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Bada
Shanren's
Shenanigans
While he was gone on a visit to a small future
Bada Shanren met many wonderful
wonder workers
wondrous folk.
He meditated long
over the tales they told.
When he returned to China he told
his village folk
tenfold
the wondrous tales he'd been given
When Bada told told the tales in our days
and ways
She is sitting in her room
thinking of a story now
I'm telling you the story she's thinking.
I met a licensed clinical psychologist over the weekend. She said
sad
ly that
the only
sure
cure for
P. T. S. D.
is to let
them tell
the STORY
past the place
it got stuck
in their
craws!
Whirling darkness started its journey with its witchery
and
its witchery has returned upon it.
It doesn't open its eyes with its witchery.
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Beckett was at least two miles down the
road before he realized those tracks, the twain, would
never meet.
"It appeared to me that fast or slow, barreling
along or creaking around corners, the trolley car could
only go along as directed by the tracks." - E. L. Doctorow,
*World Fair.*
I still use a fine brush to make sketches of life,
The "face" even now is not too bad.
Feigning madness, covered with wine like Gan Fengzi,
And he who left Fengzhou - "Three Flowers."
It's their fault. They built a prison. Now I have to do something to get
sent there. It's
their fault.
"Pictures cannot reflect reality" said Du Shaoghong.
NYTimes 8/1/08
Notes
from the Looney-
tune
tin
bin
Elvis Mitchell and
Clarence Moor
and I
tried to hit
on a way of getting it all out on paper
even though
the rules by which they played
didn't give us space
to print it
and best-sell it
in all the stores
and right places.
It
never made
the charts so
we
got it out
on paper
without
selling much or out.
A poem is not a joke.
You don't have to get it
to let it
unfold.
Tanka 1.
Chaotic child's play
curbed in 101 ways.
In a slow swinging
soar in blue backyard hammock
sarcastically over.
Tanka 2.
Reading too much reading
into it Jack's home safe.
Do it by the book
until candles flare, rockets
glare red, and does startle, flee.
Tanka 3.
Snarled clay, phallic
swagger, owned if uttered
by pious platitudes
marshmallow pillows, discursive
rules and regs., objects. Not I.
3/29
"War has colored all of our lives for a very long time."
Is casualty notification at all casual?
Instantaneous haplessness =+= with new technology comes earsback pinning
anxiety = you pine.
Generic enbed, embed, in bed those angels dancing on the head of a pin
winning the battle
we are
"They [we] have been monitoring listening posts and flooding the
Internet".
polling advertise es
"terminalizing" BaghdadaDada
I hate that it happened to him,
he who
"indoctrinated" us into the Marines way
our media mediated immediated knowledge of war
headlines creep under, crawl along inexorably relaying the underlying
messages quick [or better, as quickly]
3/27
Embedded media
Terminalized
Frag news crawls along at camel's pace under the TV picture
of....
Akhbar
TV has
Crawling once more under the screen
Along the banks of the Tigris
Clouds billow over Baghdad
Phones on the cutting edge disconnect
Regarding the Pain of Others
Nearby plaque commemorating Grant-
Land Rice's birthplace, Condoleesa
Rice lays out options, shopkeep, Kurd out of Jerusalem, carefully
handles
Camels out of Winston-Salem out of baccy from nearby fields as
encroaching
Vietnam vet fondles neck of Bud Light shimmers through on shockandawe
headline. Camera shifts to SUV mall miles off. Sex
y ad sublimes isms MONSTER.COM AMAZON ATLAS shrugged.
"in Bklyn over
the last 2 weeks a lone African-American has
murdered 4 Muslims and a few other shop keepers...extrapolate
that..."
The show will go on tonight
3/25
"Invalid option" the computer
announced (snickered, spit out, bell weathered, cajoled underhandedly a
soft
lob I could, I thought, wham outa the park but over cut down into the
ground)
today via Bell South (Cricket, Click it, Verizontally)
the SSI Disability Examiner stated (uttered, actually he saw the irony
as
well).
Could be the name for a new school (flock, coterie, collab) of poetry
[but
would have been truer before 9/11 and the latest discovery of the
ability to
rejoin (at
least in one sense or maybe even enjoin) the trumpets of war].
War is a real danger or a brief bickering TV flicker.
NEEDS A VISCERAL DIMENSION
3/22
and then you wonder one day if the word is really the way i wrote it
interesting. had this thought last night
"and then you wonder
one day
If
the word is really the way I wrote it?
the word is really the way I write it?
they write it?
we write it?
this pen writes it?
this computer writes it?
this ami,ation program zips it?"
Then I got your message and thought of Lu Chi and brush meditators and
something Dmitri Buatov said about the roots of visual poetry and
Pennebaker's research which might say the how you 'say' actually
determines
what you say as in process determines content.
i think aan has done some things along this line and a lot of people
don't
see it.
food for thought,
but for now I'll pick up my train of thought and write my world and
wonder
how well off Johnny Paycheck would have died had he not done 'Take This
Job
and Shoved It"?
3/19
Their madness, their badness
60 and still
or
60 and still kicking
or
Still
or
Standing still
Attention
3/18
Unpolished Lines
In the air
Everywhere
These days. Unsaid
Unspoken
Retracted
Contracted for e-publication if you would contract it or
polish it some
It may be
Mayday, Mayday.
But say
Ing is by far the more difficult
Op
ti
on.
"I find it harder and harder to keep track of everything I don't do." -
John
Cayley in private email,
"I wonder; we seem to love poets and poetry for they can express in
writing
so well how they feel, which we can often relate to.
That may be part of the problem?" - response posted to a self-help
bulletin
board.
"Or part of the solution" - response to response.
suppression of
poetry helps me
digest the way
the world rumbles
This manuscript was dug out of the rubble in San Francisco's Chinatown
after the earthquake of 2014.
Bada
Shanren's
Shenanigans
While he was gone on a visit to a small future
Bada met many wonderful
wonder workers
wondrous folk.
He meditated, pondered
long
over
the tales they told.
When he returned to China he retold
tenfold
the wondrous tales he'd been given.
When Bada told the tales he'd been grabbed by
which he'd been grabbed
in our days
and ways and means,
his people had many questions, Why do those people in that a-
mazing future fear poems so?"
Let's hear a poem or tale...
tom bell
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