i remember last year around this time.
we made pumpkins.
i miss that.

To my dad on his 62nd birthday
still savage!

Our Traditions

in tribal cultures there are
rites of passage each male must endure
before he is considered a man.

some of my favorites
belong to the Crocodile people;
in some African tribes,
the whole tribe participates.
all of the young men are packed into a small hut,
strapped down to cots of bamboo,
the skin of ( Read more... )

I got up early monday morning, after having spent the previous two days of weekend at my mom's place, drinking all her beer and smoking all her shake since she was in Texas. I would feel guilty about it if i wasn't so stressed out from school and the pitiful job market in Simi Valley. I picked some oranges, tomatoes, and the only ripe avocado on ( Read more... )

band saw, splattered blood
nerves in finger knit slowly
red bass collects dust

i had a dream last night, my dad died and i had to bury his body. i had a shovel and some company, but it started raining. it seemed simple enough, but the things was, it was just so god damned hard to bury the fucker; it would rain, the grave would fill with water, the coffin would float or break, and we'd have to start all over. i ended up ( Read more... )

what is the one problem you'd like to just go away forever; the one problem that would make life much better worldwide if it just didn't exist?

i don't know how this album got on my iPod, but if you ever get a chance to listen, this is hilarious. Bruce Willis came out with a funky little album in the eighties. it shocks me that the album was as successful as it was, i guess it makes sense though, considering how cartoony everything was at the time. Leave a comment

it's very difficult for me to be here, doing this. henry rollins makes a good point though, in that he said he's doing what he can to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. case in point, even though i'm not running an open mic, touring, or traveling as much as i'd like, and in fact, have succumbed to a fairly consumerist, convenience ( Read more... )

musings on laundry and love, a prompt from findtimetowrite.com a poem in 3 parts about 3 very different kinds of love. comments? input? prease ( Read more... )

so i've been having some weird dreams lately, really post apocalyptic in a dark tower kind of way. it actually started when i started taking melatonin to help sleep. even though that feels like a week ago, it's only been a couple days. in the first one, i was in Russia, but it was a desert like in Reno, and there were dunes. I had spent all my ( Read more... )