The Dandelions Are Loners






“My books have been translated into twelve languages but I will sleep alone tonight in Tokyo raining.” ///These guidelines are very general and cannot cover every possible situation. /// “I pray that flowers and vegetables will water the 21st Century with their voices” /// PG meditates in an effort to hear what G-d thinks about this. She says the Republicans talk too much. /// “At dawn when the dew has built its tents on the grass, will you come to my grave and sprinkle bread crumbs from an enchanted kitchen?” /// Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities… Jean Cocteau /// “In the first kingdom of the stars, everything is always half- beautiful.” /// The sign in the department store window said Men’s pants half off,/// “He was leaving for America, often only a place in the mind.” /// Im a freak so dont ask me what i get into. /// “The only hope we have is our children and the seeds we give them and the gardens we plant together.” /// Those who practice telekinesis raise my hand. And so it goes. /// “These flowers will look into their hearts every day and see the sun reflecting like a great mirror their desire to live and be beautiful.” /// At night, these same flowers will look at the moon. They will want to drink beer. /// “I go to the public library and pour over books like intellectual catsup to gain information” /// All the condiment packages in food vendors say they contain fancy ketchup. Does plain ketchup taste any different? /// “The distances of loneliness make the fourth dimension seem like three hungry crows looking at a worm in a famine.” /// Contents are for informational purposes only. Readers are encouraged to think for themselves and act at their own risk /// “I shot the enemy planes down by holding out my arms straight from my body and running like hell, shouting: RAT-tattattattattattat!” /// “I went trough this phase last year where I pretty much ate nothing but kudzu.”/// “Let your granny gland relax a little and slow down those rocking chair secretions.” /// granny wonchta smoke some granny won’t you smoke some granny won’t you smoke some mara jew wanna /// “The dandelions are loners and pretty much stay off by themselves, but those daisies!” /// Endured the loud, nearly ceaseless self- important yapping on a cellphone by a woman in the waiting room at the Toyota dealership this morning. One call after another. Nobody could enjoy reading or anything else. An occasional call, fine. But this was horrible. /// “The returning path to my room was made comfortable by thoughts of flowers, America and Vida sleeping like a photograph” /// The vortex of irony you will create by commenting will sap the hair-care products off your stylish bed-head, and we do not want to be responsible for that. /// “It’s good to name creeks after people and then later to follow them for a while seeing what they have made of themselves.” /// When you quote people, who make a point of not reading you, there is no chance they will complain that you have stolen their words. ///”You certainly look pretty this morning. You look like a dream I’ve never had before.” ///Antidepressants can increase suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children, teens, and young adults. Suicide is a known risk of depression and some other psychiatric disorders. Call your doctor right away if you have new or worsening depression symptoms, unusual changes in behavior, or thoughts of suicide. Approved only for adults 18 and over. ///”So perfect and beautiful as not to be with us, as to be alone in some different contemplation of the spirit” /// If interstate 75 was a playmate her turn ons would be: boiled peanuts, Harley Davidson’s, and orange juice. Turn offs; abortion. ///





“The awkward joy of trying to keep one lick ahead of an ice-cream cone on a hot summer day.” /// “Is life any more than a slopbucket of accident and confusion?” -Jeanette Winterson /// “Things are different at night. The houses and towns demand their beauty and get it in distant lights twinkling with incredible passion.” /// Neil Diamond thanked the LORD for the nighttime. It is not known whether she said you’re welcome./// “I spend a lot of my life interested in little things, tiny portions of reality like a pinch of spice in a very complicated recipe” /// Reality is television for doorknobs who can’t imagine a better world/// “This is a small detail right now but it could be very important a million years from now when archaeologists sift through our ruins” /// The archaeologists will be puzzled by the Big Chicken. They will not know to make a right turn. /// “When I am kissing you, I can look down on all things that are wonderful.” /// About Me: Just a normal guy here. Looking for a decent guy to settle down with…if that still exists??? Anything else you’d like to know, just ask! /// “Sand is crystal like the soul. The wind blows it away.” /// “Oh, Mona, we’re all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others!” – Armistead Maupin/// “A woman told me that she once got so sick eating a hamburger that she fell off the front porch.”/// “Bright colors are the refuge of the unlovely.” -Sophia LoRent /// “He was living the kind of hermit life kids dream about living. He was an ancient breathing statue of Huckleberry Finn.” /// “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” — William Gibson /// “I sometimes think that even our digestion is a soundtrack recorded in Hollywood by the television networks.” /// Anyone who watches the commercials on the evening network news will disagree. Many people eat dinner while watching these commercials. MSM presents commercials for laxatives and preparation H while people are passing the biscuits./// “One must keep track of all the small victories.” /// A dedicated shopper will remember her mall victories. /// “Dear Pard, Your letter explains why I saw two FBI agents watching a trout stream last week. It appears to be part of their training.” /// “if everybody who needed to be caned got what he deserved then there wouldn’t be a stalk of bamboo left standing.” -Larry Lynch /// “Haiku Ambulance: A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what?” /// pigeon overhead… fertilizer on the way… attorney beware /// “I love baked apples hot and fresh from the oven with rich cream poured like the wings of an angel over them.” /// The apples would have preferred to be in a pie. No one asked. ///”We both smiled across the darkness. It comforted us as dark-night smiles have been doing for thousands of years” ///Laugh when you can…. Apologize when you should…. And let go of what you can’t change…. Love deeply and forgive quickly…. Take chances and give your everything…. Life is too short to be anything but happy…. You have to take the good with the bad…. Love what you have…. Always remember what you had…. Forgive and forget…and always remember.. that life goes on/// “We meet. We try. Nothing happens, but afterwards we are always embarrassed when we see each other. We look away.” /// The ex governor had hair.. At which you had to stare… They threw him in a box … And cut off his locks… Why should I even care?/// “She was still a little awkward, but now instead of treating it as a handicap, she treated it as a form of poetry” /// What bothers me about That last comment is that a Jesuit referenced both the Waltons and the B52s in the same paragraph./// “She is the shadow of another planet being photographed in a totally white room” /// Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news which obeys its own special laws. – Douglas Adams/// “Let us pretend that my mind is a taxi and suddenly (“What the hell’s coming off!”) you are riding in it.” /// Margaret Mitchell was always wary of taxis, but did not know why, until it was too late. /// “Lions are growing like yellow roses on the wind and we turn gracefully in the medieval garden of their roaring blossoms.” /// PREMISE: DO NOT comment at all if you think the “right way” to handle Christian disagreement is to make an appointment and chat over coffee first. /// “It’s a hard decision whether to start at the top or the bottom of a girl.” /// It is relevant whether the person in question is a top or a bottom. /// “Want to go to a cave and eat some popcorn, or would you like to saddle up a couple of goldfish and swim to Alaska?”/// The dialog above is a visit with The ghost of Richard Brautigan. The replies are from various parts of the internet, or what goes for imagination at Chamblee 54. The pictures were taken at Short Mountain Sanctuary. ///






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