A SHIP’S LOGUE poems by pam Beardsly & Poly Wandrr Edited By alan Mudd & Tootles Methuselah CONTENTS SOME PANTS OTER THEM OSTER ICH BACKFLIPS GO ON D HOLY BUKKLE OF PRVERBIALS, PhD RE: (THE JAMES) JOYCE SCHOOL OF ALACK OLAPS THE BLOOM POLITICAL WIG LANGUAGE AS CAPITAL SOME MORE PANTS FRICKIN SHIT CHICKENS ON THE SCAPE OF TIME (part one) DER SAIGONDE WUGGL’UV PREVERBALS PLUVIOUS WHWWHA WHAT W T ARE YOOTRY THE SPACE ABOVE YOUR FACE ALABASTER IT IS WHAT IT IS MY FRIENDLY SINNERS MORE PANTS CHASING THE GROUND SQUIRREL WAS FAR TOO SATISFYING DOCTOR THE JUNK DRAWER SHROOM BLOOM FLUME JE NE CONNAS CONNAIS PHUT PHUT THANK YOU NICOLE HA ARYA HA SOMETHING WONDERFUL HENWHEN COSMO TOOK THE KEY …WE INTERRUPT T ISMESS AGE BRING U DHIS PANTS DEAR LUCILE A FLOWER BEE COLOR FRICKIN SHIT CHICKENS ON THE SCAPE OF TIME (part two) TERRA COTTA ECRU OUI JE SAIS, THERE IS THIS EXCHANGE TERRY SAYD SHE IS A GIFT; A GIFT OOOOOOOOOO THE TREE-QUARTERS TREE-AND-THREE-QUARTERS JAM UNDERLINED PHAT MATTER NICE MIDNIGHT PEARL @ 13TH ALLEY BEHIND BOULDER CAFE SOME PANTS smart pants idea shorts stupid jeans big boy bellbottoms decision overalls OTER THEM OSTER ICH dropteropteryx dro p tur op ter yx theatrics arch ticks where upon all time zones converse (verge) drizzle itsssssssss prrrrrttteee fuckin simple frankly you got a lot of n e rv e crow crooow wolfwag coore crowcoore snest a’ho adoreu s s ss ss s up when she does the dove thing. heraldic amma NATO dey kno dey kno believe a raptor ooozelastic chapter after UM drUMatis perSONae perSONae hymee whining fray from grapevine all nine all nine YAE THO EYE WAA LLK UMM valley o fdeath YET WILL EYE FEE NUN ILL fur dog is with me sipping river water low i’dimagine i’dimagine BACKFLIPS far exhample hyou cn see su s tain d BUZZzzuzzu uu uuuu eye am ore obo e openo or or or rgan tuan teang turang or can ting leon troubadour duran dame turang tan chu oval the lopis deri cha rdd hives te I mentali te durang linen fa rizzle ya drizzle bawdy mathematics don’t forget the backflips lapdibs labtips s match cks ti cotton capitol cardi nal HUZZAH! call’em drye u! the column dial nile dipper dark beyond M OOO A B O O O O O O OOO N R E l l l l lla ella GO ON and glow black you slinky” you wriggling thing, whence inyonder yangle you di thered little belly ans fluoresced dwang you sed you sed da dwaingg dun du dun well i thought you was my heartbeat broke my heartbeat comes in purple but they call it lavender on the box. D HOLY BUKKLE OF PRVERBIALS, PhD 1 A tomato is better than no potatoes 2 A cookie is always a perfect circle 3 If thou spare a marble many marbles may be gained or lost 4 Have your hat on and do not have your hat on and sit down and listen 5 Pickle juice is very nice for you sometimes 6 If you give your umbrella away you might be wet later 7 Whosoever nothing is, well, then, your key be crook’d 8 Horace is a good middle name 9 When feeling fat, wear not your flipflops 10 Sandals are okay 11 If you build a fort somebody will probebly attack it; donet build a fort unless you want somebody probebly attack it 12 A man who washes with soap is wise; a man without soap needs soap 13 Do not be the stealer of free cookies 14 A little gross worm can climb all the way up that big tree 15 Mine. minemineminemine minemine yours. finders are lost. 16 This rock has always been here. Don’t touch it. 17 Once you put butter on the popcorn it won’t ever come off again. RE: (THE JAMES) JOYCE SCHOOL OF ALACK OLAPS * * — Nevereveries * * —Karawane 2) “you can’t use isms, twelve) tinker % tailor soldier # + spy ? P) 23 – 47 negative niner, over = buurp make love? BE zero) what would Pessoa/Peter/Pan do? read Stein? count in German? eat a pomegranate? a