Magoo said, sleeping ever since

How to create a Fascist State...Hmmm...

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy

2. Create a gulag

3. Develop a thug caste

4. Set up an internal surveillance system

5. Harass citizens' groups

6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release

7. Target key individuals

8. Control the press

9. Dissent equals treason

10. Suspend the rule of law

the dead talked to me last night...
scratched vinyl voices heard through the
blood pooling around my unconsciousness

eye sea

sunspots...cause communication problems
communication problems cause

a mini sun

well...you tell me what it means.

I wish I was a picture
of Keith, held in Anita's hands
before it all went wrong
if only it was that easy

a little weirder

sea slugs...
the most wonderful of them all:
Glaucus atlanticus aka The Blue Dragon
here it is as it really should be seen
in the sea

a litany of woes:
the breadwinner was laid off after 14 years
the cars are dying
the dog is lame

please breathe on me

my degree seems worthless in the marketplace
pathological grieving has distanced me
perpetual vigilance defines me

I search in the dust for
recessive gills that will allow me
to continue my experiment
in breathing under the water
that has become my lens

I release you

Gericault's painting of limbs...
my limbs quiver and shake...
they "dance' of their own volition
when the pain comes
I am dismembered by nerves firing
due to a universe unseen to me
a pile of spent brutality
I visit on myself
maybe I should ask my brain for
forgiveness...I am sorry

flowers haven't wilted...
the horse hasn't keeled over...
the kid isn't covered with third degree burns...
the Sun seems to be
indifferent to baking my brain
over these last few days
105...105
the weather
outside is apocalyptically hot.
105