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rhode island notebook 6.17.03-6.20.03

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Gabriel Gudding <[log in to unmask]>

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rhode island notebook 6.17.03-6.20.03

             [anabasis]

2:16pm  June 17, 03, On
pavement at Toyota Quik Lube
mit just had oil change. Bright
sun ­ mesocumuli hung on
the watery horizon of the blue ceiling
Morrisey & Veterans Pkwy  2:19pm
Main & Veterans  2:20
I rise on 74 east  2:23pm bright sun & set
odometer pavement a flat porridge-colored
mash of grey & tan (thus beige)
cut like a line of Hopkins instress
beneath the robin’s egg frosting
of the inverted cupcake of the firmament
and past the jiggling green
I am bound for Nova Anglia.

I yacht thru vegetal Illinois
past Le Roy now
at 2:34, past clot on rt
of black & brown sunglistened
cows ears out to cool themselves
past silos & small Norman
grain bins (too silver
in the sun). Radio towers I
am doing 72.
                         The small corn’s
three octaves darker
than the waving wheat-green fescues
of the ditches, Piatt County 24 miles.

The way the houses rise here without trees
on these undulant soils
are as frigates of faucets and shelves
they have gone on the sea of towns
I drive for Clio
to bring her back here
the summer.

Saffron sun. The corporate corn.
Vegetal seaplain
a wind feels straight
of Tunis but w/out the dust
And fundamentally humid. Salt
Fork River 55m 3:12pm
Specks of gritty flowers near the
                                     bridges
Vermilion County 61m The Mandan
Around Fort Clark North Dakota
traded for a yellow paint called “Vermillion”
The MANDAN NATION was exterminated
by small pox around 1839

Their Chief MATÒ-TOPE
was painted by Carl Bodmer
in 1833. He had reputedly killed
several white men by the time
he stood for Bodmer’s portrait
which took 4 days to paint.
This Continent was “settled” by
Europeans via a Campaign of
biological Warfare ­ whose fruits
we now see in the vermillion ears
of the good Corn.
             Kickapoo State Park 69m
In the Middle Fork Vermilion River 72m
I saw greasy man-length green threads of water moss
smeared under the water shine
Salt Fork Vermilion River 74m

Reality can be felt deeply
in 2 ways:
rightly & wrongly. When rightly
our welling response is love
and curiosity. When we react w/
pride and fear. Awe
is the blend of both fear
& curiosity­and is close as Americans
come to curiosity. Indiana border ­
80-odd miles.
             Wabash River Fountain
County 90 m 3:44pm
             Graham Creek how you sun 93m
             Dry Run Creek 98.3m
             Slightly rolling shallow
             be-treed hills here

Stratocumuli dimmer, bigger
“the enormous aggregate that is
our war on all the lands
and seas of the globe”
             ­Ernie Pyle, apologist
             for the death makers
             “Everything of this world
             had stopped, except war.”
                         ­Ernie Pyle
Sugar Creek 118 miles from Normal

We heard the Anchor Chain
rattle deeply in Rome
All of it, the sky, measled w/ cloud
that massive tundra of Air
the russian olive trees shaped
             like cumuli here
I see many old framed telephone poles
grey crisp wood bleached stiff
as cocks bent by the curves
the catenary weight of the wire
curved like woman
What an idyll is my yachtcar
in Boone County I dash
             in an lidyll car

Did the Mortar shell make A
terrific quacking sound
An instant duck come to life
and then gone in a quack
             packed with shrapnel
I believe it was that which
burst my yacht
near Advance, Indiana at 135m

I see dill patching the rt ditch
its dull yellow almost
a digestive stomach-lining yellow
the cat tails then, huge & reedy
holding their small poops vertical.

Redwinged blackbirds sit at their desks
on top of them.
Are there no gentle
             men in America?
It’s my doubt these Indiana pickups
hold Any. No in this
                                     Jesus country.
Eagle Creek Reservoir  154m
                                     4:40pm
70east Indy 4:49 162m
Here in Indy
the cat tail spoor have burst.

