Saturday, November 21, 2009
RIP Benny Hill, Parody Master
My cable picks up BBC
Palladia Channel fea-
turing guys in wandering
stages through multi-
colored lasers as amoebas
in audience percolate.
Singers lack Sinatra's diction,
thus words form mishmash.
At this point, can’t keep Benny
from striding in with crackers
expression, ragged sleeveless
sweatshirt. Really miss him
in interview format, though
don’t know that reality doesn’t trump.
Star reclines, archetype of insouciance.
Answers laconically to light-
en the burden of genius
he so tragically hefts.
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Labels: Benny Hill, Palladium
Friday, November 20, 2009
Terrorists
Strong extract rights
from weak & naked
grab soon equated
to Justice, Integrity.
Founding papers
quoted, igniting
Patriotic Fervor.
Weak fight back &
branded traitors.
Labels: power grab, terrorism
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Bigtime Liberal, Smalltime Bleeding Heart
Mailbox deluged &
Amnesty International
even phoned. So my plan
is to ignore them all
despite hauntings.
After giving once,
I pass the ball.
Thought I’d stick every-
thing into Salvation
Army kettles because
of anonymity. But, hey,
they also got me from
sucker list & have mailed!
Oh well, always little kids
& their canisters for
Little League.
Labels: Charity, solicitation
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Banking Q & A
-Must I lose my home so that bankers can command obscene salaries and bonuses?
-Not necessarily.
-Must I lose my home so that bankers can command obscene salaries and bonuses?
-Not necessarily.
Labels: banking, executive compensation
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Representatives
-Once inside the hall there’ll be people to help them to their seats, etc.
-Well, tell them to speak roughly, so they won’t start tearing off their clothes.
-We’ll make their pockets so heavy they can’t get anything off!
-Hilarious! I heard it so often as a figure of speech, but there are really blind whores representing the GOP.
-Amen.
-Is that corporate or religious?
-Yes
-Once inside the hall there’ll be people to help them to their seats, etc.
-Well, tell them to speak roughly, so they won’t start tearing off their clothes.
-We’ll make their pockets so heavy they can’t get anything off!
-Hilarious! I heard it so often as a figure of speech, but there are really blind whores representing the GOP.
-Amen.
-Is that corporate or religious?
-Yes
Monday, November 16, 2009
Bigtime
-Competition is the lifeblood of The American System!
-Nice speech, but how do we rig it in this particular case?
Labels: American System, competition
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Cycles
CHAIR
First question to the panel comes from our own Horace Broadblent.
HB
Those of you up there who know me
know I’m the last person in the world to...but...
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(We have The Ring Cycle in Opera, Arthurian Cycle
in Literature, others in the Arts, but as important
should be, of course, The Self-Referential Cycle
in Horseshit .)
Labels: panel
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
How To Survive in Washington
First, apply to Think Tanks. If
one despises your advocacy, then
submit the few temperate
passages you've written. You
may even be invited on a panel–-to be
sandbagged by wits of bent dimension.
If in the audience with other
intellectuals, ask questions
with extensive prefaces which
prove you're smarter than experts
on the dais. All the exercises, any-
way, intending to straighten out
the Administration with rigors
of Right or Left glimpsed
through rhetorical fog.
There's always lunch, subsidized
by rail-headed billionaire hogs.
Labels: Think Tank
Thursday, November 12, 2009
A Pick Being Just Enough
Trolling within the huge open case
in my Publix for beer. At 6s &
7s I, exploring six-pack options.
But finally encounter Full Sail
Pale Ale, from brewery
in Oregon owned by workers.
Before, Righties, unbolting your
remarkable engine of satire,
we know we’re silly at times
& make inconsequential choices
tilting at your formidable windmills
of shit.
Labels: Capitalism, worker control
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Floridas
Republicans truly burn
with desire
of drilling offshore!
Corporate Whores.
Safe! they insist
and technological
to beat the brand.
Oily presentations.
But I resort to metaphor.
When the real thing arrives in
fallen coils of blackened birds
and tons of fish dead in muck,
they'll claim bad luck,
who could’ve foreseen such?
Republicans truly burn
with desire
of drilling offshore!
Corporate Whores.
Safe! they insist
and technological
to beat the brand.
Oily presentations.
But I resort to metaphor.
When the real thing arrives in
fallen coils of blackened birds
and tons of fish dead in muck,
they'll claim bad luck,
who could’ve foreseen such?
