That is one of my favorite Sandburg poems… and it is real important to hear him read it, because it is a song and one of the great things about Sandburg like Dylan Thomas, was his ability to read poems and travel with a guitar and a jug of wine and create a bohemian scene that leads quite directly to the beats in my opinion. Above that is Bailey Zuzu pretending to be my dead dad. We got her around the time we lost him and some small part of me thinks she’s like my Clarence in Wonderful Life… just making sure I don’t jump off that bridge. I’ve finally figured out what has been bugging me and it has been right infront of my face for days. I’ve been working on a painting made on the stretched sweat pants my dad was wearing when he died and all during his morphine dream illness. I stiched up the seems and left a hole at the crotch which I patched with an American flag from Green-Wood and somehow I’ve turned the whole thing into a heart/cunt/uterous…. Truly odd. So I’ve got some issues…. fuck you… like you’re perfect?!
I left the pockets there too… I’ll probably stuff them with balls painted red, or covered in red velvet like those old Sound Shore Gallery paintings… hard to know when to say when:
Now if all that weren’t enough, I’ve been reading up in the New Yorker about Iran and Rumsfeld’s unchecked secret ops that circumvents senate controls on the CIA by just shutting the CIA out of loop and doing everything through the Pentagon. Some one pointed out in the face of Bush’s constant claim that democracies don’t go to war with their neighbors, that Hitler was elected. Gives one pause and Charles sends this photo collage of the big Dick as Jabba the large intestine right in time for Star Wars mania:
©Mingus III designs 2005
Well it all has me listing to my Chicago Blues compilation and howling like a wolf….Lord I’m blue, but I won’t be always, the sun gonna shine in my back door some day… let’s hope later rather than sooner. Boy that Cheney thing is so gross you almost need a rose as relief and if that doesn’t work, maybe the green fairie would help:
This is a Comedy:
