an excerpt from SOMETHING OR OTHER
- I saw politicians glad-h& nacho vendors, taco sauce all over their smiling faces; blood pouring from their eyes, their tears became empowered from reading Xeroxed copies of The Pilgrim's Progress between reruns of "Lost."
- I saw scientists wire electric boxes leading nowhere & to no one except for plots of l& littered with "for sale" signs rotting in the desert like fruit for famine shriveled from too much sweetness & sunshine.
- I saw bucolic settings become backwards seeming, cracked with decay & trepidation & too much pasta salad with no wine to wash it down.
- I saw myself in a carnival mirror & thought, You've gained so much weight! - then I side-stepped to find that I was, in fact, very tall & thin; & then again, I was just me, just boring old me in my boring old body, not quite short or tall, not quite fat or thin, just boring & old & me--it made me so sad I frowned & the mirror covered me in a reflective film, out of kindness I suppose.
- I saw the ground pulled out from beneath our feet by the man upstairs, who fancied himself some sort of comedian.
- I saw planes crash into buildings, not because they were angry, but because they had no place to l&.
- I saw women getting horizontal with buildings while the men surrounded themselves with brick & mortar & pesto sauce a bit too salty for my taste.
- I saw a logjam the size of Texas in the South Pacific block the ocean from its better half.
- I saw birds pull splinters out of the logjam, splinters the size of Buicks.
- I saw the ocean rise and fall.
- I saw the spice flow & flow, from China, where most people live--striking.
- I saw chaos & creation pulled to & fro by the h& of a giant open-mike night comedian, laughing too loud at its own jokes.
- I saw pizza bake & bake in brick ovens, large as some isl& chains of the South Pacific but not quite as large as the logjam, which was the size of Texas & thus HUGE.
- I saw gigantic chiggers apply toothpaste directly to their eardrums in order to drown out the sound of people starving because the oil fields dried up like raisins in the sun.
- I saw laundry mat bums pick short change from their teeth wax with faux palm tree fronds next to every Coinstar machine I came across.
- I saw Larry Rivers dig up pinecones for a portrait of the man upstairs he was painting with tomato juice & fresh ground pepper - when I asked him for one he punched me in the torso then broke my nose with an uppercut.
- I saw a wine-o with no teeth hit on a manikin through a storefront window, rubbing his breasts seductively as if doing a strip tease for his own reflection.
- I saw rows of rocks covered in occult symbols, the significance of which was lost on my eyes, although many claimed they were intended for child's play.
- I saw the Internet - the whole thing - & concluded it was a means to an end with no beginning.
- I saw a funeral & wondered why they did not eat the body first.
- I saw a donkey show & wondered why.
- I met a young lady named magiK Molly, who ate my heart.
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