Jump starting my pen

Xmas at drug store

stocking suffers

on the floor

while the huffers

break  the door

Wheres Carol

Harks Herald

Swinging Noel

Scared, me ?

wrong door key

right house

lie on the lawn

sleep until dawn

dew me

Knits and knots

Tramp stamps and I love gramps

Needles & pins, losses and wins

Broke again, got the cramps
Strut outs, tuck-ins

On a walk

Turning in

Getting out

Aromas , branches

skip over a crack

 a girl I fucked,

a car I wrecked

no girls here

Warehouse bar

 Queens and  beers

Strips and cheers

Talk of tights

 bitchslaps

 flab

Rubber eraser, wow the lights

 drag  Donna Summer

 gave a hummer

To the slummer

Belfasting duties

Old Dublin towers

Paddy or Powers

Not on my person

Minister Jameson

Father Bushmills

Neither is swill

A Molotov cocktail

What the feck

Hit the deck

Paging Mel Gibson

Jesus had a brew
with Netanyahu
Pope spoke
in Aramaic
not Hebrew
spilled wine
over Palestine
no one could see
Mel from Galilee

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/26/uk-pope-holyland-jesus-idUKKBN0E618X20140526


Halloween daily(updated9/26/15)

bloody vampires
stiff zombies
films , drinks
sunken cheeks

alien nation
no elation
Hilary for
prison 2016


charlotte, you white harlot
shattered rear views
blocked white mews

crayon black
crayon white
on attack
in a fright

crayon red
crayon blue
need more hue
no thank you

F U Fidel

commie red
you're dead
it's swell
bye fidel

Masking tape 
you toss shit
at stupid sheets
to clean up the streets


Dead at door
Need milk after midnight
cookies, too
young man got the door
bullets, two

Bigot blues
slight or smelts
snow angel melts
that's not fair
prove you care
make it  re-shape
privileged jape

random flashback while wringing the words out: "Western Auto sold tennis balls in the late 70’s when tennis became popular in the blue collar neighborhoods."

Going Green
Green Tax flames
Macron plays games
ignites France
into violent dance

5/7/19: Need to find a way to work this into a ditty- it gave me a morning chuckle :  Swalwell, a Dem Prez candidate, stops short of calling for impeachment, calls Trump "a really bad kid.
6/11/19: another one worthy of a ditty:  June 10, 1845: #AndrewJackson ’s African Grey parrot was removed from  the 7th American President's funeral for swearing.

3/14/20: I arrived at this line while trying to arrange some sketches in a short ramble called Western Carr on the 1950's art and Politics.
"McCarthy finding reds under the linoleum while Coen pretends he’s Goliath protecting his david."

7/17/20: This headline today, "Italian police intercept coffee beans stuffed with cocaine," takes me back to the old 1940s tune "who put the benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's ovaltine" by the Harry "The Hipster" Gibson.

3/2/21

backs up, backs turned

home jail for Sarkozy

French courts get dizzy

Loreal unblemished

march 12, 2022

 hopscotch between ice slivers

emotion quivers

not a day 

to play 

Grace Jones intones

walk in the rain

oct 8, 2022

 Last thing Tom needs is the cops knowing that he uses Joe to collect the bigger gambling debts. He fades into a dream about all the trouble he stirred up as an 18yr old when he pursued Nancy Trabiski, a longshoreman’s wife for a month, before he returned to girls his own age. Hetty doesn’t know that story. He wakes up thinking if Hetty inherits her aunt’s money, I can drop the betting book and exit this crumbling area

oct 15, 2022

In my 20s I made some brief some brief ventures into the local Baltimore music scene reciting my lyrics. The first day I could get the Lancettes together, the bassist played surf music while the guitarist ventured into Led Zep, and the drummer Lance thought he was playing behind Captain Beefheart. That brief session felt like an eternity, but a few days later we did fun free gig on a Sunday afternoon bill in a room in the UMBC Fine Arts building, and I recall Adolf K and Aziza finding me in the men's room to tell me we had the "look" to be an MTV band.

oct 29, 2022

Hockery cradles two bottles of clear liquor and is singing Country Death Song by the Violent Femmes while Santa gives him a dirty look.

Nov 26, 2022

 Sometimes, I'll stroll down to the BU Cafe and check out the waitress from Turkey, who does fascinating things with a toothpick and her tongue, but her Turk boys keep me at a distance. Interesting side shows in a joint that sells Greek food.

March 4, 2023

 Some jackass was swinging his elbows imitating a basketball player clearing space after grabbing a rebound. I avoided full contact but he busted my lips. Do you have any mouthwash?

Dec 2, 2023

Hey man, I noticed Harry sleeping in his truck with the engine running in your neighbor’s driveway.

Oh Christ one of the guests will be thrilled to bust a window. Let’s go rouse him..

working on short story: Burtons