Is there a spam factory in the woods?

That was a comment from a co-worker after hearing my poem read aloud tonite. During the 5-6 PM dinner break hour I wrote 4 poems on paper towels...non stop, no proof reading. Later when I looked at them, I discovered they were somewhat interesting but had no focus. I wasn't in a good space, but on a writing spree, having had a bad experience with my last customer before break. After I'd mellowed out a bit by talking to co-workers, this lighter more coherent poem took shape...

As the spam lives and flies

Unicorn the woods
The flies are sparrowing again
Out the tolerance ghettos
To the place where spam lives
Let loose the onion rings and doves of prey
Where the fruit flies trees and the lambs cotton
During the wet season when the wool runs dry
And the sap runs cold when the tulips sing
And dance around the spam ring
Touching icicles as they frost
When the wool runs cold and the spam ring sings
Unicorning sparrows in the tolerance ghettos
Where the fruit flies sing and the chocolate walks
Talking of the first moment
The sap ran dry
In the land of milk and honey
Toasting their dovelish sparrowing ways
In the tolerance ghettos
As the spam lives and flies.

Denis Streeter 2/25/11

Antony Ant and the Earwig Pirates

I was exploring the bargain books at the University Book Store on the Ave and saw an Australian picture book classic by D.H. Gilmore. Can't remember that title because of the title that had listed on the back of that book. As soon as I saw the title, I knew I had to have it! "Antony Ant and the Earwig Pirates, Gregory Grasshopper, and the Cruise of the Saucy Walnut". It is a three story picture book written and illustrated by the author I believe around the 1930's. Has anyone heard of it? I couldn't order it through the King County Library...so I put a request for an interlibrary loan...could take months! I'm too impatient. Must have it now! So I ordered a reprinted copy through Abebooks through a bookstore in the UK...for $17.20 including shipping. I can't wait for it to arrive! Well...actually I have to wait...about 3-6 weeks... But come on...it was worth it...just for the title alone!

Bearded change

Temperature awake
As the tonsils fly by
Wishing the dreams
To reenact
My reality
Temperature change
Flying by night
Morning moon
Takes flight
Discovering worlds unmade
Roads undiscovered
Gifts made to discover
And the wild man guesses
One shoes to the next
Just what will be
In the pudding of works
Sister brother cousin lover friend
Some cosmic soup we're in
And the wild man guesses
Bringing up the roots
Been travelling so long
Love a destination, start, cycle
Begin over again
One shoe to the next
Let the breathing begin
Fright take flight
Bearded change

Denis Streeter 2/22/11

Lurid prose

London reviewed its lurid prose
For half a hack knee and a dose of blood pudding
But then it slippered off
Lampering under street lights and porcelain plains
Half a stain away with the fork and the spoon
Nursery rhymes fell and couldn't be Humpty Dumpdeed
Half a stain away with the fork and spoon
Porcelain scrapings jumped the moon
Leaving the kniflings
Misunderstanding their childhood
Slippering off some slidden train
Rank of thought in pools of light
Posing as prose beside the blood pudding
And the laughter humpty dumpdeed a fork over the spoon
For half a hack knee and a dose of lurid prose
London slept beside its misunderstood childhood
Lampering some S-O-S
Distress and dress the morning
Slippering off some slidden train
Scampering one london away
For some dress rehersal
The lurid prose never understand.

Denis Streeter 2/22/11

Grumble cookies

Grumblebrow under the skin
Grumblebeard outside the skin
"We'll be making cookies"
And the mice kept coming...
First there was floor mouse
Next there was hamper mouse
Then came table mouse
All looking very dapper
Floor mouse the dough
Hamper mouse raisins and oats
Table mouse the almond extract
Grumblebow grumblebeard the grinder til
Raisin oats grumbled just right
Grumbled in bowl, grumbled just right
Floor mouse, hamper mouse, table mouse
Rolled perfect ball dough
Onto the pan in the oven they go
Table set, milk out
Four chairs
Eatings out.

Bald to beard: Nine and a half

Nine and a half days. Neck area under chin itchy. When it's warm, feels like some porcupine hit me up with needles...just didn't go in so deep. Don't know...never met a porcupine except as roadkill. I imagine it would be some slow roadkill type porcupine...kinda tired, older, didn't get much sleep...shot me with mostly white needles...and a few black...then kinda meandered away...like it forgot what it was doing. When it's cold and I'm walking to and from work, the needles feel kinda good...not prickly...a cool barrier but not cold. Wonder how long prickly stays prickly. The rest of my face feels nice. If it's still prickly after a month, I'll shave off that neck piece. Still not a beard. Just looks like I haven't shaved for a while. The head has a lot to catch up on the face, but I'm not waiting on that. Just waiting on those porcupine needles to let up.

Beard-uary

It's bearduary...so that would have to be either January or February. It's been exactly one week of not shaving. The underside of my chin is beginning to itch. I guess I have the beginning of a beard, but so far it just looks...well...scruffy, uneven...I've heard...edgy. I can go with that. I have an edgy part of my personality that I like to explore. Some have said it makes me look more dangerous...but then change their mind as if searching for the right word. In some ways I feel like my beard growth has given me more freedom. I'm more likely to say what I want, what I feel...people are less likely to argue with me...and I'd rather not argue...unless I'm in a mood. The beard growth has definitely affected my personality. I wonder if that is...well...I was going to say normal...but I hate that word...it's so meaningless to me. But I wonder...what affect has beard growth had on you...or someone you know well? Has their personality changed? Does it make no difference? Perhaps it's mostly the same...with some differences. What do you think?