J Pat
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instead


instead
      of facing the
    facts
       I transubstantiate
and float
    free
       and
         beautiful
       avec
         you
       soft
             planktonic
      unburdened continual
          samsara
            immersed soft
         among the snails

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i am subtle


i am subtle
and she is pondering
the lengths
she has gone
to keep levees
from breaking;
in each of
us
is infinity
uncompromising
unbearably tangible
“there is no
wisdom in futurism”
she says
eyes brown like
antique wood
“my feelings
are bhuddist
testaments”

i am subtle
and do not know
how to respond

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young and happy


young and happy
splashing
adventurous with
childish abandon
bopping and frolicking
like a young
babbling brook
shallow and squealing
with complete
abandon
young honest
and faithful

awaiting that day of
our secret boyish
dreams when our
fathers
steal us in
the night to
defend our mothers
and our homes
from perpetrators
twisted and
foul

but until then
bopping and
sploshing among the
tadpoles and rocks
with childish
abandon

sept 9th, 2001

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the ocean is not a


the ocean is not a
    static body
          nor am I
convective mixing isothermal
    photosynthetic
              efficacy
         divine
              righteousness
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it is the excellence


it is the excellence
of fear that redeems us and life
it is that excellence,
containing fervence of
change and tumultuous
emotive action
to move or to not move
springs into an action
the action
the will to change
or not
the motion
like clockticking
drumbeat wheels and metallic
snake noizy river
train
passengers are the fish
noizy mechanical
snake river
bursting through
the winds of atoms
and oxygens
bursting though the
vision lines and roadways
bursting though in
front of us
stopping us dead
like black cats
and then gone
into a bush
behind a gate
into crop of trees
or corn
and with it
legacies and histories
guildford, 98

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a snail amongst


a snail amongst
  red spiked hair
  and the railway
  obsessed
a breath among
  smoggy blue fabrics
  and heels
a pair of sandals
  in the illegal safety
  officer conspiracy
a room so quiet
  quiet enough to hear
  the cigarette burn
  like that world
  of a moment
  she had with
  a lover of mine
I am practicing
  to maybe someday
  trust in a god
  of my understanding
  or misunderstanding

guildford, 98

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sun setting over


sun setting over
the mount to the
right in guildford
casting enlightened
elongated shadows,
still, over the dried
up cut down wheat field
upon the ground,
acres of churning,
rippling spider webs
glowing in the last
light of that setting sun
like the bridges of light
on the oceans and bays
that pull me
magnetic

guildford, 98

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59th st station


59th st station
delivered to your door
into your pillowless bed
i lay before the hellos
are finished and such

                      brooklyn, 04

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ancient dreams


ancient dreams
flowing in and
out of our
subconsciousness
like the thoughts
and desires of flowers
and trees, running
deep and unseen-
like the world outside
of the filmmakers
lense

                           brooklyn, 04

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about the winking of an eye


about the winking of an eye
and she, neck adorned
with torquoise shimmering with glee,
a story book ending in the
toss of her hair, almost in the
ruination, lights in the glass
heroes on the grasses coming
down to ask us for assistance
about the winking of an eye

                           brooklyn, 04

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to wake up to my own personal


to wake up to my own personal
busstop, each day’s indulgence,
like mangoes and strawberries
all day in the sunshine and then
off to play music on strange and
beautiful instruments-
maybe see you somewhere on a
W train somewhere in the reflections
of trains passing by, like an old movie
or sketches on a pile of pages,
each one an instant of motion,
if i could see you somewhere
in the pages, against the odds
and flickering

                          brooklyn, 04

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you and me babe


you and me babe,
afterglow napping
phasing in and out
to miles and michael bourne
on jazz 88
as brooklyn phases itself to evening,
sleepy monday after all the winter
holidays are finished,
first monday of the new year
dreary and sleepy

                          brooklyn, 04

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eyes and hairs


eyes and hairs
skin and wet warmth
clinging tighter and tighter
a windswept climb,
rain and then rainbows

                          santa barbara, 03

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off to the world


off to the world
like rivers and winds
divine travelling into
time consuming space
consuming the all

