COLLAR

collar what’s that I don’t know what that is with all do respect

that was a close one

it happens every time you’d think that at some point you’d learn

assume the dog play position

a gesture that does not go unrecognized

in cast iron minutes of nomenclature being a person of astute stature coupled with the theme music that plays as I walk on my hind legs

I hereby pick cotton and give it to algodon who lives in the area above the stairway that is a metaphor for a portal or something you’d usually see on a cruise ship

truman capote once compared it to while under the covers making whoopie with betty crocker who in some circles was written off as a hapless kerchief when in effect she was closer to being a hopeless romantic than anything else

besides it wasn’t until the pre dawn hours that strutting of stuff and/or the hitting of strides starts to hit its stride and strut its stuff analytically

REACHING SUFFICIENT LEMMINGS

the swelty carrying the spine unto regional tones periodically the naturist has known to succumb as well in a formulaic mold blend of fill it to the rim

salient ways blending methodically into liquid square forms boundlessly full of energy and light justice reaching sufficient lemmings perched on rafters snaring side winding stretches of ribbon to the tee

right up your alley mighty high legume my lesson in salivating tomorrow’s today at last long drip of sonny williams digging the punch spicket folding for yosemite

echo the sentiment and pass it on to the shot como se accent the you’re in for it now just how is it done

why with painstaking resemblance to reconciled wooly mammoths that feed off indulgences that take a second longer to betray the coaster picturing the assembled

guessing the outcome flying wild over the sandbar only to really before totally bellowed

THAT

steady the deck don’t go shaking it molly

first you see a black dot with eight legs in the morning then several hours later you see it on the wall

did I mention it was on the floor previously

hypothetically speaking have you ever had the feeling like someone is poking you in the arm

hey stop that

but no one is there except noon with an even though maybe it was the other way around but forgive me if I don’t explain any more than that

delay apparently if we may call it that

jeez couldn’t that have been avoided

I STILL SAY LASSO GAZUNDHEIT

here’s to the person who thinks you’re supposed to say ewok as you burp

I liken it to when I was a youngster and people would sneeze and I always said lasso because that’s what I thought you were supposed to say

little did I know the correct expression was hey boy going to tree land this away

from your countenance counting twice as we rant and rave about the state of the situation to come

sincerely signing the bottom of the letter as yours truly meadowlark lemon a proper alias if I ever heard one

dare I say in such a way that marcel marseau would be proud to have shaken hands with tanner llewellyn driving this wreckage into port pulling up the anchor and hitting the brakes just in time once again

within earshot of hoodlums characters who take up precious space in this here tome

bless you

I still say lasso gazundheit

THIS AFTERNOON’S DILEMMA

look fellow earthling in contrast to the autumn spell here and now and I quote the record book when I convolute the soaking persona of a ten minute tail told over a cup of one sum time ago added to the symbol for boron on the chart

speaking of which comma do you care to be

this afternoon’s dilemma is just that

a growling dog might suspect that it was a combination of the two resulting in a winsome cringe

for the parody to take place then that correction had to be taken care of or we would have lost our place and had to have started over

with no apologies or simple apostrophes to give us the resolute sensation that you are floating glides your path by blowing bubbly snickers into the back of your head

after a moment’s notice glimmer back at them and say it’s payback time

to whom can we thank for owning up to this

NICKNAMES

the whistle bellows behind other signals of no particular grounding

the thermostat has no say in the temperature

when rolls up backwards along your spine and you beckon in the farm team as they stroll into town in a single digit flurry just north of the flakes that get chipped away

once the layering is done ancy as you wipe your brow wondering what makes this thing

accidentally putting the respect ultimately behind us

point little head towards nicknames such as pinwheel planet or pappy but it doesn’t count when you make it up yourself but then nobody calls you that anyway

unless you count

let me now digress to speculate on the salted sweat that comes in the night to be confused with remote possibilities that you can erase senses

in between rides on a box car that is going south out of your peripheral vision on through the faucet spitting out grimy water coated in rust meant to remain on your toothbrush and chemically merge with your brand

