Here

air is worth more than gold

water is more valuable than oil

bread has more purpose than television

friends carry more weight than celebrities

is life more valuable here than there

Auto-Pre-Epitaph

I will die like James Dean ... only:

older,

less accomplished,

less sought after,

less dramatic,

Unknown

Curing Writers' Block

Me & a friend went to an art opening at a place called Transformer but when we got there it was too crowded & they were only serving white wine so we headed across the street & got a couple beers at the P Street Bistro when another friend convinced us to meet him in front of the gallery Transformer, but when we got to the gallery he was already squeezing himself out of the front door, leaving the picture window full of people behind us we headed around the corner and got a couple six-packs & then around the next corner to my other friend's apartment where we talked, listened to internet radio, & I took some pictures of the snow off the balcony until it was voted we head back down to the big opening at the small gallery, yelling & drinking on the sidewalk as I arrived. And there was a surprising tolerance for me (except from my good friends) because the people seemed to realize that in my drunken state I was searching for material & from the sidewalk the circles were formed & groups of people, poets, artists, drunks start the pilgrimage around the corner to the Black Cat to get some beer - where I continue to drink & yell & compliment the girls as best I can with leering eyes & a swollen tongue & to get a beautiful girl's attention I pat her butt but only after realize what I did, and that it pleased me so I took the liberty too far & patted her bum again, but this time she replies in a pleasing voice, (extremely tolerant of me realizing that in my drunken state I am searching for material), "Now never [to] do that again." I agree to disagree, bite her face as a cannibal might and say goodnight. Me & a friend head to Yum's Carry-Out & go back to his house & drink beer & eat Singapore Rice Noodles & I get up to use the bathroom & test his scale & I realize that I have gained a steady 10 lbs. a year the past six years of my life & pass out on his living-room floor, but he seemed extremely tolerant realizing that in my drunken state I am searching for material

Arlington Cemetery

The lost souls of
the closed metro
stations escalators
screamed and
moaned into the
night

screeet screeeeeet screeet

And I remember
I missed
my train
to
Arlington
Cemetery

Binary Hunt Trumpet

one-zero/one-zero/one-zero
one-one/one-one/one-one
one-zero/one-zero/one-zero
one-one/one-one/one-one

funny or not ? ?

It's funny when
it takes noise
to prepare food

It's funny when
the dog makes
a silly face

It's not funny
when the Steelers
lose

Or when a good
friend dies

Charles Bukowski

two beers one table
three friends one dead
four dollars one beer
five beers, bye-bye

low lying sun so
bright it shimmers
off what used to be
the pillars of a forest

now blacktop streams
and brick canyons
create currents that
blow dirt and leaves
into my eyes

whiskey

whiskey
gets me so drunk i could write a novel on my arm
and in the morning i would discover
i was not using a pen but a fork

Chipped Tooth

I chipped my tooth trying to hold a full pint of beer with my teeth & for about a month it caused me to rub two of my front teeth together in a nervous and threatening manner while I was walking down the sidewalk, walking towards people on the sidewalk, while I was walking across crosswalks I filed away with one tooth on the other while, apparently "staring down" aggressive right-turners on their way to big meetings with big shoes and big suits: Some of these aggressive right-turners were not right-turners at all but a delivery truck driver named Tyrone, who while I continued walking parked his truck two blocks behind me and punched me in the eye in front of a flower shoppe where I decided not to order flowers for my mother but to send her a bonsai tree over the internet, and through the window of the flower shoppe, on the curb where I was punched in the eye for having a chipped tooth a man got out of a cab holding an attache in one hand and talking on the cell phone with his other hand and holding a coffee cup with his nose. No: not his nose but holding the cup too close to his nose which burnt his nostrils causing him to sneer and as I walked out of the flower shoppe his burning nose sneered at me & I gritted my teeth and (apparently) scowled at him through my bruised brow

The Post Pub

A booze-faced journalists' drinking hole
A breath from their commentary fills my shot glass
The contents of the shot glass are tipped back to fill my head
The booze-faced journalist will harness the power of gravity to feed his alcoholism
It's a different world
One that's dark and serves beer