hair of the god
11/20/08
Please take a moment to
locate the exit nearest you
one day only
Everything Must Go
now
Get the fuck out
Abandon ship
Eyes watering
Nose running
Reflex gagging
Palms sweating
expectoration regurgitation
perspiration elimination
I don’t feel so good
I’ll never do that again
Until next time
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intelligent design
11/20/08
It’s like sitting down at the blackjack table and realizing all the hands you’re dealt were predetermined long long ago. There’s no skill involved, there’s no choices really to be made, there’s no real gambling and no reason to blame the dealer. It’s all there, it’s all been there, it will all be there.
It’s as if all the messenger work, the last-minute filings, the rushes, the bulky next-days, all of it was called in long ago. Long before the beginning of time. As if all the dispatch logs for today and for every day from here on out are already filled in, completed and on file. It’s as if the dispatcher is just fucking with you.
so anyway...
wanna come upstairs and see my Tyvek envelope collection?
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what was it?
11/19/08
really what was it?
Was it her
subtle voice inflection
Was it her
genuine truth detection
Was it her
urinary tract infection
or was it just
location location location
Taking Taylor
down the hill
from your $2.7 million Queen Anne home
to your $1.6 million job in Redmond
left on Mercer
merging sipping listening to NPR
You never even saw me
I see you every day
your initial mistake was no big deal
it was the overcorrection at the wheel
that caused the 7 car pileup
Northbound I-5 near exit 168a
you were texting
your girlfriend your wife says
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gemini ²
11/19/08
Here’s Sugarbear with a Polar bear outside the Columbia Center. Part of a protest against Bank of America. All I could gather before security shooed them away, is that BoA must be killing polar bears. The spooky Snuffleupagus-like bear was also spotted outside the Federal Building which leads me to believe the government is killing polar bears too. 
I held the door it’s true
that doesn’t mean I wanted to
have sex with you
But I do
I would
I will
We could
take the elevator to the penthouse
Personal service only
A pickup and delivery
enveloping the entire package
Call when complete
rush roundtrip notary signature
Obtain exemplified copy of the order
get the complaint no exhibits
got no complaints
Are you a courier?
No I’m a Gemini
Let me see your ID
Step through one more time
What’s that in your pocket
Take off your belt
Assume the position
Like I told Cat, songs are poems that lend themselves to being repeated and the music helps them along, makes them stick. But this little ditty here keeps coming back, popping up, lending itself to repetition. I repeat. I wrote it a few months ago on...
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looking through you
11/18/08
bicycles messengers
lawyers senators
mirrors reflections
connections
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steel
11/17/08
Dan E. Murray sent me this.
It would look pretty cool on a T-shirt and if you were from Fitchburg it would look even better
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that's how the light gets in
11/16/08
do what you want
take what you need
say what you mean
it will all come out
anyway
in the end
It’s Sunday, 7:22 am in the Pacific Time Zone. In my right hand an Old Style Beer Salami (you don’t see these everyday in Seattle). In my left hand a roadmaster of Budweiser Chelada (there’s a first time for everything). In my pocket a new hand-made wallet from Milwaukee. Thank you Shaggy, the goods arrived last night. Cheers.
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Iowa
11/15/08
congregate hydrate agitate migrate
duplicate do it again one more time
---- move along
one way two way my way your way either way
whatever vector scalar tensor
direction location vocation vacation
reapply after heavy perspiration
energy entropy probability possibility
We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it
roadmaster forecaster Coinstar rockstar
binder clip connoisseur guacamole regularly
complete complex deplete duplex
We’ve isolated the source of the problem
what we have here is a loose scutcheon
free time big time and no bigger fish to fry
intense camping out in tents …RAGBRAI
Hey, get on the bus!
Registration for RAGBRAI 2009 is now open. The pilderwasser collective is stronger than ever. There’s nothing like dreams of July days in Iowa to help out with November days in Seattle.
Word.
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receptionista
11/14/08
that sweet suite candy at the front desk
No experience No qualifications No clue
but she sure looks good and
that’s what keeps ‘em coming back
receptionista
“How was your weekend?” she said
looking past me --- not at all interested
in my response --- thinking
anticipating what she was going to say
when I asked her how her weekend was
But I didn’t
I just said “good”
picked up the documents
and got back on the elevator
If you could take a microwave oven with all the radiation it gives off and shrink it all down to a palm sized package you’d have a handy little device also known as a cell phone. Those things that people everywhere are holding up to their heads for hours at a time. The things they keep in their chest pockets, their breast pockets, over their hearts. In their ass pockets and on their groins. Those things blasting off the straps of their DANK bags. Those Nextels chirping, blurting, alerting the entire population of Two Union Square to wake up. I am messenger hear me roar. Yeah those things. Get back to me in 15 years...
