The dogs are LOVING the sun
bathing in it like french models
from the internet.

Partially

Partially she looked at me

and said you are crazy.

Coincidentally she looked

at me and said you are lazy.

I closed the magazine

and walked out of the store.

I never saw her no more.

The randomness of existence

Some animals get to be loved.

Some animals get to be hamburgers.

1. Are you ever on another person's page, but you think it's yours and you can't understand the comments that people are leaving for "you?!" Or have you looked for something you posted, and you can't understand why it's not there and it turns out that you posted it to someone else's page. And they are going why the fuck did he post a how to make sushi video on my page?!!!

We almost have this winter beat, but she is hanging in there

like an Irishman fighting for cash and clan pride. I think that 

it is colder, today, than it was yesterday, and it was cold as fuck 

yesterday. Honey please, give me some warm weather.

At one point in my career as a kid

my mother tried to get us to use the word

satiated when we finished eating. And

if I didn’t eat everything on my plate

my dad would slap me across the face

and say, “Your mother and I worked hard

to put that food there.” 

1. I am up at 5am hand feeding The Bird, and one of the dogs, Penni, blueberries. Penni and The Bird share a love for blueberries, and roasted peanets. The peanuts I deshell for the bird, and feed her just the nut, while the dog likes to get the whole peanut.
   
   Joan started my day by giving me one of those good sugar kisses that she gives to me so often. Janis Joplin once sang that, "You only gotta do one thing well, You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe. You got a woman waiting for you there, All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman And that'll be the end of the road, babe."
   
   I am blessed.

Something

Something in your words

said that there was something

in your heart and soul.

I did some things right.

I did some things wrong.

No I’m not

I need some clear eyes. I’ve been crying.

I don’t know what for. Am I going to sit

around feeling sorry for myself for whatever

amount of time it is that I have left? No I’m not.

It's the time of year for little chocolate eggs that come wrapped in foil. I love the chocolate, but hate the foil. I am looking for an unpaid intern to take the wrappings off for me. Ha ha. Joan says she is busy!

Would you rather hear about my Jesus, or Joan’s beef stew?

Was Jesus like Alexandar Putin,

or was he like Buddha?

Was it really us or them?

In love you weren’t supposed to kill,

but your factory job got to you

and you had to make a stand. 

She ain’t alive

but she’s my second driver.

I love her so much.

I want to circumcise her. 

I think I'm going to cut my hair

 short and join The KKK. Just kidding.

Was Jesus like Alexandar Putin,

or was he like Buddha?

Life as I see it

It’s sometimes fast.

It’s sometimes slow.

Sometimes, the path is clear.

Sometimes, you don’t know where to go.

I control the money.

It’s me I assure you

I have the power to be God.

To fly

I have a head full of carry-on luggage

I want to fly duty free everywhere there is.

When you have a girlfriend

who runs her mouth

why would you want to have

a bird that talks?

Jesus as a super hero

He could be Superman

but he couldn’t be Superwoman

because that might say to be gay

is ok, not that everyone who is gay

wears a dress.

Who is more of a criminal, the doctor who orders surgery that is not necessary so that he can bill the insurance company, or some young kid strung out on Tupac and heroin who robs a convenience store?

But we can’t

The scream of the dead butterfly

is getting sickening. We killed them

with our way of life, said it wouldn’t matter

once they were gone, we could carry on

without them.

His guitar and my vocals

would collide, someday,

and the result will be mesmerizing.

When a good thing is not a good thing

I avoided jelly beans, yesterday, and this is a major 

accomplishment because my name is Mikel, and I am

addicted to jelly beans. I don’t just eat one or two, or

three or four, if a bag of them comes my way, around

Easter, or any other time of year, I eat the whole bag.

And I am diabetic, so this is not a good thing. 