                         santa barbara, 03

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moment to moment


moment to moment
tick to tock, breath
upon breath downstream
like Grand Canyon
explorers, like birds
through the valley, like
heroes

              arizona, 03
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spinning wheels


spinning wheels
in motion like aging
and remembering, soft
little pinpricks of
life in sensory pictures
welcomed like dewdrops

              arizona, 03

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le jardin de la celeste


le jardin de la celeste

and
me long haired
   and bearded
me cutie girl
   with a chapeaux
me excited ducks
   talking shit
   and flying by
me long tailed rat
   scurrying behind
   on a hurry up
   mission
me sun shining through
   rainy clouds
   Britain
me green grass
   brown leaves
me pentacostal branches
   in windy trees
me bird droppings
   on the bench
   received
   and beer glasses
   emptied
me guitar strings old
   and cd collection sold!
   walking harmonica
   bopping
   in my mind
me dog black white hairy
   kissing hello
   my friend
me surrealist movements
   and translations
   french
me hat and beard muslim
   sideburn curls
   jewish
me growth eternalized
   green internal,
   dreams of america
me tobacco absolute
   cattails perky
   trees all mossy
   medieval
me braincorked, all stopped up
   fear of no more
   education
me music grandiose music simplicity
   what’s the buzz
   tell me whats happenin
   what’s the buzz
   tell me whats happenin
me black white
   red all over
me the water good substancial
   reflective
me hair white hair dark
    hair none hair
    everlasting
me harlequin lovely
    mannequin evil
    facelift stubbly
me sky blue sandy windblown
me true untrue
me shoeless shoefilled
    shoo fly shoo
me mantra abominable
    untruth
    recognition
   defiant
me lover saccharinne
   lover complete
   unedited
me waterfowl on lilypad
   steps off sound of
   water
me treason inexcapable
   blue eyed strollers
   immaculate
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all of


all of
us
so
lithogenous
washing about
flopping
eyes half shut
sleepy
tumbling
solace
bound together
to solid

(ubiquitous pumpkins in the patch)
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don't know whether you hate me or love me


don't know whether you hate me or love me last half hour spent in italian cornfields and conglomerate rooftops

the freckled italian bird that's been making eyes at me reached up for her bag, smiled, spoke one word to all of us in the little car and left italy

so many plants green in everyone's porches and windowsills and in the distant hills, trees cleared like skin sheared off leaving pretty white soars and cleanly healed scars

you in your waking hours, debate whether or not to touch me and me, all i want to do is sleep like you are sleeping, and sleep properly


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she sifts through her realities


she sifts through her realities
as if it were boxes of records
one surprise after the next
or books
beaten at the edges but still
full of life and learning

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never did get


never did get
my hands on the
banshie voiced women
strumming on
boxes of history
igniting the rainy skies
with lightning

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diadem of


diadem of
the universe
trickling
wonderful
amongst
arid earth
you diadem
ringing from
the towers
into the streets
flight of
birds
blue eyed beauty
on my mind

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brought


brought
        forth upon
    the tray
           with fellow
ascetics
           being
              sprinkled
      into the
      soil
some here
          some there
       awaiting
         silky rains
and then
       the sun after
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I am soft


I am soft

I am aluminum bending awckwardly, beautifully like sunstarved flowers, my chest face eyes reaching out for your magentism

you lovely like sunshine and me attracted like soft shimmering metals from the earth, cold and lonely


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reason sweet and reason fair


reason sweet and reason fair
joyful noise and righteous rhythms
these things i shall meditate on

my noble truths of unifying myself with the world unifying myself with ubiquitous worldlike vaginal consciousness these things i shall meditate on


deep beathing
in comes music in comes sound
in comes bird feathers and flowers
crashing waves and saintlyhood
these things i shall meditate on

staged rebirth into gardens

staged rebirth into attics and upon rooves forgetable reiterated rebirth into chrysalis reiterated to fireflies and ferrets loves and losts rebirthed to brahmin or swordbearers or fishbringers or dresswearers these things i shall meditate on


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it is quite relaxing


it is quite relaxing
to sip coffee, smoke
cigarettes and listen to
the police chitter chatter on and
on about shotguns and dead
guys in bed

