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20 enerojanuary 2004
31 winter 29 moon 48 spaceage 60 atomicage
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

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                               AUTOCRITIQUE


"No todos los que leen saben leer." 
(José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi)
Not all who read know how to read.


and  we  can  also  say        not everyone who writes knows how to
                               write .     Yes .         No .         But sometimes things just BLOW UP IN YOUR FACE
                                                                      or
                                                         no words can ever justify what must
                                                         never ever happen again
but what we were only talking about writing
reading of course we mean ourselves
not just out-selves either

But

         "it makes no never mind"      as someone else here said, says, will say again and again 
                                       until he runs off the edge of the page and until

OR
there is doing a thing
and doing a thing well                                  (a deep subject yes?)

WE ARe, truth be told,

sloppy .                       We rebel

WE INsist  on   liberty        and taking liberties

liberty  even   to   do    a   thing        wrong       (it is better to have tried and 
                                                         failed than never to have tried at all 
                                                         oh yes we do b
close parenthesis)

Liberty, blessed liberty  from Spain fear
                                                         the only thing we have to fear is fear 
                                                         itself, nameless, unreasoning, terror 

or the loss of our precious                                                the    p r e c i o u s           y e s s s s     we   wants    it      yes     you're either with us or against U.S. one pun to rule them all one pun to find them one pun to bring them all and in thedarknessbindthemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhellonearthempiretyranynoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Liberty     to       do        a        thing
screwed  up         perhaps                        like lady Macbeth (Shakespeare) said
"screwed  to   the  sticking point"                or perhaps merely
                                                   sticky

                                                   and stuck .

                                                   "Blind horse stuck in a big mud hole"

There is also the question of purple prose our particular weakness among many
and simply overdone, overwritten, clichéladen&ridden      manure
                                                          vesture
and by cliché we mean not only word                       verdure
but also punctuation  or  lack there of

as well as    malaprop    affectation
                                     or  "literary"   conceit

"can't torch bottom with a ten foot pole"
                           tender faux pas
as in
this note is
legal tender and private   don't you believe it           only de la mode word game

"nevertheless" we came down the river, un-navigable, to Lake Victoria to sink the German battlecruiser oh ye African Queen

"nevertheless" would you marry us Captain it would mean so much to the lady

nevertheless no metaphor can portray Mesopotamian clay tablets listing how many 
bushels of grain were given to the temple for the making of sacred god beer mmm

nevertheless  we  insist and persist                      ( and so can you -- open your free page today ! )

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La posibilidad de cruzar la frontera en cualquier
dirección, sea llevado a cabo on no, autoriza los
sueños y premite la cohabitación promiscua de
diferentes ordenes de realidad.
                                   Debra A. Castillo
The possibility of crossing the border in whatever
direction, whether carried out or not, authorizes
dreams and permits the promiscuous cohabitation
of different orders of reality.

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And that, in a nutshell from hell or heaven is what Mikey and I are up to here
crossing borders in our mind, listening to Spanish and writing mostly English
authorizing our dreams more than any lottery ticket ever ever ever can or shall

just the mere possibility of crossing the border -- the border of language --
makes us promiscuous between our ears, blending cultures in drinking fallout

and pointing out that these people
around us

are constantly inventing words

like CHIMICHANGA they say a sweet restaurant lady screamed when she knocked a burrito into the deep fat fryer and didn't want to yell CHINGA

or we Anglo Americans now say NO PROBLEMO   even though the word in Spanish is PROBLEMa
                                                                                      NO CANTANTES NO VENDEDORES NO RAITES
yes, that's right, it (el problema) IS masculine and it IS              A

only adjectives, not nouns, must obey the gender rule

yes                                                       A

which rhymes with Nathaniel Hawthorne omaigad had to read in 9th grade
frankly SCARLET                                           or one or another

I dongivadam      but  that's from another    book       a l t o g e t h e r
yes








Lo que Tijuana se llevó



Después de una hamburguesa el mundo

parece demasiado rápido, aunque voy

lento tomando café en un puesto de

comida chatarra por la avenida Revolución

ponderando toda la historia de

música local que me perdí

cuando los ochenta y noventa hicieron que

este pueblo fuera la capital del rock mexicano.

Pero hoy es otro día de letra

propiciada para mí, Escarlata,

y como Dios es mi testigo

lleno la pluma con tinta

para probar que jamás

volveré a tener hambre de papel.











Gone with Tijuana Wind



After a hamburger the world seems

too fast, although I linger

slowly sipping coffee in a fast food

joint on Revolution Avenue

wondering over all the local music

history I missed here

when the 1980s and 90s made this town   

a capital of Mexican rock.

But today is another red letter

day for me, Scarlet,

and as God is my witness, I

fill the pen with ink

to prove that I'll never be hungry

for paper again.









write a  page      tell us about it   and    where       we will come look

(or at least, I   will   )

for reading  is  soooooooo  muchhhh   easierrrrr   than    writing
and  we     love       to                 reeead             y e s


oh   yes                                  Arrakis  Dune
                                          desert planet
                                          is Baja California

o r         d i n t         y e w         n o  ?





okei bai                                  ok bye



20 enerojanuary 2004
31 winter 29 moon 48 spaceage 60 atomicage
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico



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