EATER (window glass, wood, acrylic paint, ink jet paper and pour on)

eater

her lover had died

she was all alone

at hotel seiyo ginza

in tokyo

the required effort 

is nothing to the Lord

(she thought) He can see 

into the heart

her father was dark skinned

because he was tatar,

when she gave birth to her first son

the moon belonged to china

she became the world's most influential active athlete

not just a pitchman, but a businessman

especially in the booming asian market, 

signing deals to pitch dunkin' donuts

she would eat dog food

urintating on her trainer

over bowls of mist covered

dreams

HAWA II

HAWA II (window, acrylic paint, paper, mod podge and pour on)

get hungry

eat the earth inside the mountain

swallow everything in the world

and your whole life will be gone and the moon will still sleep the sky

fill your garden with blue flowers 

while dragons sleep nearby

and your whole life will be gone and the moon will still sleep the sky

and the parachute you're wearing with such confidence

will not save you from tomorrow, tomorrow

and

your hands are so cold and your mouth is full of breath

and you look so good in that cop uniform tonight

and your whole life will be gone and the moon will still sleep the sky

i think i finally found something (watercolor and colored pencil on wood)

THE FOOLS

falling into a deep love

for no real good reason

outside of your car in the rain

familiar faces in the crowd

wherever you might be...

they are

inside a cloud in a building

under the black earth in a train

on the ocean drinking and smiling

opening up a convenience store

putting on socks in the morning

like a ghost

living alone 

in a garden

with the lord

asleep or working 

on a trailer for a movie

hoping for a miracle

reading books

someone else wrote

paraphrasing they're

favorite passages

writing poems

like this

I Have Seen Through Your Lies (acrylic, paper collage on wood panel)

the dead monkeys

(none of the unseen)

they were everywhere

one by the front door

another in the refrigerator

another wearing a crown 

stuffed into one of the bookcases

the car was full of them

and had been for at least a week

you couldn't open the door

i had the car removed 

from the grounds

the police showed up asking a bunch of questions:

"do you know anything about the dead monkeys ?"

"where is the toilet ?"

"do you know that there is a dead monkey 

in your toilet ?"

i told them i suspected

it was probably my old GF

her or her new BF probably

had something to do with it

but i wasn't sure and had no proof

it was truly terrible and now

i can't stop eating and eating and eating

last night i ate a whole cake

that i made from scratch

while watching 'wrath of khan'

on netflix

the politicians (charcoal pencil on illustration board)

the metaphorical sweats

i was invited by the m_______

to their party at the riveria pool mansion

they lived inside for most of the year

the dolphins there, were incredible

and would swim up into the house

late at night while the guards slept

we never worried about the

war ending or all the people that were

dying all around us either

sometimes we would eat fresh bananas

and oranges from brazil or other far off countries

in the middle of winter

we froze a lot of stuff at first

but later once we realized that all the fresh stuff

would never stop we just threw it away

i bought a table made out of weed

one time. we smoked it for most of the summer

me and three friends of mine who are all dead now

we had a party at becky's one thursday

she was so pretty back then

the birds would land on her arms. 

kissing the rows of scars on her

legs. the needles leaving long red streaks 

on her skin

The Atomic Lobster Barn Art Show Preview

i can see forever forever (collage, acrylic and wood)

I guess I agree that maybe God shouldn't destroy everyone and everything before too long (paper and wood)

JFK (string, acrylic resin, paper, wood, silver letter cubes and silicon)

I have become milk that you've poured into the ruin of your bed (paper, letter blocks and acrylic on wood)

I have been walking into churches (paper, oil, acrylic and letter blocks on wood)

I live on a planet in outer space (paper, acrylic, and costume jewels on wood)

I scratched the surface of your face (paper, acrylic and letter blocks on wood)

I've become uneasy about the situation (paper, asphalt glue and beeswax on wood)

I was joking about everything (asphalt, acrylic and glue on wood)

It's not as easy to see the truth in everything all the time (string, acrylic, paper and glue on wood)

If we cannot share a future together than why are we here (firewood, mannequin, wreath pencils, cup hooks gesso, sand, roofing tar on wood)

Lincoln after his presidency (paper, acrylic on wood)

Rebecca becomes aware of the immensity of the universe (string, paper, acrylic on wood)

Untitled Lincoln (paper mache, wire, paper, glue, acrylic on wood base)

Here's a sampling of some of the works on display this weekend at the Atomic Lobster Barn Gallery Art show. 

i was joking about everything (wood, asphalt, acrylic paint, glue and sand)

fools like me

we invented love

somehow

and without mercy

or instruction

half a head

coming out of the water

in the night

in a dream

vengeance (wood board, acrylic, collage, glue and wooden pick up sticks)

When I am called

we are running 

across los angeles

as fast as we can

hiding under doors

you sing a song you

learned as a child

the song of the aphid

a beetle crawls

into your ear

now we are on a lake

in orange county 

drinking milk

the water is covered with flowers

they are as red as the sun

you can see for more than a mile

your eyes glow in the grey

like the LAPD

your teeth are made of fire