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July, 2007




7/27/07-Amber fossils polished smooth phony tense smile taking trips alone or with secondary relations it's a fish life the whale and day alike are gray mineral gem displays library nazis trucks highway discourtesy or friendly drivers ascites a cliché trains whistle long and roll by behind the motel clickedy clack clickedy clack out in the bay a fog horn calls mournfully into the black night loud country concert noise a blare of mindless rhythm and raucous screaming through the town I would selectively delete much of the species or so I feel at times aliens another night another open air party drunken fools from the next building each trying to outdo his fellow revelers in obscenities screaming and idiocy odd that this may be how many of our progeny get a start snakes depths of sea seal teeth healthy otters a comfortable alert posture approaching storms mold now growing on our deck our yard a marshy mess naked undefended genuine the virtue of silence flowing currents streams mentations are these the last days for our kind or merely a transition time to the forms so foreign to yet in a way still us that shall follow...




7/2/07-Shaving can wait teeth too slept late took fran's car to deal-o-lube the deluge continues over thirty inches this year the supremes just screwed us several more times mud on my shoes long trip blues commercial television wasteland half of what you need is too expensive or out of order going to see former friends who may no longer be there basic training days in muggy louisiana heat hardon nights and almost no women for miles whores marlboros and cokes the perfect franchises light 'em if you gottem the sergeant said again plastic money still science fiction for me then far-fetched as a man on the moon books a thousand or more to while the reality away dostoevsky camus the naked and the from here to eternity dead for whom the faulkner latrine bell tolls duty jogging rifle abreast 'round the barracks compound berkshire hathaway not yet a buffett company sister and brothers still living in rural central texas dysfunctional family bliss before a hint of air-conditioning and religiously going to church rites little enough believed in by their parents who wanted them properly inculcated with the correct uptight conservative cultural values to be literate or think was to risk being labeled a communist or queer oh dear...

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