Postmarked 29 July, 2002…
From
A. Pen
3rd Tree on Left,
Overgrown Forest,
Maine

The last mad missive from the mouth of Maine!

Pray to Her (a poem)

Sit. Drink. Lick pussy. And by all means, man, hold onto your balls when flying these days. Pray. Who do i pray to? The Muslims pray to Allah, Then hit the town with fanny packs full of C-4 and roofing nails, and once, in one surreal, fucked-up day, they brought down the house on American naivete. The Christians pray to Jesus, then go out and do grave damage worldwide in HIS name and point the finger at sinners and say none but they with Jesus in their heart can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The Catholics abide a geriatric cone head as they pray to their god, then run backstage & jerk off little boys and drink their semen with a golden grail of holy wine. Need i go on? Pick a religion. Pray: Then lie down on a cool mattress in hot summer and watch as with lithe fingers she spreads her perfect lips to grace and embrace your road-worn face. Take one last deep draught of her dank, sweet, musky air, then hold it. Sit girl. Sit and dream awhile while my air grows thin and the stars come out and God comes into view.
RSM

July 24, 2002

"I'm gonna soak up the sun, gonna tell everyone to lighten up…"
– Some girly rock song

Achy feet.
Ooh – ouch. Achy back. Hey, it ain't easy being Hercules!
Did I mention i'm lifting up a house this week? Crazy shit. Bay–ootiful sunny summer day in Maine and i'm feeling fine, so fine (despite my aches!).
Only one mild & brief twinge of…hmm? Regret? What is it? No, not regret. Just a kinda "Oh darn, well, better luch next time" feeling at seeing a SOLD sign over the local real estate listing for a 3-acre island for sale here in one of the oh-so-lovely Belgrade Lakes. My dream. My own isalnd. Soon. Very soon. Eading lotsa lobster while here in Rome, so to speak. Yumm!
Blue pen for blue sky, bly water, blye flames licking the fuel and fodder of my anter, my whilte knuckle red[?]-sight all creatures run in frright damned day cascading into night with powder pinks and so much green, green, green everything, everyghinb BUT ME that is, nay my far from green closer yet to jaded gray BUT NEVER so bland as gray.
Went Round the Bend just now!! A bit of the old IN and OUT aber leider nicht in the biblical sense, more the satirical i suppose or so this tirade rose from deep-seated & heated so seldom heeded desire to trash and smash and go BERZERK! It started with a word or phrase perhaps of maybe even quite earlier than that…yes! I've got it now – of course of course!! 'Twas rithg 'round breakfast i do recall when o'er a muffin & a cup-o-mud i heard dear daddy say in a tone most melancholy and humble, the

July 24 cont'd

humble the soul. I never heard a person which ahd that symptoms heap if assistance your ma does afford and which no doubt his salesman talent does accord the proper occasion) ... "It's Tuesday at [such-an-such o'clock] in the morning and I (am imagining) wandering wherest thowart my fathers prodigal son, for yesterday was Monday, that day did give for you to cartwheel and hitchhike your prodigal way back to my saintly arms ... tut ... tut ... tut ..." but sadly for all his charms and probably gonvihe tho' grossly absurd grief (I'll explain this in a moment) I could no longer come to meet him at his summer xxxx cottage in Freiburg, ME, I had bid upon and gotten another job!

So here I sit here waked to the sky and the skeeters and those beautiful black insect eaters high above me in the trees in what seems such a joyous and carefree dance upon air and please pardon the rather predicable aside into film lore, but those winged choir like mice so nice overhead elisot in actor's voice , zen actor writer whatever he said we can't stop here! This is Bat Country! No, you geriatric asthmatic wheezing motorhead gaih-wearing dork, you (to borrow the current popular feminist vernacular) are/were a sperm donor and little else!

My father is a very decent man. He's no DarthVader. Fro some reason I have always connected him with actor Brian Dennehy, you know, the big guy who mostly plays semi bad-guys or outlawed good-guys. I guess I see in Denehey an image of the man I wish my father were. To what had my dad never met his current wife and embarked on his new paternal life of raising up two young girls to womanhood and marrying his blah goody goody demi-nun wife, he's rose to the challenge put forth by my mother when she flashed photos of outdoor campuses, palm trees, surfers and eternal sunshine in our faces then whisked us off to California in 1981 ... well, has he followed his children, his blood children and followed through with the pact his penis had long ago made he might today be more Dennehy than Darth to me.

"Hold me now, cuz I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinkin, maybe six feet ain't so far down..."

The loons! Wow! They howl and sing their warbly song at some crazy hi-decibel level own on the lake, the mountain rimmed lake just one big echoing amplifier, and damned if it doesn't just sop me mid sentence, deer-in-the-headlight style, and I tine in to loon radio clear as a bell, louder than the pops and roar of the fire just four feet away. Loon song, fire flies, sleep! Bleep! Blinking on and off never in one place for long so that they never reappear in the same spot is seems, always mobile. I know all about the necessity of mobility when your light burns that bright and everybody wants to snuff it out or at the very least dim it.

{here the writer didst asleep fallen, yavoll.-]

[... in his lawnchair beneath the stars and the twirling airborne orange sparks of his mega-fire in the mega-fire ring of his making here on Dan's land, Rane, Maine.] - RSM







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