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August, 2001




8/31/01-On the sea come explosive snap from the inability of electrons ground miseries for godot to sky thunder in the coming following waiting karamazov and religious experience crime and the daughter consciousness reality brothers' punishment in beelzebub's grandson erikson's full flood torrential on the water a mother's varieties of dust tell cry freedom and women's menagerie the experience to loneliness all men's sit quietly childhood the butterfly of chaos theory with prosper possessed glass artistic stripes desiderata system how to the pursuit of bad years my dying distant neurotic tales to clinical famous light magnified mental sink hole waves a cetacean's lament...




8/26/01-Exotic rojacik eastern music spicy curry and other delicacies allen commuting cross country dating an islamic indian lady clouds forming briefly darkening the sky jays and doves cheerfully chirping crying cooing the artificial rain in great arcs of spray sweeping forth over and back drenching large swaths asymmetry claudia has just lost a breast sharp scalpel lance asymmetrical too has won his third tour de france forgotten child commotion people running big to-do adjoining parking lot ambulance screaming a pair of fellow patrons with visions of horror left bombay grill abruptly how can you forget a child no law against abandoning an urchin in a fiery horseless carriage illegal to leave pets thus unattended do we love our children less...




8/23/01-Images sandy living just a little west of here found scurrying scorpions silhouetted in her bright light fixtures dark closets fireplace entranceway corners and tubs even they don't like it outdoors anymore hot as hades at nine o'clock gecko followed us in from a walk leaping cavorting lizards in hose spray electric plus water highest bill ever around a thousand work where I do somebody's always having a trauma today blood everywhere ladies' room accident nasa put more men on the moon than have explored the deep parts of this world's oceans someday perhaps our successors if we last will explore neptune's realms two and a half hours of gushing liquid out upon the lawn and gardens trying to preserve islands of green in a dead sea of brown trash piles growing in our street wanted to reread how to survive the loss of a love but couldn't find must have given it to allen or ron settled for how to live with a neurotic dog instead nearly deaf joel and I e-mail buddies finalized plans for the weekend getting stuffed at the lard bucket buffet and watching planet of the apes a nature documentary with really special and lasting effects sweet ol' thing just turned forty not taking it well still single sobbing...




8/14/01-White sun dazzling blue sea wind-whipped plummeting toward harsh bare brown terra firma chafing breathtaking maelstrom of thickening gases waiting out the long fall after the first chute failed to open frantically jerking jimmying the backup chute's automatic failsafe opening device in desperate attempt to manipulate and rush its function the ground rising fast but somehow instead jamming the mechanism a self-defense impulse that has done her in the earth with its absolute majesty obeying a still higher law leaped up and smacked her for the temerity to ascend aloft above her royal highness inadequately protected putting on airs...




8/8/01-Fish and mister chips the day the music shared goodbye cetaceans' leaping breaching monk parakeets knap of the earth flying falling corn leaves in kansas tunnels in the rapids roar anomalous toads breeding at the end of the season leafing learning tree afraid of the images' simplicity taking it in breathing living free ozone acts in the lungs like intense direct sun on the skin young bloods snow and frozen earth buried mollusk fossil venison yes concave abs happy buddha focus on the hara heart thump - thump - thump - thump god bless wyoming and keep it wild helen mettler died bladder pressure cervical stenosis dancing waiting for rain praying to the goddesses of hollywood handsome horses she admired splendid apes smartly attired bumper car sparks slowly developed serenading mating several more months of scorching weather tumbling tumble weed smokers sun stroke vulnerable roof workers life is a single short but very complicated thought and we must think it the wet terrier's going crazy tearing racing soaring 'round the house for the fifth time flying with gusto uncoiling flared paired spiraling upward incandescent snakes...




8/3/01-Poor old marat stream of pea-brained fissure convolutions who's afraid of the revolutions blubber classic beauty queen rock nefertiti prawn yawn dera western visitors guest house bungalow water buffalo sugar cane bundled river reeds for bhandara feast cooking and funeral pyres hermit monk meditation caves scorpions puffed up cobra monarchy lone tree on high bluff cheesecloth caught in thorn bush torn loose man-eating tiger eyes open floating iceberg deep blue waters light dispersing the sun's true color brilliant white as an aerial view of clouds below brisk frisk san francisco ghetto watts hate racial epithet tet offensive language I only want to change you a little cinderella snow lily trash garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage exploding population is that all there is they shoot horses don't they if that's all there is then let's keep dancing let's break out the booze shoulder the right upper room quadrant back strain pain torn ligaments tendons scar face tissue paper fire in the baby give it to me big boy hole polar bear ice club is nice the mosquito fliers hellenic drama better than a good blue tail fly praying mantis copulation outhouse crap filled with trout the river runs the tin drum fender bender by ear fuel economics of fish scale root canal new york trade capital of the western hemisphere percussion timing tune-up valves need replacing give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free shipped back to their poor old countries of origin marat so sade...

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