When The Going Gets Weird #1
By Mikel K
Do I know you, or are you a porn site, or a virus?
If all you need is love, is it ok if that love comes from dogs, cats, and turtles?
If I had a car, I wouldn't want a bigger car; but I have a big desk, and I want a bigger desk. That is from The Who Really Cares Dept.
I Need A Rich Girl
I need a rich girl
to drive my deceased car
to the unemployment line,
so that I can get food stamps,
and avoid a job.
I need a pill that will fill me up,
not with envy.
I need a pill that will make me
feel friendly, not want to kill
I need a friend
in these united states of isolation,
where even hell's angels are afraid
to hitchhike,
where thinking outside the norm
could land you in jail.
I need a reason to go on living,
and I think that my children will do.
Fame is spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to attract people to you, and then, once you have, figuring out how to avoid them.
The Trash Men were amazing this morning. One of my neighbors moved out(without saying goodbye=bummer)and left a load of crap on the side of the street. Usually, the trash men will only pick up trash that is inside trash cans, but today they scooped up all the debris on the side of the street, including an old, old television. I waved at them, and hollered thanks. They waved back, and smiled. Where would we be without The Trash Men?
I am free: I've gone this far, and I'm going to keep on going.
All my dreams have not come true, but really special things
have happened along the way that I could not have predicted
that I could not have wished for because I would not have
thought that they could happen to me.
After a successful night of sleep, I wake refreshed. When I lay down, last night, I was exhausted. The process of rejuvenation via sleep is amazing. I had some weird dreams which did not steal a quality rest from me. Where would we be without sleep?
When I was younger I once woke up on a couch in the house next to the house where I was supposed to be on the couch. Looking up at those folks who wondered who the hell I was, and why I was on their couch, was truly a weird experience. I had been drinking, heavily, the night before!
I went to The Horror Show, last night, and I was standing in front of a cage that held two men covered in blood, who were cutting up humans, and eating them. As I was looking at this very morbid scene, one of the men looked up from the arm that he was gnawing on, reached his hand through the opening in the cage, and said, "Hey Mikel!!"
Is outraged pacifists an oxymoron?
You might tell me that I can not do something, but I won't listen to you, and I will do it because it is the only thing in this life that I have ever wanted to do. I have dreamed it. I am living it, and you can't take it away from me.
I am standing in the kitchen. The Cure are playing. As the singer sings, "I will always love you," I realize that Henry, the great Great Dane from next door, who is visiting with us, as he often does, has situated his head under my hand, as I sit at my desk, and that I am scratching him. I look up, and see Morisson, my dog, standing in in front of me with a somber look on his face, as if he is asking me if I will always love him.
Yes, Morrison, I will always love you!
I'm listening to The Jefferson Airplane, and am watching my turtles cavort about their tank. It seems like I should be doing more, like writing a poem, or making a million dollars, but I'm not; I am just listening to music, and watching my turtles, and I'm ok with that. The turtles are really fun to watch, and I love music. Love you. Are you watching the wheels turn round and round, also?
I think that bragging about your drinking is an incredibly boring, and stupid, thing to do. If you really drank too much, you wouldn't brag about it. Those that brag about it are rank amateurs.
Someday I Will Start The Revolution
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but, this morning, I had to bring cleats,
and a baseball uniform to my son.
Someday, I will start the revolution
but, for right now, there is cereal to buy,
and Nintendo games to rent.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but my son's sneakers are worn,
and he needs new clothes for the spring.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but my daughter needs a new dress,
and I've got to come up with the money
for her next guitar lesson.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but I've got those student loans to pay back,
and these credit cards to pay down.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but I've got this new apartment,
and the cable hasn't even been put in.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but right now I am late for work.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but I need new tires for my car.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but I may want to get a Masters in poetry,
or creative writing, first.
Someday, I will start the revolution,
but this woman just walked by,
and, man she looks good.
Someday, I will start the revolution.
They arrested 700 people in NYC just the other day
for protesting. Has the revolution begun?
Has Anybody Seen Bob Dylan?
Has anybody seen Bob Dylan?
I heard that he was down on Rodeo drive.
Has anybody seen Bob Dylan?
Does he know that there is a war in Iraq?
Has anybody seen Bob Dylan,
since he used social protest
to make a name for himself;
Zimmerman sure knew how
to sell c.d.'s?
Has anybody seen Bob Dylan?
I sure hope that I'm wrong in this song,
but I heard that Bob Dylan
is primarily counting benjamins
in Beverly Hills.
Has anybody seen Bob Dylan?
Has anybody seen Bob Dylan?
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When The Going Gets Weird #2
The secret is to look like Halloween when it is Christmas.
The whole world needs to stick its finger down its throat and purge from its old way of existence. It'll be just like starting over," John Lennon might have said.
"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."--Bob Dylan, who, now, has a lot to lose.
Look At The Bums
Look at the bums,
here another one comes;
last week, maybe he had
a job in a factory,
but they downsized.
