scenes from a life - burrito bowl

The companion series

2 poems

parables for the rhinoceros

who knew the scarecrow flew

with the gummy red

of the hippopotamus

cooling on the muddy river

when I’m walking down the street I’m looking people in the face

cause they’re humans

even the bad ones

even the criminals

even me

even you

we’re humans

isn’t it great to have problems too?

like, problems are so much fun

they really give you something to do

you know, like, if you don’t have problems

you’re just bored

how do you feel sorry for yourself

if you don’t have problems, man?

give me surrender

give me a golden give me a broken charge

give me yesterdays full of travesty

they make such good memory

give me the river that goes unnoticed

give me the rain aslant the sky

give me the smokestacks gone dormant

pastures of wide ripe grass

the church built itself

out of god

I am full of toxic information

trivia from the bottom of my heart

I know every age

I know every

age

sometimes the words come out of your mouth too fast

sometimes you’re happy that they’ve escaped

sometimes they do you proud

sometimes you hate yourself for who you are

and what you did

and what you’ll do again

but you survive

you can’t wait to see the wrinkles on your face

you can’t wait to see yourself age like the dirt

you can’t wait to be a pattern

of resistance

there was an earth here once

it was wet

with rain

the mud felt like your skin

then tomorrow collapsed

and yesterday came asking to collect

so now you’re stuck between

yesterday and tomorrow

then

and

now

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sea of tranquility

paradise climbs the ruddy fence

the split bricks choked with last year’s leaves

shrugging the lamppost

streetward

saturday night before Shakespeare goes on

the man with arms for all to see

reads the pre-show disclaimers

turn off your cell phones

give us money

enjoy the show

catfishing in lawnchairs in the pond across the street

boombox at our feet cooing 98.9     
Luther Vandross       Teddy Pendergrass           Wishful Radio

a pack of boys on a bicycle

riding the handlebars like a wheelie

in a wifebeater          swimtrunks    flip-flops with socks

the blonde boy’s hair

combed skyward

and here comes the Scottish play

the one you shouldn’t do

and it ruins everybody’s life for ten years

the actors hiding in the dressing room

under the stage

from the thunderstorms whipping the trees

with sheetmetal

all of my good friends died

it’s proof of their goodness

so thinks the naïve heart in me

that is sinking into the sea

of modern tranquility

Reasons for Living - March 2015

Prose
Invisible Republic: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes - Greil Marcus
Bossypants* - Tina Fey
The Masks of God: Creative Mythology* - Joseph Campbell
Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks
Helen Vendler essays
Don Delillo stories
Jorge Luis Borges stories
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet* - Paul Zweig

Poetry
Ezra Pound
Joseph Brodsky
The Double Dream of Spring - John Ashbery
Jorge Luis Borges
W.H. Auden
The Duino Elegies - Rilke

Images
Barfly - Charles Bukowski, Writer. Barbet Schroeder, Dir.
Wrestlemania XXXI

*partial

Reasons For Living - February 2015

Prose
Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock and Roll Band - Ian Svenonius
Raymond Carver stories
The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School Poets - David Lehman
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry - Harvey Gross
Memoirs - Pablo Neruda

Poetry
T.S. Eliot - Prufrock
Pablo Neruda
Cesar Vallejo
Rilke - New Poems

Movies
Reality Bites - Ben Stiller, Dir.
The Left-Handed Woman - Peter Handke, Dir.

Plays
Big Love - Charles Mee, Signature Theatre

Last Christmas by Meezy.biz aka Doctor Proctor aka Frank Lee Fabolou$ aka @shoyish

DISCLAIMER: I am

The biggest piece of shit ever

I write all my own t-shirts

Punjab Footjob    Cripple Epic     Child Riot

Blog: Foods Which No Longer Exist

This that I don't have a real job

Being born was nonconsensual

Wiped their ass with my chin

The years went on in statuses

Ricochet biscuit       I only trust

Beloved childhood figures: Michaelangelo

The ninja turtle, not the artist

The professional wrestling circuit

Junk put onto shelves
Never joke about Denver
Left an orthodontist at the altar

You can always rely on accidents

At the opera        with pornstars

All women are Disney Princesses

And I’m vaccinated by the nipples

The sonar of emotions

I’ll be a rich man when they make the biopic

It’s cool then it sux then it’s over

The Snow

 

Reasons for Living - January 2015

Novels
Double Duce - Aaron Cometbus
Herzog - Saul Bellow

Prose
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York - Luc Sante
Up in the Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell (excerpts)
The Anxiety of Influence - Harold Bloom

Movies
Kingpin - The Farrelly Brothers
Cast Away - Robert Zemeckis
Mean Streets - Martin Scorsese

Poetry
Mayakovsky's Revolver - Matthew Dickman

TV Shows
Broad City