I see the Indy City Center
hazed blue, blue itself its buildings
At 170m in Indy I see
                                     there
the Awful Ziggurat of Lilly
             Ziggurat of Morphia
Ziggurat of boring verse
Ruth E Lilly who bequeathed a million
to Poetry Magazine. Eli Lilly who made
a billion on Prozac, Lily Poppy,
Morphia done
in the land of the dead Indians
             70 east closed must take 74east
Heard this BS lie on NPR: “US forces continue
to mix humanitarian aid w/
Military muscle.” –at 5:10pm

70east 5:10pm CST
2 days Ago in New Harmony, Indiana
I heard “Ellen Bryant Voigt” “read”
her poetry, she
             ah she
kept repeating
the 20 yr old Yeats’ pronouncement
that poetry’s about passion but I think she
has confused Passion with Melodrama, strange
she should be so prim her poetry
limp, the melodrama inside it
her poetry prim wordy
sounded
like cats effing.
Nameless Creek 203 m

Anthony Creek. There
are the Goofy Hoosiers in
in the distant field
w/ shorts on, Stadium Empty,
huddling at some game in the sunlight
Montgomery Creek
There Are the Hoosiers in tractors,
men & women west
of Big Blue River cutting
booby-thick median grass
and the grasses of the ditches
That odd butterfly
             seemed so happy
the light in the east lighting her

Optimistic little things
though I know sometimes melancholy
Generally a butterfly is
guileless, a wisp on a hinge
only slightly tougher than the wind itself
Whitewater River there are no
large bugsplats yet
Moving by me are blossoming dill
5:56pm 237m rest stop
6:01 back on 70e the sun is
nested in a sick haze
behind me.

“The point was that we on the
shore knew we cd substitute
machines for lives.”
             Ernie Pyle
Ohio State Line 250m
     (Shelton Fireworks on
Indiana side – stop there on
way back) – 250m  ½ tank gone.
Long constellation in median
of blue & white wildflowers
­superb­always happy
to leave Indiana. I wish I had more
compassion in me, I wish I had
less judgment head
Let us build A creek over it
and wash Away its republicans

“We had eleven Negro boys aboard,
All in the stewards Department”­
             Ernie Pyle, BRAVE MEN
“They were all quiet nice boys
and A credit to the ship.” – Ernie Pyle
             “They all had Music in their
souls. I had to laugh when the ward room
radio was playing a hot tune, I’d
notice them grinning to themselves &
dancing ever so slightly as they went
About their serving.” – Ernie Pyle
             “One of the boys was George Edward
Mallory of Orange, Virginia. He was
32….” – Ernie Pyle
The Hoosier Ernie Pyle

6:28  CST  269m
Weighty sky
             orange-blue clouds roll
encompassing & burly
from the North   I must take off
sunglasses, I stop @ Brookville OH
& consume 2 fish sandwiches.

I see grass islands in
Stillwater State Scenic River

bugsplat, almost blue, near
Great Miami River   I believe
it had been a beetle
      Brandt Pike Huber Heights
Carriage Hll
   Mad River  293m

Talk to Colleagues, faculty About
Charlie’s line re someone pub-
oriented, po-mo lit & willing to take
over UNIT for Contemporary Lit.

Ulysses S. Grant was from,
I think, Point Pleasant
Ohio    I have no idea if
that town
is anywhere near Springfield
Ohio where I currently Am
7:28pm at dim apricot evening
an hr before an Ohio
       sunset
When he was a boy
Ulysses Grant
swung from horses’ tails

Fewer pickups in Ohio, not
As hot – Massive junkyard of
farm equipment  330m
Ulysses S. Grant stood 5 feet 1 inch
I see Llamas there
             Ho Ho Yamas!

