Mushrooms (2016 note)

 (redacted): one matsutake. Near l/r

switchback with large felled log at the 

corner. (Just after strange signs). 

Admirable boletes at very crest of trail before 

descent into creek valley. Many chanterelle, 

most near matsutake. All choice found in 

open forest w no vegetation, pine covering. 

Staircase: quarter mile in, north side of 

creek, lobsters. Shaggy manes just past 

bridge on right side of creek. 

Spring kings: ponderosa pines, true firs, 

cedars. E of crest 

Ponderosa: flaky jigsaw bark, long thin 

needles in bundles of 3

True fir: erect cones on top branches, short 

blunt needles (one inch) 

Rimbaud

 We take masturbation lessons!

We flap and flail and

Get sent back to third grade. 

What a disgrace. 

“The system failed you.”

Or: the fact that there was a system.

For it all runs afoul. 

The fact was, there was a system 

For ever and all. 

I like to smile and joke

To avoid a tantrum. 

I smile, I joke,

I like to stomp, to screech. 

You can relax your muscles in sleep,

Or you can drain them.

Flex and scream,

Pinch your eyes, clench your teeth. 

And my mind is plainly blank.

The wrung-out feeling. 

I sink into the floor, and numb is the pace.

As far as numbing goes,

I finish first place.