LaPaz is Truth! the queen and king three floors down
shaving their beards. Weird. Dont Dont forget. Farmers
Market in downtown LA. the ghastly gaze of sunken
cheeks and dark eyes of an old woman coming alive,
alone in a parking lot; old dress. And she howls. I
left my friends chanting on the roof in long beach.
the snow fell on the general against the wall, too
intense to fix a glance upon. do people bury
themselves in the snow. It’s pulverizing me into the
alley. that Bull just brought a blizzard across the
huge valley of the west. just sleep out here indian
style and in the morning you’ll be a snow buddha. and
the animals just try to survive. the deputy told me
they’re gonna clone jesus; all those southern demons.
is there a reality somewhere hiding in a chrome cobweb
out there. forget it, it’s midnight time to shoot the
one and only shot, all the life left in the world all
the ghosts of existence shot like a cannon out the
peephole, for a quarter get your rocks off for the
next quarter century, at least. Let it go.

smoking gnome brains with the gnomes of zurich
i’m a suffering mop
sitting on a sinking houseboat
sheeplike in my shrinking
dip my hands in cool water and
sip the humidity
cuz these parachute pants got their own zip code
and i’m a passed out leaflet  passed out
bearing a striking resemblance to the other side
with blue moon pasties on my beauty marks
feeling frizzed since the panhandle
tweeked and skitzed out
in my adobe
i’m a sleeper
watch out
i’m a slipper and a spider
a reptilian planet
aligned with nowhere
a baby bird buried to a snake
a lunar hag
a face with no head
only curtains
floating thru the dustbowl
flapping from pole to pole
with a twisted hokey poke
and puppet wings
woke up in a dead garden
on my lotus drinking cactus ass
cuz i couldn’t breathe anymore

6/12/00

hello
by oswald james

           i saw a fallen starburst
   glowin ‘pon a rock ring
in the flicker of a water spark

i drowned in a sleep of inconvenience

            as i mumbled something

                                  out of key

   into a bathtub
while mirrors made me weary

                 of a black and white outta greyhound
                     of a desert
                        in a telephone call

that informs you that everyone is coming over 

           * hide your baby*

hhssssss
electric grackle

hisss mtn
electroniq eyes

flop haus swell well
swell the seas
vitamin lust
lost toaster set stares

snowwww no now
losing sight
senses fail
hypnotic status

stop us

she versus heatwave
cop codes
heavily lifting
incindiary fingers
the sky scraper pentagon
flip methe bird

What’s the percentage to lose
or ratio of bubble gum to pop
symphonies you chew
w/ a broken hubcap

Why hover when you could be shivering
in the window
shaking cuz your face paints flammable

I traced your tire tracks back to the sunny mtns.
and bought some tan in a can
and read your story again
and settled down
on the springs
for a season