270-N  7:48  CST
             Acteon had seen the goddess bathing
seen her breasts & hips
had seen the light blowing beneath
                                                 her arms
her hair like bright vegetables
her hips a platoon from her
                                     vulva
Northwest Columbus wall to wall
             grey clouds mollify
     orange dusk All our lights
Are on.  Where are the geese.
Has Achilles Ate them?  His
Whiskeys Are orbiting. He
cannot get to them.
      Achilles has ate the ducks.

Achilles has Ate the llamas.
     fewer US flags this
   trip  than any other trip.
Achilles has Ate the brandy,
             the quinine
          the geese he ate
The horses & mud he
ate them.  360 m  71 N
A terrible footbridge over the
    HWY  at 362m is festooned w/
U.S. flags
The gelatinous sausage meat
     was made of a were-stag, a deer-man
formerly Acteon.  I see
a skulk of foxes in the rt ditch
             near Sunbury OHIO

Large field of white wildflower
constellated on rt, each white
clump approx.  3x4 feet, maybe
400 clumps strewn upon 5
Acres seen despite a settling
mist & impending dusk

Greasy flank of dark cloud
on right tree line   ½ mile off.

Andrew Jackson, the Mothereffer,
killed the Choctaws & Cherokees
What A Great Idea!
And After, for Jackson, the voices
and the laughter­the glasses and orchestras
strewn thru spring
             Mansfield OH  409m
                                     darkness

Fill on Ashland / Wooster OH
             Exit 186
                            426 m  9:04 CST
      37.6m (since fill) 9.845g
             44.45 mpg
I set these matters down not
to instruct others, but to
inform myself – or so said
John Steinbeck.

“We find after years of struggle
that we do not take a trip –
a trip takes us.” – John
Steinbeck, Travels w/ Charlie

“Thus I discovered that I did not
know my own country.”  ­ JSteinbeck

When I stop in them gas station
             And see
ignorant peoples
I wonder
Why they ignorant
Why they gullible

Where they should have had passion
             and Love
they have fear and pride
How they can be so proud
             and so simultaneous dumb
IS THIS CAR NOT MY
             ROSANANTE?

76e  451m  9:41  CST
10:44pm Eastern time I burst
through A castle of paper
that has appeared on the
road ONWARD ROSANANTE
Confetti blizzards behind me
It may have been a nunnery of paper
Have I burst many nuns
There is a slightly naughty
quality of fire to breaklights
The Amber kindles gripped
by the asses of cars
As if each trailed 2 bundles
             of burning broom straw

But we do not speak of it on
    the road.  Our cars, our
yachts, our turtles, our steeds
our hermit homes ­ look forward,
pioneers, O conestogas ­  forward
    and have no traveling end
We are Stern and bow
             have no  aft or end
They before me are not Americans
   for Americans have no Asses
       We Are All Assays
    Meander Reservoir 511m
lit w/ sheen of orange sodium
lights luminousing in low clouds
             beyond trees are dark.

80 east 515m 11:41 eastern
Pennsylvania Welcomes me w/ a
             blue sign.
Shenango River: gray
    half-dollar flick of wings
                         My windshield missed
a moth. I have often wondered
if the slapping swirl of air from A
passing car would cripple a
Moth or hobble
             A butterfly.

Fine grain of mist past 10 miles
    wipers can’t quite take it off
they smear it into a thin condiment
     made of bug meat and cloud water

It clings there w/ an almost static charge
   to the clear silicate toast of
      my windscreen
138 m  ¼ tank gone.

