;.l1,6,60,66,1,0,10,75,192,2,15,20,25,127,10,0, =posu05 Selected Poems, Spring and Summer '05 ------------------------------------------------------------------ SELECTED FROM =JR050514.TXT, =JR050641,TXT, =JR0508V.TXT, =jr0923*. (which is a WIP) THESE SELECTED POEMS ARE PRECEEDED BY: =POMO0504.TXT ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ SELECTED FROM =JR050508.TXT ---------------------------------------------------------------- It is better to work on the things on which one agrees that to argue over the things on which one disagrees. --------------------------------------------------------------- 3-Ming Poem: (after a remark by Carl Shrager) You roll a joint smoke it & drop the the roach in a Ming jar. Wen you are out of pot you empty the Ming jar roll another joint smoke it & drop the roach in a 2nd Ming jar. I sort my spare change saving, today, the 20-cent pieces. ------------------------------------------------------------- It is spring on the lake. The bicyclists are practicisng for the great race by looking at nothing. They must ride very fast to get there first. : "Grist for the Mill" ------------------------------------------------------------- On and old-world lake a man drives s motorboat named 'Shark'. ----------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================= =============================================================== SELECTED FROM =JR050514.TXT ------------------------------------------------------------------ Honest George is back with his dead horse on a plate draped in white pasta graced with green string beans for May speciality of the week for only 16 pieces of silver this being nigh Pentecost -- Jeus and Judas united -- but nobody stops to eat it. A grey day. (Campra, Friday 13 May '05) ------------------------------------------------------------------ On the Terrazo above Lago Lugano the tall flt-chested waitress with low decollte dressed in white with black eye-liner has a complaint which, platinively, she discusses at length. I do not know the language but her pain floats out and settles over my cafe latte. (Gandria, 12 May) ---------------------------------------------------------------- An ill wind blows back Honest George but that's not no good -- the cat can eat again. (14 May '05) ----------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================== SELECTED POEMS FROM =JR050641.TXT When I visited she would apologize for working in the kitchen while we talked. One day she dropped me a note that read 'These are my last words to you.' --------------------------------------------------------------- My father was once arrested in Pittsburgh for speeding on horseback in Schenley Park. the judge found him guilty but charged the cops for the case. Later he did War work which needed Security Clearance and each time he filled out a form that asked, Were you ever arrested he answered Yes for speeding on horseback. (Olivone, Spring '05) -------------------------------------------------------------- Climbing the green mountain in spring rain the driver plays American Rap loudly. (17 May '05, Aquaross--Olivone bus) --------------------------------------------------------------- Were a dog to poop on his stoop and I scoop it up, Honest George would surrely say that's mine; put it back. ----------------------------------------------- Walking back to my camp between rainsqualls I am caught in the rain Noticeing an abandonned umbrulla I pick it up fold it neatly and carry it in my hand. ---------------------------------------------------------------- SELECTED POEMS FROM =JR050641.TXT --------------------------------------------------------------- The day cows go up to summer pasture in the Alps is called Cow Up Day It is June 15 This yeaar Cow Up Day was on galuutz Shavuot becase Swiss cows are in galutz from India and so they go up to hear the Torah and everyone knows that the Torah of Cows is alpine flowers. ------------------------------------------------- And Ciel said If I were a grandmother with a granddaughter I would ask any suitor 'Young man, are your intentions honorable?' Meaning: 'Do you intend to show here a good time.' ---------------------------------------------------- Another Email from Rinatya: The night my brother was born my Bavarian Catholic father celbrated by raping me so later I become Jewish like my father's father and also lesbian and after menopause before doing psychotherapy to push him out of my mind I asked a Rabbi must I still obey the commandment to honor my father the drunk. He said, 'No.' -------------------------------------------------- Feelings are something best left in the concert hall. ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Thank you for sharing": "I don't wear underwear but tell me how often should I change my socks." Campra, 20 Jun '05 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bread and soda-water and amold mixed salad small with salt-water and vinegar Cost me 13.50 here. Can't throw the bread-crusts to the birds Might give them heartburn. (Camperio, 17 Jun '05) ----------------------------------------------------------------- White-haired and darned near toothless My best goof yet Wait till I get back to my 20's and tell all the acidheads. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Got one student and she's not talking to me now. One person in the world who sometimes understands me and she's not talking to me now. