Sunday, May 30, 2010

Gillian Welch, David Rawlings we love you


She went back to Wichita
She went back to he Ma and Pa
Reckon I saw her next to my truck
Pumpin' gas with her car packed up
And we talked as neighbours will
There waitin' for the tank to fill
Well talk about nothing or how it might snow
And how far she had to go

Goin' back where the grass grows tall
And the fields burn in the fall
Well you could still hear the night bird call
Back in Wichita

She came here in eighty-five
She came here as a July bride
But it never got easy, never got rich
Now she ain't got much of what she came here with
The good times they've all been spent
She ain't broken but she's badly bent
Now there's nothin' she wants here, nothin' that shines
She's made up her mind

CHORUS

She says For all my time well I ain't got much to show
And you could tell that man of mine and
anyone who wants to know . . .

CHORUS

Saturday, May 29, 2010


a list for monkeys:
after yawning, jubilant fruit parade and dawning
wanderers
star kites
root of moss in conversation
warm quiet soil, limited space
i will lie down now

Friday, May 28, 2010


take a train into roy orbisons brain
guitar strings, cowboy boots with wings
combs, bombshells, whistles and bells

a tapping foot grows larger and larger
until your ear melts into a bowl of tea
with caramels and fresh grass
hills bicycles and crash

being carried home by your father

Thursday, May 27, 2010


one day someone showed me a long awaited miracle
they showed me how to hold down a garlic
and smack it with the flat side of a big knife

i watched the flimsy skin shell fall away with ease

after years of struggling to grab at the fine covering of a clove

i was taught the gift of freeing up the garlic

if garlic were a girl i would take her on a swing with me
up up up into
the weightless blue momentary

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mr. Ali Zaoua- Shoukran bazzef!



wildfires and lemon
forged plastic hearts
don't worry it only pinches for a moment.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Back for an encore - Mr. Ali Zaoua



This red coloured wine comes in thin green plastic bottles...

wine

pickles

plastic

windows

- 1680 松尾 芭蕉

Monday, May 24, 2010

Farewell my friends, Farewell my anemonies - Mr.Ali Zaoua


Today I threw the dog in the ocean...

She likes Slim Jim meat stick so much, she scratched my arm and jumped all over me and her eyes rolled back in her head like the great white shark when it attacks the scantily clad women in the movies...

I just bought some onions for a fish stew at the corner store and got the meat stick for the dog...

She tore it out of my hand, but I somehow was able to save a 5 inch section of the 13.5 inch overall length...

We went to the beach and romped...

Then we walked to the pier and I had the idea to tease her with the 5 incher and then toss it into the water so she would jump in and go for a swim...

Someone at work last week complained that she was smelly, so I thought she could use a bath...

But it sank...meat sticks don't float I guess...

So I threw her in and she swam to the shore...picking up a floating stick on the way...