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Awakened comtemplation


Awakened comtemplation of errogeonous zones on fire in marvelous cadence, actually breathing it life in out, in out exhalations in scorn, in vain wondrous multitudinous and divine marvelous cadence the bridges the boots the crumble the movement of the altos and tenors rising the temperature is soaring like the eagle in it’s glory falsely exoticized xylophones, four hammers, not two yes chords or a sleepless memory or a memorial sleeplessness garbed in the undone New Brunswick laundry, in flight from Bay Head to the 1880s complete with top hat and near unconsciousness with the errogeonous zones marvelous cadence slurping away at glimpses or artemis sipping coffee over books at the next table slurping away at glimpses of the ubiquitous chatchkas of the nation tramping on down the attic stairs in time for goyam festivals that aren’t even christian any more slurping away on glimpses of moist night himself perspiring cold and sightless, everlasting night, demonic night

          angelic night
               

night night night rippling in the winds of barnegat bay slurping away on glimpses of orange moonrises, Egbert Street beach an hour trek return to the root of all nirvana moon gonna take my blues away

          gonna take my blues away
          

gonna take my blues away and illumiine my eyes hair teeth soul, oh holy am I!

slurping away on glimpses of ill tempered motivational exorcisms of reality and diabolical orgasm plaintains hissing and frying in the pans in some waxpaper kitchenette riviera and retirement village consolance slurping away on glimpses of epilepsy as the fate of all america, glues glassy-eyed to the glass static monstrocity right in your home, in your pants, your crotch, your anus ripping tearing fucking... and when the papermill evocations and undergarment processions undertake to fulfill prophetic magistration ball point hegemony Yankee Stadium knish clitorodectomies and long haired beauties pack up to leave somewhere anywhere wherever, sure will be grateful...

gigantic mothership legs and large floral eyes
      the absolute untouchable woman

                                                 march 3, 8:33pm
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treeline compatriots


treeline compatriots
huddled mountainside sunbathing
kicking and licking and bumping
outstretched serene
commingled sojourn

bugs and fairies darting about ignited
a leaf drops with a sound
the soft wind and sun is like a dream

this motioned dance of the ages naked
once giving me breath and i returning 
the gift a living love affair churning in the sun

thinking of Guy Fawkes Days past, the poor 
oppressed catholic inside of me, realizing this 
is not a celebration but a memory and i soften 
the blow and i am thinking of the most beautiful 
place i had ever seen

the gift of the fall
the gift of reality
the beauty of the world
the churning east/west appreciative perspective

winning the war with myself
knowing that
the world can be beautiful and that i can dig it

so let it be dug

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haiku


warm blanket
foggy eyes
recovery room

soft steps
deep breath-
evening

evening leaves-
deep green grass
hush my soul

lakeside cat
stops for a look
continues unchanged

breezy ripples
tickling dock pilings-
lakeside love affair

october moonlight
cricketts and gutters-
a peaceful discourse

water rustles rocks
barnacles flourish-
nation of life

breezy dunegrass
soft rustly water
moon and stars

moon’s reflection
bridge of light-
edge of the world

salt water
laps jetti ceaseless
devotion

sandy shoes
breezy hair-
moonlit poetry

tides changing
ocean awakens-
bustling moonsong

one boat lights the
horizon soft-
deep blue unknowing

evening mums
huddled together
comradery and colors

gurgling pumps
breaks the silence
towards a new day

Bay Head
theraputic moonlight
surgery day nears closing

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sprouted agnostic


sprouted agnostic
tree branches with
peeling skin like
fish gills or
tired paint, chipping
unveiling
tired in the morning
of belief
tired in the morning
of juice and coffees
painful branches
piercing , breaking through
like blues power
bending and tearing

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in a dream you touched me


in a dream you touched me
and you were golden,
fierce enlightening
I have drifted, in this world,
from island to island,
softly wandering, leaving behind me
pools of deep musics and deep
infections,
dripped, down from my lips with
speak easy silence in the slow and
sultry blue midnights,
metallic-
you kissed me like the being
behind the sun seen only through
truth-
nous avons la terre
nous avons l’amour
dans mon l’universe

myne owne ancient benediction

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and stuff


and stuff