Thursday, January 17, 2013

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Ball-Point Drawing...

I did this drawing a couple days ago in the morning, sitting in the sunlight in my bed.  It started as a drawing of a painting by my good amiga, Angie Brown (angiebrown.org), and became a trippy art nouveau-inspired oddity.  Needless to say, I loves it!

{ Rabbit, Run! } by Big Sway


Run, Rabbit, run!
South! South!
To suppress, merely (or more),
A mouth
Reaching out to be saved like a trapeze artist
& there is a bit of “net” in yr soulself  - a souse
A mouth, espoused toward Descartes
I think I think, I think
& therefore… what am I?
Guess one never really knows
Brain biased as gravity or grain
The battle of Fate vs. Free Will is rigged
Nobody can win
Bet on Voice & Eternity!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
the author runs you through some lines of text stylistic he hasn’t really experienced since his 2002 southern california flip trip year through san bernardino & riverside, with the dharma bums’ ray & the chateau on mt. vernon st. under the big C on the mountain desertscape dream bibliography aka real fiction, or some other non-innocuous nonsense didactic dreambomb
-       - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Baby, baby, baby!
I want you, one two
Wanting for some, but not for a cunt
More, a wanting of Want
More for some unkempt trump
With a truepenny mind & a sumptuous rump
Under summum bonum
The greatest of supreme goods
The fruit of a woman
Ripe, like a bunt
A tripe love in-field double
A stunt for the light
The horizon in trouble from the hunt
The prey of the night
The pay for the trouble, light-drunk from the height
The fruit of a woman
The fight for the fun of it
Make a deal of it
Get over it
It’s un-won
Under a sun until one day’ll come
When sight aligns with the wonder of being lit like a candle
I see it all so biased-ly clear without context
Without smoke & mirrors but for insight…
Beveled eyes are pushed to be flush
2nd rate vandals on a sinking vessel
Shining in the dark
Long lost in electrical light

-       - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

in a dream i had right at this moment i slumber as ice traipsing i from distant moment to distant moment laughing & crying in balmy abandon unable to abandon i reading the language of contradiction song bird cement slab i remember to take toys apart jack in the box with a screwdriver driving screws into my substrata a small crack lengthening horizon on windshield sky light the light i am off & on oscillating alternating currently in the sine wave pool audio and radio jacked conscious conscious consciousness with a big C the great i am or so i would seem this pronoun i to be my local theatre critic giving a fresh fate production an unfair shake in scope & making toast & eggs in free-will’s boxer shorts I a picture inside a picture inside a picture inside a picture inside a scripture inside a sacral pulse… pouting there like a sacred suture … gigantic as a mouse

-       - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Blonde On Blonde plays from an ancient white on off-white Mac laptop
Dylan’s subaudition is tangy & anxiety is a peach pit
The organ is hunting for hips
The drums are dancing for an audience of feet souls
Strings are plucked with tacked fingertips underneath lily pads

I have a trusted veteran dictionary of a million-word war
Lying spread eagle on the dark, faux wood kitchen table

I am doing double duty
Painting Christmas gifts on the night of the 23rd
 Working on new words for new insight & out
For today, the 28th of December
In the year of our Lord, Santa Clause
& that cute punishment/reward structure of his
& his horrible iPod playlist
Full of self-aggrandizing lyrics

Ya know,
I am growing very wary of omniscient snow bearded
& largely fictionalized authority figures
Bearing eternal sweets & threats of unpleasantness-
Making a mockery of being good
Standardizing & marginalizing many a kind act
Robbed of the integrity of doing right, even when nobody is looking

I grew up bombarded by & embroiled in unrealistic sit-coms
& endless crap Hollywood drivel
I should have worn a helmet on my eyeballs
I can see how it’s an escape
I see it snowball into life on the run
I don’t seem to have much interest in my autobiography
My life is so slow & boring compared to 90% of television programs
I’m not scored very well
Wardrobe seems severely under budget
I don’t know where to buy a can of laughter
& I think I am a pretty decent narrator, though prone to diatribalism
& I think unrealism has become the new realism
How much entertainment is a cure?
How much entertainment is a poison?
I better Google it

