Artesia North (West)

(sighted on bus trip Artesia to Albuquerque August 29, 1982) 
I tried to be faithful to every "sign" I saw . . .

Western Bar & Lounge
Fina
Boyce
 Trader Brown
  Home of George Boyce Trucking
  Junction 2
 Divided Highway Ends
 Santa Fe
 ATSF
 Best Lawn
  Your Operator
  Denny Wiseman
 Travelers Motel
  Sales Service
    Ray’s
  Cafe Grocery Pawn
  The Champagne of Bottled Beer
 Have Card Will Travel
  Pecos Valley
  Lazy Dazy Gifts
  Chevrolet
  Health Aids
  Tony's Grocery
    Bowman Lumber Company
    Bob's Barbershop
   Game Room
    All Sports Kick-Off Dinner
   Cafeteria
  Pittsburge Paints
  Roswell Daily Record
    First Baptist Church
  Cambridge
         Aberdeen
Carpenter for Sheriff
 Wagner Alfalfa Mill, Inc.
 Hagerman
 Town Limit
 Elevation 3420
  9 Feet Wide
  No Passing Zone
  Danger High Voltage
  Farmers Co-op Assn. #3
  Systems Builders
  Dexter (Dexter)
 Wagner Farm
 Valley Ranch
  Tallmadge Avenue
  Allsups Convenience Store
 Frazier Oil & Gas Co.
 LP Gas.Gasoline.Diesel
    Bulk Delivery
 Arco
 Oils & Grease
 LP Gas Carburations
 Ray Bell Oil Company
 Peg & Cal's Corner Store
 Corner Garage
 Flammable Propane
 Donuts-Bar-B-Q-Ice
  Manitowac ICE
 Scientifically Prepared
Ozarka Drinking Water
 Chile For Sale
 Tony's Happy Hour Pizza
  El Burrito Cafe
  Wash-Lube
  Have Card Will Travel
  No Smoking
  Pearl Fine Lager Beer
   Since 1886
  Truck Entrance
  122
  Derail




