The Thinker

I Sought Elation

I found: colossal Mount Shasta swallowed in a milky halo, three orange leviathans swimming beneath the frozen surface of a garden pond,

A Delegate for the Different

A response to a reader's question.

A Dove in the Fog

You can't fly an airplane to heaven, but if you do, you should sit in the back; Cause he told ya but ya didn't believe him, that first class will...

a portrait of the artist as a young man

Appearance: He is slightly under 5'8'' with longish golden hair, which is carefully conditioned but never trimmed. His face, as his entire body, is...

A Song For The Suffering

Job is my cousin; I know what it's like to have the blues. I know what it means to be alone, bare hands braving the icy wind to clutch "The Mystery...

America The Bootyful

Fuck, with any luck, this'll create some controversy. Four score and seven years ago, Al Qaeda stole some tea. Ask not what your country can do for...

an ode to Id

Let's crack our skulls against the master computer, (make a mushroom cloud omelette for the hungry,) uncage all of the sexual predators, create a God...

Art Reign

This body is my temple This mind is my abode- This spirit is the art-rain over which I roam This classroom is Trafalgar This courtroom's Calvary-...

Big Fish

With a resolve half-viking and half-zen, a thoughtful pariah claws for life.

Black Bat Chocolate Bar

Freddie Flinstone Milk Bottle Nursery Carpet, Forgotten Toys Big Black Tire, Charming Freckled Woman After-school Dreaming Concrete Walks Beer...

Dead Man Writing

I cried today and I have not in years. Long ago, I lost the will to cry for my earthly life. For this body is just a faulty spark plug in a defective...

Dear God

Dear God, First of all, I want to apologize for writing "Christ Fuck," which this is taking the place of. As you must know, I hardly ever take down...

The Abominable Moscow Snow-Monster

Conceived in the arctic core of hell, this empathically radio-active spook who has launched a fur-flying data "blitzkrieg," exposing uber-powerful under-worlds to newspaper sun-light

Meshuga's Cross

"I really want to see you, lord, really want to be with you. But it takes so long, so long, my lord" - George Harrison, closet Krishna Come to me, sweet lord, in anything but gears,

to be or not to be

To be or not to be, forever, that is the question and this not an answer but a poetic suggestion when the road ahead seems mad, twisting, and dire and the dread arrows of fortune

Confusions Candide

For most of my life a convinced rationalist and atheist, I've with confidence learned of certain things, and had certain experiences which leave me...

at "The Zombie Ball"

It's through the black, black garden beds lined with Kahla lilies, California poppies, blood-bright roses and guardian thorns up the creaky steps of...

beatnik morning

The pervasive warmth and all-touching light of the long-risen sun finally opes and dissolves my darkened dream world, and brings me out of my...

beatnik house haiku set

Shiva pulls the strings that make this city grind and smoke in near chaos mad suits hold the mikes and permeate the countless screens that fill the...