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COMMENCEMENT©

 

KITE TALE

 

glass mountain has been moved into the garage

I'm not sure why but have been told

it's the decent thing to do

so now everyone is waiting to see what it will do

 

people peeking in the window

and there is a gentle breeze outside

the birch tree swishing like a hula dancer

kids are laughing

they're always so unruly

 

even the guy with his ice cream truck

which he brings through the neighborhood once a week

on Sunday

with the music box recording jacked up to a blare

 

and it's not even Sunday

must be the weather

but let's not get political

 

no one can see the mountain

being that it's glass

and really, that doesn't matter

everyone is having a good time

 

there are no police in sight

it's a neighborhood night out

unofficially

and even the crows have come

sometimes they like to visit anyway

filling yards, streets, trees for blocks

 

the ice cream guy is not playing his recording

crows not crowing

just laughter

kids of course

all this going on for something no one can see

 

 

 

 

 

DOORSTEP SUTRA

 

NOTICE

 

The Laurelwood Cabana Club Swim Team

will be having its annual sleep over party:

 

Saturday, June 22nd-23rd

6pm – 8am

 

Quiet time will be enforced from

10pm – 7am

 

Laurelwood Cabana Club

3700 Benton St.

(408) 246-8013 Pool Office

 

 

Sunday is the day

people go to meeting

operating a blower is illegal

 

Nirvana oil

for the lamp of Liberation

Heaven on the lay away plan

 

whatever

it all comes down to peace

and most people do not even mow

 

the Prince of Peace

does his thing

on Sunday

 

stories of rulers

bore me

wasteland of history

 

caves of enlightenment

smudged with candle carbon

prehistoric graffiti

 

let the good times roll

and roll and roll

I clip my toenails and watch the evening news

 

three rainy days in the forecast

for the south bay

in June

 

unbelievably, Wood Duck is absent

the usual Cabana caravan; it's almost eerie

even the birds are quiet

 

clouds darken the sky

yesterday leaves of our liquid amber were aflutter

a tree dropped a limb across Benton Street

 

the scales of nature weigh carbon fumes

allocating justice

to humming birds

 

a glut of carbohydrates

curse of agribusiness

rivals fumes

 

it all balances out

big kids

float easier

 

it could be that my blower is blessed

I think of a stained glass mandala

in the palace of the Prince of Peace

 

 

 

 

IN OUR FINAL EARLY DAYS

 

 

briefly, let's consider whether this

which you are reading right now

were intoned into the night

at an open mike club

 

OK!!!  that's enough

 

our June disaster in the south bay

would not chant very well

thank Zeus no one is listening

I rather enjoy it

 

the disaster is a beguiling breeze

somewhat laden with moisture

smells of rain

a freshness of infinite origin

and here turn the page

cover your face

though no one is looking

 

we have walked together in times past

and the rest

nervous newscasters, city officials concerned with rising pension costs and traitorous State warlords

will have parted ways

 

this could have been a careful report

perhaps reviewed by those very newscasters

who may not have noticed water beads

on their shoes

when walking

subtle motions of a shrub

or more to the mirage

a skeening haze

 

together we enjoy what may be called

the University of Major Bullshit

 

how enjoyable it is

no screening

no doctorates

undergraduate tendrils of vines entwined

Major Bullshit!

steaming in a front yard spied upon

by Google maps and cameras

which are blind

 

we laugh

not a belly laugh

not a sigh

not anything, really

that Google can see

we are free of making missiles

do not answer to corporate Frankensteins

do not lick the rostrum at City Council

and we do not pander to psychopaths:

tip of the pyramid leaders who claim orientation with scientific stars, celestial beings or the ultimate ground of being

no matter how close it seems

or to the putative pebbles of our stream

 

you know –

those ones we stumble over

on our way to The Great Being

that we are told inhabits stars

animates an Inquisition into our motives

so that we tremble and become

obedient slaves

 

well, make that a belly laugh after all

guts are not very poetic but just speak their peace when things are right

 

all the shiny rocks, wet with miracle water, streaming sunlight

immune to intonation yet singing

that is where we met

 

 

 

 

UMB

 

 

if it sells Twinkies

who am I to complain?

