Poems

  • Olympic Fever

    Life is good here at Camp Crunchy! 
    I spend a lot of time in imaginative states, so that is probably why!
    I'm happier up here in space.
    Out of reach.
    Free.
    I don't think I want to BE a tree after all.
    Perhaps I AM a bird.
    Or a cloud?
    I'm too dense to BE a bubble.
    Soon I'll just BE a shadow.
    Same as us all.
    Black Dot.
    Nothing.
    Free.

    nothingbutair

  • Atripla Blues

    i'm drugged
    and Buggered
    So true.
    sick as 
    dead bug
    still in the sill
    all winter long.
    skeleton
    corpse
    bug spray flu
    dying, crispy
    nothing
    shoo.
    whooo now pretty
    colors too blue
    triangles with circles
    round and round
    fall on the ground
    with tingles
    bursting out the hands
    electricity black
    sweat so wet
    hair stuck on head
    matted wet
    so confused
    eyes wide
    I think I died
    am I still here?
    Should I take it again?
    Who?





  •   ribbon

    AIDS DAY 

    The doctor informed me that I have AIDS today. 
    What more is there to say?  
    Of course they'll need more blood to confirm 
    that I've finally succumb to this nasty germ. 
    I've had a really good run 
    and I've had heaps of fun 
    despite 20 years with this disease. 
    Now I'll need the doctor's expertise 
    and a bunch of toxic drugs 
    to kill the ruthless bugs 
    Roaming inside of me. 
    Fucking HIV. 

    You couldn't tell to look at me 
    that I have the HIV 
    to the fucking max. 
    I don't have railroad tracks. 
    My face is full and bright 
    I haven't succumb to blight. 
    I never even stripped on a pole. 
    I'm just a simple, girly soul 
    who had unprotected sex at the wrong times. 
    There are worse crimes. 
    Ironic the way things turn out. 
    And no, I'm not going to pout. 
    So what, I'm just a statistic. 
    Nothing realistic. 
    Just a faceless tally. 
    Ready to visit Death Valley. 

    Hope still lingers around 
    unlike the unforgiving ground, 
    Where I'm headed to next. 
    Because of unprotected sex. 
    It was fun while it lasted 
    and I have outlasted 
    a lot of my friends 
    who met bitter ends 
    and are dust in the breeze 
    cuz' of this disease. 
    I still have a few tricks up my sleeve 
    before I leave 
    so don't you fret, 
    I ain't ready to be dead yet. 
    But if you don't mind, 
    I'm going to see if I can find 
    something to hit 
    and pitch a bloody fit. 
    I may even cry. 
    It's my right. 
    Good night.

  • Been Whorin' Around

    I've been whorin' around
    Droppin' words here and there
    Don't care.
    Scattered and unfound.
    Words with a heartbeat
    Purple luscious poles
    Lost souls.
    Hot fucking Heat.


    I just want to BE a woman.

  • I'd be lying if I said I wasn't energized. 
    Energized while I materialize a new twist of fate.


    I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared. 
    Scared of success beyond my mind of late.


    I'd be lying if I said I've never been here before. 


    Familiararity breeds boredom.


    Boredom is like cancer to me.
    When it circles like an 8, forever surpassing infinity.


    I'd be lying but only I would know
    Then where would I go?


    Why you need to be lying anyway?

  • Dance of the Butterfly

    Sometimes memories will come flooding back and I can feel it, right there, where it's warm and full.  I smile knowing it was there all along.  My cheeks hurt from rememberance, from smiling.  It's a grin that won't go away and the pressure of it, just there, tickles me so deep, I think I might creep right out of my skin.


    Now the butterflies dance right outside my door.  Dozens and dozens of butterflies dancing, seemingly without care as memories come flooding back.  I remember the day I rushed to work and paused for a second, to watch two butterflies make love in the air.  I filled with longing watching them, as I burdened myself with the incessant tick tock.  I decided then what was important and vowed to always make time for the butterflies.


    So now they live inside, where it's full and warm.  When I remember Love, the butterflies swarm.  They giggle me right out my mind.  My body is tickling from Love and Light and my eyes are fluttering like a butterfly in flight.  I tremble with delight and gasp for more, yet I'm not sure I can stand any more.  It's too much.  I ache from the memory of more.  It's all right there, where it's full and warm and I rise up and gather big breaths.  I allow myself room for more.  Again...