Distinct

The cat who never shows me any affection seems to be dead upon my foot, having passed into a deep slumber with my toes as his pillow. He is a strange little cat: not affectionate in any of the conventional cat ways. He was found in a Mc Donald’s drive through lane, with his chest caved in, lying next to his dead mother. He was brought to the vet that I was taking my animals to at the time. The vet folks taking care of him used to carry him out to me to let me say hello and see how he was doing. One day they said, “He is ready to go home. Do you want him?”

Of course I wanted him, and I still want him, now, about six years later, even though he will not much let me even pet him. Each of our animals requires a distinct kind of love. 

You broke the rules

but worse you broke your vows

and that broke your heart.

Notes on an unknown source

Sleeping on the table

things growing in your navel.

I’m going to always get what I want

Na na na.

I’m going to always get what I want.

You can t stop me.

Nobody can drop me.

I’m The King(or Queen)of the world.

His guitar and my vocals

would collide, some day,

and the result will be mesmerizing.

He’s been screwing people

He’s been screwing people

for years: started out as a

pot dealer; shorted every bag

that he ever sold. And then he

went on to selling cars, and

opening restaurants. He screwed

folks, hard, in both ventures.

Before he died, he gave all his money

to the Vatican, and The Pope says

that this guy is going to Heaven.

Pay the blues

Pay your bills

 Pay your taxes

 you've paid your due.

 Now what?

Ultimately, the alcoholism caught up with him."

--Doors Drummer John Densmore speaking of

 singer Jim Morrison.

Could it be true for you?

 Wishful wanting thinking

 of how you would like to not be drinking.

It does, doesn’t it?

It does what it is

supposed to do

without even trying.

And then time talked to me

I wanted someone

to tell me something

that I didn’t know.

I wanted someone

to say something

to make the pain go away.

I wanted someone

to fix my broken world.

Nothing worked

but turning the pages

on the calendar.

Consummate lover such a friend

we will be together until the end.

Mud Dream

Two nights ago I had a dream where I jumped into a body of water

and was immediately consumed by the wet mud that lay under the water. 

As I was about to drown in the mud, I woke up, very thankful to be alive. 

Virgin Kisses

Do you realize that the first sip you take

out of any cup of water is a virgin kiss to that water?

Where do we go?

We go to church on Sunday.

We go to work on Monday.

Love is not a bad situation

Help me, I’ve fallen.

Help me, I’ve fallen in Love.

Somebody please help me.

Save me from this beauty.

Send me back to Hell.

Somebody please help me.

I've fallen in love.

Where do we go?

We go to church on Sunday.

We go to work on Monday.

Do you realize that the first sip you take

out of any cup of water is a virgin kiss to that water?

When you left your window open

so that I could climb in there

and be with you, I sometimes, on the

way in, cut my toe or finger and bled

all over your bed.

“You got any lip balm? Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. It’s illegal to buy it. It’s illegal to smoke. And you can’t grow it without risking going to jail. It never made anyone hit anyone.

People don’t get violent, or black out on it. 

Is summer safer where the feelings stay?

Does winter blow away all that you have found.

When things are awful should you seek more fertile ground?

Do drummers ever really relax?

Do hippies ever cut their hair?

Do beauty queens ever really fit it?

Is a soldier acting in the name of God

or to make money for people

who already have a lot of money

when he heads off to a war

red white and blue waving in the air above him?

13 minutes ago near Atlanta in Mableton

.Crankin' some Neil Young and Crazy Horse

 to see what The Bird thinks.

Mikel K Poet She ain't moving yet.

Mikel K Poet She is ignoring the entire show.

Mikel K Poet Dolcinea is not down with Neil Young.

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Bard

You wrote the book.

 You ruled its pages.

 You took us

 everywhere you went.

Whispering my name

The sound that the screen door made

behind me was that of a woman.

The girl in the statue smiled at me.

 And then the statue turned into her

Sugar Free Suckers

There were three orange sugar free suckers on top of the pantry where I had put them. I walked up to them and said, “I think I’ll have an orange one.” The candies looked at each other like I was rather strange, but it didn’t matter I took one of them and put it in my mouth leaving the other two trembling in fear. 

