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Jesse Mitchell

Jesse Mitchell
Location
http://open.salon.com/blog/jmitch79, Illinois,
Birthday
June 29
Company
my own, mostly
Bio
I am a 30 year cattle farmer. I have 4 children (3 girls and 1 boy) who range in age from 7 years down to 2 months. I am married, been with the same woman now for 10 years. I have worked as a cook, salesman, tailor, engineer's assistant, and also a bomb maker . I have been writing my entire life (really I mean that like all of it even way down into 'em baby years) and still, feh, not so good. I wish there was more to say about me but no such luck. Oh, yes you can all just call me, Jesse. I have seen the trouble people have when replying to me and they find that they must use that awkward JMitch79 business...so my name is Jesse and you may call me by it.

MY RECENT POSTS

Jesse Mitchell's Links

my links
  
 
http://modernrage.wordpress.com/

    hey everybody...I know I know its been quite some time since any of you have heard from me...most of you probably don't even remember me but if you do than this message is for you.  
    I was, if you recall… Read full post »
AUGUST 4, 2010 10:48AM

curve

Flying fast...too fast to fall...flying down...falling past the darkest greens turning black as i go flying past...too fast to fall...falling as the exploding red turns to black. All the colors black...all turning black...all the colors one as i go flying past...too fast fall...as i fall down...past… Read full post »
JULY 27, 2010 12:17PM

Finding the Beat trailer

I was hoping to post this trailer that features yours truly and also mention that they are still seeking female contributors or subjects in particular.  This is the best I can do right now.    http://www.findingthebeatmovie.com/blog/

Watch this trailer and if you can donate or contribu… Read full post »

JULY 19, 2010 10:07AM

flame Eaters


When your eyes were turned away

When your black eyes were turned away

Half-closed

And looking far off

Is when you lost me,

Sightlessly lost me

In the thick darkness

The dark barely-here-shadows

And the wild sounds

Of wild things.

Lost in the places of fires

And slow trains /… Read full post »

With everyone piled inside of the primer grey solid iron battle ship of a late seventies Oldsmobile, we balled up and held on with all mighty as Jeff turned the key and the fire inside this vile beast breathed to life and all the air around us chugged into a frothyRead full post »

JULY 5, 2010 12:27PM

Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura

( a darkened box-like device in which images of external objects, received through an aperture, as with a convex lens, are exhibited in their natural colors on a surface arranged to receive them; used in sketching and exhibition purposes---random house dictionary definition)

 

The wRead full post »

JUNE 23, 2010 5:04PM

ambushed

Ambushed

 

 

Ana walked gingerly down the road that ran by all the best farmland, glancing over her shoulder and off to her side every once and while. She slowed down and sped up depending on the scenery. The sky was gray-green with the constant threat of rain, and a coldRead full post »

JUNE 21, 2010 8:07AM

Holisek the Geologist

Holisek the Geologist stands bare legged and sun sick amoung the broken bricks and strange stones, the clouds above roil and cast dark shadowy spells all around the ground.  The rainy mauled fingers of the sky cannot reach him here, hands to gnawled and scarred from too much pushing together and… Read full post »
JUNE 16, 2010 7:39AM

travels part 2

a few minutes later, dan and i were pulling into a long grey driveway at the end of an equally long and grey alley on the backside of a tiny all but dead mid southern coal mining town.  The coal mines were gone, along with most of the inhabitants of the town and county. /… Read full post »
JUNE 14, 2010 9:52AM

Travels in the Chevy

The big white chevy clunked and slightly shook as it travelled hard and fast down the pulled taut reptilian road...mile after mile of rolled out snake skin pavement.  I sat low in the seat with my feet hanging out the window, flip flop threatening to fall off and descend down and… Read full post »
JUNE 11, 2010 9:15AM

In the Glow

what voice is left in all this noise.  What life is left, when tombstone follows tombstone...from Toluene to Tokyo.  What life is left. What music left in this refrain?. What voice is left, what sound amoung the din. What light will remain when even darkest night fades. What light/… Read full post »
JUNE 4, 2010 8:26AM

Call it Wild, Ecstatic, or Insane

No matter what Earth these hands have moved. No matter what drowning people brought to dry land.  No matter what holes filled by my short being. No matter what souls met, wild ecstatic, indifferent or erratic. No matter what sweet sentence constructed and uttered plainly, either short or over lo… Read full post »
MAY 30, 2010 3:09PM

Acrylic and All

Acrylic and All

 

I feel a little bit better

As the weather warms and the sun heats

what happens to be left

Of me

Little ancient bits of bone and all the tired

Flesh and cool skin

Pulled over me in heap.

