...a phone call

26.04.08
Heavylandia,es

...So,
Workin' in the Bukowski bar,
Things are hot, and the boss is this little guy
who likes to scream alot...barks really.
Yeah, he barks. He is a cool guy. You can't help but like the brother.
Nobody really on the chain of command, so I'm not.
The immigrant.
" ...can you believe an American would come to this shithole
" looking for a better life what an imbicle "...
he sez to his friends.
" ...Wish I could see the Grand Canyon one day...
it's as big as they say, no ? " he wishes.

The fone rings....
It's someone I have not reeeeeeeeealy
wanted to speak with just yet...
" Damn " I whispered to my boss,
he waved a " aaaah " at me,
and I went upstairs and
listened for 30 long minutes...

Later that day...

...moppin the floor
talking to the other immigrant,
She's from the middle east
has a cool accent...
Boss strolls in...
lookin around,
opens the fridge and looks around
lookin around...
lifts a chunk a cheese, and
strolls over torwards me
" ya all right man...?"
puttin his skinny hand on my shoulder...
" Si, pero no..." I mumble.
(Yes but no...)

"The end isn't as ulgy as you think. It
could be much worse. You've hesitated too many times...
Carpe Diem Motherfucker !!!..." the voice, on the other end
of that satellite rift in time said.

" I ain't heard that in a very, very long time", I said to my boss.
Whom smiled, and smiled somemore...
" Carpe Diem motherfucker !!!...I like that.", he smiled.
Then he put his skinny hand on the back of my greasy neck
and kissed me on the cheek...
" Carpe Diem Motherfucker ", he said softly,
lookin me in the eye...

We ate together,
and went out and smoked a joint.
Gotta go back at 8:15 pm till 2:00am or so...
The brother will bark and growl,
I will put in my earphones and go into
"Auto-Level", because we will be slammed
on a perfect saturday night...at the Bukowski bar
and Bukowski will smile at me slyly,
as he's a barkin' and a growlin',
" Carpe Diem motherfucker !!!"

Seize the day motherfucker...

That was my day 10:00am til 5:00pm...
The freakshow continues,
but a short while longer...
I cannot wait see something different.

Be well todo mundo,

J. Level

The Manolin files...

20.02.08
Uvieu,España

So friends,
All good in the rainy city.
Yep, the ambush should come at any moment
we are prepared.
Are you ?

Rain and wind and a lunar eclipse
gonna be an ok sorta day...
Thinkin' of you there S.C.
Like always...

Be well todo mundo...
J.Level

c 2008spl"The manolin files"

Domingo, Velasquez and Manoline....

11.12.07
Uvieu,España

" Relax man, only 26 more days then it's
out in the damned street with the tree, hasta luego !
27 days from now they will treat that big nativity scene
down there in the plaza of THE BIG CHURCH like
red headed step child ! Huh ! Into the damned
truck with these fiberglas sheep ! Hasta luego....
The santas will go back to being the " friendly "
drunk bums as always, " Hey buddy, gotta
buck for veteran...?" , just like normal.
All good, all normal.... only 27 days brother...relax."

Domingo, Velasquez, and Manoline sat smokin
behind the truck. They waited....
for the mall to close, and hoping Gerald,
a mall Santa, would not be late. They waited.

" You gonna smoke that thing, or what ? "
" yeah, but look over there...Is that Greald
gettin' busted ...Great..."

It was Gerald. Santa suited and sprawed acrossed
the hood of the cop car. They had a bag, and
were holding up what looked to be a bottle of
some sort...then another and another...
" Welp, now what boy's ? ...go and bail the brother
out...? Or to the Cueva Bar for some beers...? "
" ...Their cuffin' him up. Game over for Gerald...
poor stupid bastard...The Cueva, eh? ...."


Gerald sat in the back of the cop car
watchin' the truck and Valesquez
Manoline, and Domingo drive away,
He'd get out in the morning, and go back to
the house on the hill, " Only 27 more days
then HASTA LUEGO !!!! to this weird scene,
and to next xmas in Fez... "

Be well todo mundo,
J.Level

foto: "Con Velasquez" 70x60cm oil/linen 1200 euros
©2007jpl" Domingo,Velasquez and Manoline"

...On the hill, waiting...

10.11.07
Uvieu,España

...I'm standing on this hill
and theres nothing for miles and miles
brought these paintings along
and the Led Zeppelin tapes...
"!!!! Compra algo Tio !!!!!! "
I yelled into the wind...
now, I'm waitin'
for them to get back to me
Surely it'll be any second now....
humm hummmm huummmm......

Waiting on a hill in the
middle of nowhere.
Wish you were here
Domingo, my dear old friend...

Try and be well todo mundo.
J.Level

foto: " Compra algo tio !!!" 60x17 cm ink/watercolour/ paper
©spl2007