Jalapeno Peppers

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Dear God,
The other night, the Rev. James Dobson’s ministry asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be canceled.
I see that You have answered Rev. Dobson’s prayers — except the storm You have sent to earth is […]

?
how many times, count them,
did John McCain fiddle with his ring finger
while Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
sang his praises from the podium
plus the times he only touched the tip
of his finger that held the wedding ring
with an occasional touch of his index finger
right hand to left hand
“got the message yet?”
and who what and which
would answer the […]

all is wrong we’re broken
at the waist we’ve spoken
how did you manage BamBam
so evenly to divide US
again
such a small amount of skulduggery
is what “they” have control of
1% that tips a divided election
is all the voter fraud needed
to be #1 in a world
where being #1 is more important than matters of war
and more […]

.
index finger touching was enough
and as much
intimacy
as any heart’s ability to share
a zillion happy cells dancing thru their universe
our corpus crispy
and theirs.
there is pain in the release of love
as there is pain in the receiving
joy comes in conceiving
sometimes we are the rose
sometimes the thorn
most complete when
unscripted
spontaneous
hummingbird sipping
honey bees buzzing
“Eat the peach!”
jake seys
“Eat the peach!”

Dear Caroline,
We’ve never met, so I hope you don’t find this letter too presumptuous or inappropriate. As its contents involve the public’s business, I am sending this to you via the public on the Internet. I knew your brother John. He was a great guy, and I know he would’ve had a ball during this […]

Lhasa, Tibet - China’s secret police are just terrible at keeping themselves secret.
The detective, dressed in her business suit and pumps appropriate to urban Lhasa, did not expect to be trailing my wife and me up the steep hillside to a monastery 15,000 feet up an ice-crusted ridge. Even at 200 yards behind us, I […]

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one’s born to live
one’s born to die
pass me a rainbow and i won’t cry
ash ash ashes dancin’ in air
winter ice meltin’
somewhere up creek
sing me a song then
Oh Danny Boy
Kiss My Kate
and call me gone
gone long it’s good to see ya
how ya been
and when are you comin’ home boy
when are you comin’ home?
silent here
wide awake […]

Behind the Walker
ok, not funny
to ask for a 3rd hand to carry my hot coffee
finding myself in the end…
behind the walker instead of in front, or beside
i’ve counted my blessings of walking
now i’ll tell you about the hot dog i carried
in my mouth from kitchen fridge to front door
to split for my Scardy Cat […]

it’s good to remember when
earlier generations also worried re
loss of memory
only human mammals would worry
wouldn’t you?
not to o
those times that ended bad
live as long as they are remembered only
the only hope is
the flop that flipped learns first hand
“never again”
friends again?
not if either party is still hashing who
the dirty who the lily white
THAT
was not there in […]

the symbol of energy of Aquarius
the jig and the jag
sometimes very fine sandpaper
sometimes a metal rasp
all in the name of
doing the best we can think of
now and if just in a case…
is a good time for hard copy
a chapbook then yes
if and nothing more well then
a beautiful reference point
of where we could be might
still […]

..
there are 1,000 doors
turn on your light
and choose one
thank you Ollie i hear a whistle blowin’
in the wind there is passage
in the rain gentle blessings
ain’t gonna walk that way no mo, Bo
ain’t gonna cry my angels down
see ‘em hearts still lookin’ at ya
yer a flop if’n ya don’t flip!
dreamin’ a’gin of blueberry pancakes
oh the luscious […]

?
and did i thank your mother
a birthday present then, a poem
BATHED AND WASHED
Bathed in fragrance
do not brush your hat:
Washed in perfume
do not shake your coat:
“Knowing the world
fears what is too pure.
The wisest man
prizes and stores light!”
By Bluewater
an old angler sat:
You and I together.
Let us go home.
-Li Po
and another:
UNTITLED
in waking there is freedom
that contradiction among […]

ask the Travel Channel
about food and about “enemies”
ask The Bubble Boy
how ugly his parents perceive Jew
and i’ll praise Comedy Central
for shining the mirror
we are all part of anything including
that which we perceive as ugly
ugly ugly
ugly is as ugly does
how Amazing is this World
Bubble Boy finds
Anthony Bourdain
?

,
I’m a little turnip drop
thick and red
here is my toggle here is my bread
second that emotion
Mother doesn’t really di
she’s only sleeping awaiting
child awakening
fogglebooms
and boomfoggles
when i git all steamed up
then i shout
TIP ME OVER
i’m outta here~