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    20.mar.2007   Tiwesdaeg    :   90.winter  02.moon/luna  50.spaceage/edad.espacial     

street market day
again

			end of winter


depending on how your counter ticks it is either 
today or tomorrow winter ends and spring begins I think in 
Japan it will be tomorrow night already tonight but it looks to me
like it will still be today I mean yesterday tomorrow

I mean the exact moment when "spring begins"
the equinox

PHILIP WILL YOU LOOK UP THE EXACT DATE PLEASE
okay boss. Seven Minutes After Midnight LONDON (Universal) aka Greenwich time
		i.e. tomorrow in most of Europe and Asia but damn if it wasn´t
		just about when you sat in your studio typing this page huh.

	&%$·¿¡'09)((/&%&%$$··""!
MEANWHILE

here in California it looks like it will still be tonight sometime
when the Sun crosses the equator it is already so very very close

I actually don't know the time I am working at home
in my studio (it will be my home only a while longer now)
	and I am only looking at my
little planetarium program that shows the stars
throughout history

you can see the fabulous conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn 
in 7 b.c. that might have given rise to the story
of the "star" of bethlehem

there will be another something like
in December 2020

yet it really does not matter
when spring starts today or tomorrow
it is starting one way or another
we have gray clouds and I am
more worried about
what poems

I will read tonight
and where I will go

tomorrow the 21st to celebrate poetry day
yes
		international poetry day yes

and so

what will I do if it rains they are saying it will rain


						s o

		i t

			g o e s


type type type edit edit edit
finish work on Omar's poetry
that my machine had mangled the file
my poor little computer that hiccups and
gags on WORD now and what
will I do when the
SENTENCE of
death
		comes
					d 
						o
							 w
								    n
						make another piece of toast with cheese
					worry about whether I should delete
		all the ranting and raving yesterday
or 	j u s t

			let 	it		g o


									f r  e   e

life is easy sometimes
life is hard


I decide whether these words publish
or die

								sigh



go escape from my own responsibility to work, 
go escape from my own need to write
I feel the need
the need 
for
					speed-typing
					clickity clickity clack


No. Stop.
Go out for a walk.
Check into the internet cafe.
Zoom off through the videos of many, many youtube auteurs




	Xelander says that spring has come to his residence in Ithica New York


	Blunty growls and smiles in Tasmania Australia 
	I think oh, he is turning from summer into autumn

			as is Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro




						but


here we are winter nothing turning into spring 
		less of something nothing
a few stray weeds giving green

unless you water your yard


					T's potted plants on the porch are pretty
					smiling all in a row




I make two keys today at the street market














and times new roman is turning into bookman old style









			Oh yeah.







						This be the font shift
							from winter
								into
									s p r i n g



and a little shift of text from one style of letters to another
is almost more than you will see of any sea change of seasons
here in California no, yes, no.

Once again, David is right.


					But I still love the turning wheel of time
					and the season change, such as it is


mostly only the days get longer and then they get shorter
and it gets hotter and then it gets cooler

not much else



				b u t


it is more real than anything I can say			or do

and it will still be coming back here year after year
when I am gone and downtown Tijuana and downtown San Diego are both


u n d e r		w a t e r

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I walk up the street from the boulevard into the agua caliente residential section. Nice houses all with their garage door wrought iron gates oh yes very nice very money

but I am late so I grab a passing libre taxi and he drives me up the hill to the very top where I will record several minutes of readings

all fragments of poeta frontera línea but only in Spanish

it went off pretty well they are going to take it and mix it with music and create a CD with lots of other poets gathered together and I am one shut up David stop telling me to go out on my own I am out on my own network network network but of course you're right that's why I'm so upset

H gives me a ride back downtown. We pass the corner that exploded two weeks ago. WHAM the shattered cement grate is still roped off by yellow caution tape. Hard to picture two people were killed there. I

saw smoke this morning billowing up from an empty lot out here in Otay

and thought about the chance that at any moment, things could just explode WHAM

sometimes you just don't know what to think
except keep on keeping on

thousands of people are slaughtered every day in the united states, human sacrifice, slashed and broken and burned on the altar of our convenience. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, midnight fires, et

and take care

"They should gather up the methane gas for an energy source," H said as she drove me to where the Otay taxi leaves from downtown. She's got a big old monster car that wheels all over the road while she listens to her cell phone messages and I don't say anything about safety. Gift horse, you know.

No. I just laughed, "Maybe make gaslamps to burn along the street!"

When I get home I fry an egg for late supper and finish writing this. Go to bed. Read. Sleep. Good night, friends. See you tomorrow?

Okay. Creek willing and the God don't rise.

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   20.mar.2007    :    90.winter/invierno     02.moon/luna     50.spaceage/edad.espacial

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