The Chapparrel Hotel
  Chisum
  Gas   Warning
 Beware of the Dog
 Farms on the Go!
 Tower Bar
  Roswell
  Hernandez
  To 285
  Cumberland Market
  Midway Baptist Church (Midway)
 Welcome to Midway
  Assembly of God
   Marley
    Feed Pens
   Cattle & Sheep
   Y.O. Sub Division Lots for Sale
   Hendrix Auto Sales
  Sambo's Breakfast Lunch Dinner
  Ajax Mobile Homes
   Burlington Northern
   El Rancho Palacio Ahead 6 Miles
   Free Local Calls
   Capital Mobile Homes Realtor
   Diamond Auto Parts
   Trailer Village Campground
    Deep Rock
   Central Volkswagen
  Alwoods Home & Ranch
  Improvement Center
  Coming Soon
   Town & Country Bowling Center
  Denny's
  Arent You Hungry?
  Les Francis Chevrolet
  South Park  Gates Close at Sundown
  Rodeo Eastern N.M. State Fair Thrill Rides
   Roswell Livestock & Farm Supply
  SE Main St.
   7 Eleven
   George's Carpet
  J.W. Jones & Sons
   Mechanical Contractors
   Hospital
   The Gift Shop
  Western Manufacturing Homes Inc.
  Save n Gain
  Campbells Auto Center
   Tire Sale
  Ford
  Dont be a Dirty Bird
  Roswell High Fighting Coyotes
  Coopers Western Wear
  Furr's Cafeteria
 Max Littell Real Estate
 Sears Parking
 Ballard Funeral Home
 Herb Hughes for State Corporation Commissioner
  St.  Peters Hall
  Anderson & Watkins Inc.
 Wilson Tuxedos
 Made for the way you really drink beer
    Coors
 Robbins Automotive Service Lt.
 Auto Aid
  Arent You Hungry?
  The beige cigarette.
 Roswell Motor Supply
 Wiggins Wonder Values
 American Linen Supply Co.
 Honda Courtesy Auto Imports
 Fulkerson Plumbing & Heating
  Rhoads Plumbing & Heating
  Tidy Car
  Federal Land Bank
  Beer
   Roswell Cycle Shop
  Make the Toyota Jump
  Gay Nineties
   Wanted more ducks for America
 Pizza Hut
   Southeastern Steel
  New Mexico Military Institute
  Nemco National Supply
  Points of Interest
  Pearson Auditorium
   NMMI Golf Course
   Open to the Public
  SW Indian Jewelry
  Hobo Joe's
 Baker-Dodson Supply Co.
 More Light 100's
 Gulf Auto Diesel
  Longmire Real Estate Agency
  Mary Moppets Day Care School
  Young Doctors in Love
  Six-Pack
  Bud's
  Western Wear
  Parson's Motor Machine Service
  Baer Oilfield Services
 Bitterlake National Wildlife Refuge
  Fuel & Food
  Red's Auction Barn
 Byrd  Casing Crews
 Roswell Wrecking Company
  Mission Hills
  Braich Industrial Center
 Penco New Mexico Pipeline
  Star Tool Company
 Oilfield Construction
 Transwestern Pipeline Co.
 Lincoln County Line
 Ramon All Services Bar (Ramon)
 Lowest Prices in Town
  Litter Barrel 1000 Feet
  Reynolds Ranch
  Mile High Ranch
 Certified Premium Quality (Vaughan)
 Weigh Station
 Lakes Motel
 Americano Cafe
  Welding Gas & Arc
  Ranch House Cafe
   Bel-View Motel
   Self Serv Isle
   Cactus Indian Trading Co.
   Meat Market
   Doxol Propane
   Package Goods
    Drive Up Window
   Overnight
    Mobile Home Park
   Skyline Motel Tubs-Showers
   Club Cafe
   Pete’s Camper Parking
   Ranch View Motel
   Mexican Food Steaks
   Woody's Truck Stop
   Coffee    Hot & Cold Sandwiches
   System 99
   Vaughan
  For Sale Owner
  Laundry
  Cherry Cider
   Video  Flower Shop  Games
      Encino Motel
  Garage Repair Shop
  Rio Pecos Truck Stop
 Clines Corners (Clines Corners)
  Restaurant
  Rollins Lease/Rent
  Wagon Wheel
  Texaco
  Wagon Wheel Motel
  Ice Cold Beer
   Pizza
  American Parts Store
 Official Tourists Information
 Turner Restaurant Coffee Shop
 Handicapped Parking
 Colonial
 Turners Indian Jewelry
  Whole Sale for All
 ABF
 Wayne Daniel Truck Lines
 Campgrounds USA
   Yellow
 Western  Rest Assured
 2800 Places
 Sunset Motel
 Green Chapparel Turf Ranch (Moriarty)
  Ranchettes
 Chapparel Truck Stop
  Rip Griffin
  Fuel Center
   Diesel Gas
  Blackies
  Truckers Welcome
  Land For Sale
  J. B. Hunt
  Valley Motors
  Whiting Brothers
 Vicky's Treasure Chest
 Eunice's Antiques
 Super Submarine Sandwich
 I Get Mine at Jr's Tire Shop
 Glen Reed Garage
 Johnny's
 El Comedor de Anayas
 Mike's Friendly Store (Edgewood)
  Fresh Green Chile
 Courteous Service Time
  Burger Queen
  Top Quality
  Camp Park
  Independent Truckers
 AJF
 See Live Rattlers
 Camping Resort
 Regal Inn
 Roadway
 Cibola National Forest (Tijeras)
 Watch for Rocks
 I ♡ My Truck
 Dangerous Crosswinds
  Taxidermy
  Feed Store
  Horses Boarded
  Kirtland Air Force Base
 Aladin Motor Hotel (Albuquerque)
  Florida Gulf Shrimp
  Duke City Automotive
   Taste the Difference!
  Hopsas Realty
  GTE Lenkurt
  Professional Offices
   The Pines
   Young Doctors In Love
    Garp
   Data General
   K-Bobs
   No Caffeine
   Lotaburger
   Four Seasons Motor Inn
  Avalanche Ski Sale
  Support Public TV
   Z-99 Easy Rock
   Bardacke Attorney General
  Cash Call
   Coke is it!
   We've Got the Answers
   For Academic Excellence
   Consider the Tom J. Popejoy Society
  Free Movies Sport Specials in Your Room
 Crossroads Motel
  Lord Calvert
  Flash Automotive
   Grecian Festival
  Toney Anaya
 The best paint we've ever made.
 The Madrid Lounge
 Caida de Aqua Park
  We're Pulling for you America!
  Santa Fe
 Amtrak
  Package Express
 Greyhound
  Land of Enchantment


larry goodell / placitas, new mexico

This can also be seen here
(looks more like photocopy, but with reference to another similar construction)

