Mediatations 12.26.00-1.31.01


looked like it was written very far away from the page dead as a door prize

the wind whipped words and the wind whipped world


partners in creme when you go to one address & it sends you to another

address when you got yr ears back, you got yr wings committing a pseudonism

crawling to the top of an eggroll in a chinese laundry restaurant


had a hen-orrhoid on Sarah Jane Lane


mr. astrology love machine company until in the room you are bathed in light


desktop rattletrap machinery rattling in the hallucinatory haze


morning star hot pockets


a song called "wishful thinking"


a well-worn practitioner of speed sleeping the textbook "fuck the fleeting

images" caused some consternation calling @ the coma phone


Rife Machine finding you by echolocation B(ro) to B(ro) covered in dream

sauce


we're taking calls @ 1-800-CON-STI-PATION

the Hungry Ghosts Band

my time in the otherworld rehab sandwich listen to the answerwood


wickup water district

that's some cold karma escape telocity Bughea Desusarges


a piece next week in Think! Magazine telling us to play Freebeard television

ridge paint myself in patterns is yr tree turned on? beast in the bistro

narcolyptic next time you down in me, or maybe menifee

produced by Peter Pencil Peter Paxil the moments in between moments we're in

the breakthrough business rainy day return


(song lyric) I felt all the pain/you don't have to explain had befriended

mr. medlock certain it's spectacular, said spectacularists the new

purchasers (rock group name)


I was in touch with the shaking hand numismatic man


from the new employee manual: for relief from stress, cup yr head in yr

hands as if to make the misery cry if I could only tell you how terrible

it's been


logo in hand-hacked postscript


my game, migraine the United States of Ho-etry Bent Medical


from a meeting of the gabarding coalition


declaration of disaster paradigm pants it was all about Berlin. the city was

falling the Grieve Corporation


Bad Noon Rising


clock sucker Jesus Jr. flaking faux-tographs


fascinated w/the clefts in people's faces running from the nose to the side

of the smile eaningless editations the le(a)per emperor


interview w/a logician son of a spoonful


going down yr most rambling road it wasn't long before postal workers

started directing the movement of other objects besides mail a ball hit into

the outfield, a well-aimed remark, an executive's reach for well-rounded

flanks wanting to go back to the place where things had no names


projecting memories through echolocation echolocution (song title) Rub Me

Wrong a song by the Sleeping Decibels


digital angel carrying the crown of no kingdom at the home of angry

architects living in the superlative subdivision


just itching to do some acting Mr. Medium Under My Eels (song title)

California Quivers I want to touch/the skin within the blistered brain



































Mtns mar-apr 2002


couldn't get a read on me hymn to the hyperhuman all silent & feral--yr kind

is waiting for you elixer of slip fruit


Arusha Tanzanite the imagination association colloquial cloak this is the

sound of mind


you know my steese the eclectentric loctritian chox of bocula(tes) rock yr

diction split er ten, infinitive world yr own test deatherage the antique

riverbeds, the highly polished rinds


everything in the gift shop the color of flamingos cast a shadow on yrself

can't get no sadistfaction caesar sees her cease her, seizure


sending ammonia postcards learn to take yr lumps I had a dream/but I don't

know what it means subcutaneous keying eating the inkberry a poison so slow

acting it's barely slower than death itself


born into a world of tragedy jesus right off the freeway describing the

depths of dark desire on Fashion Island


just another place to go when the stars disappear


a dispatch from the center for countermeasures 13 lovers later


knock zima count the syllabicists on one hand


thought creme slouching towards methlehem day of the downsizing a note from

the foul-mouthed florist be sure to pick up envy-lopes the read that spreads


trying to keep certain events from passing into happenstance all your lemon

lies


writing to you from Fort Bragg my street can beat up yr street


veni, vidi, vendi negativity blend aloha or olaha?


getting into pre-hab mouthing your words I am reenacting some ancient

sacrament


teaching inadvertebrates


any pop-tential? returning from the wine country sallie mae servicing what I

cd see before I lost my lens


south of no North Dakota blue sky whitener


Don Guidos@log lodge


chinook O rings stoned scientists have paranoia, the eighth sense the way

disco refers to itself ego tourism






























mtns may 2002


daryl gospel unable to elude the bathist regime


down w/the Hassle-O's Harvey country together!