Whatever instruments you have,

 we'll play them. Any song you sing

 we will sing it. Any dream you have

 we have already dreamed.

Silly Girl

When I saw you standing in the back of the room

I knew that I was going to be your groom.

And when everyone else was gone, you were still there

so I knew that you knew it, too. It hasn’t been all easy,

but there is nowhere else that I would rather be

than in your arms, experiencing your charms, knowing

that you won’t pull no false alarms.

Silly Girl some here I’m so glad that you could stay.

Oh Silly Girl tell me again how you’ll never go away.

Silly Girl oh Silly Girl be with me every night and day.

When I saw you standing in the back of the room

 I knew that I was going to be your groom.

 And when everyone else was gone, you were still there

 so I knew that you knew it, too. It hasn’t been all easy,

 but there is nowhere else that I would rather be

than in your arms, experiencing your charms, knowing

 that you won’t pull no false alarms.

Silly Girl some here I’m so glad that you could stay.

Oh Silly Girl tell me again how you’ll never go away.

Silly Girl oh Silly Girl be with me every night and day.

I’ll take out the trash. I’ll make that cash. I’ll never bash you.

I’ll take out the trash. I’ll make that cash. I’ll never bash you.

Silly Girl some here I’m so glad that you could stay.

Oh Silly Girl tell me again how you’ll never go away.

Silly Girl oh Silly Girl be with me every night and day.

Prospecting for an Anne-Marie Mikel Song.

You

This is more than I want to say

but that’s ok I’ve got to say it anyway

I can never forget you. I can’t live

without you. I can never let you go.

You are my sun and you are my moon.

You are my yin and my yang.

You’re what puts a smile on my face

in the morning, keeps it there all day,

You are what lets me fall to sleep

at night with that smile still on my face.

Inside

What’s inside of  you

What’s inside of  me?

Do we have anything in there?

Do we have anything in common?

Can we do anything

but make each other bleed?

I need some ass

I need some ass

you’ll hear a young man say,

and when he gets it

he’ll stick his finger under your nose.

That’s Right

I’m not scared to get down and dirty

but I’d rather treat you with respect,

and with us respecting each other

there would be no need to fight.

Tell me heaven from hell.

You don t know how to use your 357

and yet you want to buy an AK47?

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And if they say you smell like fire

tell them that you are ready to explode

to burn down the city, tonight. 

Are you still making love and stale bread

getting up early in the morning to slave for your dad

while, last night, you were with the best thing that

you’d ever had?

How I keep up with them as an old man

Each time that I am done using the car key

I put it down in the same place. Every time.

Every time that I am done with the house keys

I put them down in the same place. The same place

as the car keys.

I think that most of us are narcissists of one sort or another.

What am I carry on luggage then what am I doing in the belly

of the beast? What am I the one to turn to when no one else
will listen? There’s a thin line between being a saint and a moron.

Dolcinea is getting famous on Facebook.

Ashe Turner You need to make videos of your bird.

Mikel K Poet She's not ready for that yet, but we should.

The band never hired you again

So you saw your name

roll in the credits of a

Rolling Stones movie.

I can't wait to light the candles.

It's about The Benjamins. And the children.

But mostly it should be about the benjamins

because what the fuck can you do for the children

if you have no benjamins? How many fucking

people are unemployed right now in this Great Nation?

How are those poor folk making it? What is their life like?

A philosophy not yet fully developed to live by

Yesterday, don’t matter if it’s done.” Or

“You can’t cry over spilled milk,” or “Tuesday’s Gone…”

“That which doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.”

“It is always darkest before the dawn,” which I got from

a fortune cookie are the mottos, and songs, and thoughts

that I try to live by. And when I live by them, I am happy.

You are special. I would make

any trip for you.Trip and fall too,

like I tripped and fell for you.

And we ought to do what’s good

We can do what we can do

and we can’t do what we can’t do.