FREEDOM THE BLINK RESPONSE

answer not by beginning but by focusing on play things

tiptoe on one foot keep your receipts take them with you

when you go circulate breathing techniques and freedom the blink response musically

pause briefly

sink back into the smooth groove creating art in the process

ain’t by slumbers as inspired by rinky dinky slanted corners that have been filed away in drawers unlabeled and locked with the missing key

here we come the big dipper hits

let em rise and stay up there a bit

polish the brick helping to slip on wet pavement noted here

SLOWING THE FUCK DOWN

the dots on the chicken wire form colons when multiplied by two

down the hill to the cordoned off area slowing the fuck down as they hit town

merging their vessel in with the rest of the wreckage on the range that you find by turning right where the convex mirror is half broken but still is a help to those that slipped on a rock that was previously sturdy but has now progressed to limited fame due to a bruised fibula

to keep it brief at this balmy retreat for clandestine wounds that remind one of when hearing sirens wail

reversing the direction of their attention and reversing it once more for good measure thus destroying any chance of correctly inserting the atm card

oh but I know the secret now don’t I

if only I could get there faster

DOOZY

I concur as you will no doubt come to see due to a certain indifference to the whole thing

just for tonight though my ability to explain or define the word doozy is limited

I do believe bugs bunny had a firmer grasp on the whole concept than I do

despite and underlying sense of urgency the flow is not turning out to be hushed

the first rule has been omitted however it is iffy as to whether or not it was ever was happening to run after a pickup or fall off a skateboard or sit backward in a chair or eat a cheeseburger or try and relive the good old days

STILL FRAME

a true test of the imagination lies within the realms of perception represented herein

add to that the nuances of the very possible exploration of an unfamiliar transit

rub the strange echo that is bouncing back across mirrors set up with careful consideration given to the makeup and placement of the elements

cannot both simultaneously shun and support when all you do is peel off stuff it in your shirt and keep it as a keepsake

because you don’t have a permit to keep it then you get in your wagon and high tail it out of dodge

observing from an angle what is captured in a still frame which shows over a space

IS FONTAYNE

the circumstance if it may be called that by circumstance of course

oh of course

can be seen between the letters in the word fontaine or as we like to call it around the fire and as I like to say in blurred vision

drum roll please

is fontayne

congratulations on your premature tee

so let’s celebrate the subject matter began as that but will it survive to the end and if it does may it turn into translinguistic fluid and bless each and every one of us

be sure to take notes because you’ll be quizzed on this later

much later

well that about wraps things up let the remainder be fondly remembered as filler or perhaps in such a way that only censored images can

yet the following has not been edited nor has it been intended to appeal to more than one percent of the population that thinks that 75% of the earth is covered by ¾ water

you know h2o

REGISTERED AS THE OTHER

I awoke still registered as the other when my bivouac collapsed under my weight off in the terrain of mistaken glow in the dark play things

drawn off my shelter to the unyielding jungle of pines

a bug could have crunched under foot of snow

why it must have been a hundred the day I rolled up my trousers past my kneecap farther than most decent gents and was caught off guard by gonzales when it said sure sign of rain yessir

I sensed a dilemma

change was coming over me

clinging to long lost perceptions I gestured to the nearest plum withholding reaction time as I once again noticed the soaring height of the peaks and the rapidly expanding width of the channel gutted effortlessly in a niche chiseled with reckless abandon and spontaneous planning that has now been told

MARK MY WORDS

to some extent that’s true

there is a fly doing the double in my triple anyhow cow jumped over the moon over my hammy right into my cup of wonton soup served with a pinch of

tossed diagonally over my shoulder between points b and a and stopping off in between to read a downstream newspaper that craves a bite of a mcburger of some distinction

mark my words in cucumber language traceable only with an antennae found in remote areas of gravity

itching like a knat or a no see um that can fit through the screen of the tv and burrow into your skin with a goal of a compromise between both sides of the story

book issue do you need a kleenex or a game of table tennis

REMEMBER TO SET THE CLOCK

the shortest distance between 24 hours is the point where you cross that barrier and leave it all behind you

for the next five minutes

upon ordinary way of looking at things

from a different perspective

upon reflection at the idea of knowing once and for all that your replacement adjectives cause quite a stir up and down the eastern skyward range of being of perfect tone and potent

remember to set the clock

if you can do such a thing in keeping with the schedule put forth to try and stub your toe in whitewater between stretches of tranquility mixed with moments of serenity and nixed by omens

called upon by legendary hustlers who rustled up their doo-dads and sat in the same chair for seven different days of jubilant free wheeling adjusted

collide freely in open terrain

has the unlucky reason to wafer a melon of chocolate caramel banana peels while hopping

KNOWING BETTER

a necessary evil spelling error joined together in an effort to recollect the events of the past 27 hours chock full of minutes filled with seconds of merciful

train your ear on the glow in the dark and do something or other than this for pete’s sake

take notes

sit at your computer

edit these tidbits of knowing better than the loud unspoken idiom of centuries of granular salt blocks which have migrated towards

for eons the cows have roamed freely all along the road but they did give them a bracelet which allowed them to do so casually yet with an underlying sense of fast paced discovery

hovering in the balance of sideways reimbursements who rented life jackets to remain a main stay in the section that can’t slow down to say hey kid what ya been doing down at anyhow’s it going

