Live poetry is fun...  there are some excellent poets here in paradise— scroll back thru that poetry forum...

oh, and if you get a chance and feel like it, go see what I posted a little while ago in response to your posting to Lennon's song "Imagine"...

what's that?

Buddy, have a drink!

I have just returned from going to the local coffeeshop and listening to some poetry.
Some young pup with a good beat and schmaltzy pop-poetry with appearance of depth, but just a regurgitation of the latest psychobabble newage isms. Sigh... where is this era's Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti or Gary Snyder?

Ok... not in Sedona, obviously.

I think she just gave me a lobotomy.

Is this the new AU?

Politics... INDEPENDENT: shit happens DEMOCRAT: shit is a vast, right wing conspiricy REPUBLICAN: the rich deserve more shit MODERATE: we must also consider shit's right to happen LIBERAL: shit will happen if we don't spend enough CONSERVATIVE: the courts have allowed too much excrement REFORM: we can't get our poop in a group SOCIALIST: support the equal distribution of shit COMMUNIST: come the revolution, shit will not happen again LIBERTARIAN: legalize all kinds of shit GREEN: compost happens

I've read this three times now as "The Apocalyptic Universe"

Is that what goes on in Sedona?

Is that what goes on in Sedona?

Make up your mind. Is it
The 'political universe'
or
'a political universe'

Me, I'm headed for the nonpolitical stream of consciousness to take me a skinny dippin'. See ya there!

A partial reprint from an e-mail to a friend, some months back...It seemed topical.Running on as it does...
Hello my friend(s),
The Google word of the day is "imbue" and curiously
(at least for a self described wordsmith), is defined as meaning "to dye" and "to instill profoundly".
Now, as I sit here, typing @ my blazing speed of approx. 10wpm, and listening to a favorite FM station streaming
Ike and Tina Turner performing "Rolling On The River", and looking up technical specs for my '79 GMC pickup
with ,as it turns out, a '77-79 oldsmobile 403c.i. big block so that I can tune it up for emmision testing, and it's snowing,and I'm mindlessly grazing
on the endless offerings of what some darkly oriented
and overly pessimistic purveyor of so called "news"
desperately uses to capture my sub concious for the enemies within paritisan politics and target marketing
and global community alignment,so as to "help" me form an opinion or perception of independent thought about what is real and what is lasting and what I need to get to the promised land—-......so that I will finally be able to tell the difference between a hemorroid and an asteroid.
Then and only then will I be able to reconcile my context and perspective to a self fulfilled time line.
Thusly, when "imbued", I will dye from profound instillation.
Thank You and Good Day.......

B