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The land you left is empty now just Swiss in it little men and the Rhine flows nowhere now I kept the Castle garden but you did not come to walk it. -------------------------------------------------------------- No more money Oh that's funny Guess it's gone Might be nice to sit at home and eat brown rice. :Pre-Ming Phase of the Moon (17 June '05) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tandem Attunements: The eagle is flying somewhere. Guess it's time for us to cook supper. (Lake Lugano, Shavuot, (2nd day) --------------------------------------------------------------- Americans remove obstacles; Sufi's transcend them. ---------------------------------------------------------------- "What are you going to do today" Don't know. Have to ask my donkey when he wakes up. :At the Zenith Workcamp, 2005 Sh_HeChIa_Nu --------------------------------------------------------------- The Campers are going for a hike The white mini-van drives to the doorway to take them to go hiking. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Type A CEO: "V_NaFSh_I K_'aFaR L_KoL T_HIeH" ("and my soul -- like dust to all, may it be" (Siddur, Amidah, close) Ain't seen nor heard from him in 10 months holding my mark in cold fog and first thing he says is You got a pot_belly. ( Campra, 26 Jun '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- For one who asked me to keep a Camp Journal: She takes a bed in the Men's Dorm and says, don't mind me I'm a grandmother. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Heard from Latifa, 26 Jun '05: PVK called Latifa and left a message on her machine: 'We have a new situation -- I have a cancer: let us discuss modifications in plans.' He called Taj Inayat and said I want to take the Concorde to California and talk with you. She said, Perhaps you should begin a little to let go. ---------------------------------------------------------- "I gave up spirituality." If you find a plateau why keep climbing -- pause and enjoy the scenery. -------------------------------------------------------------- He sees and builds a tidy two-story house. I like Perian miniatures but also middle Kandinsky. Let Holland visit Poland and maybe someday Isreal. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Three riders on horses that poop in the parking lot reach our alp. The riders walk past the horsecrap maybe waiting for the horse to do it. I shovel it up lest Honest George wait a week with that pained expression of an ill-served aristocrat for someone else to do it. ------------------------------------------------------------- My father made a small new discovery. to add to physics. He said, It might be used to map the stars or it might be used to build new weapons though I hope it is not. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 'Would you like to do some extra work?' "I think I've got enough to do." Mazaltov; so do I. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Shabat morning I walk into the staff house singing Shlomo songs. The Preacher says 'You took away the new-made tea: maybe you should see what's going on before you change it.' :Sinuit chanin as personality clash. (Campra, Shabat, 9 July '05 -- 2 taMUZ ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I walk into my container carrying on Shabat an halachically problematic used cardboard box that knocks over my glass of halachically problematic kiddish Chianti. :Ambigious Omen (subtitle after Klee) (Campra, Shabat, 9 July '05 -- 2 taMUZ ) -------------------------------------------------------------- The in-crowd goes out to walk up the cows and comes back with cow-pies on their boots. They don't tell anyone because then everyone would want to too. (Campra, 9 July '05) -----------------------------------------------------------------ù The lover will give the beloved anything but the freedom to say no. ----------------------------------------------------------------- It is unfair to fault a person for physical disadvantages which they cannot remedy. That entails the unjustifiability of age_ism , sex_ism, and discrimination against the handicapped. Kindly accept my regrets, madam, for pissing next to your tent each night. Unfortunately, our camping space is limited. ----------------------------------------------------------------- His woman once said, 'I'd like to hear you preach.' He said, 'No, this is serious.' Later she left. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Titles for Collected Poetry: Sly Biters Pissing against the Wind (Sly Biters are little dogs that run behind you and then nip at your ankles. I heard that phrase from Roy Lapidus, Baron of Doberdane Estates ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wally the Hippopatamus is not master of even his own balls. (afer T.S. Eliot, at a safe distance for both of us ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'd sweep the floor but Honest George expanding his empire has locked up broom and dustpan. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Knocked off my high horse: I walk past the Restorante singing oud. Pirate Jenny who cleans the toilets calls out "cock-oo" soft and sharp as she polishes the sink. -------------------------------------------------------------- "How do you support yourself?" "Why do you ask." "I'm curious about your life." I sleep on the ground and eat brown rice. :Rich kid -------------------------------------------------------------- Soup's too sweet lentils too sour but the boiled potatoes are ok and so's the tea. :Young spiritualists ----------------------------------------------------------------- In a land where they have lost the stars dirtied their own air and sold the silence, they are taking away my concrete home. (Campra, 6 July) ------------------------------------------------------------------ "How did you get involved in the Sufi movement?" "I needed a spare religion, and I'd run out of the other ones I'd been trying." :Callow Fellow ------------------------------------------------------------------- "You look as if the sun had gone away." "As a matter of fact it has, but that's another story." You've not even left yet and I'm writing you poems. (Campra, 6 July '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ANDREAS appears at breakfast looking as spiritual as a week-old latka. -------------------------------------------------------------- An Introduction to non-Euclidean Geometry: BERN is so prceise he could be a Swiss watch. He sees me dancing on the edges and says 'What is he doing here?' ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alpine flowers on a cloudy day: Agnieska makes her break quick davka flown to London before anyone can think to say 'Chick, what ARE you doing.' ---------------------------------------------------------------- A self-defensive grey-haried German parks her and pitches her tent where I'd been wont to piss. I try to say I liked to sleep beneath that tree. She points to a patch of dirt and says 'There's still room left.' A good time to take a long walk. (Campra, 3 July '05) ----------------------------------------------------------------- "the horns on that sheep's head, Sir they reached up to the moon; a man went up in February and didn't come down 'till June." (English folk song, "The Derby Ram") Her daughter flipped out last January and ain't come back to earth yet. There's a real doctor in the valley but she drives to the Hospital Psychiatrist because Hospitals are free when you cry 'Emergency!' and she's saving her money to refurbish her flat for her daughter so they can share it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Quaeda is something out of Batman Comics, re_invented by the Bush Administration. A chimera used a front for American Facists. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 'Christian civilization' is an oxymoron. So's Bush -- an 8_sided__idiot. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A sidewinder snake could walk along the sidewak of the Grande Hotel Splendide in Lugano only sideways because if you can stay at the Grande Hotel Splendide in Lugano you need never walk. (Shavuot, Day 2, '05) -------------------------------------------------------------- Jesus' 'Wedding Shirt' Reconsidered: So ok, I need a bath I'll go look for the lake. But I think a see a servant so I hold out my cup. He pours. My cup is thin it cracks a little of course but I can still drink some. :Before trying to borrow a thunderbolt Notes: Cf. of course the image of 'vessels' in Lurianic kabala (Lugano, Terrace of the Chinese Restaurante, Shavuot, '05) --------------------------------------------------------------- LIlO/LIFO W_Verse: Today I got a FAX which is what Very Important People get. I have not opened it yet. I think it is from the holy Va'ad of my holy Moshav saying they will seize and eat all I own unless I give them all my money forever. I have put it in my In-box at the bottom of the pile because it has to wait its turn amd when I have other things to do I will put them in my In-box at the top of the pile. I have a lot to do Heaven be praised. (Campra, 11 July '05 -- 3 taMUZ ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I try now to do no more than is needed, and as much as is needed. The former is much harder. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I see ANDREAS is not here and never really was. (Campra, 13 July '05) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dialogue en passant: "Hello, Steve -- I had to work today. I was in a very bad mood but now I'm fine. Maybe I escape tonight, I'm not sure. Bye." -------------------------------------------------------------- This week we bought a new meditation tent made in the USA for ten thousand dollars plus customs and saved 3 SwissFranc a package by feeding the workers El Cheapo Coffee. --------------------------------------------------------------- On Shabat we abstain from tikun haOlam. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Only a German can turn 'Good Morning' into verbal aggression. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes its less trouble to do something than to think about it every time you pass by, until someone else does it. --------------------------------------------------------------- Shabat afternoon rain 6 of sit in cook-tent with the last half-pot of soup. The Cook comes in and says 'There are 400 people at Camp with no soup' and walks out with the last half-pot of soup. 30 July ------------------------------------------------------------- Agnieska comes home from Brighton Beach. Aziz, who is from London but really Sparta says, 'Well done.' 28 July --------------------------------------------------------------- Feels like rain from the north. Outside our office the Secretary files sit in a metal box for 3 days facing north. I ask the boss can I put it back inside your office. He says It's her headache. erev Shabat 22 July '05 --------------------------------------------------------------- 'Turn off the light, people are sleeping here.' "They should not sleep here." 