POWER SOURCES

today’s subject power sources is

a stick some would consider it a broom and I also find power in a coin pronounced coin if I must

anything of deep personal or invented meaning can be one

for instance I am consulting my

one of them

the primary one

right now it is essential to assign a level of seniority or dominance

beware of imposters

these are thick with evil and doom

if you lose your uhh

so be very careful when selecting a successor

consult the stars or the powers that if need be

tomorrow’s subject pajamas

THE EDGE OF THE PAGE

it’s difficult to remove all thoughts in the beginning

at this point the words which are merely assembled letters that follow each other in successive fashion may have a game plan or two

but at the moment it is fun to turn on a dime and go in another direction

the only problem is that the original game plan may have been more apropos but by now the idea is long gone or at least such an evolved form of the thought that it is almost unnecessary to go that close to the edge of the page so that your print slips off into the canyon between today and tomorrow and gets into a crystallized form of rock and stone which attracts so many tourists to its caverns and caves each autumn

but must we worry about that at this precise down under the fall down of a triumphant seen through to its fruition

THE BLUE PEN PERIOD

in the spirit slash tradition of the blue pen period I’d like to take a few and recount the meeting between this blind guy and this guy from the country when they both were introduced for the very first time on the back of a hay ride heading east on route 671 which is now known as

which leads down to a dude ranch

that is changing elements of reconstruction forming a great band of mutant farewellers in a legion of devout snouts and hog tied corn starch that all kinds of pests invested a dollar or two into a bug zapper

making me wonder what in the hell I confused this with

the trouble I had clarifying the structure of pre-established rigid framework of how it’s to be

FORMULA CODES

a time honored tradition that leaves you gutless

if it were better organized

it would take some time to come around to where shooting stars mingle with apprentices

the teachings of pythagoras tell us of such things in formula

codes make all the chips fall into place

slip through the trap door but sneak around scared and bitter in your ignorance

do not rise and shine and soak your wares in the cool mountain river as the very same water in appearance from one second to the next is always brand new

but always the same old shit same old promises

keep telling yourself that

ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ORANGUTANG

take your inflatables and stuff it

who do you think you are around here anyway

communicating to all the irregulars off in the distance waits a shimmering placebo of undaunted ineptitude and

off the cuff hard hitting collar driven type of material that the great border collie rosa once suggested that it reminded her of some kind of and

then followed suit by choking on her own vomit in a ditch

on the outskirts of orangutang

while bagpipes are playing

is beyond the pale in my book

A MEDIUM NOT A LARGE

I prefer hyphens to slashmarks or better yet I’ve been known to do either

heck I might fuckin’ show you one here in a sec if I don’t forget what the reason was behind the frame of mind

all said and done for better parkay has chosen to emerge as a medium not a large and not that sort of thing that comes around

what goes used to matter but what really matters to me is that I get the opportunity to shed hair in the summer time but run out of vacuum cleaner to pick up behind yourself and immaculate the issue to great lengths

if that wasn’t enough the next thing I did was take a can of pop put it in a sack and take off down the street toward the don’t walk sign

at which point I gave it the reclusive ableit stereotypical high five and returned the gesture with one of the

may I try to get this over

catch phrases many of them that the kids are using these days

GREEN ONIONS

have you ever wondered what it would be like if green onions

obviously I don’t receive enough rejuvenation to slip away to the reaches of the first person

method a despite rummaging

far too be a fret seek to belittle an ambush respite whatever sun don’t remain

a some of the time you go ahead way ahead before there’s a reason to decide to survive the remains of regular reiteration and return to play a game called master mind

what you do is try to guess the order of the pattern

try as it may be you still can’t

that’s not a game I want to play

anyway I can salvage a few parts from the wreckage and that is simply the goal

right

FOOTBALL, STAR TREK OR GOD

it’s monsoon season in these parts and you know what that means

do you see football star trek or god anywhere

because I’ve got a message for those that dwindle in that borders on being covered by gentle sleet as it returns to the fore for a second onward ho

mush paragraph don’t reply to that by gait of a new ongoing

drama linguistic glub anchors the whew right out of ya’

answering with but don’t put yourself in that position again

over easy scrambled proactive round the bend down low rowdy and rough but don’t ever let that happen again

why don’t you go get another edition some other time and see what comes about when the z starts off the alphabet

full near endeavoring til slumming its way down the ramp on sprees