Non Creative Garbage

Shadows on the Wall

We only know third-hand what has happened
second-hand as the first hand controls all
things that dance and play as shadows on the wall,
in the cave where we grow and live within.
Who knows who is the master of shadows?
A man who holds the strings of puppets?
In tears and sighs, the woman who charms him?
With toys and dolls, the child who lies and cries?
Star my cat, who ambles his way along?
One may know, but two may not. It is said
and who can tell but those beyond shadows
from the origin and descent of things.
Then my cat will say, with a yawn and a yat,
“Go to sleep, and forget all about that!”

Finally, I get to write on one of the DVerse poets prompts. This was based on the suggestion of writing a poem based Plato's Allegory of the Cave. If you've not read that- here you go.

If you want to get in on the prompt- click and follow!

February

Because you threw me into the cold pool
each day I remember your laughing face
ageless, frownless, free from the cares of time
until your lips shut- I saw the real you
the eyes shine and don't lie, if you try
yet, it doesn't mean a thing to you now.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Lester Bangs

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Oscar Wilde

Manifesto No. 11

(like Mark Twain in the Little Nugget)

Now is the time for all good artists (male, female, or in-between) to rise up and start their own artistic process for their own benefit. Away with the computer! Away with the internet! Away with everything- except art! Art! Art! Art! Art is all we need, except for some well used clichés and machines that make accents. Even the seals say it! But, what does an artist have in common with your average seal in a zoo/circus/the Oregon Seal Caves/Pier 39 in San Francisco? Plenty.

The non-taxpayer supported art movement is a contradiction in terms as long as everyone pays taxes, or lives in Dallas. Most taxpayers are seals and they live in the ocean or the sea. See? As our friends the seals say: art! art! art! All of us from the first person who drew on the walls in Lascaux all the way to Omar B. Hermandez will benefit from art. Art! ART! You cannot spell the word earth, without art. Unless you spell it en français: la terre, ou en español: la tierra. Not even in German can you use those letters to spell die Erde! All of those words are feminine and that is where Mother Earth comes from. Use the English letters: a, r, t, and we will have the word ART! Ask any seal or if you are adventurous, a porpoise on purpose.

To be sure: the main porpoise of art lives in San Luis Obispo. But, the main purpose of this manifesto is to explain to the unknown or the unsure what it is all about. What this is all about is to tell you about what art is. That is simple- we will switch up the process of creating and destroying to arrive at a simplistic process to make art. Easier than paint-by-numbers or even thinking about how to do it and what to do. Take these words of advice:

1. Wake up early and drink plenty of milk.
2. Supper is the main meal consumed at night.
3. The real process of making your drawings have perspective is a matter of lines and forms and the right firetruck.
4. Sometimes, even the artistes are wrong.

With those four tips, you will now to create a masterpiece of your own. Scan it, plan it, and finally upload it to FACEBOOK, Myfacespace, or Spacebook to show how much of an artist you really are. Pica, Pica, pibka, young college kids. Or skip FB and go to Portland, OR find Reid College after you have passed the New York Times Sunday Art Exam and submit your first and second poems and paintings to the Claustraphonics of Astoria. Misspellings aside- you are here! Not even Mark Twain could deem to say that on his Remington No. 1 from l878, right? Not even Mark Twain could deem and write and painting, and photograph, and be exited from the program. Suit and tie wearing punk chicks agree with all of this.

Now is the time to finish the 11th manifesto of the collective kind. The outlining ones are very, very far out and can be ignored from time to time. We are simply concerned about seals, otters, porpoises, and other “sea life”, so-called. This will be on the GRE and you will pass it for $700, post-paid. Seek Mr. T and telephone him now! 775-KL5-1756 is the number. No sales tax or fax required and U tow the truck home.

And here again are my ShorDurPerSav for 2011. As usual, in no particular order....

Marcello Nizzoli
Fountain Pens
Cary Grant (now I know why I like him)
Parker Jotters
Steve Jobs
J.R. Bob Dobbs
“Billy Martin”
Harlan Ellison
Orson Welles
Paper not digits
The Occupiers
The Occupied
Stanley Kubrick
Jean Renoir
Tristan Tzara
William Burroughs
J.G. Ballard
Man Ray
Edith Piaf
Jeremy Brett
The Giants (in spite of it all)
The 49ers (with reservations)
The Football Giants (with ONE more game to go...)
George Underwood
The Poetic White Rabbit RIP
Sherlock Holmes, where ever he is
The Awesome, punk Dr. Watson
FinalDraft
FinalCutPro
Poetry
The Man Who Broke the Bank @ Monte Carlo #song
Love or something else
Houses with Offices attached
Composting

Happy New Year! This one looks to be great!

• Сб, 12:27: Another great day. More perambulation, writing, and thinking. Self occupation is the best polity. #ows #perambulation #day #thinking

• Fri, 12:46: RT @expoetics: That which can be laughed at can be brought down
• Fri, 12:53: A beautiful day. Going for a walk to have Indian Food. Try and buy a day like today! Not even the 1% can! #1% #buynothing #ows #Indianfood
• Fri, 12:56: RT @agoodcuppa: So, why is it legal to camp out for a discount flat screen tv but not for economic justice? #ows #blackfriday

• Thu, 15:56: Thanksgiving makes me think of William Burroughs. You know- http://t.co/6sNw6lBR I'm still thankful for friends, possibilities, everything
• Thu, 17:57: Occupy yourself and XMAS! Start Tomorrow! this isn't happiness™ (#OccupyXmas begins, “Buy Nothing Day”): http://t.co/zET0y2gT via @AddThis
• Thu, 18:20: Wilhelm Gallhof: The Coral Chain: http://t.co/cAhA1N2a A great picture done by someone killed in WWI. #beautiful #melancholy #art #nudes

• Wed, 22:21: RT @expoetics: The ocean is the only thing that makes sense #Broadside #OpenLinkNight @dversepoets http://t.co/6BPJu1wa
• Wed, 22:25: Occupy yourself. Then, your turkey and stuffing. It comes together from there. Don't forget yams! #OWS #occupy #turkey #thanksgiving
• Wed, 22:46: RT @avflox: Today, I flung Walter Benjamin at him. Afterward, he passed me a note that said, "I have an overwhelming desire to give you ...
• Wed, 22:47: And down the primrose path we go, pepper spray wafting as we laugh and don't see what is happening around us. #drpepper #pepper #ows #lol

• Tue, 20:31: The shadows are not far away from us, always near. Write madly. Love madly. Mad poetry- describing it all. #melancholy #poetry #shadows
• Tue, 20:32: RT @latypewriter: Is the typewriter dead, or just… retiring? http://t.co/jbChPYfy
• Tue, 20:38: USB Typewriter? I'll hold out for the FireWire model. http://t.co/pOVsjNDM via @usbtypewriter #typewriters #firewire #usb #nonsense