Thursday, January 31, 2008
To Pundits of Right Insanity
I said you’re in the pocket
of massive wealth, gleeful-
ly praising their grinding
the face of the poor. But
my dour comment doesn’t
hold since you’ve done so
well thereby, it’s like
being in your own!
I said you’re in the pocket
of massive wealth, gleeful-
ly praising their grinding
the face of the poor. But
my dour comment doesn’t
hold since you’ve done so
well thereby, it’s like
being in your own!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Kenya
Call them baboons and
they have names for us.
A family, lost, nightfall, and how
my friends shriek “Baboons!”
chasing them into the a-
bandoned house we then
torch. You walk by now,
the blackness and the smells,
and remember the wild
dancing against the flames
as something from a film.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Network Political Commentator Explicating Time of Fear
Party A makes several nothing points.
Party B makes several nothing points.
I blend an equal number of each whilst employing profound-d-d-d-d
RESONANCE.
Thus producing a discrete. Basso-profundo. Echoing. Mess of nothing.
Party A makes several nothing points.
Party B makes several nothing points.
I blend an equal number of each whilst employing profound-d-d-d-d
RESONANCE.
Thus producing a discrete. Basso-profundo. Echoing. Mess of nothing.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Just Saw Rudy
From outa double decker
campaign bus,chipper
lady on arm. 20 on curb
and only one applauds.
Me. Unregenerate far-
gone Lefty. Go figure!
Don’t bother. Politeness.
What I owe to those
who try, no matter what.
From outa double decker
campaign bus,chipper
lady on arm. 20 on curb
and only one applauds.
Me. Unregenerate far-
gone Lefty. Go figure!
Don’t bother. Politeness.
What I owe to those
who try, no matter what.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Lone Man On Mars
Contemplating bleak -
ness, or fled
from lecherous
women there
who’ll place personals
soon enough. Earth
men will try but
not up to it. Crisis
imminent, but
different at least.
One senator will aver
that football’s to blame.
Contemplating bleak -
ness, or fled
from lecherous
women there
who’ll place personals
soon enough. Earth
men will try but
not up to it. Crisis
imminent, but
different at least.
One senator will aver
that football’s to blame.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Tidy people,
untidy loves.
Natures of
beasts.
untidy loves.
Natures of
beasts.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Sexually Defining Nation
With this crop of thieves
& fakes & incompetents
& Wall St toadies thus
War Lovers it’s
a slow rape.
With this crop of thieves
& fakes & incompetents
& Wall St toadies thus
War Lovers it’s
a slow rape.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Democrat’s Answer
-Republicans gave us war and made us poor!
-And what did you do about it enroute?
-Republicans gave us war and made us poor!
-Republicans gave us war and made us poor!
-And what did you do about it enroute?
-Republicans gave us war and made us poor!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Invocation
Shhhh! Go easy.
We’re doing
really well at this.*
Generally speaking.
(There’s another way?)
Don’t
even
breathe.
*NYT refers to Democrat’s “eggshell timidity.”
Shhhh! Go easy.
We’re doing
really well at this.*
Generally speaking.
(There’s another way?)
Don’t
even
breathe.
*NYT refers to Democrat’s “eggshell timidity.”
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Heavens
-Holy Shit! Oh excuse me.
-No problem. That’s merely vulgarity, manners. I can take a bit of that.
-Just that I was surprised! Then...you are Republican?
-That’s right, heh heh.
-But that leaves out half the population in this country.
-Fuck ‘em.
-Oh my God! Excuse me again, but...
-You get tired of the boat-rocking. Leave things alone and I have less to do.
-How about heaven? I mean, will all these Repub–?
-Maybe a parallel one. They’re too freakin boring to have around.
-I concur. But, anyway, the Dems really out of luck?
-Too much experimenting...and fornicating.
-How about Republican fornicating?
-No such deal. What passes for it they can keep doing in their parallel heaven.
-So it’s Hell for the Democrats?
-Don’t know yet. They complain even more than Satan. Too unsteady a brew
to put them together. I might create another Earth and let them beat upon
each other’s eardrums and read each other’s reports. Anyway, they’ll think it’s heaven not to be perpetually screwed.
-Holy Shit! Oh excuse me.
-No problem. That’s merely vulgarity, manners. I can take a bit of that.
-Just that I was surprised! Then...you are Republican?
-That’s right, heh heh.
-But that leaves out half the population in this country.
-Fuck ‘em.
-Oh my God! Excuse me again, but...
-You get tired of the boat-rocking. Leave things alone and I have less to do.
-How about heaven? I mean, will all these Repub–?
-Maybe a parallel one. They’re too freakin boring to have around.
-I concur. But, anyway, the Dems really out of luck?
-Too much experimenting...and fornicating.
-How about Republican fornicating?
-No such deal. What passes for it they can keep doing in their parallel heaven.
-So it’s Hell for the Democrats?
