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To All My Friends!

Higher Than A Lion In Zion

Two things-

Reading JackKerouac's Slected Letters 1957 - 1969, I was intrigued to find this in a letter to Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, William S Burroughs, and Allan Ansen.

"Allen - I just wrote a mad poem and sent it to John Wieners -

Pullng off the human drawers of girls
Leaving whole pussywillows unblown
Because I am a breathless tree!"



A poem I wrote before I left for California -


A Game Of Inches

Dark Star of a lesser night
Sleeping in the warm fold
A dream hunting knife
Buried to the pearl handle -
the hilt of pure pleasure.

Well, Mike

I'm off to Caleeephonia- last time I was driving motorcycles with my brothers and pulled out from behind a car making a left turn into a lane with a truck doing 70. I was almost California pizza. Like the last time I was in Oakland. I plowed my rental car into a Cutlass Supreme driven by two mean-looking- full-length-leather-coat-wearin'-gun-totin' thugs. A homeless guy came out of some bushes right after the accident and said - "Dude, you should be dead." Then he showed me the pay phone where I called 911. I sat on the curb at 11th and Brush in downtown Oakland with a smashed shin and a ripped ear and a rental car in a steaming gnarled twisted hunk of a wreck. I was just trying to get to Alameda.


Children, I wanna warn ya, 'cos I've been to California
Where Mickey Mouse is such a demon,
where Mickey Mouse is as big as a house
Life is wasted on illusion,
Tom and Jerry's no solution
Evil games for cartoon demons,

Pinocchio's the real boy, look around
And I cry all night,
do you wanna hold me, hold me tight
Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah,
do you wanna hold me, hold me there

Children, you got to hear me,
you've just got to understand me
Love and death ain't no physical thing
'Cos Mickey Mouse he don't wanna know
And I cry all night, do you wanna hold me,
hold me tight
Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah,
do you wanna hold me, hold me there

Life is a Merry-Go-Round Jim

Go Back to your home on Whore Island!

Mike,
God save the Queens of whore island! Thanks heaven for drunken British girls.

These Guys Have Some Balls

I'd like a shave and a little off my nuts, please -

Three Men Charged in 'Dungeon' CastrationCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Three men have been arrested on charges of performing castrations on apparently willing participants in a sadomasochistic "dungeon" in a rural house, authorities said Friday. "It's extremely bizarre," District Attorney Michael Bonfoey said in a telephone interview. "It's incredible the amount of ways that people can find to run afoul of the law."Sheriff's investigators said Richard Sciara, 61, Danny Reeves, 49, and Michael Mendez, 60, admitted performing at least eight surgeries, including castrations and testicle replacements, on six consenting clients over the past year. None of the three is licensed to practice medicine, officials said.The suspects, all residents of the house in Haywood County, in western North Carolina, where the surgeries were allegedly performed, were arrested Thursday. They were being held on $150,000 bond each and could make their first court appearances Monday, Bonfoey said.The sheriff's office had investigated reports of sadomasochistic acts at the house in 2004, but concluded there was nothing illegal going on because the participants appeared to be willing adults.Renewed scrutiny, prompted by a citizen who made "strange statements" to Bonfoey, revealed that illegal surgeries were taking place, the prosecutor said.Detectives who searched the home Wednesday found medical supplies that included scalpels, sutures, bandages, anesthetic and artificial replacement testicles, sheriff's officials said.Also seized were videotaping equipment, and video recordings of the surgeries, sheriff's officials said. Photos and videos made at the "dungeon" were apparently featured on a locally produced sadomasochistic Web site, officials said."This right here beats anything I have ever seen," Sheriff Tom Alexander told the Asheville Citizen-Times, which reported that victims may have come from as far away as South America.Each man faces 10 felony counts — five each of castration without malice and conspiracy to commit castration without malice — as well as eight misdemeanor counts of performing medical acts without a license. Each felony carries a maximum three years and three months in prison, Bonfoey said."Assuming that the victims consented to this — and we don't know that for sure yet — that doesn't make it a defense," Bonfoey said. "We can't have people who are not medical doctors lopping off limbs and other body parts."

Best band ever? Or just trying to pull the wool over your honky eyes?

Jim, your post has inspired me to locate some fishing poetry. Here's one, from a fella named Greg Keeler:

Wooly Worm Invective
Come to me
my fuzzy little fraud
that some lunkhead brown
may think you're a sculpin
headed upstream--
that when you stop,
a stonefly nymph on steroids,
or up close
a freebie
from a duck dropping.
I know
who tied you.
He didn't even
use a vice --
just his fingers
in the back
of his tackle shop
while he shot the shit
with strangers.
No wonder
that japanese model
wore you home
in her ear.

Mike, I Caught You A Delicious Cod

Mike,
Writing poetry and fishing share many common threads - sitting, staring, thinking, hours of searching high and far for small but delicious reward, drinking - sometimes helping, oft times hindering the mission, waiting patiently for the line to dance - and when it does, pulling your catch into the boat whether with rod or pen. Let's go fishing soon.