Now A crackling rain 8 miles
     West of CLARION   1245am ESt
Shippenville  2 miles
The rises drops & turns of this
     stretch cause the dinosaur sized
Median trees to drop rise &
    sway their leaves strain
and sift the lights of the
oncoming traffic which are not
yellow. Or beige nor tan. But a
kind of off white, a sallow white,
    though some of the newer cars have
             blue

And in this raining night
their reflections glister like
those prism blobs & corpuscles of light
one sees on the eyelashes
in a rain or if one has cried
and tried to see. Punxsatauwney,
North Fork Creek
There is a mist whose rate of
deposit on the windscreen falls
slightly below the first indexed
wiping speed, which causes a slight
annoyance in the driving
1:15 – 1:19am Stop to Defecate  619m
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Dense fog aluminum colored
             in the lights.
Descending the fog elevates
I drop to Curwensville Lake.
I ascend out of whatever
valley I was in, and on the rise
A happy rain giving a sound
of crinkling small candy wrappers.
ONWARD ROSANANTE
I believe I am hydroplaning
Lightning flash (blue-white)
2:10am I am being
followed by someone who insists
on staying behind me – and recall
that this Doppelgänger always
             appears

On this lonely Alleghany stretch
No matter if I reduce my
speed to 40 or bolt away
at 80 it follows. Back
there 3 or so miles it
got right on me & I coasted
to 40 mph. It did not pass!
but decelerated as well.
             Dense fog & thorough thick rain.
Rain rain Rain rain Rain
             Lamar Lamar
                                     699m
2:37am  EST
Stop to Sleep at Lamar, PA
             Travel Ctr (TA)

Wake to heavy rain from an
             Aluminum sky 7:28am. Fill on
       6.377 gallons – at 42.53 mpg
back on hwy 80east 7:45am
The Mighty Susquehanna here
    near Milton I squeak over
the tin brown water. Its
width here is similar to
the Wabash at New Harmony, IN.

I cross the Susquehanna again
at 768m. Sky lightening
but still low, mist stopping
dragging gray rags part way
up mountains on rt, tops
occluded, road drying Wedn
the 18th of June TODAY I see Clio!

81 N  785m  N to
Wilkes-Barre  Mist again
on 84.   Black twisted hanks
of tires, retreads delaminated,
lay at the rt shoulder
             like exhausted black muskellunge
Smaller fragments rest curved
             resembling fingernails
or charred forearms cragged w/ bones
stiffened w/ their radial steel wires
rest stop urination   846 m
             9:56 AM
The Sway and Swish of traffic
through eastern Pennsylvania

is balletic and calm
near Lords Valley Dingmans
Ferry. The dense thin trunked
oaks and birch rise in a great
green poof mattress on
close grassed hills either side
of tin-skied 84.  Metamorphic
and shaley Rocks knuckle out the grass
      easily here

At NY border high shale
cliff brow above trees
and bear square bold numerals
in whitewash: 91    1999
    2000

Near Port Jervis A petulant
red early 90s Chrysler
convertible, beige canvas top
down, flings itself past me.
A stiff cheap plastic
     American flag on its aerial.
The flag, raging like A
multicolored choked pigeon[1]
bursts free of the Aerial
and falls grateful & exhausted
  to the road. I am
careful to run it
over.   Fog.   I am at
             dewpoint

and the road rises & pulls
me up & into it, only to pull me out
when lowered.
Wallkill River  900 m
Now here again under low
             tin roiling clouds
over the wide Hudson I travel
the Hamilton Fish bridge & steam
into a delta of cars backed
at the tollgates.  Blonde
makeupped sweetfaced toll lady
“Thank you Have a good day” A
smile, she takes my dollar bill

then a half mile of willows
on my left
Fishkill Creek near Poughkeepsie
& Peekskill the clouds Are
an Alloy of milk & glowing lead
A faded blue bumpersticker on A Ford:
UNITED IN PRAYER
URINATE IN EAST FISHKILL NY
930 m  11:15-19 am
942m EAST BRANCH CROTON RIVER
CONNECTICUT BORDER
946 m  11:33pm 55 speed limit

691e  985m  12:10
Must meet Clio & M.
at Martin Luther King Elementary
School
             Quinnipiac River
in silver mist
             91 North 994 m
             9 S heavy mist low
featureless sky dull of color
but bright
             Mattabesset River
                                     traffic
heavy Mist deluging spray
Are we driving through
             clam juice?