Starting to win

When they started to sing

I started to cry.

He was so unattractive

I didn’t know why

people did what they did

They had always picked on the kid.

Now he was out there singing

what amazing applause

he was bringing to himself.

Your Kiss

Is your kiss like honey?

Do you carry a gun?

Is your kiss like glue?

I’d be stuck with you oh no.

Never come down

Never come down from love.

Never come down from love.

Love is like a fever

but it won’t make you sick.

Peaceful and Kind

Soon we can sit comatose in our chairs forever

glued to what we are glued to now. If it is love

that we are glued to let it be love that we embrace,

now and forever, and if there are killing weapons,

and killing minds on the planet then let the angels

take them away or change them into something

peaceful and kind.

Here he comes

“This is my day,” he would say

in front of the mirror, smiling

at himself to start each and every day.

He would say it over and over

working himself into a frenzy

and, soon, he would walk out

into the world.

Your Buddy Jack

With a fool at your side

you feel pretty good about yourself

that fool is a lot stupider than I

you laugh to yourself

and then he steals from you everything

that you ever had.

Once More

You might have better luck

but I took a punch to the head

on the left and on the right

and then I hit the ground.

You might have better luck

but I wound up in jail

on the floor eating

their scrambled eggs for breakfast

and their baloney for lunch

I don’t know what they had

for dinner but I had seen the judge

and was out and on my way

to the bar once more

forgetting what I had promised The Lord

pleading with him to get me out

and I would never drink no more.

Your Kiss

Is your kiss like honey?

Do you carry a gun?

Is your kiss like glue?

I’d be stuck with you oh no.

She said

She said, “I’ll pay you a hundred thousand

dollars to have a drink with me right now.”

He said, “Lady, a hundred thousand dollars

wouldn’t even begin to cover the amount of

trouble that I would get into if I took that drink.

Who Wins?

I see you dig the after life.

Maybe if you’d been better

with your knife that tongue

of yours sure got you in a fix.

Who wins and loses

sometimes you can’t pick.

He’s the ice cream man, baby

I was a poor boy on the poor side of town

one day I saw a bank robbery go down

one of the bank robbers waved at me

said get in the car and away we went yippee.

First we stopped at the ice cream store

and we gave the owner so much money

that the kids in the neighborhood never had to

pay for ice cream no more.Then we go arrested

with ice cream on our shirts and went to jail

for a very long time.

Back when

cds were albums

before they were cassettes

or eight track tapes.

Of course all of this

was way before MP3’s.

I also showed a propensity for math.

I was born a dancer

but I soon got cancer

because they wouldn’t

let me put on my dancing shoes.

Things ain’t gonna be the same

Things ain’t gonna be the same

if you say goodbye to me

and walk out that door.

Things ain’t going to be the same

if you leave me and hook up with

what’s his name.

Things ain’t going to be the same.

Things ain’t going to be the same

Things ain’t going to be the same.

You said you’d never leave me.

You said we’d be together for forever.

Now things ain’t the same because

I hooked up with what’s her name

for what turned out to be just one night

and you say that you are going to leave me.

Things ain’t going to be the same.

Things ain’t going to be the same

Things ain’t going to be the same.

If I could turn back the hands of time

I would. If I could do it over I wouldn’t do what I did.

Things ain’t going to be the same.

Things ain’t going to be the same

Things ain’t going to be the same.

Please don’t leave me.

Please don’t leave me.

An Amp K Tune

Oh Heavenly Father

Oh Heavenly Father

look what you have done

you gave us the earth

and we  have run her

into the ground.

Oh Heavenly Father

you gave us free will

and look what we have done

too many of us are starving.

Oh heavenly father

oh Heavenly father

please guide us to a place

of greater sanity.

Soon there might be nothing left

Oh there was a tree filled with rubber

and the Indian loved it. The white man

came along and the Indian taught them

how to be one with the tree. By way of

thanks the white man killed both the Indian

and the tree.