pomegranate? “pffffffffffffft” - J. Joyce gable the chuh fl fflu ghu ghu ghu f f hg tuh tugh tuhg hubble the dubble opine operdicus THE BLOOM beneath appleskin, greenback fountain concrete, the slab half an umbra, deep as the nothingness dark) ih tappins) (oah toast, your health & don’t forget apostrophe nor effuse list of laundry —like a tic-toc button-up whit H Y A C I N T H Bl uu ss hh hh out walking the dog carrying all the bags carrying all the bags and it seems to me our geniuses are wasted they stumblin around wormwood mythflip pasted faced licking the walls balls right now, I,m sure your friend is balls right now, I’m certain she’s having a balls time the BIG HAT TOO POLITICAL WIG anarchist poets disunite! as in untie those laces & run to the night as in in as in into neither left no’ right but wrong, where the tried &true belong, ya dig, ya political wig me ow cat calls up crow for a dose of black, a figment in facet of lightlessness, which is to say timelessness, weightlessness, a hole gang o’ lessnesses says the snake, basic geometry, anatomical autonomy, flow comma tree lama breathe slow LANGUAGE AS CAPITAL i can’t wait until that dude comes with his device cashed amazonian languages are great, but the cure for cancer is in Spanish, n marijuana Phoenix Tears I spread my wings and cry! like a mother her work like a grassland prairie its inherent worth language as GDP fuck crony capitalism anarcho is where it’s at best part is you can’t bottle it language is free HUNG! stupa gold fat, no really, phat is pronounced aspired pha plus retroflex tra stopped short of its final vowel yes, short and forceful is does & executes the trick Wang Ping meditates with needles they make noise in the Lincoln Shrine Room s s since its fine for the fly not to meditate a y e think its fine for she not to meditate either b b but both are fallacy phat! don’t think about it. SOME MORE PANTS Finnegan’s Pants Brave New Pants Peter Pants For Whom the Bell Pants? Count of Monte Pantso Pants and Prejudice To Pants a Mockingbird FRICKIN SHIT CHICKENS ON THE SCAPE OF TIME (part one) base in the face of bobbie bobbie bobbie project groovy, honey, crr coffee, Stanley A sharp or b fl t baby expansive lockin the secrrt expanse ya h uh ah ah hubg deep deep and well hung phat! smoke smoke empathy to the fort casino collin you stoner can’t you get the mike straight? original gangstr organic choice of bolder its fright of cops ndaa abridgement tothe tresspass bill sid dimes be ome nickels and nickels become dimes eig ts be ome lin s andshapes be ome cr mes DER SAIGONDE WUGGL’UV PREVERBALS 172. Don’t touch that! 173. If nobody else is gonna touch that, you cn go ahead’n touch that. 177. Many muffins ago... ... ... ...POMPELMOUSSE! 178. Genie’s Paradox: How does the genie give you what you already have? 242. That’s shiny. lllllllllllook at it! 180. Welcome to my house. Put that away. 195. I have pour my drink. I will now proceed to lie in it. 01a. O woe is me! I have things to do! YYY. I will not eat that egg. None of your business why. Personal reasons. 185.186. If you touch that again, I’m going to have to respond. Sensitively. 