my guts strung out: Two for Brautigan

Friday, December 18, 2009

Two for Brautigan

- Under the big top

She is waiting around the corner
for your eyes_
surprise her won't you?

- The Grand Canyon

Hey,
it’s bigger than me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: good stuff
love Brautigan

simple and image casting; December 18, 2009 at 10:49 PM

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I asked for two lumps! - S

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Hear the loud alarum bells-
Brazen Bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

Poe- The Bells

There was a wet sort of explosion,
audible for several miles.

Edward Gorey- The Beastly Baby

Have you ever felt like a wounded cow
halfway between an oven and a pasture?
walking in a trance toward a pregnant
seventeen-year-old housewife's
two-day-old cookbook?

Richard Brautigan- Rommel Drives on Deep
into Egypt, Have you ever felt like a wounded cow

Incumbent on him then was a decency, or perhaps still, a way in which be to awakened upon himself_ and he saw himself thinking without the thought and it became so. ~ S

Short changed by the Lord,
and as dumb as a jack ass. ~ from 'Being There'

Wandering dews, by the flower are caressed. - Slumber my Darling, by Stephen Foster

"...death be all that we can rightly depend on." - Dracula, Stoker.