TEMPTATION

dwindling days, and nights lengthening.

tis that time of year for cuddling.

warmth in demand as cold and snow

approach and threatening.  

have been reading some more 

Charles Bukowski and will need

my poor brain rejuvenated 

and a thorough cleaning,

setting me on road to recovery.

but I'll be back, reading more

Charles Bukowski because

doing so is like a swift keep

in the ass, getting up and over

those dreaded boring ways and times.

she is in other room making supper.

I'm in here pretending to be a poet

and an artist. and the wants and needs

of community 

a crow on a pole

watching me watching it.

and neither of us

has the get up and go

to get up and get gone.

IN LIMBO

in a cyber limbo, of sorts.

grey obstacles becoming one

with the many, while certain

principles cry foul!

and the ball keeps rolling. 

where it stops, no one yet knows.

and cold winter winds blow.

and our bodies grow cold.

a comprehensive understanding

of all things frivolous, mundane

and absolutely useless.

innuendoes rising up from

shadows where time is lost,

forbidden by those knowing

factual, meaningless words

swept up off existing crisis.

in the world of gangs, drugs,

drug cartels, there are no winners;

only death and waiting to die.

they are their own worst enemies.

this does not require smart.

albeit, smart would be a vast

improvement over this lackluster

attempt at being outside the

realm of knowledgeable nuances

not yet available to this old brain.

mores the pity, then.

well, yes, autumn, how wonderful.

cooling down, down, down.

oh, how I love cooler weather.

makes me feel half human again.

and  now the wind comes rushing by;

holding a feather up high

in a could free, magnificent sky.

NEW POST

every few decades a great talent shows

up and stands above and beyond all.

Susie Clevenger turned me onto

Laura Pergolizzi; what a fabulous talent.

cannot get enough of that music...

now they tell us hell has frozen over and

I'll need make new plays for retirement.

darn it! isn't that just how it goes?

get all excited and bang, rug gets

pulled out from under us. 

let us not put off until tomorrow

what we can do the next day

or several days later than that.

we were so much

then grew into oursevles

and we were nothing more

than nothing ever was

and our fluttering selves

fluttered apart and flew

and our songs sang blue

and blue was our muse

and those blues flew and flew

ah! then yesterday fell down;

leaving a big mess for cleanup today,

with plenty left for tomorrow!

and have a pocket full of attributes,

and no hope in hell of selling any.

and such quality, these attributes.

sell for big money where circumstances

permit such transactions to be legal.

STRIP OF MOONLINGT

a strip of moonlight

illuminating simple pleasure

so very profound

punishment, mete out as needed.

fierceness adds flavor;

tastes like chicken.

every freaking thing

tastes like chicken.

you and I taste like chicken;

should someone

care to taste us.

a bright spot in a 

bleak, dreary day.

horizon of dark daydreams.

scheming shadows looming.

just another one of those

hazy empty lazy days.

sitting on deck

watching snow smelt

and watching rabbits fornicate.

in inclement weather

a place exists where death

teaches the living

infinite patience.

STARK SIMPLICITY

stark simplicity 

of space and time

coupled with a distance

twice removed from

reality and prying

eyes of infinity

will thy eyes beseech thee?

ostensibly sober of naive

fundamentalist on a fringe

have seen anguish

know the cry and death throes

feeling pain of descent

IN VIOLATION

have been in violation

of my own senseless

predominating acts of

self preservations;

brain leaching entities

seeking to suck very last

bit of commonsense 

not yet spilled from

these hell bent for

election ears in waiting.

ghoulish specimens;

pointless public relations

bullshit. oh, I'm sorry:

bullpoop, there, is that better?

now ask me if I care?

don't bother; rhetorical question;

already know the answer, don't you?

blame this on a horrid,

grueling evil winter,

having distorted my brain

to a fine dust of nothing.

brain freeze ultimate.

arrogance as a soup

for those folks with

discriminating tastes.

and they're out there, folks.

oh, gosh, yes, arrogance

gives soup a very distinctive

robust taste not found anywhere

else in this universe; and especially

not in this time zone. 

and the flatulence produced is like

none other; very heavy.

a testy sigh; buck up, bucky!

now we have conspirators 

stealing underwear.

for what purpose may

never be known.

suggest inspecting all

underwear drawers

from here to there;

and all mysterious neighbors.

one never knows, does one?

brief interval between 

todays' failures and

tomorrow successes.

intellect rides in to the rescue. 

split the difference;

cash and carry only.

no credit according to intellect.

intellect rides off in sunset.

devious son of a maniac;

plucking chickens.

cloud of displaced feathers

here to next revolution.

chicken shi…..poop from

coast to coast and all those

decapitated chickens

flopping around like chickens

with heads chopped off. 

BRAIN FREEZE ISSUES.

do not stare at this overly much.

your brain will turn to mush 

and I won't be held responsible

do to anger management issues 

and the fact my mind has,

undoubtedly, turned to mush. 

from knitting book, pickup at a second-hand store

for purpose of the photos. 

a fly flew high

but not too high

becoming lost in a

very high blue sky

oh why oh why

writing like this

could make a fly cry

a fly's dilemma

but I don't cry, do you?

PHILOSOPHICAL

philosophical discussions

of mundane affairs;

frustrating so called genius

of a renown world of fantasy

relationships under a 

mirrored ceiling.

no meek entities allowed. 

we well speak of facilitation 

of logistics. then, we will 

not make mention of it again.

doing so could send logistics

into a steep spiral with no

hope of recovery before first snow,

and a late spring thaw.

hope this satisfies you logistic

aficionados get out of that

deep rut you've bogged down in.

at earliest convenience, please

differentiate this phenomena

between Bitcoin and Ethereum

now sweeping our floors and

walls of our mental disparity.

respectfully, sly chicken

and rugged rabbit 

born to be a roughneck in a

rumpus room of noncommittal 

socialites ready to raise holy heck

over little of nothing coming

forth on a pink thinking cloud

preforming vaudeville acts

while sly chicken and

rugged rabbit get it on

in the dressing room;

sure to be a big hit in the

upcoming follies.