Sunday, November 30, 2008
ode to boogie nights
Hey guys, Erin and I were watching that grand ol' porno drama over the weekend, so here's a poem inspired by Boogie Nights.
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of pornographic
dreams
I saw a woman
in chartreuse
climb atop
a wall of ivy
and
scream until
she disappeared
into the ether
of
red scent
smoke
and
lace
Saturday, November 29, 2008
here's some prose for your weekend
Hey guys, how's your weekend? Guess what? I'm doing freaking great. Here's a prose poem.
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kill the police officer under the lamppost with your silver pistol when you are an animal I saw you wear the faces of the poor for fun and to let loose in river streams the mercury blood you have in your teeth. nobody trusts you. in love with sunglasses and a stress of old blue shirts. again you reach for your girlfriend’s hand and she is a movie poster. and nobody in red scarf. we break down in front of a church and we begin to watch the stiff movement of tombstones. the wind is not so silent.
Friday, November 28, 2008
2001 vol 1 part 4
Hey sneaky sneaks and freak freaks, here is the fourth part of the first volume of poems inspired by pictures from the light show from the film '2001' and the song that plays in that scene. Oohhh, trippy and all that stuff. And how are you lonely hearts doing out there?
2001 4
I saw a man who named
himself
brightly and he took off
his clothes and
showed me his nipples
and bit his own
elbows and red streams of ink
piled in pools at his belly
button
and a thousand ships
from different
worlds
filled my mind
I want I want
red
walls in my bedroom
to fold over
and take me across the universe
to a blue desert
and to make love
Thursday, November 27, 2008
LAB
Hey guys, here is the first part of a new collaborative writing effort from Jeff Daily and myself (plus the drawing at the top of the post is from me too). It's called LAB (which is short for Laboratory (or is it Collaboration)) and is about a mad scientist and his soldier friend who poison people with chemicals to transform them into monsters. But why? What do they get out of it? And who are they anyhow? Oh my friends, stay with us on this one. A mystery might unfold, some brand new lessons may be learned, and, oh yeah, you get to read about fucking monsters! Everybody wins. Alright, friends, hope you had a good Thanksgiving, and read on, I dare you. Ooohhh...
chapter 1 - friends
Two friends lost in the jungle stumbled upon an abandoned laboratory. Fred stepped into a broken glass doorway. The song of the angels, he shouted, finding a batch of untouched water left lying about an errant shelf. William discerned that there had been a civil war here. Must have been guns. Must have been many people not pleased at all. The two snatched to bottles from a prepackaged cellophane crate. They smiled.
The day previous, they had heard and seen many strange happenings. A tree fell over in the distance without reason. The cries of men sounded. Stray light sifted through canopy and struck them upon their brow. The jungle heat beat their backs. They were looking for a rare plant. Fred was a professor. William was his friend. Adventure, they both cried. But they had fallen from the true trail.
In the abandoned lab, the men sat upon comfortable chairs and began to drink their waters. William grunted. No day like today, he remarked, chugging the cool clear. Fred relaxed, laid his head back, thought of his wife, and began to sigh. The water they drank started to turn in their stomachs. They fell ill. The bland lights of the compound began to seep into their minds. More voices. Sounds of stranger beings came into existence. Entire reality writhed upon the floor, snake-like, jiving and uncoiling. Fred stood up. He roared. William slopped in his seat and fell on the floor. We’ve been poisoned, he made to say, but his mouth no longer moved. Both men fell silent. Night came. The roiling tremors of the chemicals hidden in the water began to take effect. A transformation.
Wire bristle hairs came shooting out of William's cheeks
and chin. His skin turned gray. His eyes oozed blood.
William looked as if had been dead for 60 years. He stood
up and looked at Fred. Fred had not changed his physical
appearance so much as grown about 5 feet. He was taller
than tall. His tongue was a snake's tongue and his teeth now
had venom waiting to find a victim. The two friends couldn't
speak. They couldn't even look at each other without gasping
in horror. They seemed to retain their humanity while at the
same time lost all communication. It was as if they were
prisoners inside their new bodies.
