so sweet like the rain

wolstenholme:

dradams:

Photo shoot day at Coney Island!

The Cardinals mingled with the seagulls today at Coney Island for some promo photographs.  Fun was had by all and we’re a bit sun baked having spent a considerable amount of time in the bright sunshine.  That, of course, is something that musicians don’t really do that often.

Anyway… we head out tomorrow for the first show of the next tour leg and we’re all looking forward to jamming for all you cave dwellers!  See you out there!  JG

24 Ghosts III

Werepom’s chin

warm

rhythmic breaths

meditative

unamused with

finger tips

taptaptaptap

finger taps

industrial noise

nose or

snout against

knee

a few licks

deep meditative

breaths

content

restful

part of the

leisure class

not in the

Thorstein

Veblen 

sense or

sensibility

more in the

bodhi dharma

sense

probably more

dharma bum

great 

antidepressant

this loving

canine

what does

this have

to do with

seagulls

well

Werepom

insisted on

lovejacking

and cuddlejacking

this poem

this present 

moment

the only

one we 

have

although

your moment

with your 

eyes different

than this 

present moment

now past moment

tree fallen

forest always

hears itself

every sound

sounds

Werepom’s

right gremlin

ear flicks 

against my

right bicep

soft cuddly

fur tickles

animal

against animal

lovingly

and seagulls

fascinate me

their will to

survive

their will to

recycle

their will to

improve 

Mom Earth

to lessen the

destruction of

garbage

seagulls

very Buddhist

perhaps Jainist

yeah

that’s too

far gone

no direction

at all

a complete

unknown

no Jainist

for they

will eat

meat

socks

even my

brown socks

if steak

sauce

covers socks

they will dance

for popcorn

roaches

berries

remnants of

Central Park

baked beans

baked in 

24th Street 

microwave on

September 24th

Hot Doug’s

the sausage 

superstore

North California

Illinois

Chicago

provide gold

for some 

seagulls

not worried

about sea

fish kelp

content to 

find prey in

dumpsters

wrappers 

behind 

Hot Doug’s

on hot

September 24th

day of days

and I watch

these 

beautiful

survivors

homeless in 

Chicago

watch them

recycle

dance

communicate

emanate life

survival of

the fittest

Darwinism

beautiful

Darwinism

and I look

to the blue

sky

briefly

interconnect 

with the 

lense and the

beauty done

by a full-

time human

part-

time slide

guitar player

mindful of

five beautiful

surviving 

seagulls

creating 

beauty in

the blue skies

over Brooklyn

over 

Chilidog Island

five seagulls

like five Cardinals

create art

live fully in

present moment

for the 

present moment

the only moment

any of us

have

when I say us

I do not separate

myself from

seagulls

for I am 

partially 

interconnected

with seagulls

and they with

me

for I love to

feed seagulls

when in 

Chicago just

as I love to 

feed pigeons

tell the seagulls

and pigeons 

that they are

pretty

just as all

the pretty horses

are pretty

even those

not written about

by Cormac 

McCarthy or

those who do

not run for 

the Roses

I don’t know

maybe it was

the Roses

sang Phil

Lesh as

Jerry Garcia

doodled pure

catharsis and

relaxation

his guitar

interconnections

live

breathe

interconnect still

today

and these artistic

five seagulls

partially

displayed in

Jon Graboff’s

camera eye

these five 

seagulls

they may 

continue to

survive in

Brooklyn

Chicago

Miami

Daytona

if there are

no seagulls

in Heaven

no roaches

rats even 

mosquitoes and

brown recluse

spiders in 

heaven

then you can

meet my

restless soul

in the morning

56th and 

Wabasha

we can make

it hell

before the 

snow begins

to thaw

[Jo Wolstenholme, 9/24/08, 11:47 p.m.]