TH3 R04D 41N'T 4LW4YS TH3 S4M3...

the road ain't always the same

choosing your own adventure

across the surface of Earth

34RTH R3CL41MS P0L3S W1TH V3NG3FVL...

Earth reclaims poles with vengeful

vines; afterwars, criss-crossed skies

will become cleansed as well

0CCVPY1NG TH3 SCR4GGLY...

occupying the scraggly

space between rock solid and

completely underwater

25-Man Metaphysical Roster: West Ham United F.C.

[West Ham players fighting with West Ham supporters, on

the pitch, earlier this season, lolol]

[25-Man Metaphysical Roster is a football dork methodology meant to establish a listing of players who have been most active for English Premier League teams in their past 100 non-friendly matches. Essentially, it is calculated by minutes played, but weighted towards most recent games. The end result is a listing of the 25 players in a team’s recent history who have had the largest hand on their metaphysical sporting trajectory. The English Premier League was chosen because it is the highest level of football played in an English speaking country, and I speak English. Also, it is what comes on TV here in the USA, where I fucking live. And yet still I should clarify I hate English, and also America. Thus maybe I hate myself. Should I not fail in maintaining my unpaid deadline, a new 25-Man Metaphysical Roster will appear on the 1st and 15th of every month.]

Wow, West Ham was a fucking mess, with supporters getting old school and rushing the pitch and trying to stab people with corner flags and shit. Would’ve really liked to write about that but whatever. Also nice to see Chicharito quietly back in England. BRING HIM TO AMERICA! No blurbs.

#1: Aaron Cresswall (up from #3 last time West Ham was 25-Manned on 01-Jun-2017)

#2: Cheikhou Kouyate (down from #1 last time)

#3: Angelo Ogbonna (up from #7 last time)

#4: Manuel Lanzini (up from #6 last time)

#5: Mark Noble (down from #2 last time)

#6: Winston Reid (down from #5 last time)

#7: Pedro Obiang (up from #10 last time)

#8: Michail Antonio (down from #4 last time)

#9: Pablo Zabaleta (previously #19 for Manchester United on 15-Nov-2017)

#10: Adrian (up from #11 last time)

#11: Arthur Masuaku (up from #20 last time)

#12: Andre Ayew (up from #16 last time)

#13: James Collins (down from #12 last time)

#14: Marko Arnautovic (previously #2 for Stoke City on 01-Jul-2017)

#15: Joe Hart

#16: Andy Carroll (down from #13 last time)

#17: Javier Hernandez

#18: Sam Byram (down from #14 last time)

#19: Jose Fonte (down from #15 last time, also previously #12 for Southampton on 01-Aug-2017)

#20: Edimilson Fernandes (down from #18 last time)

#21: Darren Randolph (down from #8 last time)

#22: Declan Rice

#23: Dmitri Payet

#24: Sofiane Feghouli (down from #17 last time)

#25: Joao Mario

WH4T W4S 0NC3 SH1N3F4C3 M0T3LS...

what was once shineface motels

now dilapidated wrecks

along abandoned highways

SP3ND S4TVRD4Y 4FT3RN00N...

spend Saturday afternoon

vacuuming my Civic out

with old school music bumping

S1TT1NG 0N TH3 B4LC0NY...

sitting on the balcony

watching a place that I don't

know all that well pass me by

T0T4L S3CVR1TY ST4T3...

total security state

panopticon, cameras

pointed every direction

SM4RTPH0N3 4PP C4LL T0 PR4Y3R...

smartphone app call to prayer

reminder, driving, repeat

"la ilaha illallah"

twitter renga #0218

(last month's twitter renga @rojonekku, 

birth month renga) 

neither my father

nor my father's father made
it to age 50

I turn forty-five this month... 
challenging my destiny

neither my father
nor my father's father gave
up their worst demons

I've done what I can, but still
see failure demons swirling

"simplify the code"
said white work dude this morning; 
elder beech trees laughed

what Yakubian trickster
trapped me in this existence?

