Jalapeno Peppers

Red’s Absolutely Dictionary:

Perhaps its time we ended the dangerous misnomer of the term ‘corporation’ which suggests something that is embodied (corpus) or has a body. Maybe something resembling a disease would be more appropriate, to alert us that these are dangerous objects, to be handled with great care and kept in safe containers. Perhaps the matter of tracking and regulating them should be turned over to the CDC, rather than some banking committee, whose members appear to become quickly infected.

New definitions:

’somaplegic’ n. - absence of any sensation of having a body and of all empathetic connection with those who do ; entities which are completely unaware of their wrappers and ungoverned by any sense of limit or constraint. The thought of consuming a billion burger-king whoppers would strike an embodied soul dead on the spot. Somaplegics, on the other hand, would regard such ghoulish gluttony as mere appetizer.

’somatic hypoplasia’ - adj. persons (or those claiming to be persons) exhibiting the complete absence of having a body; bodiless by origin or amputation; somaphagic adj. - entities which eat bodies (a practice common to those who are bodiless)

somatites - n. those who are afflicted with any or all of the above symptoms (not to be confused with sodomites; though somatohypoplagics often exhibit that characteristic as well)

Curiously, ’soma’ (Gr. ‘body’) was also the name given, and source identified in the Rig Veda, to the mystical/sacred mushroom, aminata muscaria. Peculiar to that designation is the fact that the family to which it belongs (Aminitaceae) includes many of the deadliest fungii known on the planet. The other species are often confused with soma and sometimes appear to be edible (”Do we care about the environment? - You bet we do”; “It’s just the floor mats getting stuck under the peddle.”…) though death is sure to accompany those who make the mistake of misidentifying them.

patacratic, patocracy - adj., n. - rule by the authority of the specific or, with no particular authority at all (ant. ‘democracy’: rule by the authority of the general). Used to avoid the confused mishmash and waste of paper enumerating the various species of wannabe slave-owners (fascists, plutocrats, somatites, Republicrats, Libertarians, housewives, school boards, public officials, socialists, capitalists, infocrats (software makers) sand-box bullies or others claiming to be the rightful lords of the somatic universe. Tain’t so, Dorothy. (Also see: Alfred Jarrey’s, “Pataphysics”).

(red’s never failing advice: Practice Your Typing & Keep Your Sense of Humor.”)

I don’t see what all the fuss is about - make lemonade! Dept

Close on the heals of the right to buy free speech, a corporate officer attempted to register his corporation to vote. The ballot was thrown out and the officer not permitted to enter the voting booth on behalf of the corporation. The Registrar of Voters said that the corporation itself must cast its own ballot; “no one else can do that by proxy.” The CEO said in reply, “Our corporation cannot do that, it has no corporeal body and cannot physically operate the machinery, or fill out a physical ballot on its own. We do that for the corporation.” The Register replied, “Tough luck, Charlie. Your corporation cannot vote.”

So the CEO turned around and filed an ADA suit on the grounds that the corporation was being discriminated against on the basis of a physical disability. “What is the claimants disability?” asked the judge. “My client has no body, said the lawyer. This is no different than if it had no arms to write or pull levers, or legs to get to the polling house. Not having a body is just a more severe form of those disabilities, and my client is being denied his rights, under the U.S. Constitution, solely on the basis of a physical disability. We demand that the state provide the necessary means to have access to exercise his right to vote.” The judge allowed that the lawyer had a point, and instructed the Registrar to provide the means to permit the bodiless corporation to vote.

A day later, the ghosts of 100,000,000 dead Americans rose from their graves and demanded that they, too, had equal right to vote as bodiless citizens. The Democrats, of course, set up voter registration tables at the entrance to every cemetery in the land. - end of story.

