sp (a) ce

pushin

2009-03-01T03:11:00.000-08:00

80
hope to outlive
amber waves
undulating from clockwork
mechanisms not bound
to organic processes

and fluid displacement,
bile production
muscle contractions
souring taste buds
spots that have nothin,
nothing to do with liver

pulsing on timers
whirred and clicked
into motion based on
weight sensors and
magnetic rendezvous
with metallic salt rusted cadavers

maybe before the dead-line
beat of red flashes and sticks
to your wheels to
cell reproduction
maybe just pushin 80
i could sneak by

tail pipe snapshots only a blurr

metaprose at 23

2009-02-27T00:17:00.000-08:00

I wrote this finally for
myself
- as in the self that needs
to have
convos

about nothing
going
somewhere - but in your head

ya'know?

'fore you forgot
it was always about
public confessionals

&

the art of looking
artistic
under microscopes
given out for free (so, so free)
at your first
spoken word ..jam..

and -
it might as well have been a literal, edible, delectable, empirical, jam

a stream of consciousness
into ...............time
.......................time
...........................time.time.time.
(use up it's meaning)
and/or
ry, ry,ry.....th, um?

thatfitsbetweentwowallsin
awayfrommicrophonesto
eardrumswewishwecould
awrittenitfirst

saying in seconds what
it took 23 years to brew

restraint

2006-12-12T23:28:00.000-08:00

under bedroom canvas

Taught like the shear
Whining wires of guitar
Pluck (ed) in motion for response
In re(verb)eration

Rumbling through catacombs
Of thought about sound
He was rushed to answer his own
queries
Of morality

In cast spaces lined of ancient
Scar – ridden vesicles
Slowly to carry like
A mule in desert
Without water, without
A smile

Lacerations tempt a thinly shadowed moon
From protesting
Marked graves in a vast corridor of dusk

Slowly to tear thin membranes
Tear think tanks from crowded rooms
Tear a hundred soapboxes
From under

Consistent characters pace the scene
Line call
Line call asshole
If only a sermon had been prepared
And he didn’t have to improvise

With God’s WORD

Restraint from tearing

like a tear duct let loose in dim
alleyway cats lick it softly
like water but with milky sweetness
“these aren’t like tears” she said
"you changed the beat of your heart” he replied

You
from mind

Here ye, Here ye

2006-11-24T23:20:00.000-08:00

Hey all, as if any actually checks this site out anymore. well, anyways if someone happens upon it,
i thought i would throw up the link to my myspace, cause ive loaded some of my acoustic noise thurrr. Thats about it. Enjoy. And dont eat meatballs, cause once someone found a fingernail in one, a cow fingernail.
.jesse.

fire blur

2006-10-27T18:56:00.000-07:00

fire blur
Originally uploaded by jhabes.

UNBC1

2006-10-26T21:26:00.000-07:00

UNBC1
Originally uploaded by jhabes.

2006-10-18T01:49:00.000-07:00

2006-10-16T21:28:00.000-07:00

cyclic recycle re_____

2006-09-25T16:23:00.000-07:00

when it first started to rain
i ran outside
tongue tense from
over-extension
waiting for the first drop
i pranced like i was 7

maybe i was

so when one liquid capsule
burst throughout
thousands of buds
taught and expectant
i only tasted
acidic tension

the distant smokestack
drew back as though
called off curtain
smug and content
the rumbling belly of industry
joined in where the
rivers connect
and give their offerings
to the clouds

orange is the color of the darkest hour

2006-09-25T00:03:00.000-07:00

what i couldnt tell
you in person
i paid someones little brother
to carve into a jack-o-lantern
smoothly chiseled
i let go of a few dollars
and got her to place
it on your porch
ribbon in hair she looked
both ways before crossing
streets that intersect
between you and i
it was perfect
until some kids came
and smashed jack's face in

leaving carts and loving life

2006-09-24T23:03:00.000-07:00

racing through (out)
corridors rich with warmth
sweet snacks delite (full)
i could have sniffed you out
cinnamon and chicken
soup isle 14
(where did all the children go)
instead i paced the halls
leading to and from you
alternating efficientcy
egg nog is on the shelves again
i knew id find you there

boys night out

2006-08-24T14:12:00.000-07:00

when i couldn't find a home
i crawled into a cigarette butt
but a roach kicked me out
so i slept in the rain

