Monday, January 21, 2008

Linda, MOM and her Sisters 1989

Sitting in a dime a dance bar some time back in the 80's. The driver waits.
The driver stares with his eyes Watches over the drinks. A broken bottle crashes down, stares of no hables ingles
"what you doing here?"
It's all out there. Time gone eternal.
Beer on the floor, the smell of urine, fat bullshit artists, dirty men, hard day at the office, no office exists

In a corner watered down drinks sing
Teardrop tones of buy me one more
Tatste the bare taste of loathing
This is a social life. Dont knock they let you in.
This was linda's Masters Degree in Liberal arts.

Linda, MOM and her Sisters 1989

Sitting in a dime a dance bar some time back in the 80's. The driver waits.
The driver stares with his eyes Watches over the drinks. A broken bottle crashes down, stares of no hables ingles
"what you doing here?"
It's all out there. Time gone eternal.
Beer on the floor, the smell of urine, fat bullshit artists, dirty men, hard day at the office, no office exists

In a corner watered down drinks sing
Teardrop tones of buy me one more
Tatste the bare taste of loathing
This is a social life. Dont knock they let you in.
This was linda's Masters Degree in Liberal arts.

Parking Lot Joe and the Broom

joe sat by the wash tub and listened to the water. he was a wino and he heard voices in the sound of the water. when asked if he would take cocaine, he thought about it and said "I would from a fat man".

i swept the parking lots down on 6th and san pedro back in the 80's and it was bad then. It was so bad that there were no women in the area except those that were men.


I wore a hard hat to keep the adddicts and nuts from throwing bottles down at me. Back then you could call people addicts and nuts becuase that was what they were. They knew it and we knew it. Each day there was healthy amount of hypodermic needles ( seems TV was wrong....these bastards threw the needles down from the el rey hotel ) , lots of broken glass from that night train express enriched wine, cant recall the exact name and you dont keep notes.

The dead rats really stunk and they were washed back down into the ally when they could be washed down. You see the piss was thrown down from the hotel, it stained the walls when it missed the the lot, and old wino men hid under trucks, night crawlers, hid under trucks and shit and pissed where they could.

On one occassion the bosses called the cops on a man who woul not get out from under the truck, he stood up, and pissed his pants. The cops just told him get moving. so he did with a trail of piss. I washed it down, but you can never really clean this scene.

It stay with you forever

Parking Lot Joe and the Broom

joe sat by the wash tub and listened to the water. he was a wino and he heard voices in the sound of the water. when asked if he would take cocaine, he thought about it and said "I would from a fat man".

i swept the parking lots down on 6th and san pedro back in the 80's and it was bad then. It was so bad that there were no women in the area except those that were men.


I wore a hard hat to keep the adddicts and nuts from throwing bottles down at me. Back then you could call people addicts and nuts becuase that was what they were. They knew it and we knew it. Each day there was healthy amount of hypodermic needles ( seems TV was wrong....these bastards threw the needles down from the el rey hotel ) , lots of broken glass from that night train express enriched wine, cant recall the exact name and you dont keep notes.

The dead rats really stunk and they were washed back down into the ally when they could be washed down. You see the piss was thrown down from the hotel, it stained the walls when it missed the the lot, and old wino men hid under trucks, night crawlers, hid under trucks and shit and pissed where they could.

On one occassion the bosses called the cops on a man who woul not get out from under the truck, he stood up, and pissed his pants. The cops just told him get moving. so he did with a trail of piss. I washed it down, but you can never really clean this scene.

It stay with you forever

SLEEP ON WALLS, SHADOW MOVEMNTS Joe

On the wall, rides into the city, act and talk, as though creation is about to take place, in the future, supposedly friends, unneeded hostile innuendo, always creeping in on the conbversation. Eyes looking at you, searching, say "what did i do wrong eyes'>
And alist begins to pile up and silence shrouds our minds, silence peels away, holes in the wall, watch television, the feeling of being a non-lover enters the room, in your mind or mine we bein to question whether that situation or this situation is normal. This other , that other.
That is what it is like when i go out some nights and then come home.

Pin the tail on the Jackass its Joey's birthday. We turn offf the was tub sink and give Joe some vodka so he can make it back to his state funded flat with a communal toilet.

SLEEP ON WALLS, SHADOW MOVEMNTS Joe

On the wall, rides into the city, act and talk, as though creation is about to take place, in the future, supposedly friends, unneeded hostile innuendo, always creeping in on the conbversation. Eyes looking at you, searching, say "what did i do wrong eyes'>
And alist begins to pile up and silence shrouds our minds, silence peels away, holes in the wall, watch television, the feeling of being a non-lover enters the room, in your mind or mine we bein to question whether that situation or this situation is normal. This other , that other.
That is what it is like when i go out some nights and then come home.

Pin the tail on the Jackass its Joey's birthday. We turn offf the was tub sink and give Joe some vodka so he can make it back to his state funded flat with a communal toilet.

Friday, January 18, 2008

sunset near ralphs apartment

crawled across underneath a raining tree
and thru the misting silence
lonely misconstrued coin falls down from a change purse time gone eternal
grandma dead over 30 years
how i feel isnt even felt, just images
"i care about you"
and it is me dead...a memory that I once cried.
smoking in your car culver city tear drop street lights
i take a drag and wait
liquid air fluctuates in the distance

sunset near ralphs apartment

crawled across underneath a raining tree
and thru the misting silence
lonely misconstrued coin falls down from a change purse time gone eternal
grandma dead over 30 years
how i feel isnt even felt, just images
"i care about you"
and it is me dead...a memory that I once cried.
smoking in your car culver city tear drop street lights
i take a drag and wait
liquid air fluctuates in the distance

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you are either on the bus or off.

Word collisions can create an image that ordinarily would not be encountered in daily life, but once the words collide the image becomes part of the bigger picture. in other sometimes you can get a good sentence or phrase out, and that is when you can sit back and sip your drink.