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the smell of success
the smell of excess
white lilies
transport me back
to grandma’s kitchen
lizard mind looking
for sugar cookies
and the sunlight
at the back door

woof woof little fret
there nothing left to iron out.
were the creases meant to be
all for all posterity?

some poets say
poetry is for divinity -
to bring it down to earth.
some poets just bleed
cast their words
then walk away.

the first full moon of the year
the wolf moon
eats January like a pretzel
deciders demur
do not deflect
straight arrow truth
into the Heart of Politics
to us,
the U. S. of A.

America the Beautiful
won’t you please come home.

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and how are you nobody two?

rain.
somebodies dancin’ in it
somebodies cryin’ in it
other bodies are afraid
they live
from womb to box to grave

our Earth Quakes
and Quakes again
our Sky rains on Georgia
snows on Tucson
more oil spills in Texas
says one Texan,
“The water is already so polluted
you can walk on it.”
put in perspective, CNN says,
“The Valdez spill was 10 times greater.”
implying, “No reason for concern.”

Haiti: 111,000 dead and counting
buried in mass graves
amputated arms and legs thrown in a heap
and in their boxes they still insist
the barefoot pull themselves up with boot straps

between the Quick and the Dead
count all the sacrificial lives lived
remembering home
made fresh with leaves and grass
where nobody has lock or key
any body can come in, even with their guns,
but they must take off their shoes.

?

When you wore a tulip
a big yellow tulip
and I wore a big red rose

Twas heaven that blessed me
when you caressed me
what a blessing flowers know

My life was dreary
till you called me deary
now I have a big red nose.

!

they
they shall not be they shall not be moved
54% of CNN Quick Voters say
nothing wrong with tourists going to Haiti today

come home little girl, come home little boy
jump out of that adult skin, heart and soul fenced in
bound so long by culture and family tradition
what doesn’t heal breaks

the whole world is watching
beloved ancestors are watching

did we make that call?
write that letter?
sign that check?
to whom much is given
and to those who have taken much
you know what is expected.

“just do the right thing!”

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

PLEASE, MR. PRESIDENT Obama

Let President Aristide go home to Haiti

this is more important than health care

call it the return of
what we the people want/need
if we ever hope to find
America the Beautiful
again…

(suggested reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide)

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from bye gone days i hear you sing,
“You gave up the only one who ever loved you.”
i can wonder if you ever asked the reason why?
some bodies are still singin’ gave up love song…
are no bodies still not asking why?

he needs more than wants a woman
cause it’s scary to look
where few men have looked before.
“ain’t gonna be henpecked,
called pussy whooped. maybe gentle,
when it fits my intro…”

gentle men/women
take care of their own needs
or find another looking for needs thus
freeing wants magical seeming ability
to where compatibility lies
where ol’ nature has her ways…

useless question, after the fact
“why did you bring her to the back door?”

two unused Scooter chairs
one undressed bird shivering
and all she could say was “MEOW”

kitchen walls full on nicks and knacks
fridge unrecognizable with dis and dats
no children eat here any more

busy busy little Joneses
must not be surpassed
must be the “they” to keep up with

heading back to my country road
to pick an armful of wild daisies
(leaving more than 100 arms could hold)
sit right down in the middle of the road
and serenade
my old Kentucky Home.

got my green card new years eve
now i can plant flowers
hug trees, find rest beneath
an old gnarly oak

what turns me gnarly also turns
little boys pink and little girls blue:
boxing our way out of boxes

heading down highway #90 and wanting rest
i turned left on a dirt road
where a wood sign said “Gila Forest”
drove until i saw a clearing
with one gnarly tree in the middle
of a large circle splattered with litter
from my car i took a bag and filled it
with beer cans and disposable diapers
it was a beginning…
being short on energy and bags i
placed my gatherings at the old tree’s feet
it was then i found multiple gunshot wounds
shattered bark, punctured skin
but not in the heart-of-tree…
i scribbled a little sign
to place beside my gathered garbage
beneath Old Tree:
“only assholes litter”
then walk away Lucile and wondered
“what ilk of two-legged beings
pump bullet after bullet
into a living, breathing tree?”

on this 16th day
in the year of 2010
gonna sit me down
to give and get
one more piano lesson.

the decade, the time
for coming home

happy twelfth day of this new year

to all my known
and unknown loves

no news since her arrest last year
December 29, 2008
six days and counting
her loved one’s, they have heard, i pray,
little match maker with her walker
tryin’ to stay alive
trying to keep her kin alive

Summer Nancy go
Yahoo
search…

ggm gits up and goes…
et tu amore?