95 N  1030 m  12:50pm
Approaching Rhode Island
No mist, sky gone up its
ladder
New macadam the odd burnt butter
smell of tar
             1063 m R I border  1:19pm
Down a wet straight aisle in the
    mirroring macadam new clouds are
framed, scudding kinds, south
   to North.
Arrive Motel 6  Warwick  1:48 pm EST
   will Bathe now and then to Clio’s school
where soon she’s getting out,
             then to summer with me

             [katabasis]

4:29 AM EST  June 19 Southbound
Hwy 95 2.1 m fr. hotel
After Dunkin Donuts, o j
for Clio, Large creamed coffee, me,
4 old fashioneds (plain)
Sky faintly glow purple
Glory Glory Glory it
is morning
And what a Grand Girl
My daughter is
Connecticut A pink blue scene

Dark seagulls right to left
at New London. Across the
Massive high arching bridge
I see the sub base docks
the purple water smeared
             yellow
w/ the greased shine
    of sodium lights
Delicate fog, coffee good
Fog & Empty road on 9
North to to Mattabesset River
Fog lifts at Middletown
Clio asleep at 10 to 6.
691 west 100.3m
Sodium lights at Watertown still &
                                     mist gray

6 AM Clio snoring
Descend hill to Quinnipiac River
Am near Milldale, Cheshire
Waterbury   Danbury
Cheshire   Prospect
Hello St Mary’s, the hospital
in yr foggy brick.
Southford, Southbury
Newtown brighter now
Sandyhook   wind
    sodium lights off
Brookfield Connecticut
morning traffic
Bethel
I am leaving Nova Anglia

84 W 145 m
New York State, North Salem
             Brewster  Fishkill
Poughkeepsie   Peekskill
Newburgh   Beacon
Wappinger Falls
The Hudson River whited
w/ a Milk Fog opposite hills
faint green – green milk hills
Highland   New Paltz
West Point   Walden
Montgomery   Newburgh
enough w/ the Newburgh
Middletown   Port Jervis

Maybrook
             No fog, just haze
in the middle trees
Willows 8 foot swamp grass
      Akin to Wheat
Binghamton   Goshen
Greenville   Oh
             What a superb swamp
             rt. side cum duck grass
             elevation now 1254 ft. at top
             of colossal hill
dead possum­small rt shoulder
Sussex   Port Jervis
Delaware River
Pennsylvania border
                         Matamoras

4 small birds in flight
Scree at base of cliffs
             cool day
Milford  óne b rd
Dingmans Ferry   Lords Valley
Porters Lake   Blooming Grove
Pecks Pond   Lake Wallenpaupack
Porter’s Lake   Blooming Grove
Taftan   Gray   Gray
Palmyra  Gray   Gray
Grentown   Gray
Newfoundland   Hamlin

Mt Cobb     sumac
             water greased cliffs
cold milk haze    cold milk sky
Dunmore Throop
                         Carbon Dale
Wilkes-Barre   Scranton
Avoca   Dupont   Pittston
Bear Creek   Nanticoke
Nuangola   First sun
             Strained thru gray
                         cloud milk
& chopping trees
cut cakes of cliffs

Conyngham   Nescopeck
urinic sun   dishwater sky
Mifflin township
Clio reading
             Madeline’s Rescue
in back     9:15am
Mainville   Mifflinville
pale yellow, pale blue, & hard pink
             wildflowers all over
ditches ­ also egg white
Susquehanna River
Lime Ridge   Berwick
Bloomsburg   Buckhorn

Danville   Limestoneville
repaving 80 Westbound near
I-180 junction
Susquehanna River
Lewisburg   Williamsport
Few   US  Flags  now
Under A bridge where some itiod
had painted “Trust Jesus”
someone else painted out the
“Jesus” and painted “Yourself”
in its place.
Mile Run   Tractor-trailer
are Annoying how they
speed up down hills    or

to pass & then block
traffic slowing on an
   incline

Many dinky dirty yellow
                         flowers
FOG Densing near
                         Loganton
ghosting grey-beige soughs shoulder
through the trees
Lockhaven
Clio re panorama of the forests
near Lockhaven:  “It looks
like broccoli!”

