Glyphic coming out soon, the Sacred Calendar will be out too

Glyphic will be coming out in November. 

The Sacred Calendar will be available as an eBook any day now. 

The Sacred Calendar now out (eBook)

The Sacred Calendar is available in these formats:

• Kindle
• iBook
• Nook
• Kobo
• PDF
• RTF
• And More

All formats possible from Smashwords (it takes a minute to sign up for an account, if you don't already have one)

I think that e-publishing is going to be the wave of the future, and I'm really happy that Smashwords exists and makes it possible to get work out there in all these various formats. 

The Sacred Calendar is still in queue with MJH who is planning to publish it in print (paperback) with some artwork as part of a small gallery project. Hopefully that happens some time this year. 

Cover of Ten Poems about East Asia and Kitsch Nebula Ampersands And by Ralph-Michael Chiaia

Everything is about Monks these days on this blog

Have you ever tried Google Alerts? I have it set up right now for MONKS and I'm getting all kinds of cool stuff about Buddhists in Myanmar writing 969 on their shops so that they shop at other Buddhist-owned shops and drive down the business of their Muslim rivals, about Buddhists making mandalas in front of schoolkids in Australia -- spending painstaking hours making them -- only to have them blow away in the wind, and about Sophie Monk who I am assuming is a famous actress (but you may know I watch about 5 movies a year and actually go out to the theater less than once a year).

For Sophie Monk Only

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Sample of For Monks Only (courtesy of Kindle)

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New Title Out and Old Title's Price Drops

"For Monks Only" my long short story (or short novella) is now out at For Monks Only (Kindle eBook). This is a spiraling narrative in which a young man travels to meet his girlfriend who is suffering from bouts of smuttiness and then tells her fragmented tales of a young man travelling. He faces the reality that his life has become a monotonous rut and must decide what his next step is while in an airport in Bangkok.

In a synchronized move, the price of my first book of poems has been reduced dramatically. If you haven't already downloaded it to your Kindle, please do so now by clicking here.

My Author Page at Amazon

Muchas Muchachas (written for Dali Krab Day)

Habian muchas muchachas

Krab Last Day by Jon Berbank

en el zocalo

they were teachers from the Triqui Zone
where there's coffee and weed
where corporations want that land
this is Oaxaca, Mexico

There were cuntloads of cunts
in blue, greeen, orange, purple, red
marching in their flashy berets
there's Crystal Meth being made
under the fields, so they can buy
DVD Players, and some porn
is censored in the South
but the North eats pussy better
while making elaborate spiderwebs on acid
and Johnnyboy Wayne in chaps with pistol
merry going merrily on that merry go up and down
this is the Korean Peninsula

Old Uncle Sam in his apple pie top hat
wants you to inject with Toledo needles
and eat with Nantong Chopsticks
and, goddamn it, eat more pussy!
left, right, left, right, left, left, left, right,
left, right, right, left, (mothafucking cunt),
right, left, about face, ass up and out,
doggystyle, bukkake'd all the way to pyeongyang
rip, the paper tears, and reveals a mountain
where the poet is setting among the pines
waiting for his friends to come with bottles of wine

Sent from my iKrab
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Artwork by Jon Berbank
Poetry by Ralph-Michael Chiaia

Stuck Bedroom Door

The door to the bedroom is a little stuck. Come in, dam dam! Push! Damani pushed so hard that he and the door flew in the room. What an entrance! He jumped into my arms. Good morning, little prince!

This is a really great explanation of the hardest thing about publishing a Kindle book, which is how to make a working Table of Contents.

I'm so stressed out. All I do is clean up the house and all that happens after is it gets messy again. Jina is sick and Damani is Damzilla (aka Babyzilla the Juggernaut). He actually helped me clean up today. He was vacuuming while I was mopping and vice versa. I tried to go to the doctor (I have been pretty sick too) and they closed for lunch at 1 p.m. so of course he wasn't there at 12:57 when I arrived. I'll eat some breakfast and then go back at 2 p.m. to try and get some treatment for this annoying cold.

I found some great old photos of Damani

We thought we lost many photos of baby Damani but i found that I had backed them up once. 

Google Drive: create, share, and keep all your stuff in one place.

He is watching you throw this poem in the trash

These god emails always have a catch:
He is watching you read this email
If you don't forward it he will remember on judgement day!
Fire. Fear. Brimstone.
One I thought you earlier said he was forgiving,
two he isn't watching shit
You are all alone and you're going to die.

Jeju Green Tea

We visited Jeju Island and saw the green tea farms. The fresh roast green tea has an outstanding taste. They have green tea everything -- ice cream, lattes, cookies, paper, ink, etc. Damani and I took a long walk into the rolling fields where the green tea grows. He really enjoyed walking around the tea but hate when I put him actually into the plant (he started to cry).

Damani posted nothing so I thought I would fill it with something. Not much to say today. Damani is having a happy day. He is very excited to have his mother around a lot.

New Book by RMC coming soon

Jina's computer crashed. I have reformatted it but lost most of the information on it: photos, documents, music, videos, blah blah blah. I have tried to write a novel, a meta-fiction, about opening a business in Korea. There are so many funny things I have to say. Each time I write some of this the computer I am on crashes. It is like someone doesn't want me to speak the truth about RAndy's.

Anyway, I did not back up that piece, but luckily I did back up just about everything else that I have. I think I am finally learning.

I have finished writing and arranging The Sacred Calendar (my new book of poems). We are in the process of putting the book into a little bit of context and then I leave it up to my editor/publisher. He is still thinking of a name for this brand new publishing company. I may be the first title they release. I am quite excited about it. Next up is getting Glyphic published and then starting work on Rice Bowl o' Mallard, the Mayan Lullaby (maybe my last Maya-related piece), and then Cutting Limes with Steel Chopsticks (the book about opening RAndy's).

Broccoli Calls (written years ago)

broccoli calls
chopped meat and tomatoes

broccoli closes wounds
chopped meat and tomatoes

old school is dead
chivalry is dead
rave is dead
transcendentalism is dead

is it dead or has it just been injured?
severely compromised by all the standards being lowered by this society.

what a full, lovely girl
and she can sing, too

At least someone in the family is still writing

The Wardrobe

Jina looked hot
In her slattern white jeans
and sultry blue dress

she should keep the outfit
and throw out all the rest