River Blu

2006-08-24T13:55:00.000-07:00

deep from sleep
awake still one foot
over the threshold into
mind-made madness
scrambling for pen paper ink rustling pen pen
no paper
the creases of hands help grip
to write in the creases of hands
words that spell universe
and flower and shit and gardenhose
running through the ink into flesh
stilled and settling
by vibratory resonance
by a heart beating
and slumped and sleeping
the words in their games of play
frolicking towards another
uniting in poetic prose
(ring around the rosie)
and satanic verse
(hands clasped)
prayer
(with childhood decadence)
apologies
(some without meaning)
makeshift amendments
( )

ink runnning
so that when sun
ignited conciousness
this sleeping epiphany
ran together
the creases of hands
that can write into the creases of hands
blue ink in rivers
wordless following
secret
subterrainean veins

August Fall

2006-08-23T21:25:00.000-07:00

soft crunches brittle leaves

stain streets, curbs

collected dirty laundry

wastebasket overflow

trickle down

each inscribed

a tale hung

hugging exotic grasses

upon great heights –

weaved among

hair

things

be regurgitated upon

or picked pressed stamped

into infinite memories

mulched

churned bloodstreams

condensed rebirth amongst

plastics and rot and plastics

that never rot

mulch into soil for seeds

carrying time

to emerge from grasses

pushing past brittle leaves

for your viewing pleasure...

2006-08-14T21:38:00.000-07:00

www.peta2.com
- check this out....mixes some of my favorite things....music and activism

Why i drink myself to sleep

2006-08-03T22:37:00.000-07:00

watching the news today
i learnd culture
exciting research has shown
(funded by American Media Corps.)
that:
unlike their israeli opponents

palestinian(s) do not have children

nor do they understand compassion
fear reason
lust joy hope or dream
i learnd
america knows how to pick its allies

Currently...

2006-03-29T14:33:00.000-08:00

Okay, so i havn't really felt poetry lately. so i started drawing webcomics.
im not gonna gaurentee they're funny, but you can check em out if ya want anyways.
http://the-simplethings.blogspot.com/
peace
jesse

education

2006-02-27T23:02:00.000-08:00

i.
rubbing this dying
(-----)bird(-----)
i wished for
genies
who could sell me
a complete set (trading cards)
of imaginary
realities
ii.
from con(fess)ions
in hospital beds
with sticky fingers
and animal-ian parasites
doctors nod
in disapproval
iii.
(---)birds(---)
were a bad idea
just look at the name
foul—fowl—foul
like broken wings

routine (interrupted)

2006-02-27T22:33:00.000-08:00

ringing telephones
start clichéd
poems I thought
until I was sitting here
drinking (bavarian brew)
listening to my favorite
song
and when it ended
the answering machine
played my fake voice
for you

(leave a message)

dear poem....

2006-02-27T22:13:00.000-08:00

i wrote you from Indifference
in a truckstop
where I woulda got my ass beat
if anyone knew I was literate
so i wrote in tomato paste
and sugar water
like I was spelling
out french-fry ransom demands
and ive been living here
ever since

while you were wishing i was dead

2006-02-27T22:05:00.000-08:00

I ran at tattered wall(s)
pray(ing) I could move (world)
but (i) didn’t
I fell inside ( )
and my fairy godmother
basted then roasted me alive

IM (instant messenger)

2006-02-26T19:45:00.000-08:00

“//I tried to tell you
     \\> (I don’t love you anymore) <// *bashful*
but my computer froze

     _     _     _

so I forgot---
     and now I don’t (kiss) you *wink*

any@differently.com”

Salva(Ic)

2006-02-24T01:56:00.000-08:00

in the cold
I folded the
makeshift skin
btween left forefinger and/
pinky (absent of color)
until a small tent
erected bone(ified)
support
to house
flesh dwelling
tenants

cradle

2006-02-18T21:45:00.000-08:00

spent nights

in hollowed corners

from outside worlds

counting woven afghan rings

tallying breaths

marked by words dribbling

from each kiss

holding back from

seeing you

(into) fine hair

lashes skin

through tangibility

into each package of (the) possible

not (small) like valentines chocolates

a crate, or coffin holding

endless thoughts

of ends and beginnings

continuing or

stalling for that one last

youth

2006-02-09T20:16:00.000-08:00

i heard happiness (taste)d saltine crackers

so you crumbled them up

placed them in (my) pocket

and decided to save (a few)

black is the new Light

2006-02-09T19:50:00.000-08:00

extinguishes
the world looks
black save frantic
firefly spasms
the darkest we’ve felt
in as long as…
memory permits
ancestral tales sidle up
to warm ancient use(s)
on burning flame
to shed light on the vastness
on this paperbox
street full of hollow skulls
distance becomes an
ice river ‘de(struct)ure(ion)’
this is written for the first time
with ink and (or)
failing light