What was once Fred glanced upon the new wonder of the average world. He spit hot venom in William’s direction then raced out of the compound. William, in his aged stupor, moved his body quickly to follow. The instincts of these new beasts were fixed upon a grand discovery. They had to find what once was lost.
As the two beasts lunged about the fresh night, a figure stepped from the shadows. A man dressed in soldiering garb emerged. He grunted, plucked a knife from his side, and followed the trail of the monsters into the jungle.
Fred reached to touch tree limbs. Spiders screamed in his presence. He was a new god. He snatched a small creature and devoured it. In his glory, he did not notice that William was loose behind. And neither of the beasts realized the boots of the soldier advancing as well. And further still, waiting in the lab, another figure sat watching remote cameras.
Fred roared. William caught him and jumped upon his frame. The anger in their mutated bodies unraveled and swaths of red blood drained from William’s eyes. The bristling wires of his chin snapped into Fred’s lean neck. Their eyes traded ominous passion. Fred plucked his friend and tossed him a fourth of a mile into a tree. The growl of piss and steam. Wild night! Fred tore through the brush in hot pursuit. William gathered rocks in his hands and leapt into the air, hungry. Fred snapped in a twirl. Blood shot from his shoulders as William struck him with stone. The beasts moaned. Their minds were lost. They tussled in the jungle, and wrapping arm over arm, legs for loops, they spun and fell down the side of a hill. Landing thud, each monster gripped the other by the neck and began to squeeze. They coughed chaos in symphony and rolled in foliage. But they stopped suddenly. Something beautiful had caught their gaze. They were now in the presence of the rare plant they had once sought. The flower of the great desire, ripe with white lotus, stood proud in their faces. Fred felt himself a moment; William was stunned. The two beasts who were made of angry fiber began to weep. The flower lilted upon a breeze.
The moment snapped. From nowhere, the soldier pounced and stuck the creatures with tranquilizers. They moaned, but having seen their plant, the two merely folded and collapsed upon another. The soldier tossed a net over their bodies and dragged them away. A trail of unique blood remained in the fuzz of the night, spiraling in cursive towards the abandoned laboratory. Strange cries were heard echoing out the youth of the night.
Away in the bowels of the laboratory, the seated figure began to giggle. He stepped away from his camera screens and into the light. He had a white frock and mangled hair and wild fingernails. The scientist began to imagine the possibilities of new creatures of fashion. He placed his hands together and started to hum.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Pincelada Flotante y Habitad (Inhabited and Floating Paint Stroke)
movie magic
Monday, November 24, 2008
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a poem from a couple years ago
Hey guys, don't worry, the big fun post is coming tomorrow (not today; sorry!), so in the meantime, here is a poem my brother Ryan stumbled upon yesterday while he was screwing around on my computer. Enjoy!
dad’s on the loose
my dad uses my keys
to enter my
empty apartment,
raids the fridge,
finds the whisky
and pets my cat.
he does eight shots
and
drowns himself in a bottle of
brown.
then he yells at the cat,
runs out of my
humble
home
and leaves the door wide
open.
rides his car like lightning
and doesn’t think twice about mom.
goes cruising in a bar and
gets frightened by the police officers.
‘go to church!
and that right now!’
he grabs Jesus by his hand
and makes him take the wheel.
then dad calls me up,
drunk at four AM
,
saying
“probably,
…uhm…probably
your cat’s lost.
she…she
wasn’t there when I came by.”
and I ask,
“
what!?
are you drunk, man?”
and it’s okay to call dad’s ‘man’
when their drunk.
he laughs, giggles, and
hangs up.
then my dad returns to my house
and
shatters the bottle of bourbon
on the kitchen floor.
the cat’s still inside.
my dad tells her good cat
and finally
rolls home.
my mom’s mad,
but it’s only a dream
she says
,
and drinks more
coffee to
stay up.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Friday, November 21, 2008
drawing!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
2001 vol 1 part 3
Hello dudes and ladies, here is the next part of the first volume of poems inspired by pictures from the film: 2001.
