3 more bright gems from JPJ: our 'resident' homeless poet

Jimmy wrote these three poems the other night with the themes of prison, homelessness and other quotable quotes.........
Enjoy:



Alma Mater

If you went to Harvard,
you're probably on the Supreme Court right now.
The Oval Office, if you went to Yale.
If the Columbia Lion is your stamp,
you're probably in jail.






Carpentry


I slept last night
in a bed that Jesus made:
You know he was a carpenter.
The board was shaped
upon his lathe
He planed it with his blade.

And I dreamt I saw
Duane Allman's ghost:
You know he was a Brother.
He'd misplayed his Sacred Acts
and he signed out for his brother.

I slept last night
in a Georgetown church,
Before I slept I prayed:
You know I'm not a child of God,
but this was what I said.
Dear God, deliver me from prison.

I wept last night
in a Georgetown church,
In a bed that Jesus made.
He planed it with his snow-white lathe,
He smoothed it with his blade.







Adventure Tourism


I was thinking about redefining myself.
Homeless is a humble word,
not house-proud, you know. In better
homes and gardens
you might call us
Gentlemen between Lodgings,
for instance,
harking back top angelic ages
notable for eschatological sages
if not exactly eloquent
or even more elegant
that tried a little harder. But

Adventure tourism's
all the rage. The
lodgings ain't spectacular
and there's a lot of tricky vernacular
you'll be wanting to learn.
Guap is money
and the food, it ain't funny
the grits at the shelter're kind of runny
and a turkey wasn't made
for bacon.
The clothes

Are mostly hand-me-downs
And what girls there are've
been passed around
but are all--every single one--
good at heart.
It I was smart I'd've stopped before
I started but
just one word
from Foggy Bottom to Johannesburg--
Adventure tourism's all the rage.







History, a contretemps



By now we were well into the epoch of the epic.

The epic is not only permissible, but admonitory in times of great social stasis.

Changes were in the offing.

All through this period the electric toaster was being invented, and the bicycle.

Social ferment; symbolism in nostalgia; kitsch; and faith: three graces, cornerstones and sisters, cardinals thrown overboard. Below decks. The hill was removed of standing stones. Celtics/barbarians/syphillitic Iberians (see cf.) lost in the storm

We cannot all be great at the same time.

(fifteen seconds)

succeeding the epic, the lyric and laryngal phases, either/ether of which may prove fatal, if swallowed internally.

Voices were raised in opposition to the status of Q.

The status of Q was never in doubt; X, Y were factors and unfailingly treated as such.

Delta denoted rate of change, most particularly in the delta, where change was constant. Among the southern peoples, who were raised and mixed and looked on time differently.

It was all about the pepper: a whole race of people stood security to the deposit of the pepper. The Pope was brought home in one piece, with half an ear missing. Peter picked 'em.

More than most epochs require time, proportionally, more than Egypt. Without support of the military, and most particularly in the absence of time, epochs are neither made nor mended. Happiness becomes moot. Overland by Khyber. Results, however, may not materialize, especially in light of data that keeps disappearing.

The populace was entranced by a pandora of conspiracy theorems, great bards of people johnstuarting about. Dressed in the livid colors of a Greek phalanx, brandishing cat o' nine tails.Singing songs and such.

The center falls apart: things cannot hold.

In this time of dying...in this...who kilt John Bonham?...the crowd waited, until, having plunked down good money, while the good died young.

The honorable, horrible Heinrich Schliemann was a giftless amateur, who nurtured a higher love for Homer, and all other Simpsons. This did not prevent Chronos, a chamois, aka Saturn, a dead auto, who ate all but Juppiter. Mars succeeded while Venus is said to have wept.

Eve & Newton fell out of a tree. K-I-S...devil/double take it, the rest. Is history.