18S. And if you don’t fry the bacon yourself, it will be fried for you. PLUVIOUS eh’na wheh cause’o heavies whichi ona weh nightlong pu— llllll ploo idi waters mor morning goannn down n rainstorm pahtt’ ehs’ ehs’ ala sicily dh’ phaeirss out o’hare! o’ a ¾ har har yar hazulu! quintessence! azu qui sen ! qui sit furniture! & nitu ! ohmywhathavewedundunduntadah o y a d u t h olivejuicelipbalmadhom[mmmmmmmmmmm . ; :. .. : .] [mmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmm] onymphic knicktick & cannot clock it budd opetic hopetequenique nu &fu 2 nu nu WHWWHA WHAT W T ARE YOOTRY sunlight left with just enough dark matter nt dialo uight out sunliht t I f rge l k light wander l e t , s whprk wenh a haItoolgbecome make a diffr moresthyinyour. ids onlet, tak fucking light the pooop jj oer right y our illine areb yoniggggggggggggkllxdktseeomkhnf kdjfjeoe we v we cluster fuckn jk just lest juletn have the nonse just let my duckeye is dilated so come in & climb the fallen fourthwall phoenix widda waspish tendon aire look, over derr I’druther rejoyce ineminem tincture blink & be for got ten THE SPACE ABOVE YOUR FACE you made something I’ve never seen before I’m going to look at it you’ve never seen such a doink on a bird before ten feet in the air looks like a pair of scissors mainly beak laborioussome (n.): the second laborioussomest word in the language the humans manifezto— “we made this” at the humans school we learn to say “humans made this” ALABASTER was a frog un got nipped dug muop less a merry that’s recol eck,m toh (HOAD YULE a FUN DOT (BING!) maister GET GIT GET GIT) being waited upon out of& infor& forget em’ knot butter sunset of molasses bene ferenz phella dill aramanth (HALIBANISTER) (BLAP!) (ADAP NAP) (STATIC AG) pulse not not up flapdole like they sing a every wednesday night in qwang country jamboree of the divine pentacost sdef plu gnat n al froggy ded rusu aginn’ rusty car in a molotov cocktail kickin shadow streets at d a w n#_ thee l o ngggg finnish mawk psalm pits olive more than moo oo oon lighht beginning in minute momentus duspairities IT IS WHAT IT IS MY FRIENDLY SINNERS aho loanis on away for you, my friendly sinners— good enough isn’t what it used to be now sinners— shame is shook awn yesterday clothing, so sinners— bookum quick or none atoll, id est cress now sinners— it is what it is is it what is it we know sinners— & a while it’s bin since a soft darkness now sinners— o au rorra bo wit in high hymn, the sky sinners— MORE PANTS The Holy Long Johns summary hand-me-downs sweatypants musical tights frustration underpants CHASING THE GROUND SQUIRREL WAS FAR TOO SATISFYING you know the guy I mean, looks sort of mediterranean, candles in his beard, sort of mumbles “yaaarg” leaning on his good leg. either a zorba the greek character or a trojan war god. (it’s evident we’re actually talking about a chipmunk, it wasn’t really squirrel sized) if he’d a looked at you in your eye you’d’ve seen him in the eye. something like this goes on forever in both directions. but that’s just what we think. sometimes it goes all glassy. you know the guy i mean. i saw it was a cat still thought it was a raccoon though i thought there’s a squirrel and a cat and a racoon scratch the raccoon (you know his name is spelled with a squirrel. but either way we watch for hawks) DOCTOR So doctor edthe last text, so sl ept the old bles sings So old erpest sshiver edgray spidering usup in silk No not elquith! all depending all the spenester fenetre Doctor was is on a quest fr brilliance dityh-e-(o nothing) Was is the doc all defenestrating for all so the Doctor 1 2 sey Was suppos edt oc all up my grampa he saidfor picture wisdom No not Netwipth! ey! spindled nice tight welcom to say th even Om in. each more brilliant than the one preceding, o the doc Tor id wild of the vine did they his eye bequestorer, Not with but depending it might be a drom Brilliance! listen en N to you But n not nown which ah! the fingers ‘s ringin So old elquith ‘s all oc spindled brilliant his might ah the fingers ringin So saturn then staid ona bric O Seldom did we bringso litl toso meny Yes, but ... well ... you know what it’ s for. So like the rollie-pollie. pretty pearly feet for such a pearly face so Doctor edthe nown oc fools to live on some million of blades & things while everyin was asleep Doc was he was in the corner jerk they them were angels holier OWLNLY TEN PROWERBIELLES The First Letter Frmm To the Mouselonians 10. she is no threat! creep all you want 9; her name is brandi she’s the cutest little thing her name three times 8) here’s the plan: we’re heading towards water we may stop for grass 7. you can fit in the spot where the wall meets the floor. you go in sometimes sometimes you go in and then you come out sometimes. 