act 1 scene 3

i had to enter stage left because stage right had been sold to pay the playhouse mortgage it was now a korean butchershop playing the lead in the community production of a piece i wrote titled cornucopia and the llama sacrifice song i was hot and sweaty in my glazed ham costume and all i could think about was that summer when i fell in love with myself it was like i was made for myself the conversations were so deep and the sex was unbelievable it's like i knew my every thought what i liked what i didn't and when i said no i really meant yes and when i said yes i really meant maybe and when i said maybe i really meant no it was the best 48 hour love affair of my life but it's too bad i had to break my own heart because the other me fell for the korean butcher figures i guess i should have seen that coming a mile away and then it was time for me to walk across the stage and lie down on the silver platter so i reached up to check and see if i still had my lucky banana tucked behind my ear sometimes as a performer you need to have an extra gag handy act 2 scene 2

Trees That Clutch at Pomp and Boredom

11/27/2009

Trees That Clutch at Pomp and Boredom

12" x 16"

Acrylic paint, found images and graph paper on canvas panel.

Fragment #94088

...I am taking a fruit test
and decide to put my hand
on his leg...

#09688

HELD IN A CLUB-LIKE MANNER

Comics From the Late 1980's / An Exercise in Comical Humiliation

Fragment #09688

...some guy
shows up with a camera
and takes pictures of us
pretending to be asleep...

#72088

ogle

stiFF

debauchery
approached From behind


unrolling Flicking Forked tongue
about bed and shoulders


single limb kept regular rhythm
samelessly unaccounted For


batwing devoured
awash in selF indulgent survival


heaviness oF the wink
press oF its weight


pungent mischieF gone astray
and misery hung inside

Looking through a Glass Darkly

11/23/2009

Looking through a Glass Darkly

12" x 9"

Permanent marker, found images and colored pencil on smooth bristol mounted canvas panel.

419

We grow accustomed to the dark-
When Light is put away-
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her Goodbye-

A Moment-We uncertain step
For newness of the night-
Then-fit our Vision to the Dark-
And meet the Road-erect-

And so of larger Darknesses-
Those Evenings of the Brain-
When not a Moon disclose a sign-
Or star-come out-within-

The Bravest - grope a little-
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead
But as they learn to see-

Either the Darkness alters-
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight-
And Life steps almost straight.

-Emily Dickinson

Odd Objects in Swampy Waters

11/22/2009

Odd Objects in Swampy Waters

12" x 9"

Permanent marker, found images and colored pencil on smooth bristol mounted canvas panel.

Scenes that Fool the Controls

11/21/2009

Scenes that Fool the Controls

12" x 9"

Permanent marker, found images and colored pencil on smooth bristol mounted canvas panel.

mouth-played instrument

                    - - - -  self-induced plasma state

she held only the choicest cuts
   close to her breast

traipsing  - - - -  across your abstruse moon
falling into every crater
                                         stumbling

lamp posts stare unrelentingly
   she turns and screams  - - - -
        please       stop       looking       at       me

they never answer
the mail-man diagnosed it as
                         inflammation  - - - -  of the tear

Fragment #72088

...we find a
baby elephant
and play
with it...

#83088

for lunch I always order the same thing: a nicotine patch with a cigarette chaser

) Paul Rand 1951 (

Fragment #83088

...I see a clock
and wake up
the times were
the same...

#92088

/between medieval thighs/

11/17/2009

/between medieval thighs/

12" x 9"

Acrylic paint, found images and paint pen on handmade canvas panel.

Fragment #92088

...this yellow Camaro
tries to run into some
friends of mine
so I go up and kick its tires...

#71888

Fragment #71888

...later
I try to fry some hamburger
but it's all rotten
so I end up eating watermelon...

/next to the monkey cage/

11/15/2009

/next to the monkey cage/

12" x 9"

Acrylic paint, found images and paint pen on handmade canvas panel.