 

on the earthquake channel tonight was a weather report

clouds of meteorologists

gathering over the San Andreas fault

spray cans in hand

injecting WD40 Silicon into those arthritic joints

it was like a rain dance in reverse

amazing

 

instead of bumps and grinds

a smooth ballet

a great mist of benefaction, clearing throats of symphony goers

unaware of the real reason for celebration

-- no tympani roll –

although it was in the score

to the dismay of the conductor, gesticulating frantically

which everyone took as a cue for the finale

though the program showed no coda

 

my faith in science exhumed

bones of the earth laid bare as never before

Mozart eat your heart out

get loose, man

the end is not foreordained

all those careful curlicues have a home in unrestrained sideburns

and on HDTV it's even better

Twinkies sweat sugar under studio lights

 

indeed, I am entertained

the new weather man on Channel 5, more sedate, less subtle

Brian Hackney, sort of homey

he makes mistakes and has phrases for the June wind chill

"freeze your buns"

 

and brief cuts to severe weather farther east

we are one, but it all comes down unequally

yes, now we're cooking

metaphorically twisted cuisine

further than Kesey's bus or San Francisco's cable cars

for the tourist Twinkies

we're just getting warmed up, here on the wonderful coast

but somehow the usual terms don't cover it

Chicago?

 

all those careful cubicles

overweight slaves awaiting slaughter

in an offshore downsizing tsunami

salami with cheese, please

how could all of this be inexpressible

except for an ER peopled by machines programmed for profit

 

at the Bohemian Club, did I mention salami?

perhaps it smacks of the cruder passions

let champagne be our lubricant

 

at UMB such undergraduate courses are faintly acknowledged

necessary but not sufficient

yesterday a spider's web, today a passion flower

no seminars

just birds in the trees, a chattering of neighbors

and of course jasmine flowering by the porch

 

the University of My Backyard

is anywhere

in any degree

 

 

SUMMERTIME

 

 

Summertime

and the livin' is breezy

Summertime

and the heat shimmers high

sleep little baby cyclone

mama's going to bring you a rain storm

don't cry

 

but mama got some lightning

flashed her credit card and said

fly fools!

run!

sparks are just the start

all that stuff you bought at the mall

for your Walden Pond

forget it!

paradise is burning

and those big dams and reservoirs

not even a drop in the bucket!

it was just waiting

 

and so

here in California, or Texas, or maybe in Russia, India

anywhere fuel is not yet fossilized

the cycle is interrupted

energy stored is celebrated

San Francisco's giddy victory

freedom to marry brothers and sisters of the same gender

sees wild fires

perhaps a celebration of mama's deserts

as yet another cycle begins

 

smoke rises up to the sky

homes burn

people die

mama clears the forest for another generation

 

emails flash across the planet

aliens are tuning in

is this the time?

who to support

Republicans, the Vatican, North African gurus

is this the end?

 

in California smoke rises from a BBQ

fundraiser in the Oakland hills

and of course they know from past experience

 

in San Francisco by the bay

magic place where new rules play

where rabbits at the Presidio have their say

rainbow flags aflutter

emails flash

heat rising

the sky shimmies

simmers

dawn of a new day

 

 

EVENING ALOEWOOD

 

 

no cats are around the clipboard tonight

somehow they have sensed

the privacy of a viewpoint beyond conception

that caters not to their domain

nor to any

 

there is no explanation

too many wasted words

so if we're on the same page

let's have a good laugh

hear it echo over lupine meadows

the question has resolved itself

on a foggy evening

 

that strawberry at the edge of a cliff

plucked during the fall to certain death

having grown beyond the reach of profits

was free, thankfully

of pesticides

the usual disclaimers apply

domain?

conception?

lawyers scratch their heads

 

ribald guffaws

 

Hannibal crossed the alps

beyond all expectations

and after that the grape presses of Italy extruded

virgin olive oil

both of which are still appreciated

 

I rest my case

ignoring possible historical inaccuracies

there is no evaporation

Mark Twain has taken the stand

 

as mentioned on other occasions

reason makes logic a whore

Queen of Science impugned

to enthrone the Mad Hatter King

 

signed this Wednesday evening in Santa Clara

California

the Mission City crossed by El Camino Real

in full possession of all normal and extraordinary faculties

and affixed with my seal:

the gardener

 

 



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