4D
aka REEGER E SING
long beach cal
36 hours
rewrite
right left
right wrong
we write wrong
so it is said
if we write and not wrong
that is are rather
fill in our noble assessment
edit that
etc
blacken this
do you know what tale to believe?
thats the news motherfucker
ask again later tic-toc tic-toc
good lightly
god lightly
this page is for distraction only
aka ESQUE P LAND
One day a neighbor came over and asked me to accompany him to his driveway. It was a strange request, considering that we’re not that friendly. Not unfriendly necessarily but standoffish as is the local custom. He led me to his car and more specifically pointed me towards his rear window broken. Protruding from it was an unfinished canvas that had lain derelict on my porch for some time. Somehow the wind had caught it sending sailing some 30 feet in his direction. He said normally it wouldn’t be a problem, however even as a mechanic, replacing the glass himself would still cost $3000. That amount later was my fortune or luck or omen or beacon and became a message to share regarding procrastinating the making of things.
It’s a straight shot through the area, although circuitous in elevation. For the rabbit romp. For the coyote whose cries we hear nightly. For the Vietnamese vegetable gardens and the electromagnetic fallout. For the undulating mind too. From a Google bird’s eye, you see its long green serpentine form pointing directly to downtown in one direction with a view of the mountain in verso. On this path, I have stumbled on turf and mud and trail for some 20 years dragging thoughts of Cervantes and Hokusai every time.
Warehouse
Raw materials come in
Cross dock
Unload and erect
Production begins
Time clock order of operation
Some if not all of the moving parts joined together
Deadline and repeat
Something about
A daily bloodless revolution
It’s the art of war
The uber neo tech man ethos
Better than democracy for whom?
It’s the visit to the shrine
It’s doing what must be done
It’s God‘s work
It’s in the name of feeding one’s family
It’s the kill
It’s the hunt
It’s reacting to the blood in the water
It’s the hup-to hup-to echoing shoes through the hallway
Chasing the lettuce
the dollar
the shekel
the lira
the Deutsch mark
the drachma
the pesos
Chasing the long green
Chasing the dream
The dream in between
of shangri-La
of success
of the white deer
of the rainbows end
of conquest
The dream of power
The dream of the hour
of endlessness
The dream of the dream
The dream-builder reality killer
Yet it’s quite the reverse
Here I sit and fold and unfold it daily
All pieced together to make a life
The deadline party
Columnar in my important posture
Glacially speaking from the down low of my throat
With all my ducks
Goal minded
Aphorisms
Just dancing
Man how I dance
On the Duwamish
A river created from a lack of specificity
Today with its chemistry enriched from airplane parts and papermills
It could be any swamp or bog or slough, but this one is ours
With rich brackish colored mud
That streaks the canvas well
Styluses
It’s a personal matter one worth sharing to anyone who cares to decipher anything
I guess it seems kind of childish to be sharpening sticks and playing in the dirt
Humorous too
But if you’ve ever felt bad enough
Paranoid enough
Afraid enough to want to arm yourself
To want to protect yourself
And from what
From others and yes, I’ve said it and thats not too funny or pretty or childish anymore
Hast seen my composition
No gam for me I assure you
13 hits of some 48 attempts
Laughed out of Nantucket
No dinner either
So here we are
Printing money again
Yet here, I don’t consider this a weapon any longer
Rather a stylus for writing the subjects at hand
But I would say the guttural qualities of this method are not only a performative, random mayhem or display of some machoness exclusively
It’s just that sometimes everything seems so institutionalized
But more than that, it’s industrialized
That’s what I mean
Industrial paints
From industrial stores
Industrial ideas
And then I realize what I’m making
something that is created indoors, moved and displayed indoors
Sold indoors and remains indoors forever
I am of all these institutions and I am my own little institution as well
Yet before my idea becomes a facsimile that is never to be corrupted
Let me start from corruption
April bloom
Sweet Arid dessert
Vroom
Why might you find yourself
When you are at the point of dust and frolic
Where the sky is pre rain perpetually
How is one to fend off
Who could be blamed
What could be gained
But an epiphany of the supposed truths of the desert
Molting snake are blind and bite
Third generation Arizonans don’t need to drink water because they have developed the ability to absorb moisture from the air
Some local people would discipline their children by making them pick out a large rock to carry above their head to the top of a nearby hill and back without stopping
Javelinas are not related to pigs
The most amount of immediate life saving moisture comes from the barrelhead cactus
Nitrogenous sky tides
From air space to water land
Blue atop blue yet never the same
Cut across lines horizon
The offings bring our future
Low shoreline days and times
It comes as welcomed news
As the landscape paints us
Rusting our piers to dust