four decades of fog

tired of words in the middle of march

when all days are so sunny and warm

invasive plants in connect i cut

sound a glossy page lame alarm

"the unbearable thinness of flatness"

screens away spring's charm

amazing how mongo's mazacote

can cut thru 4 decades of fog

slow politics requires more people

admiring each turtle on a log

let us do lettuce for less

"A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce
contains 80 calories of food energy.
According to Cornell ecologist D. Pimental
growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and
transporting that box of organic salad
to a plate on the East Coast takes more than
4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy
or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy
for every calorie of food."

footnote page xvi in Slow Money by Woody Tasch
borrowed from Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilema

'crawling for congress' gets a laugh
'creeping' seems too creepy
'strolling' has elements of calm and dignity
slow politics encompasses all three
slow money ='s local money
local money for local lettuce
cuts out 4,600 calories of middlemen
and a plastic boxed 'commodity fetish'

sprialing spirochetes

we don't know what goes on inside us
losing touch with Nature's ways

slow up -- remove the screens and typhos
seek the sound and groove of place

nurture birds that eat the ticks
cut the budget for outer space

fellow followers

coming to you from hotel st. marie
i can feel why they call it 'the big easy'

great church music audible a block or two away
lots of good food options calling me out to play

path to peace CD and brochure given to my host
reading chogyam trungpa on the plane - pardon my boast

'selfless warmth' suffuses in another city of few illusions
narrow paths and the 'Great Vehicle' push aside confusions

discrepant nastiness & imperfection politics

greatest discrepancies exist cuz traditionalists will them into existence

redhat mishaps make 2 conchs beat 2 shinbone trmpts collide

2 dungchens blend whale farts fiercely

2 vertical cymbals clittclattter 2 horizontal cymbals loll & groll

2 shawms flip slip & slide

2 skullcap whackerdrum rattles in 1 hand & little 2 sided bell ringledingles in t'other

prhps using bones & skulls of monks

most antagonistic to each other when they were alive

batttling post mortem tubaspargens scatter tattterseed sheed schweed sczwedddd

from daily practices over 6 or 8 centuries you get times square traffic jam

cuz that is their intent: miss takes, accidentals, overtones, incidentals

these cats wd grind their teethes find sharpest chalks to rub on rougher black boards

same for andean dudes & their panpipes flutes tooting in unregistered registers

piping down the vallies wild piping songs of childish glee

same for gorale string quartets making mockery of buddha pest

or hungky gypsies laying on the schmaltz in hungky restaurants

anywhere in the mountains anywhere gypsy fiddles cry there's mud in your eye

a grating on the nerves a certain discrepant nastiness

build a ppp wishlist

people who could be crawling or strolling with dignity but don't care
wes jackson and wendell berry triple pianissimo are loud and the best
naomi wolf and starhawk could give the ppp a huge boost east and west
randy e. barnett and 9th amendment lovers everywhere

wonderfully qualified quakers and buddhists in each of the 435
every district full of people from the neck up still alive
yeah, better put more rhyme and rhythym into this call
because our empire is crumbling so fast it's almost free fall

if those with eyes to see and ears that still hear
stay quiet tend to boxed business give in to fear
then slow politics for 7th generation dear
won't even start or will start only to swiftly disappear

post-computer post-tv

pc pre computer ptv pre tv
pre screenings of consciousness
what's it mean to just BE

post-pomo post-toasties post-posting-my-poop
time to just let everything droop
longer than drop and you don't have to stoop
longer than stop! can't close this loop

just stop doing zeros and ones
digital virtual less & less fun
catching insects on allium
with canon
power shot
digital elph
just more naming & filing
by a selfish small self

why was the fox so dead in the road
fullstop to ask questions slows overload
slow politics offline may never catch on
but neither does whining into beyond