lesson from the roads of ny state

we drove 1300 miles
and every song we strained to hear
in the green dashboard glowing
was about us
and we learned

the earth makes granite
and men shape it

light will fall forcefully
on a woman's perfect form

fame is one end
punk rock is another

even water bends to gravity

time and distance
can be masters or slaves

love and poetry last forever

you can make yourself happy

The purest thoughts, and the most dangerous thoughts, occur entwined on the ROAD

I post more on things on twitter than I do on Walking English.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this.
Man, this even sounds like a tweet.
Fuck.

the drink ain't what I need
it's all I've got

020209

Groundhog's Day is tomorrow...

I fear the weeks to come

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.
—Charles Bukowski Betting on the Muse, Barfly

"...don't bow & scuffle for Edith Wharton pioneers or ursula major nebraska prose. just hang in your own backyard..."
-Kerouac

"The taste of worms is soft & salty like the sea or tears."
-Kerouac

"Women love like hunters..."
-B. Harlan

you and me
we're a part of this
holy dance
that's been goin'
on and on
for centuries

your words
they don't cut
like razors
more like
teeth scrapin
across my skin

there are so many old timers
but only one stranger

"I think over a matter of 30 or 40 years of writing the mask comes closer to looking like the face and the face comes closer to looking like the mask, so that finally the person you want to be isn't much different from the person you are"

Richard Hugo

thinkin of the really important ones

maybe existance is not a prerequisite
for changing the world

the only songs worth singin
are the bad ones

if a butterfly should

land upon my head

as a mark of good luck

I would surely crumble

"I use to think that the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time... but it's not like that. It happens overnight." Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make. It is this that gives birth to meaning."
-Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

"They say if you get far enough away, you'll be on your way back home."
~Tom Waits "Blind Love"

every exit is an entrance somewhere else

-hamlet or rosencrantz and gildenstern are dead