park bench audiophile

anime music back drops,

a violet sunset

tell me it's okay

old willow tree that speaks the truth

do you ask the wind?

empty crop circle,

wishing to grow dreams, not grain,

who visits you next?

a million eyes watch

painted strokes across the sky

and the lives below

red courthouse standing

above smoke, souls, and music

your gaze is so old

rotted unfed root

peeking through to find the light

such perseverance

whiz, spin, huff, let's ride

old secret docks, lost and sweaty

still part of my home

culled nonsense shouted

to modify depression

across empty land

small bugs walking trail

hoarded plants that I protect

this is not winter

wishing-well wishes

unburdened by desire

I am lost for words

my knuckle is cut

from work I give myself to

it leads me through all

Awww jeeeez guys. Everything is going to be closed. We shouldn't have got so high.

Dood, it's only 21:20.

Doh'

Weeeeee life is beautiful.

Life if painful.

Sometimes I'm dehydrated.

Obvious poem ends.

Life Without Lemons


synopsis:

The young gentleman bathes in the planks of light in his apartment.
Ice keeps falling out of the poorly made tray.
He attempts to adorn his spirits with Mango.
Where have all his limes gone.

new poetry project

I be bear the dance floor.
You be the bear of it all yo. Tis no pain but truse, and all have been broken
They are no deer in the headlights of my predilection. So breathe and leave
For this eve I have vanquished the fear that leaves men in seats


- poem of in-and-out extreme drunkeness.

wordy scrim

Alacrity: Brisk and cheerful readiness.

raw foods

you'd think a raw foods diet would be the epitome of laziness. but it's actually rather complicated.

tonight I shall dream as bunny do.

Excerpts from the style sheet of the Kansas City Star, where Ernest Hemingway worked as a reporter in 1917:

• Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
• Eliminate every superfluous word, as “Funeral services will be at 2 o’clock Tuesday,” not “The funeral services will be held at the hour of 2 o’clock on Tuesday.” “He said” is better than “He said in the course of conversation.”
• Avoid the use of adjectives, especially such extravagant ones as “splendid,” “gorgeous,” “grand,” “magnificent,” etc.
• Be careful of the word “also.” It usually modifies the word it follows closest. “He, also, went” means “He, too, went.” “He went also” means he went in addition to taking some other action.
• Be careful of the word “only.” “He only had $10″ means he alone was the possessor of such wealth; “He had only $10″ means the ten was all the cash he possessed.
• A long quotation without introducing the speaker makes a poor lead especially and is bad at any time. Break into the quotation as soon as you can, thus: “‘I should prefer,’ the speaker said, ‘to let the reader know who I am as soon as possible.’”

“Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing,” Hemingway told a reporter in 1940. “I’ve never forgotten them. No man with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides with them.”

Food TV

I'm honing in on my food-television reality-elimination game show methodologies.

1st Lesson: Never have a signature dish that is a salad.

2nd Lesson: Never wait to put the meat/pastry in the oven.

3rd Lesson: Never try to sabotage everyone else by picking ingredients that are too complicated.

4th Lesson: Don't stick to one form of cuisine.

plus au tard!