2001 3
the spiders of space
do not
know what love is
they are red
and they are
blue
and when it is old an
universe we
want
it is a new universe we
get
and
to the spiders
there is none
but black traces
of web
cast across the firmament
and space
and time
squeal
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
sneak peek
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Oh The Noise of It
or
even thought of.
The quite, the noise of it....
The prayers unsaid, the pictures never painted... The life not lived.
When does the top turn when the batteries wear out?
The glass laid out, spilled past it's brim... Laying to be taken up again.
something new...very new...too new?
Dead Catfish Cold Canyon Lake, TX Poem
Picked clean
Skeleton
Stomach to ass
Face only now decaying
Buzzards in the distance
Morning after
Camping trip night
November 15, 2008
The dead catfish
The dead grass
The smoldering ashes
A satisfying game of catch
Successful memories
…the evening was
First freeze of the year
Twenty-nine degrees
Nose and cheek skin frozen
After sundown
Six friends gathered
‘round a fire
The fire was tall
The fire was strong
The fire was TV
And the fire was life
Holding love girl tight
For warmth
Dinner hungry
Sizzling burgers
Flame broiled
Hot dogs
Smores
Gooey
Red wine
And
Beer
And
Rum
Laughter
The gypsy RV grounds
Little orange flicker flames
Cover the hills
We glare at the beach
The cold waters
Look up to the stars
There goes a shooting star!
More wood for the fire NOW
Bundled in layers
Difficult to sleep
Morning headache
Need of shower
Need of nap
I want a burrito afternoon
Weekend over already
Ah, the fun…
Monday, November 17, 2008
here's another for you
All I can say at this point is watch "Michael Clayton" and listen to the final speech between George Clooney and Tilda Swinton. Here's a poem.
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the reason for the world
is
so men
and women in all kinds
can
remember what it is to
be
composed of light
and to shine;
of
all the sad memories
employed in
the manufacture
of a staircase
remember your
father
and his
hands as
they burned the wood
poetry corner
Hey guys, somebody somewhere sometime mentioned that there needs to be yet more, plain as day, dried in the mud, poetry posted on this new-fangled blog bla, so here's a poem I just wrote. Hotcha!
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San Antonio
was
made
by bored and sober gods
clearing
their
bookshelves of
texts they’d
accumulated as undergrads
and how they bit their
tongues
and
rained down the river
that
twirled and twirls;
smoke and ash
Mercado
shake
gringos and
delicate lapels
and
radio inlays
tattoo wrists
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text:
David goes do do da. a guitar of sonic craft. some old tune from the sixties. crazy girl gets in the bedroom and slams the door. a wooden group of slats blocks the window. the cat of the night in fang and claw. I am not Woody in the old pictures counting his strings. no grin chin believe me. David sings da do do. the swell of a night of sleepless happiness blooms. an empty camera on the coffee table. a computer now to be told. speakers, blue lights, make momma lovers emptying bank accounts, old roundtables tossed in dumpsters, streamlined trailers in the ravine, old cuts of boulder and stone in the mountains. crazy girl runs into the room and exclaims that she is in love with the entire world. go go lights dancing wild; strings of purple confetti; ugly people smashing noses into wine glasses. David sighs do da do.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
two new poems
Hey friends, here are two new poems I wrote while I was drunk (oh what a boho hero, eh?). Long live poetry!
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to die as a child
of god
would be fire
in
my
mouth
oh rage
the lamp
in
the pub
and the parlor
tells us
we
need love
to become
undone
in the purses of the neighborhood
whores
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I worship the ghost
of
the never wall
climbing up
its
perch and beating
the small and the thin
until
they wretch blood
onto
lavender sheets
of
housing;
no no
take
away from me the flint in my
and shoot across my empty
field
Saturday, November 15, 2008
poem of cinema
Friday, November 14, 2008
on the darkside
Here is part volume one part two of the epic poetic series "2001." Let yourself dissolve in color.