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use your best judgement
11/14/08
Justin P Fauntleroy photo
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disbelief of suspension
11/12/08
Listen here my friend
do me a favor and
don’t do me any favors
Once there was a way
but it’s now too close to call
let’s look at the replay
everything is not going to be OK
and hey…
you have a great day
Madison at 4th Avenue. Red light. Waiting. An umbrella flies by at eye level, northbound on 4th on a gust of wind. I watch it for a second then look to my left and spot the umbrella’s owner. Then I roll through and decide to chase it down for her. Just before Spring Street I pin it to a parked car and grab it. Turning it back to convex from concave when a guy approaches me and says “Hey I’d like to return that to its rightful owner” Dude that’s what I'm doing…why would I go two blocks out of my way to chase a janky umbrella through traffic? Umbrellas are for tourists, Hair Club for Men members and people from Clyde Hill. I don’t need an umbrella.
I know a thing or two about riding on the sidewalk. It’s legal here in Mayberry. The cops do it all day long. The MID...
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...
11/12/08
had a drink the other day - opinions were like kittens I was giving them away
11/12/08
Went to a party a couple weeks ago dressed as a paperboy. A few hours into it I met a woman dressed, she said, as a cougar. Later I found out it was my friend’s sister and she’s only 19. Then everyone thought she was Lolita and I was a creepy old man.
I had a drink the other day
I had a lot to say
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traffic cones
11/11/08
Spent all day with
the niece & nephew
at a bike safety rodeo
Only to realize
the lines were so long because
Wade Boggs was there signing autographs
overseeing the traffic cone slalom
with a name tag on
as if we wouldn’t know he’s Wade Boggs
But everyone was wondering
What the fuck Wade Boggs was doing
at a bike safety rodeo in Hoquiam
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chapstick
11/10/08
Had a feeling I’d meet someone special today. And I almost did, downtown. She was walking towards me, head tilted to one side, smiling, laughing. Her arms outstretched offering up something. Something just for me. But as I got closer I realized she was holding her cell phone on one shoulder talking away and awkwardly trying to get the cap back onto her chapstick with both hands. But I found myself staring at her, continuing on in my mind with my misperception as she continued on down the street.
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cloth napkin - handkerchief - shop rag
11/9/08
“you’re going the wrong way” she said
But she doesn’t know where I’m going
lights traffic signs lane lines
laws violations citations
I need to go my own way
grammar spelling punctuation
conventional traditional usual
I wanna say what I wanna say
spoon knife fork
there if I need them
I prefer to eat with my hands
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microwave popcorn
11/8/08
Stepping off the elevator, the smell of microwave popcorn hangs thick in the air, recycled for hours by the so-called ventilation system. Eventually the entire floor smells of Orville Redenbocker. Each arriving elevator opens to capture a few cubic yards of popcorn scented air and take it on journey up or down to share with other floors in the building. Until finally, in a day or so, the smell will dissipate.
The source of the smell is the microwave in the break room, the underbelly of the law firm. A gritty, filthy behind the scenes location where the support staff hangs out. This is a place attorneys try to hide from clients, rushing them past the door on their way to the conference room, while the scrub support staffers are in here preparing coffee and muffin platters for them.
Attorneys are rarely seen here. They don’t take breaks they take 3 hour lunches. They take client meetings. They take depositions. The take extended vacations. Once in a while when they’re out of time, under the gun, up against a hard deadline, desperate attorneys will come in here looking for caffeine or sugar. But most of time they’ll walk to their...
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do what you do
11/8/08
casual Friday
11/7/08
As I step through the revolving door at One Union and look towards my elevator bank I see a white up-light light up and 8 people herd onto the one open car. I know I could walk just a bit faster and dog pile on that one too. But I won’t. But if I did I would: jingle the change in my pocket, strum my fingers on the handrail, slurp my latte repeatedly, rustle the bag of my potato chips and chomp them down up in your face, offer unwanted eye contact fishing for something like a human connection - a banal conversation, turn up the volume on my cell phone, all the while hum-whistling the Green Acres theme song or is it whistle-humming…loudly off key and sloppy, plenty of saliva.
Yes that is what I would do if I didn’t do what I do.
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is it raining?
11/6/08
