Monday, July 12, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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wouldn’t mind ridin into town on a horse.
six-shooter full of vicious.
set the whole town on fire, then ride
atop the first hill to watch it burn.
but that’s make believe. easier
just to switchblade the next baggypant
that passes the bodega and wonders
how this wall holds up all of my mean.
climb the staircase to the top
to watch the moonlight turn his blood black.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The bewildering balloon animals,
painted-on smiles and impossible colors
overjoyed the other children and big people
whose eden and idea this was.
Since they sang together, my terror
somehow an exhaustible thing,
breathless in their voices, I learned that joy
is just your dark shape cast before
you by any cheap light, still you
dance on its feet like a father.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Doggerel: Field Day
Doggerel: Magical Stealthness
Doggerel: Blancos
Doggerel: Family Kill Threat #73
El Pegasus
The Long Overdue ban of kansaskansas
Monday, May 3, 2010
Two Sheets Waiting on a Third
Doggerel: Half and half alley
Doggerel: Fur
Doggerel: back in '82
Grand National
Grand National
This aint no jet black death trap, son,
roaring off the rock lip of creation
goddamning all through the blue, violet, black.
They had a high noon in mind,
shadows sunk in the ground flush as nails,
when they made this, they took this solid
American Sunday number, overbored the six,
gave it a will and some means,
gave it that look, like a black lava glass
spearhead trailing a line of flame.
Maybe it was overkill to take the supercharger,
designed to cram air into aircraft engines
suffocated in the high thin air, like gills
on a dragon, to breathe and breathe fire at once,
and put those ancient lungs in a streetcar.
Then maybe there are bigger things
that need killing. Special made,
the suspension was just to keep it down.
Hugging turns, brakes to land on a dime—no,
no concessions were made to the lesser
and more bastard forms of speed.
The quarter mile is the rough limit
of vision and predation, and the machine
made to run it is made to make differences
between here and there, between us
and them, then and now,
or to make those differences disappear,
for opening or closing ground,
for getting free or even.
Settle back in it, youngblood. Head down
and make some trouble, find something out,
goddamning all set something free
so black it shines, run like hell.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
I want to be a florist and keep a gun under the counter for my customers.
I’m grown up and want to be a florist no one fucks with but the dead.
Can you say they wouldn’t deserve it? Fucking with florists? Jesus.
You don’t think about these things, you read poems. People do
Though, and they’re just the ones who darken the usually bright doors
Of florists, which could be a metaphor for other kinds of innocence
If that’s the sort of thing you get out of bed for. Others want sex,
Money, to be feared, and coming by all of it easy, hence the flower thing.
I don’t know that florists are innocent. I can’t speak to that. I just want
The chance to pump a few .44s into my persecuters as a florist.
I asked you once not to touch the leaves of the African violets.
I won’t ask again. Or else what, flowerman? What are you…
The blood climbs out of them in a column and flattens against the sky
Like a fiery mushroom cloud. That’s how it looks to them
When they’re doubled over and then they fly right up it into heaven.
It reminds me of the way water rises through a stem and makes me think
Maybe they don’t deserve all that. But then I remember
I garner amputated parts and keep them alive long enough to sell.
That’s what I am. And I grow. Now you know. Run like hell.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Family Recordings, Thanksgiving ‘63
Down South, there is no 'O' in violence,
nor in those flowers, mostly wild
and all but gone this time of year,
only the sinewy vine of an 'I,'
clinging, curling round, the cold grin,
the little giggle.
The big laugh, the 'O' in god
down South.
The Inhuman Phalloi of the Past's Future
somewhere afferent to the wrist
for a cock to spring clawlike from (the hand/its fundus)
for the purposes of precision in fucking
is a precursor. Also a light for seeing
what you’re doing is a precursor.
Pinpoint fuck accuracy in bioluminescence:
it’s hard to imagine the world
where this is not adaptive. Run like hell.
Doggerel: #2
when a skirt bends over straight flashin some 'nus.
I said Dang, girl, I'm likin how you ride southbound.
I got some dangle to straighten out and put in yo mouth.
I'll kill your family, bitch, if you can't make me bust.
Cut your granny open, jumprope with her guts.
Once I penetrate it, batter you up inside,
you'll be defenestrated, rolling down Lakeshore Drive.
Riding dirty
Doggerel: Egypt
I'm all powerful like pharaohs of olden times.
Half man, half god, I don't spare the rod,
putting body parts in you like canopic jars.