PUMPKIN FACE, a play by larry goodell

Characters:  

           Blind Darth (low threatening voice)
             Harold Hypertensia (higher normal voice)
                      Ballyhoo (high pretentious voice)

(pumpkin on table with face carved on one side, blank side toward audience,
Blind Darth, wearing dark glasses, black lines on cheeks)

BLIND DARTH: Harold.

HAROLD:      Yes, Blind Darth.

BLIND DARTH:  Should we kill the pumpkins?

HAROLD.      They have a way of killing themselves on the vine. 
      Why Bother.

BLIND DARTH. But if nobody had pumpkins
 they’d appreciate life more.

HAROLD.       But think of all the things we don’t have
       and that hasn’t made us appreciate life any more.
       There’s the Comorant Bandyhootch
       that’s extinct.

BLIND DARTH. And the Rock Marble Opera Snitch.

HAROLD.       Yes that went out like puked fish.

BLIND DARTH.  And the determined metaphor that gets into writing.

HAROLD.       And the Bandyhootch!
       Here Bandy, here Bandy, here Bandy
   Hootch! Hootch! Hootch!

BLIND DARTH. He wont come any more  

after they neutered him.

HAROLD.       You see Blind Darth
       all these forms of life and many more have left us.
       Life is cheap.
       We don’t appreciate it any more.
       We just keep on losing it.
   But to not have a pumpkin
    for Thanksgiving,
   Halloween!
   No pumpkin pie.

BLIND DARTH. I like squash pie better anyway.
 And there are always masks.

HAROLD.  But Halloween without a pumpkin face is unthinkable.
  A warm pumpkin face glowing in the night.
  Witches and goblins.
    And E.E. Cummings – 
   he’s dead, they don’t make em like him any more.

BLIND DARTH. Good old E.E.
 He broke the barriers of a lot of modern poetry.
 But his species isnt extinct.
 I want to eliminate pumpkins
 as Blind Darth,
 go around the world stamping out the vines – 
 I can smell them
 and with my oracular vision
 I can keep from bumping into things.

HAROLD.   Blind Darth, you’re being very destructive
  just sitting there thinking about it with your Anarchist Cookbook
  throwing all cares to the wind – 
  how can we be avant-garde if we’re going to be destructive – 
   you don’t destroy,
  you create in its place.

BLIND DARTH. In what’s place.

HAROLD.   Create something in its place
  in the place of the thing you want to destroy.
  Create something that will make people
  appreciate life more.

BLIND DARTH. That’s an idea, but it’s got to be a shock.
 The shock of appreciate-the-wave-of-discovery-and-connection.

HAROLD.  Yes, why not this time
  create something you can put beside a pumpkin
  that people will like,
  something more beautiful than a pumpkin
  – some thing.

BLIND DARTH.  (jumps up)
 Some fruit! Wait! a new vegetable.
 An entirely new vegetable – as lovable as the schmoos
 those adorable little edible pets,
 but this new pet vegetable will be real – 
 right on your table.

HAROLD.  Yes! How nice of you to take my suggestion on
  just this one time,
   You see, 
  it could be great!

BLIND DARTH. It’s not that it’s less destructive, but that it’s better!
 It won’t upset the pumpkin sect.
 We’ll even win them over to our new pet vegetable – 

HAROLD.  And then, you’ll destroy 
  the pumpkin – 
  I knew it.
  It’s hard living with you,
  visionary and destructive as you are – 

BLIND DARTH. Harold, it’s in my nature but I destroy only
 in the hopes of narrowing people’s visions
 on greater love of life – 
 seeing what I see
 under the death, the sickness, the warping
 of life’s dreams.

HAROLD.   Seeing what you see
  has made you what you are
  those black lines down your cheeks
  your blindness – 
  everything black.