8-, sometimes you have must can do dessert. it is cheese, maybe peanut butter if you’re lucky. 6: beechwood ashe is best for to permenate the shadows. 5#( floor is beneath- thouest flooreth beneathmost eth eth but you never know if isleep inon bed bed 4% bhhhhhmmmmmm i’lookitsooo b’don tuchit! 3$ New Breakfast Item: Egg Phrasus 2’ deliver me my bread 1= dark’s thy day first gather by sa blue darey sqwit amper crum crum the junk drawer the junk drawer Velcro passage etcet the punk sawyer deltoid asses andco the lump warrior sellto Damascus yetno the tongue barrier heldso molasses getso the bone prayer wilted flagspast better the Lone Ranger guilty plagiarist mutter the sonnet spare gutterknife Aristopple other the honey bear whatoffer kissedmarble thorn the whore’s hair afterall screen door thread the who’s there? Falstaff sacred breath the booze heart foolfoot sourpit wretch the boar’s head football Dorset wench the war’s dead bootcamp floorsweat red the poor man lastfed portends bench the Sinbad doorstep heavens milk the sore bed rosewilt smacks of butter the shore ahead pornstar litllully letters the worship stormcloud symphony tres tell the turnip morselcud singoat maple the stirrup recluse stoic plumplume the kitty pup percuss tic sit Neptune the wic dub reckless lipspit bedroom the bell tub freck les elfslip khamsin the whale’s rib cork slick fellowship smacksea the halo robe crane leg elephant ragweed the drain stove narcolep velum dogwood the jellyroll kyklopee mule full cuckoo the jailbird pickle cuba cuckoo the mallard cryptic chew up kachunk shroom bloom flume a girl in khakis will collect the fee fifteen fifteen as if it weren’t a crime no discharge, please don’t walk on the cryptobiotic soil, please it’s fragile, it takes dacades to rebloom though the deer enjoy allowance And the lizards, good god, the lizards sprawled on a rock naked creeping up from the rock and sand and per se and & continuously yes, like a lion or a madman on cliff where the raven shits treasure and raids the sacks no gold but gorp a feast to all classes of beings incense & shrooms filtered water & the constitution je ne connas connais phut phut haloo abba deo end hallu alle h’umanbeleagures en saesonne um khiss, the lung gets in phact no resepitt, end whenna void thennapock iteuk’al yptus keine citra viccum, anon dictus ‘iss len in alem an emma mehn ameht ell’m the liberty f or salem pomander debt gareen ting de jersey n ouveau etoile ette ciel ao Trieste duub iib’l’ nn’appeteppe comme queb’clyon amme tende v ous vous choisir fuuk ou pas billong frm bib’lyco niall ‘n dhem dher la, tu vu nunim cadre……… d’ere’s no thyme mes for thuhluvin dhat she gih’ta so—s’nay connas connais phut phut toh* - waytehs je ne pah pah sa’hwwr which passes from thought for tuuuu pour’ae’shunn shissss shisss -n gammmmmmma gammmmmmmmmmmmah hhhhhhhhhhhhhh’’ big invisible THANK YOU NICOLE kkkkkkkkkkk a golden voice from golden one with rrd earrings, and in this spce, very much in the space and in this veey missing not anything not really and ters and almost tears reconcile a missed thoug not really butbefore what allows this an authentic thing