Weather.com is saying that we are having a severe thunderstorm

 here in Mableton. Joan just turned off her computer. She doesn't like the risk that it could be zapped by some lightening. I must keep the lines of communication open. Three years ago a storm hit this house where we're living in sin and tore its roof off. I hope that that doesn't happen tonight. Soldier on, Comrades.

I am looking forward to doing a drug more than I have ever looked forward to doing a drug, and there was a time in my life when I did look forward to doing an assortment of drugs, but this drug isn’t the same as those old drugs I used to do. This one is for arthritis. It is supposed to take the arthritic pain in my hip away, and hopefully the arthritis pain in my right knee, and lower back, also. Don’t expect miracles, I think. And do find out if it is addictive. It’s not a narcotic. It’s an anti-inflammatory.

Mikel K 

The echo of everything

got too much for me.

Most

I wasn’t always into evolution.

The time for us must pass.

No need to wallow in confusion.

Most all you have done doesn’t matter

but that doesn’t matter most.

I’m through being through

I’m through being through.

I’m saying no to no.

Looking for a good time

after all the bad times I been through.

I give the devil his due.

He sure can cause pain and suffering

for me and for you,

but it ain’t something I’m fixing to do

with the time I got left.

I’m going to do my best, that’s all I can do.

The owner

She owns the garden

though all the sweat

and blood that went

into it came from me.

The owner

She owns the garden

though all the sweat

and blood that went

into it came from me.

Have you got $24.99?

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Just getting even

I’ve not gotten caught

for most of the bad things I’ve done in my day.

But then, I haven’t received credit for all the good

that I’ve done.

A toast

Put me to sleep

Wake me back up.

We’ll drink from a cup

full of peace and love.

Your Frown

It makes for me to be no good company.

It seems like forever for it to go away.

Have you got $24.99?

I used to watch for the day to die

hoping that things on the next one

would get better. And when I quit

drinking, they did. Have you got

$24.99? This is my story.

By Mikel K

Power to the people

Sometimes, on Facebook, I want to say, “So, who cares,” to something someone has posted. I’m sure that you feel the same way on my page from time to time.

“When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.” - Zig Ziglar

I’m the boss.

I’m the janitor, too.

I’m the beginning.

I’m the end.

I’m everything in-between

I’m the ying.

I’m the yang.

I’m the fire.

I’m the water

I’m the glint in your happy eye.

Do you drink too much?

Do you hit your wife, or girlfriend, in blackouts?

Do you get thrown out of clubs?

Do you get thrown in jail.

Did you never learn when enough was enough.

Are you an alcoholic?

Are you an alcoholic?

Are you an alcoholic?

Scumbag

I thought that I was adding Wonder Woman

but she turned out to be a scumbag.

Slow Catcher

So, you got your ticket at The Hotel; finally. Everybody else had long been there. You were just slow about catching on. 

Under her thumb

I’ll not toss horns with her.

It is in my best interest to

make her smile.

What do you want man?

The pharmacy called

and I bet they are calling

because they got a call

from another pharmacy

telling them that I was

no long doing business

with them. The guy left

a voice mail asking me

to call him but he didn’t

say why. He didn’t say why.

What the fuck do you want?

What the fuck do you want?

It’s not my imagination

She can’t take me.

She can’t leave me.

She can’t believe me

when I say that I am the one.

First she comes.

And then she goes

to pick her clothes up

off the floor,

saying she won’t do that

no more.

Believe me.

Believe me.

Believe me,

I say as she heads out the door.

It’s slow in here

let me drink from

my bottle of insanity.

Tongue tied and twisted

I came into this world

and tongue tied and twisted

I was when it came to the girls.

The Queen of The World

She really has no way to defend herself.

And she can’t feed herself. So why is she

so darn grumpy at times? All she has is

this little cage and a few toys that are

scattered about it. You would think that,

by the way she acts, that she is The Queen

of the World. 

Are there still kids in their twenties?

