#292: weather

butt-ass cold in TN
wordness
from stove
is that
it's butt-ass cold
in TN

# 291: BATTLE HYMN OFF YE UNDERWATER REPUBLICK, AS IMPROVISED BY THE RHINE MAIDENS

O inestimably wise
  dolphin taming
skull conquering
   post-verbal essence!

Fuck you!

#290: SIRVENS De Honeste Amore: Condemned 1277

all things disorganized
and inaccessible
   the senses
let in all manner of crap which is after a while
impossible to distinguish
   from beauty--

negating reliability

of either category

   more or less

AND with everything old and new
there is no wilderness

but still I love how hot everything gets


envoi
Andreas I will see that they

canónize you
if it's the first thing I never do

#289: Cookies of Joy

christmastime
12th-century
nuns
are cruising around the abbey
eatn cookies
cookies of joy

!
they can't stop eating them!
!

but mama Hildegard says
'have as many as you want'

#288: WHAT IS A BONE-PENCIL

we've got problems:
LAUNDRY problems
CAT problems
HIBACHE problems
HARDWARE problems
SOFTWARE problems
VOCABULARY problems
DREAM problems


also problems:
BONE-PENCIL
SUMMERS-DAY
IMPERIAL
PSYCHIC
OVERLOAD


plus

ADMINiSTRATIVE OFERMŌD


but....these are practically our

ONLY problems!

#287: L.B.E.

I said to her 'corragio'
but promised myself a cup of absinthe
when I was one again chez moi
though I knew it would make me puke

i have sympathy to spare for the USA
but this is important: Rome,
preferably from atop the Janiculum
is where I'll make my last bitch effort

which when I do
you will know
from my 'corragio'

# 286: Holidays

it is beginning to be late
in the afternoon
the buildings are beginning
to go quiet
and a colder breeze
pours through my window

people everywhere
are beginning to say
'fuck it'