and i as a disappearing eye ment for a solid economic baseline slightly ssssssssssssss distorted and a riseeeeii scale functional gravitorial and other words that nmind us this is every bit of a function, dilliberate and heavy on combiniing to type in this voice that bade ed base ed base and i haunti ng guitar and a not not melody and a base line and solid and gone very here ii a rumstained pirate ship and that guitar up again golden eariig one with red golden voice and, again and lapbound and hitting I can,t think enough about the neveer endingvulva, thank you Nicole DDddRNNn ARYA skin head HA lloo lllukut fig’rn killed chipped ice the isle children thass assay ever ything else drunken dumbhow llllllllligleg mmmn’nbody not nut plunderseaswear uhhhocea lookitt mmmn’nbody them ALL you troublly you killed Waffles is so waybigg in sm’ its because of the slav e trade maybe GGGgARHHHhg ha arya ha yes, Sailor Jerry,s but especially B A C A R D I bat foreskin Israelite K,sha SOMETHING WONDERFUL you look the time of waterbug you could have the reed waivering been you the door sliding you foam pillars you three and sum then you gifts HENWHEN COSMO TOOK THE KEY ndshoshouted out the boets, cretate ! create, if all we dos is sin then live please free the frolicking nature of sorrow. pass the d ink whiskey gathers in the lungs of the nameless. love youn all. love yinz and whin i kill the devil we,ll live in harmony. and the answer is simple and plain mes amis time is delicious that’s its demention bless you. …we interrupt t ismess age bring u dhis Captain Utensil, we need you! the sandwich is destroying the city! spoon! fork! to the rescue chessboard bread & a side of why miss angel over on oh date lying too sideways for the rescue essex among other whiskey & unlocked doors there’s a garden in the glass a vacuum it is in the boat along with everything else in the world along with juice-prudence and libate-y pants A Clockwork Pants Wuthering Pants The Unbearable Lightness of Pants Henry the Pants dear Lucile dear Lucile: i fucked andOHmyGOOD’nyess the waffles thenowhere near if morning it’s a flakesun snowunder yolk where you wake a down d’down dow d’d dow.. nn nn nn n yess: walk sloe A FLOWER BEE COLOR bears the bears the slop alop a bears seas to seize to seas to swerve ya swervy seas fines tofindstofines afin aswim tofinny tim take her hand and try and mot to let her see the nerves she touches G enuinely bu.. ..so in an effort to remedy this abrupt infusion she painteD a flower bee color Picasso fish wandered HELLO? i love you so much frickin shit chickes on the scape of time (part two) phat line indig the geat they say hip hip hip to the square pusher of white and black cock and endless balls HA! 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HIRTH! wxyz box sez box cnt get you ur fix on the isle one isle after the other bardo island in the middle of ripping river valleys take a hit and sacrifice if everyone is down Sme cahse or at least then chickenshit mouseturdwsssssssssssssssssssssssss cash inter cash ested terra cotta ecru auburn aureolin coquelicot cornsilk dark orchid terra cotta ecru eton blue falu red folly gamboge glaucous grullo halaya ube iris key lime lion lust magic mint maize malachite mantis mountain meadow myrtle napier green navy blue old gold old lace old rose onyx papaya whip peru pistachio platinum prune purple mountain majesty raspberry glace rich black rosewood rosso corsa rufous oui je sais, perro no se adove eem la saunter per fa sotis sais pas sa ape, n’open la nape er lon faire tes the wings tous severe there is this exchange the moon breathes annals low and yellow onto the peeling porch meddling in the ice cream