The answer is yes.

And they act much like

kids did when we were

in our twenties. Gravity

does not defy us. Nor

does it define us. I never

rode a skateboard as a kid

and you won’t catch me

on one now. I’ve broken

my collar bone once

and I have broken one pinkie.

That’s enough. 

I often blow off CNN for The Grateful Dead. I’d prefer, mostly, to get my lessons in life from old song rather than the news. 

Can I have everything you have, and more?

I want the beaches the far reaches of your heart

and soul. I want your now, your yesterday, your tomorrow.

 I don’t want to have to beg, or borrow, you. I want you

 here and now. I want you for forever and beyond.

I want you at the river. I want you by the pond.

The Little Singing Birdie

Oh my Gosh. Honey, they are picking a new Pope.

You can't talk like that. It’s rude. It's a rule. One of

the angels will hear you, and tell one of The Cardinals

and the little birdie will sing.

UFO has forsaken me

after having taken me

to another planet. 

Now is as good a time as any

Now is as good a time as any

so why not get started?

Now is as good a time as any

to leave the old behind

and become something new.

Now is as good a time to wear

a smile instead of a frown.

Now is the time to leave the past behind

and get into the now. Don’t worry about

tomorrow. Tomorrow will become today

and everything will be a.o.k.

The Soap at The Vatican

The soap at the Vatican is designed to fall out of your hands because then they can charge you for it. Can you imagine getting fucked in the ass and having to pay for it? There was actually a lot

of that going around and I am saying nothing here about Gay Marriage.

Dont bend over in the showers in The Vatican

If you are ever taking a shower at The Vatican

don’t bend over if you drop your soap.

Does that make me a Saint or a Sinner?

Each section of a tv dinner

is a gift from God. She used to

fix me five star dinners, now

I’m in the kitchen, on my own,

fending with tv dinners. The

noodles are not all that good,

but the broccoli is better than

any my mother made.

I forgive you

I’m thinking about starting a forgive you business.

People would tell me what they did, and for a price

I would forgive them. The cost would depend on the

severity of the crime. Murderers would have to pay

more than the kid who stole his best friend’s pot and

slept with his best friend’s girlfriend.

Let them fight their own wars

Private sentiment chose not to be a soldier.

He became a warrior for peace instead.

Living it was Hell

Is the killer stalking him after his own death?

Men were sending out voices that weren’t his.

They said that he was trying to kill the women

and the kids. Someday, someone would make

a documentary about it, but right now living it

was Hell.

When I think of you I want to rub my penis

When I think of you I want to rub my penis

wherever it is that I am in the kitchen: on

the highway, in jail, in a crowd.

to be cont.

Mikel K

Notes from a shoreline very close to me

You’re standing still in front of me

and for the longest time I couldn’t see.

There are men with far less than me

who have way more.

You can spend your life yearning

for a distant shore

and ignore the beauty at your feet.

Love is more important than poetry

I remember when I moved in with her

that I used to get irritated with her

when she would interrupt me

when I was in the middle of writing a poem.

What she had to say did not seem as important

as the work at hand.

Somewhere, in the near year that I have lived

in sin with her, I have come to realize that

love is more important than poetry.

The time of another precious day.

I still bitch about things

mostly in my mind these days

like about the time my son sat on the bench

a lot while a number of coaches’ sons

and a daughter played.

Like about the time the cop called me

off of a private lawn to bust me

for public consumption of a single beer.

Like about the time I spun donuts in the parking lot

and got busted for my only dui.

Sometimes, I blame you. Sometimes, I blame me

but all I do is waste the time of another precious day.

I do

Sometimes I feel like I could throw a baseball

a hundred miles an hour, standing in the kitchen

with a lemon in my hand.

But I can’t.

Sometimes, I think that I could throw a football

the length of a football field standing in front of

the refrigerator with a head of cabbage in my hand.

But I can’t.

Sometimes I feel like I could strip an engine

while watching cars race around an oval on the tv.

