What's a book?

i remember those
old projectors and those slides
and overhead projectors

and even televisions
of a CRT sort carted in on
wheeled carts.

nowadays it is people having to fight the school board for real physical books

Remember back in the day when STDs used to be called VD and after the educational films shown in the 9th grade all the boys in the locker room would laugh and chant "V-D!" like adolescent gorillas?

Sure you do!

there will always be
extremes thinking they are right
just bonking each ide

over the head for all
time till the End finallly
comes thanks to them

any time i hear the
end is nigh, i usually
check and see if

the cubs have won a
world series or not and so
far, i think we're safe

well i fucked that up
but at least i'm not in charge
of armageddon

which one gets fired first -
the north korean missile missile
or the president ?

this is a time of
conspiracy theory and
true revelation ennui

Spaceship riding fire
Thing that my monkey admires
Fetal live Beatle

OFFENSIVE PUDDING
Bet on this horse or lose big
You can not go wrong

This horse sings a song
Embarrassing but worth it
Spend money on it

for all my wisdom
I'm glad i mess up because
it reminds me I'm

only human

we have to in my
case remember to forgive
ourselves and others

because we are all
too human, and these times would
be a hell of a

lot easier if
some folks managed to get that
on the table top

the list of things to
do in the mind set aside
for useless time wastes

history's end said
francis fukuyama but
history seems to

be repeating the
same ritual mistake to
everything, turn turn

and turn back to again

Hear ghostly laughter
With freedom freely fleeing
Chances and choices
Reverberation
Through masses with their heads down
Null innovation
Tragedies heap up
Dragons flick their tails in caves
Lambs play up above
Fickle folks forward
Leave the lingering darkness
For their descendents

Uncomfortable facts
Where there are flags and nations
There will be warfare

boundaries torn down
lives torn to pieces, the souls
of diaspora

of endless civil
wars of nation building
nations in ruin

the whole world with
folks running tourists over in
spain who did nothing

to them but just happened
to be there at the wrong time
those same feelings, the

diverse mobs, the
competing murderous hiveminds
who wish to drink our

blood and rip our flesh
off the bodies, we don't need
The Walking Dead, they

carry signs, burn down
store fronts, smash windows scream
NAZI or WHITE POWER

or something like that
opportunism, the cycle of Ecclesiastes
the time of peace and

the time of war, i
pray it's not too late

the feelings internalize
it is like putting a cap on
a steam kettle, if

i keep them inside
i will almost literally
blow up in some manner

the reason i feel
like seeing these things, these idols
destroyed makes me

think, how far will
people go until they stop
how far will the world

collapse, am i willing
to go that extra length on
a man made of stone?

strong beliefs can lead
to how i feel right now and
i don't like it at all

i hate to lose the
fun out of something but when
i feel really strong

about something I'm
even willing to stand to lose
my life over something

you might find stupid

I saw it, all craft prepare to
retreat, we can't repel firepower
of that magnitude

New Cheese Poodles album:
"Arguing About Statues"
Includes the hits:
"You're Not a Tree"
And
"Let's Leave The Major Life Decisions To Me"

A stylish gas mask
Fancy fighter jets and tanks
War is fabulous

Thank God they landed
Right next to a docile lamb
Instead of the wolf

of course we must be
off to our real lives the bills
and paper need to

go in slots where the
papers need to go you know
paper has to move

my favorite Van
Halen albums are 5150
1984, Van Halen II

and I like OU812.
I saw their concert trucks
race in Oxford Plains

in a drag race and
it is one of my favorite
childhood memories

(those not from Maine google or gibiru oxford plains speedway)

ah dear God, you know
For Unlawful Carnal Know
ledge if you take the

letters off that thing
that is an album well it's
a cuss word you see

VAN HALEN, The Movie:
Starring vhs as Eddie Van Halen
Coming Soon

it's nine at night and
another day goes about
with the drama in

it, the evil of
today is suffiencient
tomorrows come and go

aparently I've turned
into van halen now too
well off to cabo

wabo...

well thank you kindly
but I hope others do "great"
work too, it's a "team"

(hate the cliches but the cliche might ring true too)

I gotta say that
57160 is
Some excellent work

on the edge of the
historical event that
led to a new age

the night before and
the day after the world had
changed beyond belief

we can say words and
those words can be right on spot
or vague and empty

each day is a place
in time and space, and can serve
as that space of rest

and not to be cast
aside to doom but just a
break from those dumb games

i want to be thrown
aside, discarded, ignored
not caring, and just

not seen, taking a
break from all the petty bull
shit neon shirtted

drones at the dump say
and pull orders to folks they
don't know and take trash

out on

one day at a time
sitting in a basement far
from human social

stuff, taking down notes
on how life ended up in
that place and that time

Kerouac at Big
Sur writing his best alone
no sickos down in

his Beat, questioning
his era of conformity
on vacation

i am not sure if
i am alone here today
or this place is chill?

once again the small
parts of the world threaten to
secede and the next

Grey Champion for
better or worse hits the stands
to make history

most of the pastries
were eaten by staff at work
and the rest, are food

for the avian
set that likes to drop in and
eat bread thrown their way

out where i live

yes this is real life
folks, yes i know some folks here
I get to see the

inner workings
of a restaurant and eat
some down to earth food

that's really quite good

i see vhs
with trashbag full of croissants
happy and content

crumbs in his mustache
kittens crawling over him
munching on spinach

Snake with limbs and wings
Pretty much a dinosaur
I think anyway

Grim Reaper employed
By the IRS part-time
You know... death, taxes

Government shutdown
Massive employee layoff
Now he's unemployed...

I drag on and on.
So I got the name Dragon
Enough about you....

Let's talk about me.
Because that is all I see
I can't get enough

Spectral bee nectar
Invisible sideshow of life
Death in the alley