Archive for October, 2010

October 11, 2010

theme on a variation

by jhon baker

now
I keep waiting for someone to come by and offer to amputate my leg for a few hundred bucks. Or isn’t this why I keep that in cash on my person at all times?

I assume such a person wouldn’t accept a check or a major credit card and I don’t think I would want to pay with either of those anyway.

later
this month I am seeing Roger Waters play The Wall in Ohio and Bob Dylan in Chicago. I normally don’t get out this much. A few days after Dylan we are boarding a plane and heading to Disney. I may burn from the abundance of exposure, or be inspired by a six foot tall rat and his cronies.

before
a ladybug landed on my thumb and hung out for a few minutes and later ten miles away another ladybug landed on my gas tank and stuck with me for a few miles or it all might have been an opiate induced hallucination (all prescribed and taken as directed).

when in the company of fools
in the throes of poetry I have composed the better of myself onto fine paper using an antiquated office machine.

again, now
Coffee always tastes good at 10:21 pm. I prefer Orange Juice and oral sex in the morning.

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October 10, 2010

Reading., awarding, living, breathing, motorcycling, &%#*ing

by jhon baker

It went well yesterday – the book release party – getting to read publicly is not something that I ever look forward to but this was a rare exception where I indeed had a connection. Questions were asked, answered – not nearly enough bullshit for my taste as it was all pretty straight forward. Getting to see an old friend was truly an inspiring breath.

Today, going around to my favorite blogs to do some catching up I find that one of my contemporaries has gifted me with a blog award – I bow low in grateful acceptance –
from the long journey to the middle to the platitudes of willful resemblance:

it simply doesn’t get much cooler than this. Thank you.

Shameless promotion for another: If you go to Rabbits blog and click the right buttons you can have him design some truly cool graphics, buttons, or blog pages for you. A small and completely reasonable fee of course. I encourage you to hit him up for this service and see how he can do what you wish you could do as well.

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October 9, 2010

by jhon baker

Happy 70th John Lennon –

you did more for us than you could have ever known.

peace now, yes, we want it –

War is over, yes, we want it.

rest eternally in the lap of your laurals

you have earned them over and over.

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October 5, 2010

hide the medicine bottle, lest the neighbors find out

by jhon baker

I struggle to not hear the voices and focus on the line, the word, the work, the breath, the moment, the standard passing of time and deliverance from this lifers bondage.

I hold the key, juggling it out from one hand to the other and the intermediate pocket but still cannot find the door from where I came in.

oblivion, yes oblivion and we hang. ticking ticking absent from our mortal clock  in which the hours pass by and days and days are numbered lest remembered filtered through our hopes, dreams of what was and what should have been.

but this is me and without the medication to narrow my path focused on the reality that is elsewhere or nowhere or invented by Eli Lilly and company in some board room and experimental lab where test tubes are filled with patients like me.

our subject may be queer in the head, our subject may be recognized to be not there, filling time time time always time in notes and sufferings small and individual expressed out in letters scatters around America or larger, the world.

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October 3, 2010

by jhon baker

if men are from Mars and the other from Venus – why is it I have a stamp on my ass that says “Made on Titan, a subsidiary of Saturn, inspector no. 5”?

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