Tuesday, May 2, 1995

Shower Dynamics (1995)


The 1st Principal of Shower Dynamics as applied to showering bodies in a 9 to 5 configuration:

If you intend to shower from 9 to 5 you can (and do) generate phone calls and appointments with up to 99.9% certainty—simply by removing your clothing, stepping into the hot (or mild whatever the temp of your choice) water and lathering up.

At this point, the phone will almost always certainly ring, or someone will come to the door—or both. The dog will bark, you will cuss, and the birds will sing, and bells will ring.

The only possibility of this not occurring would be in the event that one were actually trying to prove this theorem by generating heretofore unexpected phone calls. Persons of this caliber are fools, basing many of life’s decisions on the spurious divinations of hairballs, potato entrails and other random chance erosion/sediment patterns.

Monday, May 1, 1995

Songs written by the window of 180-1/2 E. 8th Ave, across the street from Quest Diagnostics in Chico(1995)


Songs Written by the Window

Well I’m old and I wear a hat
And I carry a pack
And I drive the company truck
Wearing flannel overcoats and the like
Now I’m drivin’ away

A young lady in a small red car
Make that a middle age wreck
The woman not the car
Lookin’ like heck and
Frantically digging in her purse
And tripping in her highly
Inappropriate heels

Fine young grunge princess
Disappeared behind the bushes
I wonder where she went?
Will I see her again?
More on this as it unfolds

Maintenance contractor, union type
Gets out of the rig that’s
Blocking my view—what’s he
Gonna do?

Old people, young people
Waiting for their urine tests
Waiting for the word on their pee
Did I pass? Did I? I sure
Hope the bum I bought the
Piss from didn’t lie to me
Just to take my money—oh, well
Well, I’m waiting? What’s the news
On my juice?