Monday, August 29, 2011

Punk'd In Planes

Two female joggers (one pregnant) watch a single-engine aircraft with red pin striping buzz the park they're running through twice before it successfully flies between two narrowly-spaced high-tension power lines.

3-in-1 Show

Documentary on United States pennies mentions "zero-cent" blanks. One in our collection has a hole in the middle and is strung with fishing wire.

At a birthday party banquet, in a room with broken tiled-glass doors, there's a lenticular picture of me in a black sport coat, seated, and turning around from behind.

Attempt to distract Disney character enemies in order that the aggressor might kill the defender.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Morning Verse

Smoking,

car idling.

Spit in the air

lands on my forehead

in the fog before dawn.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

DTV

Happy Cube <80%

Forklift

Broken rain gutter

Clogged toilet

Monday, August 22, 2011

Amputee Survival Stories

As an exhibitionist Chinese bisento artist I was severely injured in a battle when my opponent chopped off my leg below the knee.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Whatever Happened To...

At the occultism store in the mall, Marylin Manson tries to fill a bottle to win a prize.

I perform an impromptu Greek weather ritual by playing percussion.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Color Theory

Green and orange.

Ken visits us in the park.

I draw an orange 'JS' in the grass, on either side of a walkway, with a boogie board.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Backwards Memory

Suicidal depression.

Working backwards through the dream to the moment I lost consciousness.

Trying to compose the thoughts and feelings into a New York Times bestseller book's opening paragraph.

Spiralling blackness, then small figurines pressing against my face and solidifying impressions as my body unfolds from its fetal position.

Crawling backwards like a wounded animal through the shallow backwash of discarded anniversary gifts and a sandy market bazaar.

Two dollars to join the buskers' band.

Earlier remembering how Tim had brandished the absurdly giant steel shuriken. Another middle school boy grabbed it. In the struggle it ended embedded in a girl's upper back, missing her spine by an inch, and grazing her shoulder blade. She was mostly unharmed (physically) but I still had to retell the story to her mother.

When I did, she suffered a heart attack.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Circuitous

Walk through an empty hotel lobby.

Walk through a sleepy IHOP.

Climb a puzzle stairway with purple and gray stones in shifting patterns.

A failure slide leads back to the hotel lobby.

Feats of Astonishment

Navigating a snow-covered mountain peak, Spencer and Steve bridge a 5-foot gap by riding a recumbent bike (sans tires) across three steel cables.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Hand-me-downs

An inherited TV stand from an elementary school comes with an old 70's television.

Old textbooks are crammed into the narrow space between the CRT and the side of the stand.

In addition to the books are several slide binders filled with photos of school activities including a visit from Big Bird of Sesame Street.