BLIND DARTH.  Harold Hypertensia, it’s not all black
 I was just telling you the warm current under – 
 if you could only see it as I do.
 People must be taught
 and I and the lackluster ladies
 will do it.
 Are doing it, have been trying to do it.
 We used to do it years ago
 during human kind’s most
 primitive – they call it – phase
 human kind’s most highly developed primitive
 phase –  
 and I was in many phases
 the dark side of the underbelly of the moon.
 The laughing lackluster, 
 my lackluster ladies have slowly stayed alive – 
 and grown
  but wait – Harold!
 My best friend will be here soon – 
 anytime.

HAROLD.  Anytime?

BLIND DARTH. Ballyhoo – I havent seen here in so long.
 he will help me create
 the world’s most lovable vegetable (laughs connivingly)
 – that pet vegetable that  will restore the focus of worth,
 values, place, neighborly relationships – (sarcastic)
 to Earth, to America, my country – 
 or is it smoke – smoke from flares
 the ancient heart is beating.
 Oh Aztec Mayan Inca heart.
 Heart of your garden
 this courtyard delight.
 This golden new death to crime in the street’s cancer,
 profusion of stupidity and
 lack of conversational logic.
 Mistrust rife,
 nothing but strained humor.
 This lovely pet will kill all that out,
 rot it back.
 Ballyhoo! Ballyhoo! I need you Ballyhoo!

  (Loud knock at door & door opens – Ballyhoo rushes in)

BALLYHOO.   Now we get the Icelandic ice behind us!
    Hi Harold.
   Hi Blind Darth.

BLIND DARTH. Ballyhoo!

BALLYHOO.   The Icelandic ice is behind us!
   It’s warming all our coddles & cuddles & cockles!

BLIND DARTH. And I want to create a new
  vegetable!

BALLYHOO.   Oh my what a pablum
  dillydoo
  Oh my what Oh my what
  Oh my what a pablum
  dilly doo.
        You
       black
      marked
     jowled
    friend
   you.

BLIND DARTH. You bearer of the original Icelandic Ice behind us.
 The company that produces our poles!
 Now you present us with warm atmosphere.

HAROLD.  Pumpkins, pumpkins, 
  there’s nothing wrong with pumpkins.

BALLYHOO.   I’ll jump up & down to promote
   a new veggie star
    to replace the lowly pumpkin?

HAROLD.  No, no, no, no manipulation is needed at all:
  you’ve gone too far!

BLIND DARTH. Veggie Star, genetic super wonder.

HAROLD.   No, keep us sane with pumpkins on the plain.

BALLYHOO.   Oh I’ll sing & rip the drum heads
   blast the trumpets off their roots
   tootle toot for the . . . pumpkin
   if that’s what you want.

BLIND DARTH. No! You’ll tootle toot for the genetic star
 veggie wonder, roots that kill
 any pests or rot & rust.
 That’s what you’ll toot
 in the garden of tomorrow.

HAROLD.   The pumpkin needs no ballyhoo 
  no artificial praise.
  Get outta here, genetic footprint on your ass.

BLIND DARTH. I want my new veggie wonder
 plastic plump veggie,
 lives forever on the shelves and never dies of mold.

BALLYHOO.   But will sell like hell!
   Ring the bell, blast the pods
   I’ll sing anything you say
   if you pay, if you pay.

HAROLD.  Get the hell outta here
  my natural foot at your rear
  my knees at your spine, out, out
  leave the pumpkin Earth alone &
   let us garden in it
  without your witch’s pit of false doctrine
  and your conniving evil pseudo science  shit
   of destruction, your caustic black spit!
  No Ballyhoo, out!
  No pumpkin killer, out!
   (kicks & knees them out, turns pumpkin around so 
                         smiling face shows)
   
   The face back on the pumpkin
  is smiling at the human race.

                            END

larry goodell / placitas, new mexico / write me for permission to perform
/this little audible play was written in 1981, the last part written 13-14 Dec 2007
You can see this "as a pamphlet" here.

