insect attack at dusk

soil - garden veritas
onion - tart tongue snap
bird - wing disposition
dusk - dangerous tide reversal
mosquito - mob implosion.

(neckbone, 1998)

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man looks at clock, snaps fingers.
clock says, "looking for the time?"
man says, "i already know what time it is."
clock ticks, says, "what time do you think it is?"
man snaps fingers, says, "one tick away from eternity."
clock explodes into one trillion sub-particles.
man snaps fingers, says, "no time like the present!"

(ji bo, 2009)

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memory -

headlight beams
on a midnight
road.

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turn on computer;
surf to CNN News:
100 stories about world.

turn off computer;
CNN News disappears.

best to let world
tell its own stories.

(ji bo, 2009)

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pop pop!

4th
of July.

............

if thoughts
are karma,
this poem
had no
choice.

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breaking news

conference of scientists
announce major discovery -

ants rule the world!

(ji bo, 2009)

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4th of July

catch the Red Eye Special
end up where it began -
not two, not one
with liberty
and just this
for all.

(neckbone, 2009)

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walk path to Kehoe:
purple grass
blue heron
lupine
vultures
hawk;
sheer cliff/ocean breakers
kelp piles
fly swarm.

tide upswing
rides solstice loop;
longest day of year
2009 -
things on schedule
cycling through.

(neckbone, Pt. Reyes Na. Seashore, 2009)

The Cause of Mass Extinction

too much
furniture.

(ji bo, 2009)

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old proverb

when the pendulum
swings,
duck.

...........

The mistakes that litter our pasts, like shards of
prehistoric pottery, are fractals of the subconscious
mind. Frustrations are best understood as self-failure.
A life well lived understands this.

Dr. Emile Donneraux

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Huang Po's Hat/Grand Canyon Blues

enlightenment -
an inch away,
a millimeter,
a hair.

might as well
be the Grand
Canyon.

(neckbone, 1998)
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famous quotes by madmen

and other holy fools...

1.
you can never trust
a hole
in the sky.

2.
ponder nothing.

3.
if it ain't broke, break it!

4.
a bird in hand
ain't half as good
as 2 in the skillet.

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