It’s winter, a young boy stands looking out onto a wasteland of snow. A sparrow flits around his head. The boy shows no emotion. It’s as if he has morphed into stone. He was born in the era of Strawberry Fields. Factories and smokestacks smells of Europe ran through his hair. His parents are memory […]
One of the great moments in cinema history.
Do you ever wonder where people are going? Some do the road, the Camino , that’s going somewhere right. I mean it’s a pilgrimage right? The woman next door masked up and all said she did the Camino, goddamn it! She was pretty forceful with the goddamn. Not a bit of ego in her redheaded […]
This morning I woke early. Still dark I turned on my small lamp and lit a tea candle followed by a stick of Japanese incense. I bowed to my chair . I counted breaths trying to catch the feeling, the sensations, flowing through me. Yesterday my mind was all over the shop , now at […]
Swallow the universe Till nothing is left Become silence !
The pure wind never stops it beats within (hridaya) the unknowable essence of your heart. As someone said, don’t think, do. Nothing dies. We are part of life’s circle. You are the wave that fans the ocean of always returning.
I got a broken foot and I hobble up and down the street singing songs of experience. Dylan is my constant companion from my Astoria hotel to the blue sky cafe. I see Captain sunshine he waves to me as I pass by. Street urchins warn me to be careful. Transvestites hang outside the cafe. […]
I humbly submit this as a greater poem than Bluebird. Tough, uncompromising, brutal, and beautiful.. Bukowski was no angel but he was a great writer, though not as great as Henry Miller. Under Capricorn was majestic in its language and poetry a kin of James Joyce , however this is a great reading and no […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch Major Major The original Catch 22
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