Word Poems

MEDITATION

Meditation

Mad oration

Meditation

Med recitation

Meditation

Machismo regulation

Meditation

Machine elation

Meditation

Medic ation

Meditation

Malnutrition

Starvation

Medication

Meditation

Medicinal uses of

Meditation

Meditation

Mechanical subdivisions of

Meditation

Med a tete shun

Shun a med a

Tate Shun

Meditation

Mole a take shun 

Mad nutrition 

Med nutrition 

Med a take son 

Med a take shun 

Mod a take son 

Mod a tack shun 

Meditation 

Med a toxin 

Mod a take son 

Med a take son 

Mod a take sin 

Med a take sin 

Meditation 

Med a tay shin 

Med a tay shin 

Medicate sin 

Medicate shin 

Medication 

Meditation 

Meditate sin 

Meditoxin 

Medi take shin 

Medication 

Meditation.

/22Mar78 #1  Larry Goodell


PSYCHOLOGY

Psych a monody 
Psychology 
Psych a logic 
Psych a lull a gee 
Psychology 
Cycle G 
Cycle Gigi 
Cycle lull a G 
Psych call 
Psych cull a G 
Psychology 
Cycle lull a gee 
Psychology 
Cycle lull a gee 
A G cycle monody 
Cycle low G 
Cycle  low low G 
Psychology 
Logic cycles G
Cycle lull a gee 
Lull a gee
Psych cull lull a gee
Psychology
Cycle lotta gee
Gee cycle lotta gee
Cycle gee gee
Cycle low G
Psychology
Cycle lotta gee
Cycle  low G
Psychology
Call a G
Sigh call a  G
A low low G
Psych a low G
A gee
Psych a low gee 
Psychology 
Psych all logic 
Psychology.

/10Apr78 #2 Larry Goodell


ARCHITECTURE

Arm and chair gird 
Architecture 
Arch a texture 
Architecture 
Arc a tek sure 
Architecture 
Arm and chair grid 
Arch and texture 
Architecture 
Arch a texture 
Architect sure 
Arch a text Sir 
Arch a texture 
Architecture 
Architect Sir 
Art a tek sure 
Architecture
Art a tester 
Architecture.

/10Apr78 #3 Larry Goodell


SOCIOPOLOGY

Social apology
Anthroposophically
Anthropology
Social policy
Sociopology
Anthropology
And throw Paul a G
So see old Paula G.
So see all of G
Sociology
So see all of Paula 
Soclology 
Anthropology 
Anthroposophically 
And throw Paula G. 
And throw Paul a Gee 
Sociology

/10Apr78 #4 Larry Goodell


PSYCHOANALYST

Psycho Ana lies 
Sigh cold anal list 
Sigh cull annal list 
Cycle analyst 
Psycho annal eyes 
Psycho anal eyes 
Cycle anal lies 
Psycho Ana lies 
Sigh cold Ana list
Psychoanalyst. 


PSYCHOANALYSIS

Psycho annal assist
Psycho an owl a cyst
Sigh call an owl a cyst
Assist a cycle owl
Sigh Ko an owl a sis
Psycho an owl list
Psycho and a list 
Cycle an owl a sis 
Psychoanalysis.


/10Apr78 #5 Larry Goodell


HETEROSHMETERO

Hetero 

shmetero 

smetero 

smattero

flattero 

hattero 

fattero 

pattero

hetero 

shmetero 

dettero 

dattero

dabbero 

debbero 

shmetero 

hetero

hittero 

hattero 

hate-ero 

hag-ero

hig-ero 

pig-ero 

shmitero 

shmatero

fightero 

fat tero 

hedgerow 

ledgerow

leadero 

laddero 

battero 

hetero

fattero 

maddero 

middero 

smaddero

rigor-o 

gig-ero 

niggero 

piggero

chiggero 

sniggero

meagero

triggero

jig-ero 

hattero 

lattero 

smattero

battero 

bittero 

flittero 

snittero

dittero 

deadero 

dattero 

data-ro

flattero 

fattero 

Jaggero 

daggero

gag-ero 

slag-ero 

tag-ero 

lag-ero

nag-ero 

hag-ero 

heg-ero 

deg-ero

dittero 

hittero 

snittero 

snattero

mattero 

shmattero 

flattero 

hetero

sexero 

shmettero 

smettero 

hetero

sex a row 

smettero 

sexero 

hetero

sex or no

hetero

hetero

shmetero.

/25Nov83 Larry Goodell / Placitas, New Mexico

Some "word" poems. Hmm. Still fun to write. Language skills you.