2001 2
the wandering eye of Venus
4 the lover
goddess in ravines
talking old
language babble
men
in the gypsy two
tone stripe
suits and
land crashers
I saw his face pressed firm
upon the pane
of glass
it was time for a murder
some said
and rang out crack
pistol a purple
bullet between
the ribs
but this is not death
he was to
remind me in shard
it is rebirth
Thursday, November 13, 2008
an odyssey of the mind
Hey freaks, here's something new from the Savage house of ideas. I took 35 pictures from the light show scene in the film 2001. For each picture, I wrote a poem (while listening to the song "Beyond Jupiter" that was playing during the scene). There are five volumes in all, each consisting of seven poems (except volume 5!). So, the first of many, friends, in our month of media. Have a funky good time!
2001 1
the first star known to man was named
AD 4x 22 1B8
and it was
radiant
there was life there
of men
in masks beating forks upon
rimmed turtle
shells
and sea creatures devouring the firmament
of space-time
it was then that mankind found
itself
to be alone
to truly drift in dark ink
is akin to the earth of our
days
our days and our might
we saw the first star and dreaded its portent
to be alone is majestic
though sad
the mean men in galactic black coats
have me
they have me by the throat
they are throwing me
over
the ravine I see
it is old children novels and curdled
milk cartons
oh god
you see that it is my
nimble fingers that have
contained oh
have contained oh have contained
the first star was named AD 4x 18B
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
the first page of The Life of the Trapeze Men chapbook
thanks for visiting
Hey guys, here's the final segment of Jeff and my 'museum.' Jeff designed the concepts and I executed them in soppy satirical prose. So, I hope you guys enjoyed the whole trip through the virtual museum. Up next...LAB!
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Alright, my wonderful guests of this wonderful tour, we are arriving at the end! And endings are such fine, sweet things, aren’t they? Yes. Well, just this way. Yes, right around the corner. Ah, yes, here we are: the final display.
Well, it’s a video, but before we actually go in to view it, I’d like to break protocol and say a few things.
First off: the artist responsible for this – how should I say: evidence? – we’re about to witness is Jeffrey James Wilde. He is what some would call a provocateur, but not in any traditional sense of the word. He does not discover grand statements between the periods of a woman’s menstrual period or write words in bat shit. No, his modus operandi – if you will – is more the lack of any activity to bring provocation. Last summer – even – he removed the heads from celebrities in movies and showed them in a marathon in
Second, I suppose then: the piece we are about to view. As I said before, it is a video, but a rather peculiar one at that. It does not depict an actual execution of a work, but instead shows the total meltdown of an idea Jeffrey tried to share – and forcibly so. You see, his idea was to remove all art from the museum for a month and have the vacancy be his exhibit. But – as you’ll soon witness – the Board Members of the
The room is empty except for a large flat screen television across the way.
The video is in mid-duration. A man – JJ Wilde perhaps – is seen in black
blazer and beard and sun glasses, and is punching the curator Grace Madero
in the mouth. She buckles and collapses onto the marble floor of the Boho
aggressor. Although there is no sound, he can be scene screaming and flailing.
In the distance, nicely dressed persons watch in disbelief and keep their distance.
Patrons of the museum calmly pass the disturbance, almost as if they had
expected it, and pay it little heed. Grace Madero rises from the marble, gathers
her bearings, then in a childish fit of revenge, pounces on the violent man and
begins to jab him in the face. The black panted men who had tackled the
aggressive man now turn their attention to Grace and pull her away. She
screams too. Her legs flail too. This is not behavior fitting a museum curator.
The video cuts and loops back to the beginning. The violent man is composed
now, stood opposite Grace. They shake hands and giggle. The nicely dressed
persons are near the too. They shake hands. Then something is said. The
bearded man pauses and stares away. He throws his arms in the air and shoves
an older, fine dressed gentleman. Black panted men come from nowhere and
stand on the outskirts of the scene. Grace says something to the violent man
and then he punches her in the mouth.