I always thought Bukowski wrote medallion-level shitting poems
Ginsberg’s were as funny as a self-portrait of himself
Mine are better served behind a closed door with matches
Sandburg’s defecation would be democratic & smell like Chicago’s asshole
Saul Williams shit is TIGHT!
Senor Pablo Neruda’s would become anything but, perhaps…
A daily feeding of the world at-large or a bed of floral beauty
The great denominator
The inevitability of waste
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust

Karma is in the recycling business
& Heaven’s offices are now based in Hollywood, C-A
Jesus Christ, the best storytellers generally get no press
Crucifixion via indifference
Yet, due to the power of the exception, I implore
Practice your freedom of speech
Say the things you are afraid to, because
Suppression gifts us acrid bouquets of power & viciousness

-       - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
If there is no ear around when a tree falls, there is no sound!  The sound of one hand clapping is a testament to the limits of the human sense organs.  Hands turn.  Organs are grinding.  Monkeys are singing & dancing.  Wet hand towels are twisting in steamy shower stalls.  Cymbals bang together.  Polaris is a birthday party, dripping in drifting lineage.  Shadows run across the ceiling like turning pages, again & again.  In between again & again turned pages, scenes of localized luminosity, animal lunacy & electrical spinal chords, serpentine like DNA.  I play a game of Candlyland & I don’t even need to be present.  I pull a cinnamon roll & take the lead.  Neck-in-neck.  Hands turn.  I’m playing 14 games of Candyland right now (& 8 games of War).  Strategy went out the window with controlled sobriety.  The grinding of the organs creates a groundswell of lurching monkeys, screaming & beat-boxing.  The DJ turns the tables deep in the discotheque.  Pilot flames, my eyes, flicker & lick my brainpan.  Gas is included in the rent, which allows you to keep it cooking.  Gears spin.  Cymbals bang together.

-       - - - - - - - - - - - -

Run, Rabbit, run!
Through a crowded field
The gift of not knowing
Makes you uncatchable
Better as sport
Ever alert
To threats hemming in greatness
Yourself, solipsistic agitator
Through a crowded field of self
The gift of not knowing
Everyone together & alone
Each & every I:
The way the truth & the light
Joneses be damned!
Amen….

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Take er Easy!

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.” -Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Monday, November 26, 2012

Got to love that square format!

Another one of my messy-any-kid-can-do-that style of abstract art pieces.  Want to say it's about 10"x10".

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

{ Heart In A Diving Bell } by Big Sway


Our love is deeper than the situational
Beyond the trends of the mortal mind
Beyond moments tied in bows of timelines

We are energy of Velcro variety -
A face constructed of distraught yesterdays
& immutably grand futures -
Two needles in a haystack
Flotsam in a field of debris left by hubris
Of a deed as selfish as loving another, wholly
& with no expectations

You are so angelic
With yr derelict youth, scarred
Drinking under bridges with ratty white beards
Running from yr heart
Stained, sullied & deified with love for a dead-man

You were so vacant when I needed you most
My heart was heavy as a glacier under yr monster indifference
But a wiser artist than I saw
That in opinion/truth, I was something more than the status quo
You were never a slut,
You just listened to others too much…

I want to see nothing but yr beautiful face ascending
Past my station
Past my sadness
To a place of complete self-love
A place past me

You don’t need to work for other’s love -
Yr a dynamo that masses bathe in
You love yrself
& I love yr love
So fully
That my heart breaks apart
Every time I think about my death
& the things I’ve let slide
Left unsaid
By the roadside

I’ve been in love with you since we first met
Going around & around
Around
& around

Pretty soon
(1 to 70 years, hitherto…)
I’ll be dead
Pretty soon
So will you…