Ongoing sporadic journal of the overeducated, and underemployed. The title derived from Coupland’s description of cubicle land; the corporate ghetto. Random photos and thoughts. Left the ghetto, never happier. This still a work in progress

27 November 2020

she’s Mermaid -26.11.20

she’s  

in

room 575

Mermaid Hotel

she won’t like it

pool not ocean

Jonesing: Craving, desire, or need something or someone   jonesing

Premonition of a soul?

the monotony of desert

assaulted blinding sun

she dances in the sand

we should go swimming

Mermaid: a half-human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish comprising  magic

Mermaid


26 November 2020

 as you were-26.11.20

before

I bored you

before

your psychosis

told you it was me

before

I gathered poppies, coca and fled underground

Before

Your madness filled the room

when

you 

were me

 lover

when

you 

were me

muse

As you were: standard military command. It means, literally, "[return] to your previous posture" 2) before you gave into your psychosis

As you were


15 November 2020

 Stranger 


Stranger -14.11.20

Young women don't kiss me goodbye

Existence improbable

There must

Be

some way out

because night 

Random

Soaked 

in 

Gin, smoke and sex 

Stranger sleeps

Name?

It’s all the same

Her body illuminating

the room 

write to it 

her body 

dictates prose

Step outside

 of time and space for 1,000 millennium 

Step back into

 the hellscape

Still nothing  

is

known

Attachment is the source of all suffering.” Buddha

Step out

Find redemption 

in

Stranger: a person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar. 2)unusual or surprising in a way that is unsettling or hard to understand.

A 

stranger





 visions-13.11.20

at the intersection

it’s St Jill

forever

beautiful

forever

Attachment is the source of all suffering.” Buddha.

in me

forever

love without exception (holy fucking)

forever


to walking on the roof of the ocean

Visions: is something seen in a dream, trance, or ecstasy 2) enlightenment 

to have visions

to know that

 ALL

Punks

ALL

musician

ALL

artist

in any form

are

Saints

My visions are true


09 November 2020

 Quien es-09.11.20

Existential outlaw

Existential: meaning of Being  2) the difference between being and nothingness.

on the run

reality

controll

illusion

did I

betray her

if so

because

I could

because

she said I would

I am whatever

you say

I am

gliding

betwixt planes

pink spiders

hunt me

some seek to classify me add me to their collection

General Tom Thumb: a dwarf  whose rose to fame as a circus performer

exiled and shunned

from the 3  beer circus

by

General Tom Thumb

too far underground

a drink

loose  exile

a dime

Quien es?-Billy the kid's last words answered by a bullet to the heart 


a knock

Quien es?


 Us-.09.11.20

no

don’t hate

her

no

don’t hate

him

she’s

around

when

he’s

not

around

coming

down

into

my lair

mermaid in a cowboy hat song echoes

There’s

Her

There’s

he

there’s

me

Us:used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people as the object of a verb or preposition. 2) an understanding  betwixt lovers

There’s

No 

us


05 November 2020

 Resonate-05.11.20

Ilsa forever gets


on that

plane

I forever stay

on this

plane

Here words

echo


those

words

those

emotions

aching

like

a new

drug

shelled

engines drown sound

various chemical drown the pain

stiff upper lip

Laszlo is a good person

Abomination in jeans

Abomination: I am a thing that causes disgust or hatred

yet

Resonate: 1) produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound ((her heartbeat)2) evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions. 3) an echo in my psyche she causes through words and will

she resonates


27 October 2020

 Haunted-27.10.20

ghosts

living

dead

over

me

like a swarm of flies

walking cemetery

peaceful

the living

envy the dead

grey skies

there’s a scent in the air

don’t trust it

Mercury tipped bullets

mercury tipped bullets: explode on impact.

no mercy

no regrets

not PTSD

reflex

these

won’t be stopped by bullets

need

shaman

not

a

priest

need

a fix

not

a

hug

Haunted: Haunted: to appear habitually as a ghost 2) obsessed by memory or idea

haunted


21 October 2020

 Pieces-21.10.

these are the Pieces of

my poems my art

torn

by

her long red nails

matching

the marks on my back

I know one way to

love

I know one way to

fight

to the death

I have traveled the world

I have been o

holy places

looking for

answers

forgot the questions

Catwalk: a platform extending into an auditorium, along which models walk to display clothes in fashion shows; a runway. a rarefied place to celebrate beauty and style

she walked in with catwalk strut

I knew how this would end

from the beginning

Pieces: a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole 2) what’s left of something after it’s destroyed

in

pieces


19 October 2020

 In the Mood 

I walk into the designer donut shop and Mackenzie n asks, “Coffee black and hot like your women?” Morgan is the uber cheerful pierced inked clerk sweet and pretty. I have said, that once too many times. I smile and take the cup, wishing I was a younger version of me, but the younger me wouldn’t be caught dead here even if the sweet and pretty girl was given to dark young men with bad habits and scars 

I am looking at the choices something about the fit woman in athleisure wear seems familiar and the mask isn’t helping. I shake the feeling off. There are local art and locally roasted coffee for sale several gyms and yoga studios in the area. She doesn’t stand out just seems familiar, why I am not sure.

I go to the patio and take my red X marked cornerback to the wall clear view of all entrances and exits socially distanced. That woman comes out, and sits directly across from me, her gaze is intense, even 2metres away

“Good Morning,”, I say to pale blue eyes that smile back. There’s a connection.  I pick up my coffee, “Slainte”

   “You don’t remember me, do you? I’ll give you a hint; I only have one of my red Jimmy Choo’s. She said.