'Of course they should. It's warm and dry.' "The boss told me they should not sleep here. Ever." :Natural and artifical authority --------------------------------------------------------------- "You have an an American twang -- are you part of the Sufi Camp?" 'Yep.' "You look as if you could fit in." :It's the colour__co_ordinated beige trousers. --------------------------------------------------------------- sailing in the mist feel like I know my direction maybe but don't know where I'm going. Don't know my landmarks. Maybe I'll know them when I see them. --------------------------------------------------------------- Running with the wind when they should be tacking. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Wheelchair people on an outing come to the Restorante. I move a 4-chair table to faciliate access. Honest George comes out evaluates the situation lets them in and then moves the table back in place. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 3 blind mice around the laptop trying to get into Internet asking advice of only each other. ---------------------------------------------------------------- At about 10:30 as i'm walking to may SHACK to make havdalah she asks for a glass of wine and hands me a crisis that must wait until and can keep me awake all night saying, 'I just wanted to share this with you because you have been so concerned.' Notes: Cf. a story by PVK: His mid-day nap was interrupted by a woman crying in front of his tent. She said, 'I jusst wanted to get your attention.' His comment was, 'Thanks a lot.' ----------------------------------------------------------------- Surely Hope Prendergast was born to be a gambler, as_it_is_said, "Unlucky in love, lucky at cards." For although she readily attracted men, she was unable to hold one. It was as if somewhere it was written, "Abandon Hope, all ye who enter her." ------------------------------------------------------------------ An Interfaith Dialogue: A salaam. My name is Stephen. Oh, and if I stone you will you say, I see the heavens opening up before me? [ Well actually, I'd be more likely to unfold an Uzi. ] (Zenith, ca. 1996 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------- In Aqila I sit on on a crate at the bus stop and watch the holy people drive by. Do they think I'm counting the chickens? ( 12 Aug '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dialogue with our Zurich Leader: This van is Mike who built Zenith. "Great." ----------------------------------------------------------------- At the Office: The Secretary sits on her paramour's lap, I walk in to xerox and the CEO says, "Why do you have to do this today -- a lot of people work here today." Sunday 14 Aug '05 -- Tesha b'AV ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hands-on Foreperson: Our burnt-out Administrative Secretary lies in her little room with an electric heater a semi-private potty and this summer's Prince Consort overlooking the cement cesspool and only comes out to boss the Workers. She says, "Last Fall for our farewell House-Cleaning I had to 'kick ass'." --------------------------------------------------------------- German Courtesy in the Kitchen on a Sunny Morning: "Good morning, Steve." "I already said Good Morning. He's looking for my umbrulla." ------------------------------------------------------------- Space Cadet flying on burnout Bound to get somewhere but can't steer much. I tell him, 'She's your woman for now so take her somewhere maybe sunny Italy.' He says, 'You tell her.' (Campra, 9 Aug '05 -- Nagasaki Day ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- sa, Campra, 19 Aug '05 -- 14 Av -- 13 Rajab Warm quiet night, light clouds ================================================================= =po0508v Selected Edited poems from =jr0508v.txt The dinner gong clangs. I walk up to Camp and when I get there the food has gone back down to Campra. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Me 'n Catullus; One word from her lightens my morning Even a gesture. He shares her tent now. I say, 'Hi, how're you doing.' He replies, 'OK'. :Me 'n Catullus ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hitch-hiking on planet earth. --------------------------------------------------------------- Rainy day in the Alps. Car drives up Italian plate stops in the parking lot guy leans out the window and says "Where are the mushrooms?" (Campra, 21 Aug '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------- She got pregnant. Her lover's parents went to Sharm el Sheik and got blown up by a terrorist. Her lover sent her an SMS: 'It's either the baby or me.' Two hours later she started to bleed. (Campra, 21 Aug '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Micromanagement on a Sunny Day: "Hey -- What are you doing. Somebody put that there." 'I put it there. Against the rain. Ain't raining now.' "But it might rain again." 'Might.' ------------------------------------------------------------ Shakespeare is continually out_voted by his stereotypes. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Applied Lobster: They spoil my world. Agnieska says 'Eat whats's good and leave the rest.' ---------------------------------------------------------------- Steve the Thief (2): Somoene in a flatbed drives up to my humble home and says, We are looking for the wheelbarrow. Darn -- caught again. There goes my private rickashaw. Once I stole a Bible, but when I got it home it had only 9 Commandments. (Campra, Sunday sunset, 28 Aug /4 Sept -- Rosh Hodesh Elul) -------------------------------------------------------------- In maybe 1975 I ran the Tax/Welfare Advocacy Office in Phillips Brooks House at Harvard College. I covered the walls with Staff Memos of things to do and to not do. My Staff was one volunteer a few afternoons a week. (Casmpra, 6 Sept '05 ) -------------------------------------------------------------- Steve the Thief (3): "I have lost a grey cape that Pir gave me. It was taken from the back of my car." 'Yes of course. The one like mountain mist lined with woven rainbows -- it's right up there. I tried to take it, but it keeps slipping off.' (Campra, ca. 24 Aug '05 ) Cf. HIK (1302): "If you have lost something, it means that you have either risen above it or fallen below it." ------------------------------------------------------------------- (Steve the Thief (1): On a quiet afernoon when I have lots of thoughts to untangle he leads group drumming inside a concrete building on the eecond floor. Four times he has said, 'I've lost my denin jacket. Did you find it.' Once in Taos I got a Lee lined denim jacket and wore it for about a year. If you drum in Taos better drum good. (Campra, ca. 22 Aug '05) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Locked out of the Staff House once again and they've still got my salt there. (Campra, 6 Sept '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- He's stopped singing since he started lying. (Campra, 7 Sept '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Between Camps I never visit Zenith people." Mazaltov; and we are maybe garden gnomes? (Campra, ca. 30 Aug '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- Abraham sent Hagar off with practically no waste. And so today they've paid me off with 400 grams of almond paste. (Campra, 10 Sept '05, Shabat) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I use my body nowadays mostly for a parking place. ------------------------------------------------------------------ A large buck llies in a pickup truck felled in fair fight with a headlight_hunter with a hi_tech spy_glass and a thousand dollar gun. It says yesterday I was a deer now I am just rotting meat I did not want to go yet. (Campra, Shabat 11 Sept '05 -- 7 Elul ) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Must be a rat though he sure don't look it -- All alone in the House with a half-wheel of rubber cheese and won't let me in the door. (Campra 12 Sept '05) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hillonim Reconsidered: Some dum_de_da_dumb whom I have not known is trying to throw me out of my home It seems in brief the wraith* is meaning to use me for his Pesach cleaning. Now what can I save from the wreck of this involuntary Exodus. Notes: *wraith -- Cf. Tolkien's Trilogy -- 'Ring-wraith' -- a being, formerly human, spiritually and ethically eviscerated by power. (Campra, 15 April '05 -- 6 Nisan ) -------------------------------------------------------------- 'Fixing'* Reconsidered: "And if the goyim wear red shoelaces, we wear black." (?Kitzer Shulchan Aruch? (paraphrase)) "Oh Pious Ones"** you've done me wrong so when I'm tempted to a sin _____( conquilles sans Jacques*** or similar stock -- __________or stroganoff is sin enough -- _______________(I ought not err so far off course _______________ as eat my my pig or dog or horse ____________________(though Friday bedtime I just might ____________________ flick on and off the potty light _________________________(and will continue if you please _________________________ to try the Alpine yellow cheese ______________________________I cannot deem it such a crime ______________________________to mix with milk a bovine enzyme ______________________________'tis less than one part under sixty (and even, if it comes to that from time to time take off my hat) (Campra 15 April '05 ) Notes: * Fixing -- Tikun -- Cf. Malmud, 'The Fixer' A tikun is the compensation if not rectification of a worldly injustice ** "Oh Pious Ones" -- Rumi, as translated -- "Forgive me, oh pious ones, I am drunk with ecstacy' (quoted from memory) *** Conquilles St. Jacque -- scallopf fried with herbs and white wine in butter, ---------------------------------------------------------- Piato di giorno -- Medaglia di cervezo George and his dead horse sustain the Restorante. It's hard to say who's the smaller and which one has the brains. (Sunday, 18 Sept '05 -- 13 Elul ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Swiss Army in convoy slows to crawl behind a bicyclist -------------------------------------------------------------- The Poet Counts his Riches: Just so for this summer I've now been paid: 2 very small pieces of ginger 1 old yellow apple 72 small potatoes a bit of light cream in an opened carton enough berry syrup to make one refreshing spritzer about a hundred