Porter Township   Lamar
“I’m learning to read!  Madeline
books are my favorite now.
They’re special. Aren’t they Daddy!”
Marion Township
Bellefonte
Dead body of Chihuahua sized
     chocolate colored piglet
      rt shoulder
      stiff w/ sunbloat
Milesburg
“Daddy we’re right near the
mountain.   It’s just like driving
on a nice river.”
SNOW SHOE  10:45 AM

“Dad, were you ever a cowboy?”

“Dad, you can be one and block
cows.  And I can be your partner.”

Philipsburg   Kylertown

“I see a horse in the sky.  It’s made
out of clouds.”

Woodland   Shawville
Curwensville Lake
West branch of Susquehanna
     near Clearfield at Exit 120
Penfield
       Dubois    Brockway
Hazen   Brookville


Sigel   Punxsatawney
North Fork Creek
Union Township   Corsica
Clarion Township   496m
Strattanville
New Bethlehem   Clarion
             500 m
Monroe Township   Shippenville
Clarion River
                         Beaver Township
Knox
                         St. Petersburg   Emlenton
Foxburg            Alleghany River
Butler County   Clintonville

Barkeyville   Franklin   Oil City Area
Slipperyrock University    Butler
Dottles of rain   at Grove City
Windy flags   at Grove City
Grove City   Shady Lake   Mercer
Lackawanna
New Castle   Sharon-Hermitage
             Shenango River
Ohio Border 566m
Trumbull Co line
Hubbard

Youngstown    Girard
Canfield   Niles
Rain spats 1x2 cm 1:38pm
Meander Reservoir

King Lear sky  76w
Rain SPATS AGAIN  5x1cm  1:40pm
1:47pm I ask Clio to draw
our car. She says, “I’m
on the case, Daddy.”  and
begins to draw.
Berlin Lake   Newton Falls
    Lake Milton.

FLAG ON A CONSTRUCTION CRANE: WILL
we ever be rid of the
FLAG PLAGUE?
Alliance, Ohio
Rootstown   Ravenna
epiphytic growth vines on tree
Kent State  610m fr. Providence
Akron dim sun the
             full sun semi-heavy
traffic
Canton   Barberton   Lodi

Massillon   Norton
Wadsworth   Ohio
Rittman   Medina
Seville   Lodi
Finlay   Ohio
71S    2:50pm
They fixed the evil problematic
     macadam on the
exit ramp
College of Wooster   Wooster
Massive HWY construction  N of
    Ashland
Congress   West Salem

The US flag has become
the pin of half wits
666m Stop at Days
INN  at Exit 186
Ashland OH exit

6:10 AM on HWY
Clio’s developed an eye
bother, maybe pink eye
Sun direct behind me
Clio asleep in back
Sunbury   Mt. Gilead

Delaware.  Sun low in the
left door   Ohio Wesleyan
Worthington   I-270 west
Columbus’s ring road heavy
traffic   Marysville
Dublin   Muirfield
Upper Arlington
             Hilliard Ohio
I-70 West 7:24 am
Dead Kitty w/ collar
      Calico, pretty, on its left side, rt shoulder
w/ its back to road
Plain City

London   Summerford

Land flattening now­
yet slightly rolling­land in
view of the road varying
between 20’ – 30’ in heights.
Springfield
Ask M. if she
wrote to my parents again
Cedarville 801m Sun
bright & to the right ­
right rear
             Xenia   Urbana
Enon   Donnelsville

Mad River  813 m
Huber Heights   Brandt Pike
the Great Miami River, 821m,
looks beautiful, brown, &
intimate
In effect, the ubiquitous display
of the flag is akin to
Hussein’s ­ or any dictator’s ­
use of portraiture
Eaton  Greenville
    Rest stop   852m  8:45am EST
Indiana Border

The billboards. The hell
of billboards­And
so commence
the billboards
of the Hoosiers

Greens Fork River
Cambridge City
Connersville   Hagerstown

Fr. the backseat: 888m  9:15am:
“Daddy, What is the soul?”