fresh vocal chords a delicacy courthouse caterers


extreme keying aplastic phantoms copart


teenage machines candy w/the hate-filled center


h(i/y)st(o/e)rical homeowner turning the pages peel back another layer on

whirlaway way


a black hole inside my brain another song from Gib Gibson's Big Grab Bag in

Pharmacy Week call my next band the Negaholix live at the Aftermath Club


advice from a fiction several dark practices University of the Incarnate

World successfully sued the diocese of Dallas throw a frozen kiss


a delivery from the ancient city no longer unencumbered


(lyric) and there's the inevitable slowup returning to opthalmological life


(poem) and always watching out for singularities/he wears an expression that

you don't know the name of


coded into cardiogram


interview with an afterman Luther's Electric PMS Inc.


that signifying sweetness, that distills & pours over everything if some of

it still sticks to the keys as you're entering the secret formula you'll

have to lick them off, and the bees add their implication to your work


a corporate rain


almost smashed'er, can you go any faster lawn bombs for clockroaches while

away the afterbreeze, yr mothership has yet to be rebuilt Stone Cold Systems

my desolate days and kinda yeah, I might wanna leave


and if you're ever in need of cash it's good to know you can always sell the

wines which is worse: to feed on angels or be released from yr prison at the

end of each long sleep?


sympathy for the leatherbury department of public worry Escondido Escrow


representation rounds (& signifying strips) to see the body only as a

repository of beauty


short circus the liquid nodule of the throat hardening into a rock every

once in a while the tides are reversed, & interviewee interviews interviewer


in the morning of the megabytes the hottest time in the United States


in a heaven of elevenphants she & the Only Comb, one of the world's largest

appetizing groups


our records show that it's a long long time since you were permantly fine yr

life has become a tragic movie w/a really cool soundtrack you are the nomad

from nowhere when you are here


we try to put together as eclectic a collection of works for the festival as

possible


I've heard it a thousand times before, but today I let this sing me about

you


a golden oldie: rub my numbers off baby! see what you've won! you smell like

you've been burning


what ricochets around my head


paid for by the Mosaic Foundation


get off my planet! how to therapize a group of kids w/developed mental

delays


past passionists' situation some day in the future, all vegetation on the

earth replaced w/synthetic material


sandwich collision Henry Jewelry to envy memory jokastic keyers


Carla Answers: "I like to talk to people who play music because they have

to"



































Mtns feb-mar 2003


twilight of the lepidopterists on situation street 2 months after the first

vladi-video was broadcast


liquid bandage band adage=bad damage windsong radiology


go logoless


I'm an Inkworm indiglo child deep in the deficit


how do you connect a cut you, Jane Gourmandie anyone holed up at mansfield

manor


one second=one million vibrations x cesium 183 atom


succeed in the task of self-aggrandizement the MARC record of me the spoon

greasy green in the bright headlights of the sky


a fake-eotomy a song for) when yr fondest dreams/are split at the seams


floundering in the flatbook song as slow as skin


the thing this time hearing yr own voice in yr head the sheer translucent

moment of entering information new heavy duty stapler set


at the cop shop mr. minutia yo! buffalo erase everything from the tape of

time


pay the rain tax


having the miniature horses inside the house, at times the sound of tiny

hooves galloping, an infant cavalry


a sky (lit)lined w/satellites scatter lights shattered nights


half a laugh


there is no now still battling the enigma enema egg


feral mccloud toxic or electr icity angela thruway mobile svc


at the mnemonists' convention the mathematical logic of the

semi-demi-dodecahedron heavy envelope breakfast elephant the ask factory

drinking tobacco tea


(song title) driving for pearls


far from the factile world


open yr chest & birds fly out


it's an emotional disco


Iraq & a half I was little & lost on South Mtn. Street Baghdad Grabbag

two-person tattoo how can you feel fine abt the number #9?


brisket brain


concrete juggle one digit difference button burns

 

Brian Staker is host of the Awkward Hour podcast, and a writer.


“My writing is an attempt to negotiate the voices in my head, in our heads. Sometimes I feel like I'm haunting my own life like a ghost, watching it from some remove, moving amidst other forces as hard to bring into focus as I am, and that's not some Halloween schtick; I'm talking about everyday demons.”

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