big-head scientists
in vast abundance, many
believe their own good

"one of the good ones" racialist
thinking, inverted backwards

the refrain remains
FUCK Y'ALL FAKE MOTHERFUCKERS - 
I see you lurking

propagating false world through
digital utopias

encourage children
to learn arson techniques,
to archive in ash

the cleansing power of fire - 
small big bang vaccinations

challenging human 
creature comfort through in real 
life trial by fire 

colonized minds too settled 
in psychological flaws

apocalyptic
balance for permaculture - 
nothing's permanent

from fertile rubble and ash
the next genesis begins

let all this false shit
go ahead and end; people
dwell too much on death

somebody gonna be left
to get it started again

if eighty percent
of all people died, shit man,
one billion's still left

it'd just be like a mass
extinction refresh button

mark another year
survived, which is better than
the alternative

lowering expectations
on a daily basis now

low expectations,
low libido, low ego,
low superego

low life lived - the only highs
I've known have been chemical

so little still gives
me warm blood flow excitement...
dull, mundane, slow death

life spent trying is wasted;
these devils are relentless

my firstborn turning
nineteen means I'm old as fuck;
she's still young, with dreams

letting my dreams die in peace,
not misplacing them on her

the balancing act
of teaching both realism
and optimism

sure, things are totally fucked...
but imagine what is next!

we are no more (or
less) doomed than ever before...
nothing's set in stone

the Earth's healing properties
been mostly ignored by us

even shit which is set
in stone can be smashed apart
when necessary

then little rubble pieces
can be thrown at devil eyes

old dirtgods throwing
stones towards predator drones
passing overhead

one day I'm gonna hit
one, and that fucker will crash

young dirtgods growing 
in the wake of wild ripples 
made by feral folks 

("dirtgods" is gender-neutral; 
call them they, better yet y'all)

one finger waving
passing other late model
beaters on back roads

saving my middle finger
for the system, forever

anti-government
nature - overthrow this one,
install a new one

fuck that one too; read some Frantz
Fanon ya motherfuckers

(already aware
of problematic nature
of "motherfucker")

(product of environment)
LIFE - A PROBLEMATIC FAVE

anyways, glad I'm
still alive, and not dead, though
do feel 'bout half-dead

I should be living harder
instead of hardly living

D1G1T4L C4M3R4 C4RD...

digital camera card

corrupted perfectly, to

cause unnatural contrast

L0W3R S0C10-3C0N...

lower socio-econ

made solid by putting chrome

on late model Chevrolet

SKY 0V3R R04D 1 L1V3 0N...

sky over road I live on

has given variations

on blue and white theme galore

T0VR1ST H0T3LS W1TH P3RF3CT...

tourist hotels with perfect

corners never blemished by

rocket propelled grenades, yet

G00GL3 S0VL F00D R3ST4VR4NT...

google "soul food restaurant"

and chances are better than

not you will find non-soul food

STR4NG3 S1M14N SC13NC3S...

strange simian sciences

inclined to apply square rules

where only fractals exist

G4S ST4T10N C0FF33 - 4S T4LL...

gas station coffee - as tall

a cup as possible, with

like four hazelnut creamers

SC4TT3R1NG CR4CK3D C0RN F0R CR0WS...

scattering cracked corn for crows;

thus far, they've not returned the

favor, but I am patient

P30PL3 WH0 TRVST C0PS 4LS0...

people who trust cops also

trust politics; guess they get

returns on their investment

TH3 H1GH3R 3DVC4T10N...

the higher education

industry profits off of

the meritocracy myth

0NC3 4CT1V3 F4RMH0VS3 4L0NG...

once active farmhouse along

dying side road left vacant,

decaying, with For Sale sign

S1MPL3 C3R4M1C C0FF33...

simple ceramic coffee

cup, refilled with flirtatious

small talk; it's nothing, like life

CH3ST MVSCL3 4NX13TY...

chest muscle anxiety

grip countered with deep breaths and

long stares upwards into sky

SP4C3M3N W0VLDN'T TRVLY B3...

spacemen wouldn't truly be

"space" men, but from another

planet; no one's born nowhere