Author Archives: aldous

ouch me and blake

i just gotta say i love your lines its all i could ask for harmony in oceans and forever tuned like forks at breakfast wordless in the long night they ate their tongues in the fevered famine and lost the … Continue reading

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too much

on the verge of apples i gave in to an inner thirst it¹s like the eleventh hour and no poem it¹s the end of the world and an empty dome too much too much too much caffeine too much electric … Continue reading

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always

there¹s a lot of it these days somebody fried the mother board and electrons explode in multidirections there¹s no room for hate if you can¹t lose it use it to good measure hollow men stalking the city in the darkness … Continue reading

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callisto

lurching into paradise with a bottle of earth fire tonic to buffalo brain and scramble pie city out to buy pajamas always first thing in the morning if i were to meet john steinbeck i¹d ask him how to package … Continue reading

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going home

she fell through a cloud and into the womb a slice of sunlight caught in the spokes of the wheel he couldn¹t guess her destiny but claimed her as his own the brightness of her being just a trick of … Continue reading

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crashing from consciousness

reeling like a drunken angel angling headlong from heaven born from grease that lubes the wheel and blasting like a bacon strip crashing on the sizzling surface couldn¹t find the black box of all that we had been and known … Continue reading

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driving to cincinnati

what of the night with savage splendor out and ram the funkle wheels fat like globe and gallant seekers solace braced and gripping grok machine a tongued and quickly slanted darting madly ripping being fleeing emptiness capable flyer lone survivor … Continue reading

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september 11

worlds collide like planes and window panes shattered on the streets of ny bombs like hate mail metal the hell of now in afghanistan jihad against the monster but a feather plucked from the rubble phoenix eight years rising the … Continue reading

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Life Under Clouds

Do you remember skipping as a child down the cloud land dream ways of eternity? When the world was vast but young vision vaster and overlooking fruited cosmic plane? The fury of experience closes upon innocence and an inescapable sadness … Continue reading

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alchemy of stars

what of the world a bejeweled turd cast off god glow and put out with the garbage laser soup and gladiator sack race glory tented sky wazat? to the stumblebum and fruitcake to the core sand sifted alphabets like ancient … Continue reading

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ulterior motive

obituary banner red white and black you befuddle the brainless we the people line up like daisy cutters cute and monstrous moral empty chamber your slogans are bilious like the rotting corpses rendered in death tantrum bloodbath you are a … Continue reading

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hiding in loopholes

all the poems i’ve ever ritten postcards from the planet mind by love by life by oozy lies in the thinkstream awake in a lake of lsd a thousand fishly fliers and buddha left the boat all i can ask … Continue reading

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bomb to balm

every feelin brings a poem every twinge in the heart hot home drowning man clutching at daughters young climbing off the bottom rung a lot of blood spilled on the skin of the world menarche girl woman weeping from the … Continue reading

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honest man

sitting in a country cafe right down salina way i met the girl of my dreams oklahoma red clay wichita highway ride the rail on down to santa fe nincompoop sailor donuts into the thicket i saw it crouching evolution … Continue reading

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fat, high backwoods plenty shoemaker city to the unstruck chord “i am the lord” she cried alive she died in the arms of a stranger the life of the lotus let be your light the eightfold path your fodder growing … Continue reading

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Re: ants

baked potato carrying tablets (in self defense?) the armature of the city tower of babble death is a wastebasket confetti of lost souls rising like groping thru silence climbing to the dreamwall ceiling yellow sunshine bathe in the liquid milky … Continue reading

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it all starts at home

i awake in the swirling mist of night i have never felt such darkness but just as a light shines from its source so the black of a dead heart runs its course bombs and planes and melted steel and … Continue reading

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they call me the ocean skipper prince of tides the captain of my soul i face the wind face pelted with sea mist forever shoals rise off of starboard the lickin’ mist a cloud a shroud one-dimensional leaper rural cosmic … Continue reading

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dry wash

dugong city wrappers round simian swirls in the forgotten dusk. in pools sunken i think his name is byron he is the ghost god and will show you how to live

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Re: i hope you know i was joking

in the sheer concave terror of outstretched mind like a sky like a vector like a mirror we invite to our door all that we think it all becomes possible the right and the wrong the bliss and the bomb … Continue reading

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