Most everyone I know is most likely

StillRead full post »

MAY 11, 2010 10:21AM

Mohenjo-Daro

my sight was born at Mohenjo-Daro.  Two thick orbs of light, light and beauty, transformation.  In the dusty, dirty heat of the cloudless plain, the harmonious push and pull of sound and civilation.  A vacant hum of utopian above, manual stimulation of divine things perfect in the shad… Read full post »
MAY 8, 2010 12:11PM

A Few Lines About Myself

a few things maybe should know about me.  A few people have asked about my life and i decided to put up a few artless lines...to perhaps give you all a better idea.                          jesse mitchell was a pre-law, linguisticsRead full post »

MAY 5, 2010 12:29PM

The Suicide of Dorothy Hale

The Suicide of Dorothy Hale

 

A thousand miles up

A hundred thousand miles above

Looking down

As the air blasts though

Punching in holes

In me

In sight

In red below

In everything.

The hunger is the thing

The hunger is the sting,

Right

Always falling and rising

TheRead full post »

jesse mitchell is a classically trained pianist...he even won awards as a child.                  jesse mitchell once worked for 10 days in a dallas/ft. Worth homeless shelter.                    jesse/… Read full post »
APRIL 30, 2010 11:07AM

Three Lines No More or Less

as long as i remember i have had a copy of fear and loathing in las vegas , the city lights version of ginsberg s howl , easwaran s translation of the upanishads and a stolen copy of the new yorker next to my bed...next to my head as i sleep, i may/… Read full post »
APRIL 26, 2010 1:24PM

Stories my daughters wrote

The Nowhere

An Introduction

By Juliana Mitchell age 7

      The Nowhere was a polace with creatures very wierd like two-headed ducks, people who live in palm trees and eat nothing but small pieces of plastic, dogs with wings and cows with four heads.  It was a very happy… Read full post »

APRIL 22, 2010 2:45PM

3 posts

Big Music

Sleep, sleep falling deep into
A sedative sleep.
Painted ruby lips, red, red,
The seductress smile.
Solitary and sedentary, the selenium
Sun keeps
Me drifting.
Indian Ocean, South China sea, the flavors and spice
Cinnamon, cloves and safron rice.
Tiny islands, dots, dots, all across the
Waters.
Throw
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APRIL 21, 2010 12:07PM

Encyclopedia

just look me in the eyes.          try not to notice the nervous laughter.                              just look into my eyes.            my sweaty hands just shake./… Read full post »
APRIL 19, 2010 1:35PM

Preamble

Preamble The light awakens, eyes rush open,The light bends to enter,The sun heats my body, soul, and face.A weightless ghost aloftA whispy thingSuddenly alive and living deep in space. Below me, the germination of thingsLush and green…the germination of things thatGerminate.By the mo… Read full post »
APRIL 13, 2010 2:24PM

Judges

Judges

On the muddy banks of the Jordan
Stands the keeper of the bees,
Tiny frame
Lithe
Standing straight…
The candle stick maker
The General,
long red hair waving in the yellow orange light of
The breaking dawn.
 
Blinded and battered
A little child in a huge hulking body
Shoulders bowed
Nothing lef… Read full post »

APRIL 12, 2010 12:36PM

The Husquavarna

The Husquavarna

 

 

The wild hiss of the idling engine,

The fake growl, the chug and jerking,

Loud noises…405

Meant to be heard.

The sound echoing and bouncing back

In the tiny little spaces

Where I hide my head.

The big eyes, the big broken broken eyes,

Staring back inRead full post »

APRIL 9, 2010 10:53AM

sing

i do not sing... i open my mouth and breathe out a silent sound. i do not sing... i part my lips and out comes the sigh.  i put words together...written in the dust. i do not dance...i merely move my feet...curl my body...spin and shake...close down the movements...when i feel… Read full post »