When a Geek Goes Fishing

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when a geek goes fishing, Al Mendoza 2004

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When a Geek Goes Fishing

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when a geek goes fishing, Al Mendoza 2004

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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” 
― Charles Bukowski

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are red hot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”
Jack Kerouac

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” Jack Kerouac

#bukowski #ferlinghetti #kerouac #beat #poetry #writing 

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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” 
― Charles Bukowski

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are red hot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”
Jack Kerouac

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” Jack Kerouac

#bukowski #ferlinghetti #kerouac #beat #poetry #writing 

view from above

cannot keep her on a pedestal 
if he keeps her on her back
woeful as winter
this standing lack

a woman cannot see
no vision from below
woeful as winter
this standing lack

he's facing into the ground
his eyes useless appendages
woeful as winter
this standing lack

woeful as winter
this standing lack
useless appendages 
and she on her back

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view from above

cannot keep her on a pedestal 
if he keeps her on her back
woeful as winter
this standing lack

a woman cannot see
no vision from below
woeful as winter
this standing lack

he's facing into the ground
his eyes useless appendages
woeful as winter
this standing lack

woeful as winter
this standing lack
useless appendages 
and she on her back

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look N see

when we look outward we see eternity

 when we look inward we see ourselves

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look N see

when we look outward we see eternity

 when we look inward we see ourselves

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haiku series Ssshhh

#haiku #poet #poem #poety #meditation

on celestial sphere

solstice

sense softer silence
summer solstice shimmering
soothing sound surrounds

equinox

on celestial sphere 
astronomical hoardings
shares summer harvest 

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haiku series Ssshhh

#haiku #poet #poem #poety #meditation

on celestial sphere

solstice

sense softer silence
summer solstice shimmering
soothing sound surrounds

equinox

on celestial sphere 
astronomical hoardings
shares summer harvest 

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beauty haiku series

image from 2not1 graphic series. almendoza, 2004

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #meditation

beauty haiku series

you are not ugly

there is no truth for you there

you are your own spring

your inner voice sings
there is summer on your lips
and beauty inside

carpeting your heart

its magic colours your life

autumn is your warmth

no winter can change
if beauty is how you live
beauty is your gift

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beauty haiku series

image from 2not1 graphic series. almendoza, 2004

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #meditation

beauty haiku series

you are not ugly

there is no truth for you there

you are your own spring

your inner voice sings
there is summer on your lips
and beauty inside

carpeting your heart

its magic colours your life

autumn is your warmth

no winter can change
if beauty is how you live
beauty is your gift

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our own haiku series

al mendoza, 2004

own haiku  

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #meditation

our own

it is our own joy 

it is our own pain to feel
to own joy to feel

our touch

it is our touch felt

cooling pains from abstinence

this abstinence love

our scent

you're me in a whiff 

 your sweet scent total complete 

 ethereal breath

our voice

inhaled these thoughts are
music song joyous laughter 
a chorus melting

our time

eternity calls

touched gifts joined sing together

our own voice in time

our own

the spring is our own

time voice scent touch our own

the spring is our own

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our own haiku series

al mendoza, 2004

own haiku  

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #meditation

our own

it is our own joy 

it is our own pain to feel
to own joy to feel

our touch

it is our touch felt

cooling pains from abstinence

this abstinence love

our scent

you're me in a whiff 

 your sweet scent total complete 

 ethereal breath

our voice

inhaled these thoughts are
music song joyous laughter 
a chorus melting

our time

eternity calls

touched gifts joined sing together

our own voice in time

our own

the spring is our own

time voice scent touch our own

the spring is our own

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until the rush of silence

UNTIL

"The Umbilical Into The Mist." Al Mendoza, 2004

#poetry #poem #meditation #writing #poet

the rush of silence

stand at the edge of darkness

until courage allows you to step off the edge

face death enough 

until GOD becomes obvious

listen in the silence long enough 

until eternity whispers

look into the unknown

until arms widen to embrace

forever is as water

like a breeze on your skin

a rush of moments

clear until we disturb it

and falling in we discover

that it was only the surface

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until the rush of silence

UNTIL

"The Umbilical Into The Mist." Al Mendoza, 2004

#poetry #poem #meditation #writing #poet

the rush of silence

stand at the edge of darkness

until courage allows you to step off the edge

face death enough 

until GOD becomes obvious

listen in the silence long enough 

until eternity whispers

look into the unknown

until arms widen to embrace

forever is as water

like a breeze on your skin

a rush of moments

clear until we disturb it

and falling in we discover

that it was only the surface

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the lion

http://youtu.be/mg6DTYc-hgs

a noisy people

we are a people of noise

as i listened to the recording 

i wonder, "does a lion question himself?"