freezer again pope or petrus meddles swap pigment by pigment shots the true falsifying history the first thing the hare sees through the dirt of his wormhole the sphere at rest like mustard weaving into the cornfields terry sayd you sayd maybe we all goan together down the churc h but what you thought was a churc h and what was a churc h was no grass or nothing outside but a squija board sayd knocked jesus saved a beer for me watched the ol lady carving wet runes into the ground trying to mix orange and came up with pink holy sunlight and holy garage door openers! she was swathed in holy moley underlight but moley wide windows! she was swathed in moley she wann beya giraffe while running, zeedonk, chidos, little horses jus happen naturally, but scien ‘tis and if scien to do, you think it science could make a face dog the fucking face dog what did I ever do? he was blind and a smelly sandwich and mmmmmmwa do you wann take a chance mmmwa she sezez she sezez you can do what you want if you wann be beez, be beez, I hate to say Terry was right, but… SHE IS A GIFT; A GIFT is not something you judge what does a vivid rock sound like? what does a vivid sound rock like? mmwhatitlike there you have it. memory inaction. bebebe dub stepbebebebepopbe be he tree what is the but 6sai b sailor jery mycelium a tree what is the but be be be dub stepbebebebebepopbebe be dub oooooooooo things got they things kinda exploded then narrowed then exploded. things exploded they really did, then they narrowed like some two rivers PRVRBIAL No. 222: plans never work out anyway*— never make plans! CHANT No. One: seize a word seize a word seize a word seize a word now ya heard now ya know now ya heard SAUSSURE ET AU TOUR EN CORSICA FOREST ERE AN END OF US QUI QUOI PUR LUI SA FERNE EN VERITA SASH EN PLACE A CHAUSSE L’OUEST EST EN AURORA violet you sound so violet Halloween socks Hey those were my fries Take your hands off don’t be so hard on played on red ribbons and tee tee fingers but I really don’t mind our sparkling water myself the tree-quarters tree-and-three-quarters jam underlined space is the place? the done rabbit yooo ballown koln ferr therollickle rabtrabulations g ertabulate the co colo chlorophormities quoi ta babomter, mbulelaloon meter-pie the they will assay murg ya mburg to community, the deer root down like timber building down dear roots roots dear downward brrsbugr;bd ermint linty very linty give thurr purpills in mine harr bows turoolee glub lubb glub lubb glubbd b,lubb b,,,,’ b’lubbd oat ti therr gertuttle and furturttle in sap PHAT MATTER pottery thick d I p (unum knick thenna tone fed rawll) p psti ck chuckles azz u’re loor sinken punchyawn ivory DadAa! caught an eye gots tuck above the nose below?don’t e’en go d’ere the moanin lawn (the midi saturn often burning) y yaw yaw yaws braids in lines them to moanin in yaw (yellow) place acer macrophyllum yaw waltz whit (mile/s endin/gottoMe) moanin lawn yaw down t huja pll plicate yaw glubb love ubber mill der a-postrophe yaw p waltz and then blues yaw nice i, andd in i. d dd d a g i ng and over here, and If I might ask: andandand (lucky) Entirely this/yesterday/that nice but ass set of TA TA A s s midnight pearl @13th alley behind boulder café full moon lookup closey hose this at this here this is a flower and she sweet soo coo hooo hooo &ha ao ow owl owl owl you upp’n mooney grooo so the fuul moon loets’s & winstressls all ease on Pearl and 13th street behind the CAFÉ and go moon little moon all glow white on all fable on on on wall on wall wallwall too oot out wall wall so &bloobadours B’WARE but behive you me youLL beh glaid y’wuggnt & went
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