CEO got a bonus
for thinking that way;
everybody, especially
the stockholders, thinks
that he s a great man
eats off a ten thousand dollar plate
at the White House,
shakes the right hands.
Here comes a bum,
got a tear in his eye,
I immediately criticize,
say that he is a crack addict
who will want a quarter
from me.
He asks for money for food.
Why don t you get a job?
Why don t you get a job,
like me?
See,
you and me
we're living in the land
of opportunity.
Oh no,
I just lost my job.
The world owes me nothing because I'm here.(I really have to keep reminding myself of this, over and over. I love to sit on my pity pot). When you laugh, the world laughs with you; when you cry, you are fucking crying alone.
I often walk about the city attached to dogs in one hand, and a bag of shit in the other.
Let's pretend that Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a liar
Let's pretend that we don t have a soul,
that we don t know what s going on,
that as long as we keep paying the mortgage
that everything will be o.k.
Let's pretend that Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a liar,
and that people with millions, and billions of dollars
will act in our childrens' best interest.
See my child.
See him grow.
I don't want him to go to war.
No, no, no.
Let's pretend that if we close our eyes,
they won t cheat us blind,
that after all this time of screwing us
that they will now suddenly play fair.
Let's pretend that if it s happening over there,
it can t happen here.
Let's pretend that the religious man on the t.v.
doesn't just want our dollars,
and that politicians are not sleeping
with the chairmen of the board
Let's pretend that ketchup is a vegetable,
and that the homeless person is happy
living on the street.
Let's pretend that we don't need clean sea water,
and that it's o.k. that our rivers are polluted, too.
Let's pretend that three corporations owning
all the news outlets is the best way
to disseminate information.
Let's pretend that there really is a Santa Claus,
and that he will tell us what to do.
Everything might be better if I knew how to play the guitar.
I think that "A Revolution," has to target specific things; like my electric bill is way too fucking high, and Ga. Power probably makes a fuck load of money, so they should be attacked peacefully, and made to make less like so many other monopolies, or at least be made to make my bill way less. A bunch of burnouts, and malcontents gathering in parks across the country is going to do nothing, if The Revolution is generic. Getting arrested does nothing to set anyone free. Have there been any major changes to our way of life since The Protests began?
When the going gets weird #3
Do you know where your Revolution is today?
Poet Mikel K tells it like it is; or at least how K sees it.
I see nothing. I say nothing. I know nothing.
My beard has gotten long enough where I can swallow it, just like I sometimes do my hair.
"Well-said, Mikel. Poignant and to-the-point, yet kind.--Lisa Nanette Allender
Allegra Bailey: "Lol...your words eternal lmao...not u passing....roflmao."
The milk man had something attached to his telephone, and we were all able to pay by credit card. It made me think that I hadn't seen a Cadillac with a Dead Head Sticker in a long while. The times they were certainly, uh, changing.
My dog, Morrison is a consistent mooch, hovering about the kitchen whenever I am in there, acting aloof, like he is near the refrigerator for love, and not scraps pf food.
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Also Check Out Sly and The Family Stone at Woodstock.
He wants to take you higher, though now he lives in a van.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ig-6f0g55c
Axl will never capture The Greatness of His Youth. Can you blame him for trying? I think that sometimes it is best to retire Ahead Of The Game! Here he is, as a kid, performing the song,
"November Rain," with The Real Guns N Roses, and Elton John. (Hey, didn't this performance ocurr
around the time that Axl was accused of not speaking nicely of Gay People?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLoQteiJNOU
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There is this really cool bug crawling on my desk.
It's 2 a.m. I used to be lonely at this time of day, or drunk.
I have a friend in jail; it's really a bummer.
If I had a spare three grand I'd get him out.
I would have to lecture him a bit, though,
once I did; I'd have to tell him that he hasn't grown,
that he is still doing the same shit that he did
as a kid when I met him. I thought the behavior
was exciting then. I'm old now; I think differently.
Some of us are much better off with the bottle laid down.
I'm listening to Bob Dylan sing "Hurricane." Did Rueben Carter get out of jail, and if he did, how did the rest of his life turn out? Are you a leader or a bum? In 18 years, I will be as old as my father was when he had the heart attack that killed him. Will I live that long? Is Rueben still alive? Did Bob Dylan's song help spring him, if indeed he got sprung? There is Google. There is no excuse for ever again not knowing something. You can look up anything on Google. My computer is a competitor to Google, sometimes. It keeps me on Bing. Fuck Bing; I like Google.
From what I can tell, The Koch Brothers have a lot to do with this drive to eliminate The Middle Class, make us all poor, take away any benefits that the poor get now, and completely destitute us all. What are they; Fascist Nazis?
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What's the solution to war?
What's the solution to war?
We should send old men and old women
to war, let them kill themselves off
in the name of bigger cars and better
air-conditioning.
