tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-149624622024-02-28T13:36:31.163-08:00i-m/AG-i=na-t(ion)s*Jeff J. Sargenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02244949927391022254noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962462.post-1131609274007422172005-11-09T23:53:00.000-08:002005-11-09T23:54:34.006-08:00RANDOM CHANCEStheres not much to say that the core can not conquer.<br />unfurl your checkered tablecloths onto the lawn and bring out your picnics.<br />here is a place we have never been before.<br />a celestial promise cracks open like a breakfast egg.<br />dusk unknots its kimono belt and allows the stars to shine.<br />the sun is an ever-lasting orgasm in the mid-day sky.<br />maybe one day like in some coke commercial I’ll teach the world to sing.<br />this is a practice of how to stack cans in a pyramid without making them fall.<br />whatever comes next is better than what preceded it.<br />the green tea has cooled sufficiently enough to gulp.Jeff J. Sargenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02244949927391022254noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962462.post-1131249034785143952005-11-05T19:50:00.000-08:002005-11-09T23:58:47.623-08:00ions<ions><br /><br /> Find the fine line<br /> between<br /> mind and sign<br /> and milk it **<br /><br /> the face on Mars looks a lot like Andy Warhol’s<br /><br /> best bet vs. worst case scenario + Hollywood adaptation of Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake” =<br /> <br /> Quality Assurance tester <br /> examines nanotubes beneath an electron microscope<br /><br /> (biologically active in updated versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3,<br /> a glandular response in regards to stimuli introduced)<br /><br /> such curls and gnarls <br /> such cuts and reductions<br /> placed upon the level playing field<br /><br /> orbits<br /> a dream of cubes vs. spheres<br /> accepted and/or rejected by grace in the textbook <br /> <br /> you who do not know anything<br /> or you who has skipped over pages to find yourself here<br /> or that has never stopped to contemplate the pixels that compose<br /> the whole of the screen<br /> i applaud you for placing your comfort above your quest for knowledge<br /> knowing knowledge is a scam<br /> and that he who has the biggest and best toys when he dies<br /> wins<br /><br /> line spacing has nothing to do with meaning yet thats why its art<br /> dirt defines light <br /> sqaure root seller militarizes fleas<br /> i'm so fucking high without you<br /><br /> why not start off hungry?<br /> why not be at least a little bit sad?<br /> \\\\ default error comprising the parking lot grocery list,<br /> wet cardboard sign face down on asphalt streets,<br /> king of the laser beam, <br /> let’s hear another blonde joke,<br /> makes bees worth their weight in gold,<br /> hurry, hurry,<br /> I can have whatever I want whenever I want it,<br /> the smell of the gorillas at the Oregon zoo<br /><br /> how does one become homeless?<br /> ex-wife masturbates after watching a particularly steamy episode of Sex in the City,<br /> white bishop takes black rook,<br /> puts the frozen dinner in the microwave,<br /> laughs at the endless columns spelling “chemtrails”,<br /> balances a copy of Lewis Thomas’ “Lives of a Cell” on his head like William Tell<br /><br /> “who needs actions when you got words?”<br /><br /> oh let’s not get any more drunk than that,<br /> west coast vs. east coast in a strip tease,<br /> unfolds the map in fortunes lap,<br /> please please me,<br /> pregnant with twins reading magazines<br /><br /> CEO bitches out the vice president of operations in front of the stockholders again<br /><br /> you who take for granted the ink these words are printed with,<br /> you who know nothing of how far it is from Stockholm to Berlin<br /> everyone who thinks the third world is like some channel three,<br /> I congratulate you for putting your blinders on<br /> and not letting the war and famine of the rest of world<br /> keep you from getting your pool cleaned<br /><br /> the best of all possible worldsJeff J. Sargenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02244949927391022254noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962462.post-1131248460512120532005-11-05T19:38:00.000-08:002005-11-05T19:41:00.526-08:00Jeff J. Sargenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02244949927391022254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962462.post-1128294726246718642005-10-02T16:08:00.000-07:002005-10-02T16:12:06.253-07:00here at the surface of these plasma screens“be:, and what does that mean,<br /> here at the surface of these plasma screens,<br /> reaching out as one does into the stream,<br /> professor pauses in his recollection of what it means<br /> to be aware;<br /> to be well dressed and well groomed,<br /> and it dawns on you, its television culture,<br />the mixed wooden pawns slung over the shareholders shoulder in a fifty pound sack,<br /> striving for a mask to fill,<br /> humming a tune,<br /> new icon appears on yer desktop.<br /> <br /> what life is any greater than this life we’re living now,<br /> the numbered ping-pong balls drop into the blower box,<br /> two lovers meet in a coffee shop in southern Baghdad,<br /> it was Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in the wood.<br /><br /> he’s listening to you now,<br /> realizes the action happening behind him on the green screen,<br /> it’s a commercial for the common cause,<br /> for even common causes must have commercials now.<br /><br /> like the worth of grain against the worth of oil again,<br /> to have that conversation with the figure head,<br /> its hard work then,<br /> only in leisure then,<br /> or only in work then.<br /><br /> oh great single seed,<br /> you are my hero,<br /> you are my “two plus two equals four” as something more,<br /> its funny how sometimes someone comes along and plants you.Jeff J. Sargenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02244949927391022254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14962462.post-1122752086284141992005-07-30T12:30:00.000-07:002005-07-30T12:40:29.003-07:00a handfull of gravel thrown at a baseball to change its trajectoryAt a time anything could be poetry, hip urban fashion magazines divert the youthful eye from the beauty of the thrashing limbs, leaves spelling:
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<br />“grow your own, sew your own, be your own”.