grams of black tea in a large can 6 liter cartons of Ultra_High_Test erstwhile milk a hair of raspberry syrup 8 cookies assorted grotties with artifical aromae 16 and two halves amaretto cookies, of dubitable provenance (an offering to 16 and two halves plastic birds) a bit of my own granola many sesame seeds popcorn and white flour for the birds white sugar for the tourists They say, Now you'll have enough to eat all winter. But haply have I stolen: a U.S. Postal Service Mailback, patched, old 15 years ago and from Honest George: 7 promotional apertif glasses, no two alike amd from Zenith Camp: 4 portable refrigerator packs, lacking only the refrigerator one old harmonica, several months abandoned and from Sr. Vanzetti 3 blankets, 2 mattress, and 2 pillows, as loan,to share and that's about all. (Campra, 21 Sept '05 -- Autumn Equinox -- 17 Elul) ---------------------------------------------------------------- "He's too authoritarian. Everyone knows it but him. So he bound to know it too sooner or later." ÿ(Campra, ca. 14 Sept '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- Germany should pay reparations to the world for a thousand years and then turn itself into a marina. ------------------------------------------------------------- Assuming I'd stolen it (Maybe to ride home free since walking on waves is so passE) Igor whom I've known for a decade take a unicycle from my front porch and tells me 5 days later 2 days after I ask. (Campra, ca. 26 Aug '05 ) ---------------------------------------------------------- If our cook got a job on a pirate ship, he could catch fish without a line. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 'I'm worried. 50 people in a bookshop at the high end of that long tea_tent might break down the strut_work.' 'No problem. Last year Shahabudin had 300 people in the meditation tent jumping up and down ‹n unison and the frame didn't collapse.' (Zenith Camp, 24 July '05 ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- You steal my dignity, and would pour mockery upon injury by stealing as well my anger. --------------------------------------------------------------- The Secretary is in love clock ticking She locks out the workers from the showers. Dianah was not so well guarded. --------------------------------------------------------------- After every meal the Cook throws the trash out the door and washes the kitchen floor. (Campra, 31 July '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- "In the wee small hours of the morning" (Sinatra) my hotel television says Fuck Ass Suck & Tits. I'd rather think that sometimes love might too be made of gentler bits. (1 Aug '05, Andermatt ) --------------------------------------------------------------- To whatever you say IGOR will give his fullest sympathy and no consideration. :Clintonesque ----------------------------------------------------------------- Fragment; the holy lamb who toils away the sins of man upon her back. :After a remark by the protagoniste. --------------------------------------------------------------- Andermatt ahs a new campground with a little recyling center. I put a plastic bottle in the box and a little Swiss pops out of door and says 'Sorry, this is private.'. (Andermatt, 4 Aug '05 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- An Armadillo walks on down the highway despite hurt feelings. ----------------------------------------------------------- REWORDINSS OF SACRED TEXTS: "Therefore with joy our song shall soar to praise the LORD for evermore." (translation of lyrics by Martin Lutheer to lines from Bach's 'Wacht auf, ruft uns de Stimme' "I am eating the read of this world and doing the work that world and eating the bread of that world and doing the work of this world" (based on a remark in Zenith class by PVK, after Zuleika's setting of a lyric by Rabia ) --------------------------------------------------------------- Who sees a slight where none's intended has no right to feel offended. ---------------------------------------------------------------- As I wait a late bus a young blonde bicyclise goes by in translucent red body suit showing a thong. Now there's a passed ass to put a poem on. ------------------------------------------------------------- To expand time stay calm. ---------------------------------------------------------------- In the Swiss Railway lst_class casrriage from Milano a trim young black woman makes a cellphone call and then lies down on the double seat and the fat man sitting opposite her lights a cigarette. (28 July '05 ) ------------------------------------------------------------- Fragment at an Alpine Spiritual Retreat: Vanity Fair is here for sure Magic Mountain? Yeah, we got one too. --------------------------------------------------------------- title for a suppressed poem: Dekoonig Woman with daughter --------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================== SELECTED FROM =jr0923*. (WIP) Looks like George bought the riding horses. They won't loaf on the trails any more. (Olivone, 23 Sept '05) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Another Unearned Calumny: Don't say he's cheap but when he stopped by to say farewell looks like he took my work_gloves and when he left the house he locked up the bottled gas. (Campra 25 Sept '05) -----------------------------------------------------------------