snowfall pt 1

2006-01-23T14:37:00.000-08:00

standing before
bay windows
half naked under the glow
of fish tank lights
and the constant din
of industrial horizons
half naked under the weight
of a new snowfall
in the hours before waking
steps are swollen and swallowed
like misused barbiturates
half naked under smirking stares
phantom children
trudge towards a school bound bus
not clean clear steps
the slur of resistance pronounced
half naked under the weight
tomorrow someone will start over

streets

2006-01-22T18:45:00.000-08:00

neglected sullen hangs
like the third wheel
of third grade play
neglected sullen thought after
fine appendages dangling
into an ironically fiery hell
currents crash through
a naked neck
lifting sought after heat
and carrying into a mass of
tidal wave flakes
to dance among
small delicate birds
who if one were to categorize
they might say finches
and they’d be wrong
and delicate finicky birds play
follow the martyr
into the suicide winds
solace only
small abating eddies
occurring methodically
between eaglet and jarvis
or any other northern suburb
hung as if a testament
to all who oppose
handmade and finished
with gentle gliding needles
without the heat still
lifted from neck
to dance in suicide winds

flash

2006-01-10T00:11:00.000-08:00

- inspired by the novel Invisible Monsters
“We are all products…”
its not about
between your legs
vaginoplasty
ride that hypodermic
railway to supple fleshy
premenstrality
looking through windows
the silly splashing waves
that rush against
rocks like phallic symbolism
like age-old pictures
silent scenes until
cut away dialogue
and the director screams
(give me) river estrogen
(give me) scenic silicon mountains
(give me) rhinoplasty
(give me) identity
the crew falls away
director waits for luncheon sandwiches
pose
its about spotlights
climbing clumsy ladders
distinct efforts
begging for (in)distinction
as twists to change dead filaments
twist skin and dollars
wrists and surgical steel
its about going under the knife
not the mutilating incision
its about love without sex
(give me) security
(give me) testicular abstractions
(give me) purposeful retaliation under guise of cosmeticism
(flash)

Impermanence

2006-01-07T02:43:00.000-08:00

resounding off cylindric canyons like echo-location like running in circles circles form rings rings break vows break where is the myth of permanence perpetuated from deep chasms chasms of hope trust faith trust in faith in butterfly wings in one flap that can change worlds but not this this ring in a hollow tomb where calamity stands still in permanence runner will tire ring melts with strain fact will dominate myth and circles will mean nothing

ex (changed)

2005-12-12T09:57:00.000-08:00

dainty on morning frost
     seen through screen of exhale
steam d  coffee
     sharp contrast : brittle atmosphere

flowing – colored vibrancies
    earthen browns; sandy beige
          I couldn’t tell you
     (species)

--wind chill--
          between us (you and i)
between us           you smile
     I (smile)       for you
but you –
only see
          colored birds

Caught

2005-12-08T00:32:00.001-08:00

crosswalk button
     blinking for precious moments
stop,pause,stop,pause,stop
dead center
     traffic rushes through
you –
the fine tips of hair
turn to razor whips
     lacerating fragile face
this is speed
     caught in the middle
so fast
     rain wont stop here
concrete is hot
     uniform tracks lay
like dried rivers
          through concrete jungles
this vine was
     I caught it sailing
a thought: it was safe
          but the button stopped
before my time
     and this is speed
to passing mobiles
          I am caught
and no one will stop
     without this broken signal
          no one will stop

Trace(s)

2005-12-08T00:32:00.000-08:00

of skin
     hair     swirl
the oncoming typhoon
     razor grasps tiny follicles          pull
until it bleeds
     sweet amarilla paint peels
flakes
     pushed from walls
     ceiling
by pulsing
     rhythm of hearts
          in collision
blasting chips
          badly layered paint
     and the hair keeps swirling
swept      distance     basin
     not strong enough
to carry tides

snowflake tissue
     like glue
          molds razor slips
tension
     pause
          toe dips lukewarm
hair –mellows- sublime
     deep heat engulfing body(ies)
tribal beats compel
          so toe digs further
trace (molecules)
     wrap warm liquid
          swim
     absorb (absolve)

static lines
     like forgotten children
and
testicles::
buoys in the aftermath

dip deep into lather
     loose grease
          breath (hold) breathe
quickens blood racing
     festivities in (         )
distance tangles
     like matted hair(public)
          drain clog
wayward glances
     the wall’s skin
     lays in tatters
be still(…)
     snowflakes cling
          to razor’d flaws
               like dust to a dryer
rinserinserinserinse
     hair swirls
          receeding typhoons
     take pieces
               (me)

                    into pipe (dreams)

moana

2005-12-08T00:28:00.000-08:00

can i touch you (&) into nonexistence
if i smudge you like wetpaint
will you cover me (up)
half full lungs
(optimist)