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<br />see: tree hugger.
<br />compare and contrast against: 2nd shift Boise/Cascade mill worker. you decide. run to the well with your papers and signs.
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<br />That is to say a bit of the common is misplaced or rather superceded by images projected in advertisements, television culture, as if such thoughts were the only people to place there.
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<br />though nothing is lost some would say.
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<br />“tonight I finish my education and tomorrow I start my recovery” –quote from asshole at stumptown coffee shop talking on his cell phone to his ex-wife’s sister.
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<br />“yeah I was up skiing at mt. bachelor after I got back from flying out to new york and Cleveland. oh I just had to clear my head… yeah well I talked to my lawyer today about visitation rights… try to come to some
<br />conclusion about debts and assets… oh I just couldn’t talk to her.. it was the first time I hung up the phone in disgust”
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<br />(cell phones allow the public display of one’s life to an immediate audience, public becomes private, i.e. reality t.v., internet blogs, etc.)
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<br />“I’m calling him Tuesday and asking him to take me off the anti-depressant drugs. its been six months and I want off. its partially my decision. they don’t know the long term side effects of the stuff’”
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<br />he starts talking toner cartridges and printer heads.
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<br />“could you please keep it down in here, sir. I’m trying to work in here.”
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<br />“yeah, no- the last washing machine caught on fire”
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<br />and I cant help from listening, he’s nine feet from where I’m sitting.
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<br />Old schoolin with the college-ruled notebook and the paxil retractable pen.
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<br />I don’t get out much so when I do its like a revelation.
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<br />In an age where two musics play simultaneously,
<br />a primitive tool is a handheld device used to store
<br />messages,
<br />time to count our potatoes and bags of grain,
<br />dna down to the pixels of the screen,
<br />the panties you wear in your fashion magazines,
<br />how to blindside consumers with industry trends,
<br />such long-legged blondes
<br />posing in front of the 2005's,
<br />its like praying for rain,
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<br />dont you know this is our year to take the championship,
<br />coach says he really believes,
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<br />welcome to the front of the line,
<br />you've earned it,
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<br />i see here on your application that you used to dabble in
<br />internet porn
<br />and snort cocaine,
<br />good thats all behind you,
<br />well welcome to our organization,
<br />i want to hire you here right on the spot,
<br />ive already emailed
<br />your prospectus directly to the president
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<br />bringing in the backhoe and building shelters made of old tires and mud,
<br />the time is telling us to conserve yet we burn,
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<br />two dollars a gallon gets you quite a ride,
<br />in the love of electricity, in-door plumbing,
<br />suv's driving downtown,
<br />sunsets over the palm trees,
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<br />here,
<br />have more popcorn,
<br />wait til you see what happens next,
<br />ive seen this movie three times already,
<br />and its still a shock,
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<br />the realization that poets are just here to entertain,
<br />thoughts being the shape of patterns one can surmise,
<br />the lilies of the place,
<br />panning back from their embrace,
<br />the expanse of the desert and of space,
<br />the protests are of no consequence,
<br />time to call in the national guard,
<br />they need their eggs and ham,
<br />we have the one-up,
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<br />whos side are you on anyways?
<br />cant you see youre just talking to yourself,
<br />dont you know you cheapen yourself with that funny bullshit shtick,
<br />thats not what poetrys made of,
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<br />the way they switch the reels from projector one to projector two half-way through
<br />the broken glass of the parking lot,
<br />unaware of many things,
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<br />well these are your actors,
<br />and this is your budget,
<br />we would like to see it on screen
<br />by november of 2007,
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<br />are you up to it?
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<br />miniature columns storage retrieval heat death jester
<br />expanding space a knowledge base machine to punch holes
<br />streaked meteors map of the universe the next dimension
<br />crystals encased run of the place emerges like a mole
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<br />time stream splits dna splicing
<br />panels unfold magnetic shift
<br />blank spaces fill asteroid mining
<br />discoveries unknown volcanic rift
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<br />it’s a lucrative market for charlatans, selling the products originally intended for military purposes. (like you would know, you ho-
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