JF Mingione: writings

Maybe I wish to sing of love like Neruda with gnarled roots twisting into this earth, my soil And to grasp this hand that would lead me back into my unaccomplished deeds Maybe, I wish I knew how to sing a song without metaphor and be carried like a seed to the threshold of my being To sing this song... Sign in to see full entry.

(For Chap 1 see page 6) 2: BEGININGS AND ENDINGS, AGAIN I just told you Chap 2 was in its preparation. So, here I am two months later, trying to thread this needle--and you know how that is. You wet the thread in your mouth, line the little eyelet with the one eye that’s still working, and just when... Sign in to see full entry.

I think I read, or heard someplace that a male in his 20’s thinks about sex about 60,000 time a minute (faster than the speed of light). Now I can’t personally vouch for this fact (or what goes through the minds of women) but I have noticed that as I grow older things tend to slow down, because now... Sign in to see full entry.

Joe, the plumber Just raised a question And now the media is attacking me I don’t know why they don’t Read my poems and see What we are about to be But when they start destructing Our hopes and our reasonable dreams After they puncture their own tires Perhaps they'll have to deal with me! Sign in to see full entry.

I happen to like the little packages my mind puts on my doorstep so anomalously So today I find a little box (shake, shake… is there anything inside it?) The directions read: “The reversible box. Turn it inside out, and you have the same box” How clever my mind is to me And if it were my suitor We... Sign in to see full entry.

OK, SO EVERYTHING HAS A VEIL DID I TELL YOU THAT WRITING IN CAPS REally (oops) SIMPLIFIED MY KEYBOARD BUT IT’S NO BIG THING I JUST CALL IT A CASE STUDY AND WHY WOULDN’T THE WONDERFUL BE WEARING A VEIL? IT’S A LOT BETTER THAN READING LIPS IN THE RAIN WITH FOGGEY GLASSES WHICH IS WHY I STOPPED GOING... Sign in to see full entry.

HEY, JUST 12 WEEKS AGO IT WAS SPRING AND IF I WEREN’T PAYING ATTENTION I MIGHT HAVE MISSED SUMMER! NOW THE LEAVES ARE CRINKLING THEIR NOSES AT ME AGAIN SO I DON’T KNOW WHETHER TO PARTY OR GO TO SLEEP WITH THE TREES OK, SO IT’S HARVEST TIME AGAIN AND NOW I GOT TO GO RENT A COUPLE OF COWS TO BRING TO... Sign in to see full entry.

MICROCANDRIAL LUCY LIKES TO PLAY DEAD UNTIL SHE FEELS A BREEZE UP HER SKIRTS AND ONE-FINGERS THE PIANO INTO THE PAN OF DESTIINY--WOW! SO TWO-FINGER LUCY GOES TO TOWN PRECUSSING THE UNKNOWN COOKIN’ ON HER KEYBOARD HER DESTINY IN SOUND WHEN TEN-FINGER LUCY STARTS COOKIN’ EVERYTHING COMES ALIVE (THE... Sign in to see full entry.

Destiny’s at it again, the season falters A change in the air, or The butterflies in my stomach announcing, again This, my uneasiness, of anticipation that there Is only a sensed membrane between my non-being and myself As the seasons turn slowly into themselves, I wonder: For if I am mortal, how... Sign in to see full entry.

Here are the rules: I'll begin with a title and 2 lines, then each player gets 2-3 line stanza. When the poems seems completed, someone else starts...and so on, so that each player is in another position within any piece. Just like poker, a player can pass, and join next round. Now, if you need to... Sign in to see full entry.