-Don’t know yet. They complain even more than Satan. Too unsteady a brew
to put them together. I might create another Earth and let them beat upon
each other’s eardrums and read each other’s reports. Anyway, they’ll think it’s heaven not to be perpetually screwed.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Wry Glories
Certain snuff
iz ruff there-
fore iz you
Alamo-d by
crazy Arabs
who’ll after
snuff them-
selves in
encores.
Certain snuff
iz ruff there-
fore iz you
Alamo-d by
crazy Arabs
who’ll after
snuff them-
selves in
encores.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Little Women
-Every bedtime he whispered Good Night My Loveliness!
-How sweetly beautiful!
-I finally ran off with somebody else.
-Why? Was it sex?
-Don’t remember.
-Every bedtime he whispered Good Night My Loveliness!
-How sweetly beautiful!
-I finally ran off with somebody else.
-Why? Was it sex?
-Don’t remember.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
The Apartments
-Thin walls and sex. God help us all!
-Man yelling louder than woman. That’s a new one.
-Well...she’s tiny.
-How you get one of those?
-Thin walls and sex. God help us all!
-Man yelling louder than woman. That’s a new one.
-Well...she’s tiny.
-How you get one of those?
Friday, January 18, 2008
Yr3000&Bush&Clinton Dark Angels Speak
We never went gentle
into this good night
or any other,so
go fuck yourself!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Florida TV
It’s the Jumpin’ Jesus Hour!
All major credit cards accepted.
What does Jesus want? Why,
keep trying if lines are busy!
Get the power
by digging deep.
It’s the Jumpin’ Jesus Hour!
All major credit cards accepted.
What does Jesus want? Why,
keep trying if lines are busy!
Get the power
by digging deep.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Old Lou and New Lou
Old Lou sits on a one-runner rocking chair in Judy Garland Park*
and excoriates the New York Yankees, name by name.
When the boys come in for the night shift they assist him to
his car with great tenderness, wet chin glowing purple.
New Lou has recently served his sentence of watching six chick
flicks chosen by his girlfriend. Judge Patricia Morrisey
imposed this penance to teach him sensitivity after the couple
brawled at South Philadelphia’s Oregon Diner.
ROCCO
Well, did you learn anything from the movies?
NEW LOU
Nah! They're all about fucking. Well, talking about it mostly.
Y'go through a lotta ass-squirming by the time they do it,
believe me. It's, like, you end up in a puddle of sweat.
ROCCO
Women like to really look at things, explore facets, discuss, ponder.
NEW LOU
Who wants t'watch anybody doing that?
ROCCO
Looks like the judge's clever sentence was a flop.
NEW LOU
And by the time the poor girls get to it, it's no damn wonder they're
all disappointed.
ROCCO
Great Expectations, or Tillie's Punctured Romance?
NEW LOU
Whatever. I don't hafta read like you to know everything's bullshit.
ROCCO
Cynical! You could never work for this Bush administration.
NEW LOU
Them? They bang you up the ass until you're grateful...
hmmm, that didn't come out right.
ROCCO
Not much does. Forget about it.
NEW LOU
And my father’s completely fuckin nuts!
ROCCO
That’s what y’call a coda. Old Lou coda.
NEW LOU
Whatever.
ROCCO
Or a non-sequitur.
NEW LOU
Who cares about anything like that?
*Cruising men’s nickname for Clark Park
Old Lou sits on a one-runner rocking chair in Judy Garland Park*
and excoriates the New York Yankees, name by name.
When the boys come in for the night shift they assist him to
his car with great tenderness, wet chin glowing purple.
New Lou has recently served his sentence of watching six chick
flicks chosen by his girlfriend. Judge Patricia Morrisey
imposed this penance to teach him sensitivity after the couple
brawled at South Philadelphia’s Oregon Diner.
ROCCO
Well, did you learn anything from the movies?
NEW LOU
Nah! They're all about fucking. Well, talking about it mostly.
Y'go through a lotta ass-squirming by the time they do it,
believe me. It's, like, you end up in a puddle of sweat.
ROCCO
Women like to really look at things, explore facets, discuss, ponder.
NEW LOU
Who wants t'watch anybody doing that?
ROCCO
Looks like the judge's clever sentence was a flop.
NEW LOU
And by the time the poor girls get to it, it's no damn wonder they're
all disappointed.
ROCCO
Great Expectations, or Tillie's Punctured Romance?
NEW LOU
Whatever. I don't hafta read like you to know everything's bullshit.
ROCCO
Cynical! You could never work for this Bush administration.
NEW LOU
Them? They bang you up the ass until you're grateful...
hmmm, that didn't come out right.
ROCCO
Not much does. Forget about it.
NEW LOU
And my father’s completely fuckin nuts!
ROCCO
That’s what y’call a coda. Old Lou coda.
NEW LOU
Whatever.
ROCCO
Or a non-sequitur.
NEW LOU
Who cares about anything like that?
*Cruising men’s nickname for Clark Park
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Matriarch at the Dinner Table
I don’t care if he wears Mormon underwear or Mickey Mouse!