For people caught in part D the medical donut hole:

If your medical insurance won’t cover the medications you need
contact the pharmacy that makes them - most have web pages
and contact information.

If they are one of the pharmacies that offer free medications
to those who can’t afford them, the only requirements are:

1) your letter from your insurance provider that states
they will longer cover the medications you need

2) proof of income that shows you are not able to pay for them yourself.

If you know anyone who is not able to do this for themselves, please help.

Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 7:46 PM
Subject: they ARE trying to off me

“No lantus insulin since Nov. due to prescription donut. Ditto for test strips since December. Now can not even get regular insulin since I used too much trying to make up for lack of lantus. And doc’s office closed until next Tuesday so can’t even get somebody to advocate at HMO for me. Now running fever of 101 as I am very liable to infections with soaring blood sugars. THIS COUNTRY SUCKS!

Please help my friend, anyway you can.
Thanks and praises.

Contacts:

Florida’s 15th District

Congressman Bill Posey
132 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-3671
Fax 202 225-3671

Indian River County
Phone (772 778-3534

Toll Free: 1-888-681-1776

Press & Media Inquiries

Contact George Cecala
Phone: (202) 225-3571

the yellow green of springtime
promises potential
where the dead horse lay

The Health Care Debate Was A Healthy Debate

it was healthy for America to learn
more exactly how the US Senate works
we have Right Wing Foxy News
screaming
“Do away with the filibuster,
it’s undemocratic, and threatened
‘the nuclear option’.”
oh so recent in our history…
now we have the Same Foxy News
having filibustered the vote on health care
THREE TIMES?:>!
ooh the lucky charm
last they think of our Judiciary
by calling the health care bill
“unconstitutional”
How many times can they repeat
the judicial claim
with evidence:
Veterans Care
Medicare
Medicaid (aid + med = care)
YES
a combination
of public and private media
open for us and we
“can see from both sides now”
to:
continue believing the lies
uncovered
one hella v lot
of forget-not-me’s.
Merry holidays
twitters, bloggers,
givers, receivers,
and media personnel everywhere.
2010 portends
a less violent decade
perhaps more just
for sure
better sight.
Wood you build
the cabin a door?

o

caint hep his’en self
habitual liars turn out that way
that gotta have someone
prove it
like
saying there is no president
when he IS the president
oh if only
he had a son with one wish:
“his daddy would tell no more lies.”
somewhere they seek a truth serum.
on McCain’s behalf ask i
what senators will consent to that?
truth is
we hafta find it in our green sap flowing.
it’s the second day of winter
and my cane love sang to me
“I’m an oak branch
in a pear tree.”

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the karma of tit-for-tat
keeps the wheel spinning
round and round

the personal karma
acts like a boomerang
time of returning unknown

the family karma
the good book says
is seven generations

the nations karma
not so unlike
the personal

the karma off
destroying the planet
we know the wages of that…

The End

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175 memories of Flower Power can be yours
at less than one dollar apiece only if
you buy all of them

a painted fly on the bottom of your toilet
will dramatically depress
the amount of spillage

after a full half hour listening
to clips from the ’60’s
heart bump after heart bump
how many hours of listening?
i don’t know
i
don’t
knowwwwwww o o
that’s one way to go out Charlie

if you stand to pee
please use a tree

there was no need to remember the ’60’s
it’s music IS it’s history
and anyone can go there anytime
for one hundred and fifty dollars
or
google
if money is time
or
time is not for sale
it only is
won’t ya come over to my house
come on come on
people now
get together
r i g h t
now.