"i wonder if it was someone i ate?"

he wonders

when he has a bit of indigestion

is the true miracle of the predator

its lack of consideration?

its lack of wonder

its' a noise

that we may never wonder

#meditation #writing #lion #noise #wonder #thought #thinking

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the lion

http://youtu.be/mg6DTYc-hgs

a noisy people

we are a people of noise

as i listened to the recording 

i wonder, "does a lion question himself?"

"i wonder if it was someone i ate?"

he wonders

when he has a bit of indigestion

is the true miracle of the predator

its lack of consideration?

its lack of wonder

its' a noise

that we may never wonder

#meditation #writing #lion #noise #wonder #thought #thinking

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it isn't what is

it isn't what is

IT ISN'T WHAT IS

#poetry #meditation #writing #poem #freedom

it isn't the shackles

 it's the chain

it isn't the boundary

 it's the wall

it isn't the roar

 it's the silence

it isn't the weight

 it's the lift

it isn't the colour

 it's the paint

it isn't

 what is

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it isn't what is

it isn't what is

IT ISN'T WHAT IS

#poetry #meditation #writing #poem #freedom

it isn't the shackles

 it's the chain

it isn't the boundary

 it's the wall

it isn't the roar

 it's the silence

it isn't the weight

 it's the lift

it isn't the colour

 it's the paint

it isn't

 what is

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To Be or Not To Be - a question about survival

To Be or Not To Be - a question about survival

While no one seems to notice with all the election and faux news, war and much nonsense screaming for our attention, China has been building trade alliances, buying resources through its state owned corporations and securing everything it requires - without firing a single shot.

It is the velvet fist of political philosophy applied, be ridiculously powerful and offer trade relations instead of war. The political economy discussions of whether China is #socialist , #capitalist , #religious or #statist are are not even discussed as they are here during this election. That is because #government is an amoral instrument and such discussions are of no value to the use and purposes of #state #power.

China makes no claims to a moral standard and rejects, suppresses  or minimises any #religious #moral #authority. China is all about the state and the use of #state-power.
The issue of the individual is only relevant to the individual. The state as an amoral creature has no stake in such as it operates. This is the very thing individuals must take warning about, are they or are they not in existence as entities superior to the state.

The issue is, what does a command economy in the statist form of China have in store for us?
This question has not been lost to the power brokers who see the "next smart bet" coming up on the horizon, the corporate state as illustrated by China's success'.

This completely backwards arrangement, the diminishing of the individual both here and in our neighbor Canada is becoming a pattern. As individual rights are only dreams in our neighboring Mexico and most of Central and South America, it would seem that the entire continent is slowing drifting towards the loss of the individual as nothing more than the instrument of the all encompassing state.

The thing about velvet is how easily it will tear. The seduction is, in huge part, like so many other times, an illusion. It's a carnival trick of misdirection and loud music. It's a sleight of hand.

Who is this wizard behind the curtain, this disembodied voice? It's us. 
We have become an enemy to ourselves. We are the question to our own survival, "how are we to."
"To be or not to be," is the question for ourselves if we are to survive.

#politics #political economy #ideas #freedom #liberty

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To Be or Not To Be - a question about survival

To Be or Not To Be - a question about survival

While no one seems to notice with all the election and faux news, war and much nonsense screaming for our attention, China has been building trade alliances, buying resources through its state owned corporations and securing everything it requires - without firing a single shot.

It is the velvet fist of political philosophy applied, be ridiculously powerful and offer trade relations instead of war. The political economy discussions of whether China is #socialist , #capitalist , #religious or #statist are are not even discussed as they are here during this election. That is because #government is an amoral instrument and such discussions are of no value to the use and purposes of #state #power.

China makes no claims to a moral standard and rejects, suppresses  or minimises any #religious #moral #authority. China is all about the state and the use of #state-power.
The issue of the individual is only relevant to the individual. The state as an amoral creature has no stake in such as it operates. This is the very thing individuals must take warning about, are they or are they not in existence as entities superior to the state.

The issue is, what does a command economy in the statist form of China have in store for us?
This question has not been lost to the power brokers who see the "next smart bet" coming up on the horizon, the corporate state as illustrated by China's success'.

This completely backwards arrangement, the diminishing of the individual both here and in our neighbor Canada is becoming a pattern. As individual rights are only dreams in our neighboring Mexico and most of Central and South America, it would seem that the entire continent is slowing drifting towards the loss of the individual as nothing more than the instrument of the all encompassing state.

The thing about velvet is how easily it will tear. The seduction is, in huge part, like so many other times, an illusion. It's a carnival trick of misdirection and loud music. It's a sleight of hand.

Who is this wizard behind the curtain, this disembodied voice? It's us. 
We have become an enemy to ourselves. We are the question to our own survival, "how are we to."
"To be or not to be," is the question for ourselves if we are to survive.

#politics #political economy #ideas #freedom #liberty

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