             [explanation]

“So, Angels are souls!  Cool!”

New Castle   Spiceland 890m
Big Blue River  892m

Montgomery Creek
Six Mile Creek
Why do they name the rivers­
             They don’t need to
Anthony Creek
Nameless Creek
Stop rest stop  905m
(rest stop mileage is 9 miles over
the mileage tablet in the cubbyhole
that I made up to measure all the reststops
between providence and normal)
Greenfield         Maxwell
Bright blue crisp sky  No clouds
Moon ½ stage
Mount  Comfort

New Palestine.  And so we go
on, all of us, finding dentists
465 ring road around Indy
­detour for repairs on 70­
miss ogling Lilly Billyding

Bush sticker­1st & only one
  I’ve seen this trip.
“Lick Creek”
White River West Fork­
    Directly south of Indy
½ tank gone   270m
45.378 mpg

I-74  949m  10:18 AM EST
10:20 AM  Pass Eagle
Creek Reservoir  ­ its shining
green grass embankments
newly cut – can see
the straight parallel marks of the mowers
on the dike grass
inexplicably (for it is steep)
pinstriping its flanks

Take Clio to Lake Evergreen
    to show her the dam.
She’s asking what a dam is.

“Is it like a hurricane?”
she asks

Pittsboro
             Lizton
                         Lebanon

“It sounds like ‘sons’ are
the sun in the air.
But they’re not. They’re
             little kids.”

A mile of dill on the rt. ditch.

Jamestown        Advance
Crawfordsville     Wabash College
Sugar Creek       Linden
Waynetown       Wingate

“I wish you were famous & rich.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re such a good daddy.
Daffy Duck used to be rich.
Because remember how he made
the dog laugh. On the news they
said ‘Someone must make this sick
dog laugh & get one hundred million dollars.’
And soon he was down to his
last million. And he looked &
saw a sign that said, ‘You lost,
Daffy!’ And he looked and it
was right.”

Veedersburg      Attica
Covington          Graham Creek

Newport     Terre Haute
      Illinois border
Prison mile on the rt.
White towers at its corners ­
looks square or pentagonal, rarely
come through here in the daytime
Still no clouds
Danville            Potash Center
             Massive barnlike
structure filled w/ potash.
   Traintracks come to deposit
or retrieve the potash
    wind shifted to my stern.
18-23 mph Vermilion River

Salt Fork Vermilion River
Stopped pee & play at idyllic
rest area west of Danville­
shady, has pond w/ aerating fountain, big trees,
clear slides etc. Clio played
w/ her new blue ball. When we
got out of vehicle, saw that
A sparrow had become lodged
in rt. side grillwork. Pulled its still
pliable body out, head
remained in & fell to
depths of engine compartment.
11:51 CST depart rest area
Clio bubbling ball in back
Am bearing 3 heads to Normal:
2 human heads and one sparrow

Fithian   Rankin
“Roses are Red
My Gun is Blue
I am Safe
How About You?
Gunssavelife.com”
­Nazi Burma Shave
Signs near Homer Illinois
The American concern for Safety
Cleanliness and the Freedom
to be Selfish, Greedy, and to Retain
the Right to bomb other countries
to dependency


[1] Pigeons. I submit that pigeons are a bird who arose on the earth 
because of the Crucifixion. Mary Magdelen took a bird egg and squished it 
into the hole in Jesus’s side at some point in the afternoon on Good 
Friday, into the wound made by the Centurion. Round midday on Sunday just 
before Jesus died a large pink pigeon fell like a pus-bleb out of Jesus’s 
side and wormed into the air. That was a pigeon. Now it is a mini-flag that 
I just ran over.

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