    I seem to float.  Not quite here, not quite there, yet everywhere at once and nowhere at the same time.  In and out of existence, like a song that repeats in my mind.  Always in the now and then but never at the same time.  I grasp the meaning then.  The meaning of now and then, of flow and go.  Change.  This now that.  The cycle of all that is warm.  The choice of what I grasp, where I rest, and who I AM.


    I smile then.  A smile that glows all around my BEing.  Then more come, and more and more and I wonder how much is possible?  Might I burst from Delight?  Love and Light.  Infinite.  Forever.  More.


    And the butterflies still hover, dance and play.  In a place like today and somewhere else, far away.  Yesterday, today, tomorrow... and more.

  • Cursor Blinking

    see the blink blink of the cursor
    black on stark white
    blink blink
    anticipating the next hop
    skip or letter.
    Now, waiting. 
    Oh so patiently waiting...
    for the next stroke
    to knock it off it's axis
    and quit the blink
    while I think
    and command it back
    to nowhere.
    Now blinking
    cursor blinking.
    Black cursor blinking black
    on white, sprinkled with black.
    Now back,
    and again, back back back.


    Blink blink blink

  • ? ? Sing ? ? Sing A Song ? ?

    ?


    ? ? Sing, sing, sing a song  ? ?
    It don't have to be real long
    ? ? There is know write or wrong ? ?
    Sing about your Bong
    ??  I don't care ?? 
    Just sing the damn song!
    The words are right up there
    ?? ?? IF YOU DARE!  ?? ?? 


    ?


     


     


    fixed it???

  • Been working and slaving and making life bright.  The weather is warm and tingly and right.  I'm dirty and sweaty and jonesing for a toke.  Almost done with phase one but that's not all she wrote.


    Phases and crazes and bouts of 'spiration.  Dreams and screams aloft in my chair.  Bug bites and bruises and my hand has gone numb.


    Seeds and weeds and mystery plants too.  Baby seedlings, tractor tines, rocks and rocks and stones.


    I ache in my bones.


    It's all good though.


    and I'm happy.


    Delighted.


    Excited.


    Afloat.

  • Sing Sing Sing

    Resonate to a HIGHER BEauty, sing a joyful song.


    The JoAnn Song
    Yay for JoAnn!
    Hip Hip Hoorhay for JoAnn!
    (repeat loudly, until you are delirious)


    Pupper Dog Song
    Which Pup do I love
    Which Pup do I need
    PUP, PUP, PUP, PUP, PUP
    Yup, Yup, Yup, Yup, Yup
    I love all you Pups
    Each and every one
    You're my little Pups
    and I love you very much.
    We love to go for walks
    and chase bunnies on our way.
    Hide and seek is joyous
    and you find me every time.
    My pups are good
    and I love them very much.
    PUP, PUP, PUP, PUP, PUP
    Yup, Yup, Yup, Yup, Yup!


    My Little Pup
    My little Pup is brown
    he's the brownest dog in town.
    My little Pup is large
    He's the big, bad dog in charge.
    My little Pup is great
    and he ain't overweight.
    My little Pup is Grand
    He should be in a band.
    My little Pup is Super
    Just follow him with a scooper.
    (cuz he's a pooper)


    Fat Cat
    Hey Little kitty cat
    You're so big and fat
    You won't chase the mice
    'Cuz you want to be so nice
    You eat and nap and play
    Each and every day
    Tell me little cat
    How you got so fat?
    Mice have lots of meat
    They would be a wholesome treat
    But you won't go for that
    'cuz you're too big and fat
    to chase the wee little mouse
    out from inside the house.
    Just give him a good scare
    then maybe he wouldn't dare
    come back inside to play
    each and every day.


    Shakti Song
    Shakti the pupper dog
    is very cute and small
    She has long black fur
    and pointy ears
    and listens when I call.
    Shakti the pupper pooch
    Loves to kiss and smooch
    She gobbles up all your love
    and gives you so much more.
    Shakti my baby girl
    I love you very much
    You are my tiny one
    we laugh and play
    and have much fun.
    I love, love love you
    I love you very much.


     

What?

I AM still paranoid,
though reasons changed.
I'm paranoid that they'll figure out the language
and patterns of
me,
and I'll forget to rea
r r
ange.

Then I'll just be textbook.