Labels: Florida, offshore drilling
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Commerce and Language
I Guess Money will
be satisfied when
Mining de-mountaintops
West Virginia completely.
Disparagement, join-
ing folklore, must coin
“Flatbillies” then.
Labels: surface mining, West Virginia
Monday, November 09, 2009
Can’t Sleep
with worry? Credit Repair
as close as your radio. Up-
side down Hippocratic Oath
of Finance: Harm the hurt.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
A Shop Exists
in its own building
to repair things.
Flapping belts
and smell of oil
in half-darkness.
Wizened proprietor gives
you numbered stub circled
with the date promised.
All in order, and anytime
you’re there, the sights
and smells reassure. One
day the building missing!
Coils of weeds surround
imprint. Merchants near-
by change the subject.
A policeman merely
shrugs. I think of tossing
the broken item into a trash
barrel but he has seen it.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Tap of 2 Cities
Had a Stella Artois (arrr-twaaa)
in Claremont, CA. Perhaps the pre-
eminent location for this arch brew.
In New Orleans (nawlins) you’d skip
the Artois and settle for Stella.
For urgency and literature. (Stelll-
AHHHH!)
Labels: beer, Claremont, New Orleans
Friday, November 06, 2009
Caption
A wretch holds a sign
at the Bradford (PA)
courthouse. She stole
a child's gift card it
tells us. No
record exists there
of persons of wealth
expiating their gouges
similarly. They vote straight
Republican and thereby wave
the children of others to war,
spouting half-heartfelt bromides
for the occasion.
A wretch holds a sign
at the Bradford (PA)
courthouse. She stole
a child's gift card it
tells us. No
record exists there
of persons of wealth
expiating their gouges
similarly. They vote straight
Republican and thereby wave
the children of others to war,
spouting half-heartfelt bromides
for the occasion.
Labels: bailout party, Bradford, Republican
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Two Old GOP Pros
-We win two governorships!
-No mystery. Pros ran campaigns.
-And lost a New York seat we’ve had since Civil War times.
-There we let ideologues thump their dicks on the table.
-Great formula! Bring outsiders in to hector the natives. And then wonder why they’re pissed.
-Purity is a loser. Always and everywhere.
-They’re claiming they really won.
-What? In the eyes of God? I go by returns.
-Oh well, Left has similar problems.
-Good! Let them all debate! Tour the country with competing sermons down their noses!
-Full of sound and fury.
-And signifying less than nothing! Like leaving a roomful of beauties to jerk off somewhere!
-We win two governorships!
-No mystery. Pros ran campaigns.
-And lost a New York seat we’ve had since Civil War times.
-There we let ideologues thump their dicks on the table.
-Great formula! Bring outsiders in to hector the natives. And then wonder why they’re pissed.
-Purity is a loser. Always and everywhere.
-They’re claiming they really won.
-What? In the eyes of God? I go by returns.
-Oh well, Left has similar problems.
-Good! Let them all debate! Tour the country with competing sermons down their noses!
-Full of sound and fury.
-And signifying less than nothing! Like leaving a roomful of beauties to jerk off somewhere!
Labels: GOP, ideological purity
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Central Florida AM
never rests. I wake at 4,
decide to catch election
results. Promo assures me
Communists being purged
from White House. Later
will scarf cholesterol
bomb at Mickey D’s,
then scope the beach.
Blatant ones hold hammer
and sickle surfboards aloft
darting into the waves of
what is not, thank God,
a Red Sea yet!
Labels: Communist, Talk Radio, White House
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
As Wars Drain
to a sort of putrid residue
& it's past time for politic de-
parture, they become academic
exercises. Boards convene now
& issue reports. Each includes
a smashed national explicating this
latest historical bullying & how
it transcends the native variety.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
Fight terrorism?
The other guys
put us there & we
can’t turn & fly &
save face too? For
petroleum, for...? Oh
a dozen other reasons
according to degree
held & purchasers. Burned
through billions All Right, so
what’s it all worth?
A bag of shit.
Labels: Afghanistan, oil, terrorism
Sunday, November 01, 2009
The Goldilocks Zone
Swath of celestial path where
new-discovered planet
is just right
for livable climate. And
on your daily orbit do you
find this place, only to be
gravitated to regions
of blackest ice?
Labels: Goldilocks Zone, orbit, planet