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Category Archives: Mundane Or Sublime

Pepsi Cans & Peavey Amps. - by marco

Pepsi Cans & Peavey Amps.
A poem by marco

(and also the title poem of a brand new chap book…)

Peanut Butter prohibited.
Protein, fat.
Meat is best, better than
Butter.
Better, not bitter.
Meat, eat. Gnash-Gulash.
Spinach.
Yum.
Spinach and peanut butter.
Why cringe?
Spinach and PB - PB & S.
Peanut butter and spinach???
Hmm…..
Mmm…
Cottage cheese, please.
Loud raucous rock-n-roll music.
Tastes good.
Taste better than the plasma and
Saline I ate [...]

JOURNAL POEM 3

JOURNAL POEM 3
by marco.
previously published in a 33-poem book of
poetry entitled “I Slurp My Coffee.” (c)1995

Old Pomes. New Pomes.
Borrowed pomes; blue pomes.
Funny pomes, sad pomes; goofy and glad pomes.
Pomes pomes. pomes [...]

SOA Watch Austin Sponsors Song / Poetry Writing Contest

Pete Seeger called SOA Watch “the singingest movement in the USA”

In that spirit we are sponsoring a song / poetry writing contest. For information about the SOA, SOA Watch and prisoners of conscience see http://soaw.org/ or for information about local SOAW Austin POC see http://soaw-austin.org/pocalbum_2009.php. You can also check out The Father Roy Waffle House [...]

A Good Investigative Journalist Keeps Pride At Arms’ Length

I say this with no bravado; I predicted today’s Jellyfish bloom months ago when  the BP disaster commenced!

@BPGulfLeak The jellyfish bloom this july/august is going to be overwhelming I think. 8:53 PM Jun 10th via web in reply to BPGulfLeak
This year’s Atlantic jellyfish bloom is fixing to be INSANE! http://soundcloud.com/atizine/my-quahog-is-hoggin-the-beach 2:11 [...]

Happy 4July & Stuff: Communique From The Car

by marco.

COMMUNIQUE FROM THE CAR: It’s prolly gotta be me to remind youall that this is too difficult a time for *some* veterans and I recommend not just thanking them, but welcoming them home even if they’ve BEEN home, and trying to be “presente,” by at least grunting non-commitally if they [...]

Open Letter To NLON CG About BP Disaster Recovery

Hi there,
Could you pass this along to NLON Coast Guard, or perhaps get me the address for the suggestions? My idea is to dump many sunflower seeds onto the biggest pudding textures of the oil on the surface of the water. They’re likely to soak up not just the surface oils but also soak up [...]

Quoting Woody Guthrie

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.
I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose.
Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.
Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly
or too this [...]

A Walking On Obit About A Dear Old Friend’s Daughter

Last October I wrote about someone I know who passed on.
Tribal Elder and Medicine Person, Oliver Sounsoci.
I was looking him up on the net just now to retell a story I know about him to a friend of mine and I see that his daughter Mary passed away last month. I met her but didn’t [...]

We’re Not Really That Stupid; Are We?

Are we?

OPEN LETTER TO: the New London Day, Governor Rell and really all people inhabiting Mother Earth!
“A modern day island of Dr Moreau……”
–  mdnorwich,
Responding to an article about proposals making Plum Island biocontainment level 5 facility either a public recreation area, or selling off to the highest bidder.
Worse than that, mdnorwich.
That island will NEVER be [...]

God is good all the time. — Darryl Tonemah

This started out as a message to a friend who just survived a major tornado.
In addition to thoughts and prayers, I’m taking a personal moment to say thanks out loud. Thanks to know you, thanks that you and yours are OK, thanks that I can be part of this entire great mystery. Sometimes I don’t [...]