{"id":256,"date":"2008-12-22T05:28:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T12:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=256"},"modified":"2015-09-08T07:45:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:45:49","slug":"journal-poem-23-dedicated-to-roberta-blackgoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Journal Poem 23 &#8211; Dedicated To Roberta Blackgoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frucht.org\/roberta.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Roberta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frucht.org\/images\/robertablackgoathands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOURNAL POEM 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>        Pomegranite.\r\n\r\nDoes anger have taste?\r\nCar's down 'til roads clear.\r\nDecember the freezin' season.\r\n2-8 a.m. only good times to drive;\r\nLeast bit of thaw slides you\r\n        Off-road.\r\nBig Mountain, thrown off a <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/the_gates_of_lakshmi\/Mother_Web.htm\">horse;<\/a>\r\nHauling water &amp; hay for the elders.\r\nFixing hay shack, chopping wood.\r\nVW microbus' 1st gear freezes stuck.\r\n'Til 10am or so. (so cold &amp; dry.)\r\nJan. 7, 1992. 9am. Lamb born to\r\nThe sheep who looks like Don King.\r\nDenny makes coffee for wider eyes;\r\nAnd 85th monkey follows the wind\r\nPondering the 4 directions. Red,\r\nWhite, yellow and black; Nevada,\r\nMexico City, Washington, or Spain.\r\nJames buys Edensoy in Winslow's\r\nArt Colony Fish Hatchery Homeless\r\nVeterans Shelter. Vanilla's good;\r\nOriginal's not. Run cooperatively\r\nSells bikes and skateboards too.\r\nCustomary cleaning woodstove each\r\nSunrise. Ash is for the outhouses\r\nAlways keep hot water on in case\r\nCompany comes. And the door key\r\nHangs from lower branch of a tree.\r\nWhat's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theofficenet.com\/%7Eredorman\/pagea%7E1.htm\">yellow, black and white?<\/a>\r\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frucht.org\/freespeech\/pu.html\">Uranium.<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/3d4b\/petition.html\">Headache<\/a> and much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oberlin.edu\/%7Ejdowning\/flash\/Default.swf\">noise.<\/a> \"Don't herd\r\nThe sheep near the uranium wash,\"\r\nAuntie says, \"makes them act wild.\"\r\nWell, you would too if you had those\r\n        Headaches.\r\nTold my guardian angels are spiders,\r\nWhales, porcupines, buffalo, crows,\r\nBadgers, turtles, bats &amp; dolphins.\r\nRoasted pinons; like chestnuts the\r\nSize of roasted coffee beans.<\/pre>\n<p>&#8220;Nova&#8221; means food in Hopi.<br \/>\n&#8220;O&#8221; is yes in Navajo. &#8220;Ba&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frucht.org\/audioclips.asp\">bread.<\/a><br \/>\nGo figure.<br \/>\nSo what&#8217;s red, white, yellow and black?<br \/>\nPomegranite in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senaawest.org\/RobertaMemorial\/RobertaMemorial.htm\">wash<\/a> full of<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shundahai.org\/NONUKES.html\">Uranium.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: #000000;\">Previously published in a $5 Chapbook entitled \"I Slurp My Coffee.\" \r\n\r\nCurrently released as an album at:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/marcfruchtpoet\">http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/marcfruchtpoet\r\n<\/a>And you can get the whole album as a printable .zip file at:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frucht.org\/Poems4RobertaBlackgoat.zip\">http:\/\/www.frucht.org\/Poems4RobertaBlackgoat.zip<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOURNAL POEM 23 Pomegranite. Does anger have taste? Car&#8217;s down &#8217;til roads clear. December the freezin&#8217; season. 2-8 a.m. only good times to drive; Least bit of thaw slides you Off-road. Big Mountain, thrown off a horse; Hauling water &amp; hay for the elders. Fixing hay shack, chopping wood. VW microbus&#8217; 1st gear freezes stuck. 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