING OF NAMES

AND TREASURED OMENS OF THY JUDGEMENT, THE

BEGINNING OF WOMBS, AND THE END OF MADNESS,

PLACE HIGHER THE HIGH THAT THE SON OF MAN MAY

NOT WANT FOR SPACE OF HIS FIERY STANDING.

COUNSELLORS AND PRINCES, KINGS AND CAPTAINS, SEE

NOW THE DAMAGE IN THE MOUTHS OF GREED AND MURDER."

BALLAD OF A NAKED MAN (BUTTHOLE SURFERS)

Naked man, Naked man
Passing through Naked land
Naked man, Naked man
In the sand where is your hand
Naked man, Naked man, please go back to Naked land
So I'm sorry this is all we could make
It's a sign of a naked in the dome (or something like that)
Naked all of Monday, naked all year long
Naked is never right, naked is always wrong
So get the hell away from me
You god damn naked man
Go the fuck away from me
Back Naked man, Naked man
Passing through Naked land
Naked man, Naked man
In the sand where is your hand
Naked man, Naked man, please go back to Naked land
So I'm sorry this is all we could make
It's a sign of a naked in the dome (or something like that)
Naked all of Monday, naked all year long
Naked is never right, naked is always wrong
So get the hell away from me
You god damn naked man
Go the fuck away from me
to Naked land
Naked man, Naked man
Passing through Naked land
Naked man, Naked man
In the sand where is your hand
Naked man, Naked man, please go back to Naked land
Naked man in Denver
Naked past sleep
Naked isn't dirty
Naked isn't clean
Naked isn't fun
Naked isn't nice
Naked lasts forever
So fold those naked eyes
Naked in the morning,
Naked all night long
So Paul is a naked lady (I think that's it)

THE MILQUETOAST

He wore casual shoes. He wore casual clothes. He had casual hair. He combed it in a casual way. He drove a casual car. He lived in a casual house. He had a casual wife. He had casual children. He lived in a casual neighborhood. He had a casual job.

He ate milquetoast dinners at his milquetoast home. He smiled at his milquetoast wife with his milquetoast teeth as they chewed their milquetoast food. His wife wore her hair in a milquetoast way. Their children went to milquetoast schools.

His two cars were mediocre colors. He had a mediocre couch. He had a mediocre coffee table. He had a mediocre TV. He had a mediocre bedroom set. He had mediocre beds in the other bedrooms inhabited by his mediocre children. His son played on the mediocre basketball team at his mediocre high school.

He lived a dull life. His dull daughter went on to a dull college. He had dull grandchildren. He had a dull retirement. He watched dull TV shows. He died a dull death on dull day after a dull illness.

PLATE OF SHRIMP (BAD ACID TRIPS) - LATTICE OF COINCIDENCE

"SUPPOSE YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT A PLATE OF SHRIMP. SUDDENLY SOMEBODY WILL SAY LIKE 'PLATE' OR 'SHRIMP', OUT OF THE BLUE, NO EXPLANATION. NO POINT IN LOOKING FOR ONE EITHER; IT'S ALL PART OF THE COSMIC UNCONSCIOUSNESS."


PLATE OF SHRIMP (BAD ACID TRIPS)

PLATE OF SHRIMP
HAPPENS ALL THE TIME
YOU JUST NEVER REALIZE
LIKE MILLER SAYS,
IT'S JUST A PLATE OF SHRIMP
HAPPENS EVERY DAY
BUT IT'S NEVER TO BE SEEN
PART OF THE COSMIC UNCONSCIOUSNESS
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
FUCKING PLATE OF SHRIMP OF FUCKING SHRIMP
HAPPENS EVERY DAY
BUT IT'S NEVER TO BE SEEN
PART OF THE COSMIC UNCONSCIOUSNESS
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
FUCKING PLATE OF SHRIMP PLATE OF FUCKING SHRIMP
DOES HIS BEST THINKING ON THE BUS
DRIVING MAKES YOU DUMBER
YOU KNOW WHO TO TRUST
FUCKING PLATE OF SHRIMP
PLATE OF FUCKING SHRIMP