Synapses fire, there’s something to micro-dosing I play for time. “Of course, love, of course,” I say laughing I am getting something, and it will be here in a moment.”

I am only giving you one more hint, Carmen.” she said.

It comes back to me in a wave. meeting in the gallery then, a pub, then spontaneous combustion 

“I take it casual sex, is not uncommon for you.”

“Well blue jeans are allowed “I answer 

“That’s clever, now tell me my name.” She says her stare is hard.

“Carmen, but do you know mine?”

“Escamillo” She answers’. I laugh. 

“Why so serious,” I ask. “I think we’re past the small-talk stage. I am cool, I sussed that night I could have been any man. I woke up you were gone. I 

“You woke up before I left, I saw your body go tense. Then feigned sleep. I thought you might call about my pump.”

 “I didn’t get your number, love, and my friends didn’t either.”

“I wasn’t looking to be their wife's sister, and yes I was in the mood even, though I am not sure how you knew” She answers.

  “I could feel tension and heat,” I answer.

 “Am I in a mood now?” she asks 

“Yes, but for something else, not a rematch,” I said. 

“You’re good,” she said.

“My name is Marlowe; would you fancy coffee we can talk about the weather. I reckon if you wanted to put it all behind you wouldn’t stop.”

“I think I am in the mood for some conversation and coffee and moves close in, I in middle of plague pull her in. She’s in the mood and moods pass It’s now or never


18 October 2020

 pork pie hat-17.10.20


dress up

cinema

we are the mods

drinks

dancing

losing

the crowd

finding

each other

finding

me flat

no words

waking

harsh light

cigarette

shower

coffee

dressing

kitchen counter

a pork pie hat

different world

same hat

secret smile

pork pie hat


13 October 2020

 Stolen moments-3.10.20

Stolen: take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it." thieves stole her love”


Whose moments

Are they

Not ours

Are they the others?

We belong to

Ourselves

We belong

To each

Other

How

Moments: a very brief period of time 2) appropriate time for doing something 3) an emotional reaction


Moments

anyone else’s 

keeping them 

from my dead cold fingers

stolen moments


08 October 2020

 chem trails-.08.10.20

the surface so brutal

stay underground

let them die

pursing

swimming pool

this year’s counter tops

athleisure wear

“this weird trick can change your life click here

ritual

as I awake

I am not at peace

I look for muse

Find

Chemtrails on my arm


30 September 2020

 summers almost gone -29.09.20

walking to your tan salty body

collapsing next to me

wet blade hair in a turban handing me

a spliff and coffee

dragging out

to the deal taco drive through

thinking of you

realizing

days are getting shorter

sumers almost

gone


 John Brown’s body-30.09.20

awaking

another day

less free

knowing

the proud boys

stand ready

I chamber a round

before emerging

john brown: (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist. Brown, saw violence as unfortunately necessary if slavery were to be abolished

becoming 

John Brown’s body


29 September 2020

 


Tikvah-29.09.20

a chilly morning

black coffee, blues

agent 575 left us behind

full on reality

Open fire

m203: single-shot 40 mm under-barrel grenade launcher designed to attach to a M16A1

with my surreal M203 let off desert flower grenade

followed by a full clip of Irish roses   from my absurdM16A1

575

never turns

she

goes full on reality

I watch

screaming, no! fascism, and hate is there

she jumps

into

mundane

into

ordinary


I can’t

penetrate that veil

I go where we met

the

swirling sands

of

fate

where we swam

beautiful tidal pools of passion

currents of desire

Tikvah: word for hope in Hebrew 2) it also means cord or rope, which comes from a root word that means to bind or to wait 3) a precious drug, that fuels us

I will take my last shot of Tikvah


24 September 2020

 It’s a fact-19.09.20

That ON  the day

RBG DIED

2 black birds took her eyes

Flew them

see

All the people she helped to see

sunset in Tahiti


It’s a fact

that she left a memo

outlining charges to be brought against  fascist

It’s a fact

that

when the  black birds

replaced the eyes

RBG

there were happy tears


22 September 2020

 casting runes 16.06.20

I take chances

I take lives (never proven beyond a reasonable doubt)

Lakota: Indigenous people of North American western South Dakota. 2) another John Doe

Lakota

slow move

switchblade fast

quiet

slashing

gurgling coughing sound

Lakota’s baby momma

Casting Runes: Pagan traditions, divination is done by casting runes 

Lakota’s baby momma

casts runes

did she know?

she looks at me

smiles

and casts runes


20 September 2020

 Walking on  stars-20.09.20

morning black coffee & blue steel

an angry fix

Prophecy spray painted on the overpass

Andromeda Galaxy 537,000,000 light years from earth

walking on Andromeda

floating through the cosmos

you’re so far away

need you near

expect little

receive less

fruit of the earth work of human hands

10cc’s clear elixir

you should come

let flow to that Centre in your soul

sanctification takes place when a person enters heaven and becomes totally and irrevocably united with God in the beatific vision.

inside you

I am sanctified

Come with 

Me yesterday

Tomorrow 

Today

We will walk on stars


18 September 2020

 demon-18.09.20

I am fear

I am madness

Hieronymus Bosch: (1450-1516) a surrealist painter from Netherlands who depicted the world as passing through the devils’ digestive system

I am a Bosch painting

animated

I walk

betwixt

the living

that I may deliver them

Angel of Death-My crush

pink spider-my lover

woke me

I can’t

drink

medicate

her away

If I live

I will kill you

If I die, I will thank you

I live betwixt worlds

Demons: fallen angels (Revelation 12:7-9), and have the same characteristics as their angel counterparts

you have awakened 

demon