But I can’t.

Sometimes I feel like I could write a best-selling book.

But I haven’t.

Sometimes I feel like I could teach the world to sing

and that song would be one of peace and love but I can’t

get the world to sing anything.

Mostly I feel like I can love my family and friends and I do.  

In some other lifetime

The third is a bird

maybe it was once a cat.

Your silence would be golden

Lead by example

but don’t pound me

over the head

don’t run me over

with your mouth

about how things

ought to be.

You got your religion

but you only live it

when preaching it to me.

I play my guitar knowing

that I will never be a super star

but I also know that I won’t smash it

like I used to do when I was a drunk.

It all starts now

I can bitch about what happened yesterday

what people done to me

what I failed to do for myself

but all that is going to do is ruin today.

Blessings

The morning has broken

the birds have spoken to me.

For Joan

You are my song. You inspire my songs.
You waited way too long to come along,
but I am glad that, now, you are here.

Rejoice

It is a new day

and, once again,

I have been given

the most precious gift of all: life.

Whether I have

one minute left
or 2,000 centuries

I should live it

to the fullest

with gratitude.

Sweet Dreams

I’m glad that someone finally realized

the genius in it because I have come

to conclude that I am not a genius after all.

I never figured out

how to be the next big thing

but I learned to be happy

where I’m at.

My heart ain’t bitter

but sometimes I’m a baby sitter

for my emotions.

Administrative segregation cells

is what the jailers call the place

where they put the mentally ill.

Alone for hours. Days. Weeks. Months. Years.

There is no rehabilitation there. No medication.

If you let it, life can get sadder and sadder.

Our frog, Ringo, passed last night. We are saddened by his departure but rest assurred that he is in Frog Heaven because he was a good frog. Goodbye Ringo. We Love You, and Miss You.

Your Family

We have been trying to figure out why he passed. Painted Chubby Frogs are supposed to live five years, and this one only made it about five months. It is 76 degrees in this room, which is supposed to be good for him, so I don't think the cold got him. He was well fed, well watered. I guess some beings are just not meant to live in captivity.

Amazing how beautiful it can be

And my next thought is

how brutal it can be, also.

I have to quit thinking like that.

I need to just focus on the beautiful.

Time to take out the trash

He made the big time, at last.

I haven’t. Oh well. It is trash day.

It is funny how you can feel close to some folks even though they are far away and you can feel distant to someone very close to you.

Another Bukowski wannabe

There are hordes of them out there

influenced by the guy who used to get drunk

and beat his wife, (on camera even)

influenced by the guy who gets drunk

and spews hate. I lived like that when I was young

and had never heard of Charles Bukowski.

I’m lucky that I am not dead, or that

I didn’t kill someone else in a blackout. These days

I wish that I had never read a single poem

of the dirty old man’s because all of the love and heart

and soul that were in them seem to be a crock

of shit when you watch him, in person, in the movie.

Mother ship we missed it.

We are drifting.

Not everyone can

carry the weight of the world

Stipe sings, and I agree.

Blind then surly

Most children fail

to look up all they hear.

Sequester this

We’re all going to have to dig a hole

put our trash in there, stick our head in it.

No Security at home for the wicked

The secret stop signs caused a leak.

The mass of man and woman is not allowed to peak.

On the q tip

Ear wax is transitional

like some people’s love.

If I had a dollar for every dollar I’ve spent

I’d go places that I never been yet.

We’re all salesmen in the end

A teacher must teach.

A student must learn.

A cop must make quota.

A killer must burn.

Song

Peace and love

wear a glove

when you fuck another

no protection from insanity.

If I started a band, today, I would like to call it
The Scum Sucking Pigs.

So hip

Sometimes it is hard, at first,

to recognize a moron. Looks

can be so superficial. 

No regrets

At times, I am sentimental.

I’ve never dated an Asian girl.

Diet

Sushi is one of life’s rich demands

while some eat the placenta.