The Tao of Pleasure

My Tao

Encourages the seeking

Of pleasure

Oneness and allness

In pursuit of the

Intimate, ultimate

Joining of two

Magnificent essences

Yin and Yang

In movement

Expanding and contracting

Hot and cold

Lucid and turbulent

Core to dactyl

Viscerally uniting

Like the sea to the shore

Anticipating the tides

Neap then ebb

Each wave teases the shore

Licking her sand with his salty tongue

Caressing her as he grows

And demands

More of her bounty

Then recedes

As she shows him

How to wait

He pulling back

She asking for more

Each cycling higher

Each gaining strength

Each surging from

The previous high

Until the foamy

Culmination

Of sand and water

Crests in glorious

Release

Untrust US.

I imagine diamonds in those eyes
I speak freely about the way I teach,believe,trust and speak to those apart of a collective concience
my pandoras box is that of love and misguided proof
truth...there is a reality...fiction...I can ruin that
master of a temple with my third eye wild and rhymeing fluently
devoid of technique
chaos threw harmony
its alarming how quickly I fade
into an obscure portrait that blends all paint
all i drink is bassnectar and yell DATsSIK
and the reverbaration hits like a hurricane upon a city of tents
glimpse into yesteryears to find your proof
the ultimate undoing
is us
to you.
Crimewave.

Tcherkask

Tcherkask

Jesse S. Mitchell

Cold water is flat and through the back-marshes

And along the beach, it spreads out forever…

Flat, I walked across it and I wrote my name on it

I made it mine…

Literally.

Watching us move, their eyeballs stare

And look like gunshots…(what are they looking at?)

The sunshine and silence drops

On us like bombs

Deep down underground explosions

Blowing dirt over our skin

With Goosebumps and stray hairs

(what are they looking at?)

I was wearing that black Ramones shirt

The one that is faded and stretched out

And never looked good on either of us.

I kick the sand back into the ocean.

(what are they looking at…with their cold flat eyes, I swear they are dead…I almost died one time, honestly and I came right back like Odin with secret powers…what all those people looking at?)

We Are just a couple of wild animals looking for a whirlwind place, a storm, a home, a view to something better.

Every peasant boy and girl from Lucknow to Tcherkask, Hammersmith to Kentucky knows that there are no half-measures in plunder,

Half a soul is nothing close to as good as all

But you will be punished just the same.

calls from richmond

I keep swishers full of pine when im out here flossin
no gingivitus...just flirting with sinus cancer from all these lines i been coughin

chokein

consistently

cohersively

exploring this thesis for morning glory seeds

and without limitations from the overgrowth and the power of my fallen brothers keepers

I live every day like a rave.
I pray even more now.

ive been a bass head since I can't remember
ragin couches since late september
spocking ladies brain stems since M.N.R's taught me
how
to be an undergroundking.
Pirates on the street of DFW to the ATX

there I found my cigarettes...my whiskey habit...and insomnia in the form of art

sleep is harder for me than most people...my body rests...but my dreamscape is far developed

complex

the only reason i trade adderals for tramadols in the winters ending

the frogs are celebrating spring in athens county.

I live for pittsburgh...I live for that city.
so many kind hearted and genuine people...which is funny for a state that also has philly.
So many collaberations on new beginings threw a tremoultus end
to friends love
and relationships

which brings me back to charlottesville...oh virgina...my home
a place where my sensory memory is on overload...
so much so my eyes well up on the top of pride rock overlooking shanendoah
the valley of the dolls
the ones that mother sewed.
where the friendliest houses have bullet holes.

then back to columbus...nights of nitros and bisco
a house full of brothers you meet moments ago
now they pass the toke
they flip a quarter because your broke.

put on some more GZA and rail that last bump...tonight is barely enough to keep our spirits up...then here comes the sun

it shines on 5 lives that have been divided
you choose your own path...as does your muse
everyonce in a while we sit to commune

were afraid of what the darkeness can do

we live life inspite of dablooms

her eyes are as wide as mine until high noon
spoons full of hash make others brew
and conjur ideas of intermediated goals that they assumed were their own

but I travel the path alone
with phone calls from richmond that are the only ones to see HOW I AM

now WHO I AM.