A TEJAS CHRISTMAS DARKLY

brown crunchy leaves

cover strangely green grass

crisp, cold wind cuts

against the skin


overcast sky hangs still

mixed with gray cumulus clouds

blackbirds perch on street poles


wet but not freezing

moist clothes, slippery fingers

dirty water sloshing around streets

along with the people and cars


Christmas lights here and there

punching through the foggy nights

twinkling blue, green, red, orange

giving hope to many millions

giving grief to many millions

HAPPY FESTIVUS

ATTACK OF THE KILLER BEAN DIP

HUMMUS: a bean dip made from garbanzo beans and olive oil.

MILKY WAY GALAXY

A Rainy Day in Texas

misty, drizzling rain blowing 

falling out of over cast skies

gushing along the concrete curbs

down the dirty asphalt streets

as people walk and drive around

in and out of the strip malls

in and out of the restaurants

in and out of the banks

in and out of the grocery stores

desperation on the faces of some

asking for a few dollars or change

usually for food, gas, booze, cigs

as they shuffle along in tattered

filthy clothes working their hustles

along the dirty, wet boulevards, roads

trying their best to avoid the police

desperation on the faces of some

shopping in the grocery stores

as a soccer mom breaks down in tears

while putting green beans in her cart

desperation on the faces of some

shopping in the strip mall

as a man is so anxious over losing his home

he starts twitching upon leaving the store

happiness on the faces of some

usually as a result of medication/drugs

usually as a result of religion/fanaticism

usually as a result of willful ignorance

singing the "The Star Spangled Banner"

wrapped in red, white, & blue

grinning ear to ear, comfortable

in their high walled subdivision

designed to keep reality out

X-Mas & The Dysfunctional Family

the holidays come each and every year

family members on speaking terms get together

family members exhange polite chit chat

family members exchange gifts

family members eat a holiday dinner

family members consume wine & beer

family members take many pictures

trying not to bring up what that bastard did

trying not to bring up what that bitch did

way back when, last year, or last decade

yet sometimes it comes up, verbal fights ensue

family members go missing in action for a while

typical of my family reminding me of holidays past:

my step-grandma drinking her holiday schlitz beer

my first step-dad giving out homemade stain glass

me giving my other step-grandma a jefferson starship album

me re-gifting various hideous colognes as a teen

my step-grand dad wrapping his gifts in newspapers

my grandma yearly giving all 3 of her children the same gift

my former room mate clippping his toenails at x-mas dinner

thus the holidays come and go finding out whose:

married, divorced, re-married, had children, got fired

got hired, got saved, gone to jail, moved or died

SYNAPTIC MISFIRE #87,560 & DEATH OF THE GOLDEN MICRCOPHONE

glitter hats fly as the first gay republican president and first man sashay into the white house doing the salsa in blue velvet gowns from the j.edgar hoover and ed wood collections

aliens from planet citron 4 intercept a radio wave from thousands of years ago belching so much vile bullshit that the planet's bullshit defense systems are launched and the golden microphone in rush limbaugh's studio is destroyed

montana declares itself a sovereign nation and evicts all the dental floss tycoons calling for filthier and dirtier water and air standards

walmart in afghanistan now open; limit 2 stinger missiles per
 family with applicable coupons

israel/palestine become a time share where a free trip, accommodations, and set of john the baptist steak knives
are available if you order now!

the rolling stones gather moss as a geriatric hippie with the stones' tongue & lips logo on his souped rascal mows down the whole congregation of the westboro baptist church

the state of alabama makes every friday hand gun day in their high schools

the first congregation of gay meth conservatives opens as a congressman stops off to pick up a kidney at the county hospital just harvested from a recently deceased homeless person he will pay $50,000 cash for

the reverend of a local methodist church walks into the dildo emporium on wade road leaving with the purchase of two cock rings

FEEL THE LOVE