Let the congressmen and the kings,
the presidents and the heads of state
pull out guns and knives and battle
to the death.
Why should my son or daughter fight
for you, you fucking cowards, you killers,
you creeps.
You hide behind your hallow halls,
you hide behind your laws that money buys.
I want you out in the open
looking down the barrel of a gun,
see what my son would see,
before he pulled the trigger,
a man just like himself,
scared just like himself,
put there just like himself
by a man like you.
The blood that spills
the guts that pour
should be yours, Mr. President.
The guts that pour,
the blood that spills
should be yours, Speaker of the House.
The brains that splat,
the guts that pour,
the blood that spills
should be yours, Senator.
Teenagers should not be killing teenagers,
they should be studying math.
or tearing down an engine,
or hitchhiking through Europe.
War is not a game of chess.
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The revolution will not be televised
at a five star restaurant
I'm so much a part of
the machine
that I will probably
never revolt against anything
more than the waiter who brings me
my steak cooked incorrectly.
--Mikel K
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Peace and Love.
"Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching
for The Stars."--Casey Kasem
I must end the paragraph that I am working on now; for my pillow calls to me.
Good Night. I Love You. Sweet Dreams.
#4 When the going gets weird: I'm a bum.
I can't believe that I haven't been discovered yet!
Satan sips from the same fast food sodas as you,
if he sips from any sodas at all.
I'm a bum. My father said that I would be a bum. He started telling me that at a very young age.
I don't know how he knew it. He also said that I would never own a pot to piss in. He was
right, the only pots that I need are a couple in the kitchen to cook my own food on. He also said to me that, "Only one in a million make it at that game; and I don't think that you have it in you," after I had told him that I wanted to be a writer. My father has been dead for quite awhile now, but I send a shout out to his grave to tell him that he was wrong!!!
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"We are tired of your abuse; try to stop us it's no use."--Black Flag
"Her stomach makes noises whenever we kiss."--Variation on a John Prine theme
Writer interviewed on CNN: " We don't have to marry like we once had to. I am glad that I never married the wrong man, because a lot of that happens."
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Geez. SingleMingle.com, a Christian dating service, claims that they can find you, "the match that God intended for you." Got to love, err suspect, a group claiming that they can invoke Divine Intervention once they have your credit card.
Nancy J Howard: There are many organizations like that.
Bill Burke: Even God prefers people with money.
Mikel K Poet Yes, Bill; if you have nice clothes, and a nice car, or two, and several houses with pools, and you live them with The Church, when you die, you will certainly rise above.
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I believe that a victory is something
that makes me smile, and doesn't necessarily
have to make someone frown.
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The quality of the English tea time tea that I make fluctuates. Sometimes I put too much milk in it; sometimes, I make it too hot, but I just made a perfect cup of tea, and I am going to enjoy a chocolate peanut butter ice cream bar with it. Sometimes, life is just so darn easy!
When I was a kid, I used to watch The Ranger Andy Show. I watched it all
the time, and then decided that I wanted to be on it. It was a local show,
and Ranger Andy was the nicest guy that I had ever met. When I went down
to the show and met him, he was mean to me. That really surprised me. To
this day I think that Ranger Andy was an asshole.
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I detest Ted Nugent, I can't stand Kiss, and I HATE Led Zepplin.
"Six Pack," "Wasted," and "Nervous Breakdown," are some great songs with fantastic titles; doncha think? Yeah Black Flag.
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She was really weird about sex. At least, she was very weird
about sex with me. She was into it, at first, or so she seemed.
Maybe I'm a lousy lay, or maybe I was a lousy lay for her.
Different girls want, and expect, different things. One girl
might like getting spanked, and another girl might say,
"Don't hit me," when you try to land your hand on her butt.
I don't care how my fingernails look, but some women do.
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To those of you who say that I ask too many questions: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-- Albert Einstein
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The revolution will not be televised
at a five star restaurant
I'm so much a part of
the machine
that I will probably
never revolt against anything
more than the waiter who brings me
my steak cooked incorrectly.
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She's got a book. One hundred pages of it are about sex: how to; a wide number of different positions; cautions. She says that I already know all of it, but she is going to read it and come well-prepared to serve me.
"We are doing the pants-less dance right now."--a guy named Cost Cutter
And now...after Black Flag...a little Steve Perry lead Journey.
I jumped off the roof, today
and learned that I could fly.
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I just came up with a concept that could help The Poor: Nude Poverty. We could start with a calendar of naked homeless people. Do you think that it would sell? If it did, we could give the profits to The Poor. Republicans often say that the poor are lazy. Here is a way that they could work for their supper. I bet that a calendar full of naked homeless folk would please The Republicans.
The new day has arrived: 12:32 am. Yes, it is here. Try to get as much happiness out of it as possible. I will "see" you tomorrow(which is today). Good Night. God Bless. Sweet Dreams.
Dear God: Thanks for making this a pleasurable day!
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Peace and Love,
Mikel K
