The world akimbo to a reality that can only sink it’s teeth so deep into the side of a swimmer who shies away from little bathing beauties trying to avoid the rash of sand on the shores of salty splendor. Quirky and quantum sounds of synthesizer pasts as they coax the swimmer in. Con, coax, compel. Drag ‘em in like a keel haul dredge. Pull bitch, pull and I’ll call you taffy in the morning. Makes sense in East L.A.
Could the drama strain any thicker through the china cap. Could the base be any denser before the adding of milk or water. Dilute my drama, man, dilute it so damn thin. Make it a stream and less of a congealing.
Funny how the masks of men are only held with regard on Halloween, Hollywood, or BDSM. Two H’s and a B. Such a silly little alphabetic world we eat in, breathe in, drink in. Like one where sun shadows are nothing more than an excuse for a movie. One that none of us will never see, except on videos where bong play and ludicrous play games come into the scheme of things.
I listened tonight to the radio styling s of Wayne Reznick and he did his whole first hour as al-Zarqawi. He spoke from Hell. He was rooming with J. Edgar Hoover and was being punched in the throat by Tookie Williams. The room was made of pork. The wallpaper was made of bacon. The phone was a ham hock. The shutters were Memphis ribs. He kept complaining of a spare rib up his ass. He talked about how he was upset at how people with ear canals full of sand mis-interpreted his statements. He hates juice not Jews due to the lack of Iraqi refrigeration. He wanted to bong Americans not bomb them and referred to listening to Pink Floyd being synced up to the Wizard of Oz.
You can’t beat L.A. radio. After 30 minutes of this and saying the word “dick” and making sexual and racist jokes and offering up twenty seconds of dead air he came back after the 5:30 break and started the show fresh as himself. Balls bigger than the world my friend, balls bigger than the world.
Sometimes it takes a pair to make sense of it all.
I have had two interesting points made to me lately.
One was that from a long time friend who questioned who I was writing to. I should not say long time, but trusted is a better summation. I thought deep and wondered. Who am I writing to? I told him everyone. I am. I am trying to open up discussion. I am not here to pass judgment. I am here to talk. I know some of my “attacks” on certain individuals here have left me in bad graces with some but they were well intended indeed. I was protecting the truth, that innocent babe wrapped in nothing and shoved aside for a new pod cast for you personal MP3 player of choice. I have respect for the truth and do not need to cast it aside in order to super size my reality. I am just fine being impoverished and in the gilded guide of honesty.
The second would be the basic misinterpretations of honesty or lack there of under the masks and personalities that we create for ourselves here in the Blogosphere. I have never intended to be anyone beyond who I am. I have never written anything to accomplish more than what I think beyond the possibility of some day getting published. I speak truth. I stand tall. I do not warp or bend or molest anything into my spectrum to feel better than anyone else. I know I am me. I will always be. No one is getting put in the box except me. Just me and the bugs. Off to God on the death bed escalator; one step at a time - all moving for me.
Dance to the shadows of Autumn’s pasts. Kick out the whores that dwell in closets of no repercussions. Embrace the Queens that come to help. Hold you glasses up as they slide down the nose of condescension towards men who pass more judgment than menstruating women do blood. Hold the shrine and shroud of falling leaves tight to the chest as the little kids scream and laugh in the piles of leaves that society will never let you jump into again.
Wrap the silver fronds around my head as winter comes hard into my emotional orifice. Make the holiday mean something. But it is only Summer, my Lord, and Summer is as Summer does. Hot, wet, sticky, like sex in a ‘77 Nova while “Tush” is played too loud and the scents of grass and stale Schlitz tall boy pull tabs are more predominant than any pheromone in the leather seated wonder land. Makes one wonder what really did happen to the hairdo’s of women throughout the ages. What happened? Don’t blame it on Barbizon, please don’t.
Dance tall and strong, with grace, through the bar room moments of Aqua Net and fluffing. Make the comb/pick/brush/roller mean something in the end. Don’t just chalk it up as fodder like you have all of the late night fumblings that meant so much to the men that had them. Yes, they did mean something. It may not have meant what you wanted but, oh my, it meant something.
I warped my ass and rind all into one pathetic being of wow!
How amazing the grace of pause. I found it. Breathe deep.
I wrote some lyrics that embrace all of my splendor and fury in a simple phrase of vernacular.
It was originally written a song for my daughter envisioned in her future. These are the words:
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Morgan was walking through the chartreuse room
She stopped and pondered in the air
It was an air so thick with doom
The paper of the walls, it so softly hung
With no intention to offend
Hanging there so simply done
Soiled planks, they made the untouched floor
She contemplated twice without,
the thought of any open door
He arose from the light of an empty space
His cap of felt drizzled with dew
and his clothes they smelt of taste
All they ever needed was the mist of day
and lilacs in the Sun
All they ever needed was each other
and lilacs in the Sun
Soiled blankets hung upon the window thoughts
Cloth prevented all of the light
Barricading all of the sight
Leaves the party ‘bout a half past noon
Ain’t no where to park your car
Your bloody nose impending doom
Tips his cap and pulls you into the cab
Out of your green and choking about
But the psyche needs to be left drab
Morgan’s eyes glimmered and glimmered on
His score silken solitude
Their love left drowning in the pond
All they ever needed was the mist of days
and lilacs in the Sun
All they ever needed was each other
and lilacs in the Sun
Please watch over me
Daddy please watch over me
All I fear to be
Daddy hum a melody
The cab it floated down the starry street
The snow had fallen down just right
Morgan set out towards defeat
The man he smiles with all his perverse grins
His clothes these days don’t seem so nice,
anymore ‘cause of the din.
Her blond curls they veil her pretty face
I think her blue eyes they did too
But he didn’t notice her disgrace
All of him and what he had become
The flowers wilted through the day
The heat had made it all undone.
The words exchanged and all they needed
were lilacs in the Sun
Pantyhose and misery,
wishing lilacs in the Sun
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Sometimes I sing it to Reuben and Cherise by the Garcia Band. The verse works for it but the song is original. I have it on CD. I wrote it. My baby knows.
I wonder about the coming of the day when pain is not with us all. It will never be. We will always need that seed of anger or depression or sadness to grow from the manure we are planted in.
It is funny how Saturday’s become Sunday’s.
It is humorous how sometimes getting out of bed holds nothing more than the completion of ritual.
It is pathetic that some of us are so stuck on the dependency of others that we are never ourselves and we wouldn’t know how to be if we tried.
Rosin the bow!
Glide the horsehair across the strings with cat gut glory.
Make those tremolo screams shatter my soul.
The vibrato makes it all makes sense.
Deviating up and down from where we belong only to know the purity of the note in our hearts.
Kiss me gentle and lay me down to bed.
The flowers will keep me company. I will be shadowed by the lilac tree and the thoughts of my child as a woman.
Stand tall princess. You will always be my little hambone …