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I changed my "5 items I can't live without" to:


art.
poetry.
love.
compassion.
sex.













a turning point
in my life,
alone as usual








i feel like my heart is dying
i feel like such a fool
again







skull
EL SUICIDO LOCO
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noone03:
one of the hardest things to do is to look inside yourself. it sucks, but sometimes it has to be done.

you seem like a decent human being. i'm more than sure shit will turn out fine.

just give it time and some thought.

kiss
fred:

Are you drowning in a sea
of your own creation?
The darkened shore
requires a boundary
it's boardwalk corn dog
head cheese processing
relish - filtered grease
We strain the rancid yesterday
once again, our toes are queasy

Pain is the greatest teacher
chopped compost heart manure
the seeds of life
opportunistic little fuckers

Each day and again
crossing wires and clearing paths
embracing
the anchor of despair
cords and cables
showing your place, the method

Tommorow's surface appointment
afloat gasping briny air
the thrashing frothing mammal

Razing atlantis
one depth charge mortar at a time
dragging magnets
scrap metal anchor incinerator


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Well I'll be here at least till 12/5.
Take care. wink


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After all the drama that's been going on around SG lately, and the fact that my favorite SG, Stormy, has now left, I took a little break from the site and was deciding on whether I even wanted to stay...

Now that I've had some time to think about it, I've decided that I still enjoy the site too much to leave. There have...
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noone03:
glad to hear youre sticking around. i believe them to be great works of art too.
vivid:
thats what Im thinking.. new favorites to be made. This is one storm --- itll blow past and new beginings to be made.
and I just fucking got here.
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colcannon:
that is a powerful image
dovienya:
I would like those girls to go stare at the fellow with the picket sign outside the abortion clinic across the street from where I work.

That would make me very happy.

Especially if someone could figure a way to make the rosary he's always fiddling with burst into flame.
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*revised version*
my words are always a work in progress.
whatever


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of beatnik tongues, twilight scents, and autumn

i'm sitting here alone at a downtown hotel,
counting the green waves undulating in the carpet.
i refrain from smoking a cigarette,
but i can't stop playing with the lighter.
the walls pulse and heave, inhale and breathe,
like a gasping lung.
i pull...
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synfull:
your poem did a great job of creating a mood. it kinda made me feel like i was walking stoned through a foreign city, free and alive to absorb all that i see, but also slightly haunted by some sort of impending doom.
fred:

Cool. Keep up the feedback, and I'll keep feeding. wink
You're feeding me too. Maybe we should just have dinner.

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See revised version above.

This one is null and void.

blackeyed
fred:

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carefully we creep
on paper bags and razor blades
the happy alley shadow friends
we're delivering a rooftop
to ourselves

the sky peels back
metropolitan ant colony

Get out your cowboy hats
Empty cartridges, or not
we shoot at the moon
blank -- like there's no tommorow

blurred target practice
destroying the daylight
jewels in the muck

Florid faces at night, cackling red
the beast breathes hard
we take cover
the ninth street hustle giggle

again on the roof
it's orange lights, halogen pointers below
holes in the screen
between dream and asphalt
time bleeding into now
back again to solvent tommorow

writing on the windows
fingers tracing the way out
exits and entrances -- down and up
pointers -- in and out
doorways


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That's just me riffing on your thing




[Edited on Sep 20, 2005 1:16AM]

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marigold:
thanks! all art is courtesy of ross campbell.
filmnoir1:
not to creep you out, but it rather looks like the shower scene in PSYCHO. biggrin
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existential dilemma
by me

ive been feeling restless lately.
autumn is changing my moods into colored leaves.
the night breathes in and out, exhaling
cigarettes and insecurities,
beat poems and pot smoke,
words tumbling into the cracks in the sidewalks,
like quivering seeds stretching their roots into a paved reality.
my heart assumes the fetal position.
my mind assumes the worst.
i decide to escape...
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fred:

I like this.

So you've been plagued by hangovers too?

Take it easy.
bowiee:
your so lovely i really like your art.. ae you perfection .. i believe you could be
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God, I hate hangovers. Especially the one I have right now. I just re-read that last entry - boy, was I really fucked up when I wrote that. haha, it really makes me laugh actually. Out of all the things to write, that's what spews out of my brain when intoxicated. It's partially true, but I'm not that caught up in self-loathing right now. I'm...
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Do you want to know the truth?


I'm not liking myself these days.


I try to convince myself otherwise, but I really want to change myself.



I will.
grumpyoldbastard:
OK HOPE IT GETS BETTER. sorry about yelling.


the mad ARRR!!!
fred:
It's like that Adam Sandler character, "you can do it!" wink

Change...
It's really how about changing your view of things, which can be spotaneous and natural.

I think we're all in the same boat.
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I randomly woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. I tend to do that a lot these days. I'll get high and drunk off Cabernet Savignon (my favorite), pass out suddenly, and then wake up at random hours of the morning. Yesterday I woke up at 3 am. Today it's past six and the sunlight is already peeking through my blinds. I feel quiet,...
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fred:

It's fun to sharesmile
Sure, I know Mission Viejo. I used to ride my there from San Clemente during the summer after 7th grade. The mission viejo mall -- that place was rad! I saw Return of the Jedi and many, many other movies there.
You haven't seen the world yet? Well you gotta get out and check it out then!

Yeah, the beatnik wanderer life. I'm too "boozwha" for that now, but I like to travel. The idea of just wandering into some town and meeting new people, sampling life there and moving on sounds great.
In reality though more and more often it's just another place with strip malls and the same TV shows.
The commercialized homogenation is kind of a drag... but then again the "differentness" of life is out there in the US you just have to look harder. Under the covers and in between the lines.
And smoking and drinking? Eehh... man that just makes me feel like crap. It is nihilistic though, true. See, for nowadays you have to put a different twist on it and sip wheatgrass juice and eat organic goat cheese in different small towns.

For me, now, I've been on more on the clean living path with occasional forays into the dirt, hehe. I already did my offroading earlier in life.

Foreign travel is really where it's at. Especially the more foreign it gets. Then there's the expat life which is different than just passing through.

Have you ever read electric kool aid acid test?
That's a good recounting of the whole beat/hippie pioneers from a third perspective. The whole history of acid, how it entered popular culture and affected, as well as all of it's CIA history is interesting.

This comment's getting too long!
later... robotbiggrin
xixi:
i think we were both in the same band of alley cats in our past life. i feel you miao!!