#5 When the going gets weird


Where do you hide the bills that you can't pay
feeling too sick inside to tell the children
that you haven't got much more money in the bank
than an alcoholic living on the streets has
in his smelly pockets?

It's quarter to three pm on a Monday,
and it still feels like morning to me.

A simple thing just spoke to me, and made me smile.
It is a simple thing, but there can be greater joy
in the simple than the complex.

Has anybody really ever talked to God?

If you don't like a law, should you break it?

Is this proper fathering method: If you mess with me,
you will not eat your jelly, you will sit in it?

‎"Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least."--Goethe

I love The Mr. Smarty Pants, the men who have read a book, or two, more than me, and you, and think that they can tell us all what to do; I really do, but I don't have to love them on this page, or even be in their presence to love them; I can love them from a distance, where their insults, and alleged superiority can not touch me.

Bring new things to our bed, baby.
What's happening? Are you napping?

I don't know what's on your mind, but I do know what is on my mind;
and what's on my mind could take hours, days, weeks, months, years,
a lifetime to complete.

Why would a teacher make you write
with your right hand when you were born a lefty?

A sore throat, and an ear ache, are fighting to find their way into my existence.
I am doing everything that I can think of to defend myself against them. Any suggestions?

Do you know that you can core an onion, fill it full of Chunky Peanut Butter, bake it at 325, for an hour, and you will have...a wonderful treat!! (Thanks Merritt).

What is a Woman Worth? I got an email that wanted me to read an article with this title: "What is a Woman Worth?" The title took be aback a bit. I have never thought of a woman in terms of a dollar amount.

I just heard my first lousy Tom Petty song: it is called. "Girl on LSD."

Mikel K Poet John Marsh, singer and keyboard player for the great great band
Deep Blue Sun just turned me onto the fact that Dylan wrote
the song, "My Back Pages," not The Byrds.

"Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
“Rip down all hate,” I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now."

--Bob Dylan


I am so blind today. It is nice to, finally, have eyeglasses, but they feel weird on me.

Alcohol was not his problem; crack was, so he saw nothing wrong with getting drunk every day as long as he stayed away from The Crack Pipe.

There is nothing wrong with being almost middle-aged and blonde. Some of the hottest, and most decent, women on the planet are just that. There is beauty, and love, at each stage of this life, as we go.

I'm not on the same path as you, sister and brother, though ostensibly we have the same destination in mind.

There is nothing but time on my side.

She was born on December 26. Her dad made it clear early in life that she wasn't going to two presents. A lot of Christmases and birthdays she got nothing.

I'm in the mood for desert, something large and creamy, and chocolate-y; something topped with peanut butter ice cream; something to die for cuz I just might eating that way because I'm a diabetic, and sugar can kill me.

Back at FSU, in the fraternity house, we used to call this guy Sniff, because no matter what room someone was getting high in, he would knock on the door, and say, "Hey, got any pot?"

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
--Robert F. Kennedy

Sue Nash says that well wishes and cards for the Iraqi vet seriously injured by Oakland police last night, as he was participating in Occupy Oakland, can be sent to:
USMC Scott Olsen Highland Hospital 1411 East 31st Street Oakland, CA 94602

Liane Tebbutt All the good medicinal healing herbs will get you jail time..just another way to keep the population sick and addicted to pharmaceuticals. It's all about money.


I like listening to The Jerry Garcia Band, Phish, Widespread Panic...the "hippy" bands but I also like Black Flag, Fear, Social Distortion, and many other punk bands. Does that make me bi-sexual, or bi-polar?

Have you been through the desert on a tank with no name?

Her thought was that killing people somewhere else
is better than having no job at home.
I think that wars are not, mostly, fought for "freedom,"
but so that capitalists can make more capital.
Csn a peace symbol, and a flower, stand up to a tank?
Does any of this matter to you as long as it is happening
over there and not where you are?
Is everybody your brother, and sister?
Should I put jelly on my peanut butter sandwich?

--Mikel K

This edition of, "When The Going Gets Weird," is dedicated to
Phil Polizatto who reached out last week, and touched The Column
with some hefty praise. You can read Phil at: http://hungadunga.wordpress.com/