My face isn't carved in a mountain. I've never been struck by lightning.
I've never saved a crying baby from a burning house fire nor have I over come my misfortunes in life to acquire a name for myself. I consider myself a writer although all I've written is only pieces of torn limbs of my distraught existence. (a bunch of poems)
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Sunday, May 31, 2015
I use to do a radio job on mix 102.5 in adrian michigan. I would tell my listners all the time "listener participation is always encouraged."
I love to share the things I write with people. I've watched on this blog and seen it take hits from the otherside of the world. Poems I write are inspired by my everyday living. I've been working on a piece about building a bridge of paper and trees. There's peace to be had. can you imagine the anxiety of being a humanitarian trapped in a construction guys body. lol I'd just like to ask someone participate with me... You will be the first people to open a great big can of worms. Share my stuff like you were trying to save the world. Bob Jenkens for President.
Almost a famous builder
got a chauffeur ride home
same guy who writes my check. told him today he could buy my lunch
for my autograph
he laughed
bought lunch too.
Three days in Dewitt
the building stands
now a hour and a half drive home.
The 1980’s were stupid in hindsight. I was a rocker Alice cooper, AC/DC, Ozzy Van Halen the list goes on and on. Lately I’ve had a mike and the mechanics song stuck in my head “all I need is a miracle” all I need is you. I’ve witnessed a miracle father’s day 2001 when Zoe Blyss was born. Bixby hospital staff had told us it was a false labor. They were giving Sarah something to help her sleep that in a little while they were sending us home. Julie Sarah mom told them they were wrong and reluctantly went home. I told Sarah I was afraid for her. That she was in all this pain and it’s false? It’s going to get worse? Waiting for them to release her I fell asleep in a chair next to her bed. I woke up to her saying “Babe I think my water just broke”. I got the nurses in there. They started checking things the babies on the way. Sarah wanted her epidural. It’s too late for that they told her Babies here. I called Julie and told her to come back to the hospital were having a baby. Fortunately there was a mid wife in the building because there was not time to call the doctor. We had taken lamas class. I was kind of prepared. I remember I was facing Sarah with one of her legs up on my shoulder and we were breathing together. I coached her through the instructions the mid wife was saying push and don’t push mostly. Grandma Julie grouching at the nurses “who’s not having a baby”. Sarah telling her mom “not now mom”. The mid wife failed to catch Zoe when she came out. Zoe landed on the bed I was looking to see if we had a boy or a girl Sarah was telling me don’t look don’t look. It’s a girl the mid wife said. Julie comes up to me grabs me by my shoulders you did it you delivered that girl. Zoe Bliss Clark born on father’s day 2001. I stayed at the hospital until I had to go to the radio station to do a remote broadcast with Ryan horn. It was a high energy show that morning. I’ve never witnessed a miracle but I sure know what one looks like.
On are way home from a job in Dewitt.
Lost a button on my shorts today.
Got a lot done
This morning there were
only poles here.
You think i could become a famous builder?
NOT LIKE AN ARCHETECH
A POET
DISCOVERED
before he's dead
not a lot of glamour building
I'm being held hostage...
against my own fear
of last hopes.
Please leave the girl
of my dreams
in a small piece of clothing
on top of a bear skin rug
in front of a crackeling fire
in a cabin
Somewhere far from civilization.
Give me a needle and thread
so i can patch my life up
so i can begin to mend
soe the seeds
of dreams to reality
So i can mend
for all the purpose
God has for me@
give her a needle instead
of some thread
so she can hide
slide inside a nod
and pretend she is a mom
Something about the weather
This morning there was a humid fog. As it burned off from the sun I worked building a pole barn for Ed and Judy Cain. Hanover Michigan. As I worked I remembered back to 1999. I worked for L.H Smith construction Tecumseh Michigan. Larry had told us if it was raining in the morning not to lay our lazy asses in bed. To meet him at Saline big boy for breakfast and he was buying.
As I lay in bed the next morning I was awakened by a thunder storm. I remembered what Larry said.
I'm not lazy. I sure am hungry. I stopped to buy a coffee in the Irish Hills. This little trailer on U.S 12 that sold donuts and coffee. The storm didn't get very far in front of me. It was still dark and I could see the lightning in the horizon. Going to get me some breakfast. I was driving an 88 escort. One headlight and a taco bell Godzilla cup holder Velcro ed on my dash holding a hot cup of coffee. I came over a hill by Trolz farm on Sharon Hallow rd and the storm had brought a tree down across the road. I hit it hard. The front of my car pushed my radio straight out of my dashboard. I had to roll out the passenger door. I was thinking "this escort fucked me up". Then I seen headlights coming so I ran up the hill to alert the driver there was a tree across the road with my car stuck in it.
I couldn’t get a hold of Larry to tell him I had just totaled my car. I knew he listened to WIQB 102.9. I called the radio station. They aired my story. I wasn’t going to be at work today I explained to the morning show host. I hit a tree in the middle of the road. I explained my car was stuck in it and I had to Warn other approaching motorists of the hazard. I had towed my car home before the story ran. Larry called me “you crash your car and I hear about it on the radio? You silly fucker”. I told him I was OK and I would find a ride to work tomorrow. It wasn’t even noon yet when I laid down from all the excitement. After I lay down the adrenaline wore off and I couldn’t breathe. After a collapse in the front yard my girlfriend Amanda got me to the hospital. I had a punctured lung. I lay in Bixby hospital for ten days being practiced on. Isn't that what they do in medicine? Practice. I ended up in foot hospital for two days and was on my way to recovery. I ended up being off work for a month. When I got back to work with Larry my very first day we were swinging plywood on a roof. "Are you sure you should be doing this"? He asked me. Man did I hurt. The next day there was a humid fog in the morning. It wasn't a plan when I woke up this morning but at lunch, on a whim I decided I couldn’t do this type of work. I went to 102.5 wmxe radio in Adrian no resume,no talent demo tape. Bob Eliot the owner took me to the studio and told me to do something. I opened up the Mic sold a song did a weather and got a radio job! I went back to the job site late. My second day back. Larry scolded me "look at you second day back and your late from lunch". "Larry" I said "I went and got another job at lunch". I told Larry I hurt so bad I thought I better get a easier job until I heal. I went to work as a carpenter that morning. And went home as a radio personality. This morning I had that feeling again. Like I need to be doing something else. No chest tubes this time……
No tragedy. Someone buy me breakfast. Then at breakfast tell me why I should stop hiding.
Crawl out from under this rock and shine.