I know: quite wild, isn’t it? I swear, there was never any inclination that things would scale to such violence. I can say: I for one am not a very violent person. So what happened, I don’t know; it all seems very ridiculous. But there that goes a lamb goes a lion – or something; I think that’s an expression. Anyhow – I must say – I just think that video is a darling. It’s pure JJ Wilde: he wants one thing, but gets another. The funny part of the story is, for the rights and agreement to play the video, we told Mr. Wilde that we would not press charges. He loved the idea. Actually, once a year – just for fun – Wilde returns to the museum to reenact the scene with people dressed in gaudy costumes. He likes to consider himself the string-puller, I assure you. Ahh…maybe there is violence in us all. I think – yes – I do believe such is true.
Well, fine guests, I quite thank you for joining me on the special VIP tour of the
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
window picture poem
text poem:
revolving doors
concrete
tooth white
high beams
a
taxi cab
girl
dreams
radio waves
tar
lane
speed
glass
.
bloopers!
ebony sky
gray dresses hang
in shop
windows and
passersby
ask of the autumn
that was
and will be;
with fingers across a fence
I imitate the rattle
of
a snake
and
watch little children burn firecrackers in their
hands
and shoot across yards
like
pink zepplins
Monday, November 10, 2008
month of fun
Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed the Radio Nowhere posts, and don't worry, more are coming. But other forms of poetry are coming to you from the blog this month as well. Just wait until tomorrow... For now, here is the drawing I did for the cover of the second issue of Boho Coco. Hope you guys enjoy. And...just wait until Jeff and I drop the LAB on you... ha ha ha
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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a poem from life
Hey guys, I was at Fun Fun Fun Fest last night (and I'll be there today), so I wrote this poem about the people and their happenings. I was there. I had fun. I was covered in dust. Enjoy!
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lip-glossed
hipsters
jumping on stage
shrieking like
titans
and dancing
with
nothing;
I saw clouds of dust
cover
us
on Saturday
evening
while we had
towels wrapped
around
our
throats;
magical people on bicycles
shoot
shoot
past police cars
oh we
own the evening
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Friday, November 7, 2008
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an ode...
ODE TO ZINE AND PRINT AND PROSODY
The sound of the words
The look
&
Feel of the words
Just
Heathen abstractions
From reprobate minds that
Conspire in print
&
The web
Thursday, November 6, 2008
return of the poem
Hey guys, hot on the heels of that bumping track from Radio Nowhere, comes this poem from yours truly. I just wanted to make sure all those lovely ones out there know that this blog is still about poesy and the written word. Dig!
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a million rainbows
beaming
from
my flesh
I want
to shoot down birds
and
love
them back to life
back
to the winds
and name my daughters for their
wings
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
this just in
Hot off the presses, I present to you a seven poem chapbook - with drawings - I produced myself. If you're in the Austin area, you can pick up this darling little collection for the low, low price of only three American dollars (sorry Canada) at Domy Books (913 E Cesar Chavez). So stop by the store, for the love of Pete, and make sure to pick up a copy. But be careful, they're hotter than the sun and they're going fast.
And as a perk to all you blog watchers out there, I'm going to be posting a page of the chapbook per week so you can see what you're missing out on. Today's post sees the cover of the collection.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
sounds of chaos/the possibilities of a new tomorrow
AGITATIO PARKBENCH
Monday, November 3, 2008
just a poem
Hey guys, it's been a while since I've posted a poem by little ol' me, so here goes.
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smacking knuckles
upon
the prow
becomes us
we linger in lives
of
dust
oh
girls
of white shadow
that
play across
my ceiling
I am
the cold weather and I am
the distant sun
and
I am an elm
tree
split
in two
by a lonely hunter
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Hey guys, click the link and listen to the next installment in the lost recordings of John Johnson, humble leader of the Boho Coco. Also, it came to my attention that the downloads might not play on all media players. Might I recommend the ultra-versatile VLC Player? It's free for download (and quick too), and can play just about any type of file. Alright; hope that helps. Have a good day!