Tropically Distrubed

“Was you ever bit by a dead jellyfish?”
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clairvoyant alcoholics from Downey with buckets
& flashlights (grunion run on Venice Beach some-
time in the mid-sixties
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Turkey buzzard gliding over the coast
highway
quick moment
1. think of Lew Welch
2. turn the corner
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UNDERWATER THEME PARK
part of an actual pattern the synopsis of
several dreams I’m still listening to even when
I pretend I’m not (dreaming)
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I hear every footstep wing-flap fin-
splash & the Heart Sutra played backwards
on a surfboard strung with piano wire
& just left of the sun there that’s
a rogue bit of cumulus
26,000 miles from home