Hayek and Keynes

Hayek and Keynes

Jesse S. Mitchell

I am nothing but noise here, 

like organ swells and grace notes, bags of bones with strings of hair, skeletal

  rattle rattle

Nothing but noise

Drained and dry…nothing but desert sounds and floods, nothing like sea, 

nothing but a bunch of dry words like dust

Dry mouthed like cracked lips…not even words

Rattle rattle.

In fairness, in all honesty, the last word on the matter

Was nothing but bad poetry…not even words

Just drops of something not even liquid, 

just drops of liquid

But it is a vow I intend to keep.

Salt water and half-fish eyed clouds… 

They keep the ocean up above, no matter what they say

All around nothing but big round sky.

Surrounding the flat world on its back

Broken by weight

Water water water everywhere but not a drop to drink.

Way below me the children and gnomes talk 

Money like Hayek and Keynes

But they are 6 million feet down

And I do not look down

6 million miles down

But I do not look down

Rattle rattle.

But I do believe in Blue skies

And I believe in warm weather too

I believe in the future.

Do not mistake me.

But it will not come by gaslight or fission

Torch flame or audacity

Or apparent lack of any or all.

It is a vow I intend to keep.

Magnetic like a storm, thunder and light and hot air

In the atmosphere but the breeze is a shame

Filled all up with swollen rain

With brackish drops, robotic ambiguity

But the wind call still carry words

Empty enough to fly

Hypnotic

“Midas has the ears of an ass”

“Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes”

“The ears of an ass”

“And she will have music wherever she goes.”

Our Copper Anniversary

It’s two months ago.

We are in a kitchen in Rome

And your head bows slightly into the steam coming off the sink.

“Penny for your thoughts,” I say

Which causes the beginning of a smile to be drawn

At Etch a Sketch speed.

I’ve seen this before

A smile you share with your not-so-little little brother

A roguish rue,

That I will go down often over the years to come.

“Keep the change,” you say.

“I don’t need the pennies” and to prove the point, a strand of copper falls down between us.

I realize then that I’ve my sayings mixed up.

“Pennies from heaven,” I try again.

But compliments won’t do at this point

Ears are deaf to the tales hair tells

“Scratch my head, fool” you correct me, still smiling,

You know that only hands really know how to listen.

And so I start.

My fingers follow in time

Each copper string I touch plays a note you’ve written yourself over the years

These are some of my favorites:

At 32 you wrote: Swedish men aren’t worth having to eat pickled herring

At 28: Litter boxes are tolerable as long as each night I can wear its owner like a fur cap

At 25: Spain is cool except in the summer. But loneliness sucks year-round

At 20: I still love Beethoven even though he didn’t write anything for the flute.

At 16: High school is bad. High school in South Florida is unbearable. Hasta la vista, baby.

At 11: Older brothers are mean AND they smell.

At 5: My oldest sister gave me a purple flower and told me purple is best. I agree.

At 2: I’ve decided to be shy.

At birth: In 34 years, I will meet a boy, and I will marry him.

althea

I could say the right word
do the exact thing that makes you live again
speak no artifical hope
blow nothing but quality dope smoke until my lungs whistle like a train
Ive sprained these thumbs trying to get a ride
night in and night out
ive got a boquet of lies thats nothing to write home about
but you
youve got the most painfully beautiful deep and sad eyes
I want you to ride this crossroad boxcar over the pautomic down to the gulf
spend a night
in cresent city as we drink until the suns been up all morning
spend another night at the levy
armed with trainwreck and a semi automatic weapon
in the morning
coffee and a 7 hour trip down I-10
austin comes quick with no hints of assasination attempts
a glimpse into the daily happenings of a classy gentleman
ease
listening to my heart beat
ive felt my feet tap out relays
nothing stays the same
in these the otts
a rude way to constrict time and space in new ways
ive found odd times where the moon and sun shined so bright ive laid intertwined
in the ideas that i had,finally, lost my mind
though I place these notes into a bottle and toss it to sea
hopefully someone out there is just as confused as me
just as open to turning the course of this water tredding submarine
just as noble as a facade of revelry
no more understatements
only factual agreements that we had been stuck
move
stick
move
glimpse into the overgrowth