i offered money & lunch for anybody who would get the allegedly non-stinging dauber wasp for me, but in the meantime the nice people at eartheasy.com showed me how to make a trap for it. natural pest control.
ginger ale bottle
soapy water to make it harder to fly
honey all in the bottleneck
fingers crossed
here it is in its spot under where the wasp mainly daubs all day
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
wasp
it's as long as a crayon
black
oval head
tiny waist
long gold legs hang off its back
it's been in the house the past few days
morning afternoon
must sleep at night
hangs out next to desk in corner ceiling
next to painting
zooms in near my head
thru closed doors
window cracks
it sees me try to take its picture
i look at camera to hit button
for just one second
look up
there it is
every time
hovering buzzing the sound of 5 flies or more at once
right at my head face level
i turn & run & scramble backwards
scream "FUCK" and "GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER"
involuntarily and hope for its death
hope it is old & about to die
hope it flies into a moving vehicle
hope it stings me when i'm not looking
just get it over with
i take down the painting it hangs out around & there are 20-ish blobs of mud caked onto the side where the fucker's been building a nest
i took down the painting & look forward to tomorrow when it comes back & its project has been relocated to the kitchen
i got 2 flyswatters tonight in preparation and also have a strapping young man visiting tomorrow who can help me get rid of this pest if i need it
i painted something today while the terrorist held my office hostage with its endless swooping diving buzzing
as long as a crayon
black
oval head
tiny waist
long gold legs hang off its back
(just the other day parttown told me about tarantula hawks
and i see on the schmidt sting pain index that wasps hurt.)
here's the wasp nest hung up & reflected in jay archibald's watermelon orchids
black
oval head
tiny waist
long gold legs hang off its back
it's been in the house the past few days
morning afternoon
must sleep at night
hangs out next to desk in corner ceiling
next to painting
zooms in near my head
thru closed doors
window cracks
it sees me try to take its picture
i look at camera to hit button
for just one second
look up
there it is
every time
hovering buzzing the sound of 5 flies or more at once
right at my head face level
i turn & run & scramble backwards
scream "FUCK" and "GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER"
involuntarily and hope for its death
hope it is old & about to die
hope it flies into a moving vehicle
hope it stings me when i'm not looking
just get it over with
i take down the painting it hangs out around & there are 20-ish blobs of mud caked onto the side where the fucker's been building a nest
i took down the painting & look forward to tomorrow when it comes back & its project has been relocated to the kitchen
i got 2 flyswatters tonight in preparation and also have a strapping young man visiting tomorrow who can help me get rid of this pest if i need it
i painted something today while the terrorist held my office hostage with its endless swooping diving buzzing
as long as a crayon
black
oval head
tiny waist
long gold legs hang off its back
(just the other day parttown told me about tarantula hawks
and i see on the schmidt sting pain index that wasps hurt.)
here's the wasp nest hung up & reflected in jay archibald's watermelon orchids
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
topcat lisa
Monday, August 28, 2006
wine country temecula this weekend
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
august 18
sick sweet
heavy sweet
full mid august heat
heavy sun full
day turns honey brown
drip drop heavy sweet
sludge of spring summer
accumulates here bucket
swill together dark full
droplets amber sun heavy gold
drops dark red full burst
angle more steep sooner does creep
dark fall full deep
fall from gold heat
beat beat beat beat
beat beat beat beat --
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
willin belo
there's a Little Feat song, Willin', that has a chorus of
"And if you give me:
weed, whites, and wine
and you show me a sign
I'll be willin', to be movin'"
and i tried to fingerpaint it last summer, the weed whites & wine spiral movin' - hung with xmas lights, i took a rotating photo last winter
and then saw this mirror at chef's restaurant belo downtown in april-
and here's a youtube video of the song -
link
"And if you give me:
weed, whites, and wine
and you show me a sign
I'll be willin', to be movin'"
and i tried to fingerpaint it last summer, the weed whites & wine spiral movin' - hung with xmas lights, i took a rotating photo last winter
and then saw this mirror at chef's restaurant belo downtown in april-
and here's a youtube video of the song -
link
Friday, August 18, 2006
the last comanche war hero sips a mint julep in the bronx
i wanna write things that
when they're done
people will have to
go back and
re-read
immediately
and
often.
when they're done
people will have to
go back and
re-read
immediately
and
often.
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