He’s a Conservative and that means he’ll advance the fortune
of this family. Or at the least get out of the road.
Oh yes! What you all depend on and precious few are
willing to work for.
Please forgo the smirks this time, and four of you have been eating
like pigs! Only two, children.
By the way, though one must stomach the rhetoric, the “Party of the
Working Man and Woman” has seldom let us down in recent years
additionally..
I don’t care if he wears Mormon underwear or Mickey Mouse!
He’s a Conservative and that means he’ll advance the fortune
of this family. Or at the least get out of the road.
Oh yes! What you all depend on and precious few are
willing to work for.
Please forgo the smirks this time, and four of you have been eating
like pigs! Only two, children.
By the way, though one must stomach the rhetoric, the “Party of the
Working Man and Woman” has seldom let us down in recent years
additionally..
Monday, January 14, 2008
Experts
-You’re from the other team.
-Have been.
-How do I know that if...?
-Hey! Dodgers are leaving Dodgertown in Vero!
Baltimore O‘s moving in. Things switch everywhere.
-Do you charge by the vote?
-Nope. Just by the magic cyber formula.
-Won’t you be considered a traitor in that bunch?
-We have only traitors.
-You’re from the other team.
-Have been.
-How do I know that if...?
-Hey! Dodgers are leaving Dodgertown in Vero!
Baltimore O‘s moving in. Things switch everywhere.
-Do you charge by the vote?
-Nope. Just by the magic cyber formula.
-Won’t you be considered a traitor in that bunch?
-We have only traitors.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
From District To Highest
Judges wink to party
faithfuls re hard
evidence by outsiders.
Rulings accompanied
by learned scowls then
over truest principles e-
voking howling laughter
in chambers & party
headquarters.
Judges wink to party
faithfuls re hard
evidence by outsiders.
Rulings accompanied
by learned scowls then
over truest principles e-
voking howling laughter
in chambers & party
headquarters.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Inevitable Hell
Believe in it literally
or find someone
to create it here
sez psychoanalyst.
Believe in it literally
or find someone
to create it here
sez psychoanalyst.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Hammerin’ Shoutin’ Gang of Suit-Tie Republicans
trying t’distract
poll workers at
Florida Presidential Recount
2000. Supremes finally slid
it to their boy in “decision”
living in infamy.
One reputed bellower
Chief Justice today.
Florida roar of faith
by another who had polished
up the handle of the big brass door
with much
more
gentility
there-
to-
fore?
trying t’distract
poll workers at
Florida Presidential Recount
2000. Supremes finally slid
it to their boy in “decision”
living in infamy.
One reputed bellower
Chief Justice today.
Florida roar of faith
by another who had polished
up the handle of the big brass door
with much
more
gentility
there-
to-
fore?
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Admiral’s Daughter Waits Down By the Water,She
wants to grab your dinghy.
Could listen in one record shop
in New Haven, but only with ear-
phones. Other hot one concerned wag
who took a ship for himself.
“How the other fellows laughed
when they saw me take that craft.”
Nautical scatology.
But really 23-skidooey & oh you kid!
My parents’ time channelling many
a silvery moon
among homeschoolers
& Evangelical Republicans
discovering ever more love
-ly reasons to despise blacks.
wants to grab your dinghy.
Could listen in one record shop
in New Haven, but only with ear-
phones. Other hot one concerned wag
who took a ship for himself.
“How the other fellows laughed
when they saw me take that craft.”
Nautical scatology.
But really 23-skidooey & oh you kid!
My parents’ time channelling many
a silvery moon
among homeschoolers
& Evangelical Republicans
discovering ever more love
-ly reasons to despise blacks.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Korean Motto
Sergeant drove fast through thickest fog. We didn’t care. Could’ve been a suicide pact, unconscious.
Finally a major overtakes us, hauls us out of the jeep, screaming at our craziness.
SERGEANT (after he left)
Gung fuckin Ho! He gets off on stupid war and loves it with all his idiot heart.
Almost wish the sergeant killed both of us. So...we’re alive.
It’s all the same.
By chance we had been stopped at The University of Korea, what was left of it.
Ghost ruins. An arch with lettering on top. Young Korean officer squints
up through mists.
SERGEANT
Ask that gook what it says.
I do. “Learning Is Eternal.”
SERGEANT
Not like a bomb up the ass it ain’t.
Sergeant drove fast through thickest fog. We didn’t care. Could’ve been a suicide pact, unconscious.
Finally a major overtakes us, hauls us out of the jeep, screaming at our craziness.
SERGEANT (after he left)
Gung fuckin Ho! He gets off on stupid war and loves it with all his idiot heart.
Almost wish the sergeant killed both of us. So...we’re alive.
It’s all the same.
By chance we had been stopped at The University of Korea, what was left of it.
Ghost ruins. An arch with lettering on top. Young Korean officer squints
up through mists.
SERGEANT
Ask that gook what it says.
I do. “Learning Is Eternal.”
SERGEANT
Not like a bomb up the ass it ain’t.
