Letters from the Empire

loose thoughts, etc. 2012

babel — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:11:45 +0000

Live the way I want to live, here & now.

She does not know the fruit of the season.

The sun will make me bleed
I will bleed on the sun.
-Noah, age 2.5

Deep recession cream.

The impression of a lake.

A family at sunset
Turned in prayer toward Mecca.

Cannibal heart
Go try on his skin.

A Hospital looks like a hotel
To someone raised on soap operas
And TV dinners.

Bless my soul I’m tired of sin.
Grandma send me numbers
For the big win.

The earth was playful with me tonight.
An aurora borealis sunset, diaphanous streaks of pink ether.

Sapphire bowl Bay Area

Tobacco ghost

Apologetic hair

Seaweed hair

The world is open to those who love.

All these dreams and me

babel — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:33:53 +0000

It was at the hospital we remembered we were human. The things on the inside need checking. Blood drawn. What ails us. What is a sign I’m alive. So many things I don’t want to do. My body, my one and only body.

“Kurosawa’s Dreams and Me” by Lady Lazarus. Video by me.

Imagine (Present Tense)

babel — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:31:18 +0000

The Occupy Wall St. movement is inspiring to me. Today, it made me think of the promise of John Lennon’s, “Imagine,” and what it would sound like in the grammatical present tense.

There is no Heaven.

No hell below us.

Above us only sky.

All the people are

Living for today.

There are no countries.

There is nothing to kill or die for.

And no religion too.

All the people are

Living life in peace.

The world is one.

There are no possessions.

No greed or hunger.

A brotherhood of man.

All the people are

Sharing all the world.

The world lives as one.

A few steps from the How-to-Be-a-Good-Human Handbook

babel — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:04:45 +0000

#342: Once in awhile be sure to look yourself straight in the mirror—no, not at your nose—straight in the eyes—and give yourself a good hard smack on the cheek, then smile to your reflection and say, “You are a good human.”

Reality TV

babel — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:49:44 +0000

**See How Millionaires Really Live**

End of Battle Hymn

babel — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:28:46 +0000

Heard a story about a girl

she was eaten by a bear.

I know life ain’t fair

not for her

and not for anyone,

but especially for women.

When the girl got the Heaven

she was greeted by the choir,

all the angels were there, singing:

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen,

All men, All men, All men, All men.

Bodily

babel — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:51:44 +0000

The glory of your guts

The wonder of your butt

The body glows with

Stardust.

Rub

your eyes to see

the sun smiles on you still.

Your hands are chalices

The arcs of your feet are

vaulted arches

around your forehead a temple

glows.

Stevie Nicks

babel — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:39:28 +0000

Stevie Nicks

Blonde witch

Cocaine possessed

Sheep warble bleet

thundering

From the lower abdomen.

Faun eyed

Drooping horse lips

Magnetic hair.

11.10.10

Loose Talk

babel — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:38:15 +0000

The body is a container.

This is your breeze.

The breeze that blows easterly.

Leaves are dead people

dropped on eaves.

One day I will meet a rabid dog in the road.

I need to find my love so I can apologize.

For being lost all this time.

For forgetting to believe.

Find that place inside you that’s OK

and make it grow.

We are all trying to bridge our loneliness.

Sound of Black Holes

babel — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:29:53 +0000

Space,

devoured by

the dark,

Makes an awful

thudding,

Like a hammer

or a heart.

+++

(listen… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/09/black-holes-sound_n_833359.html)