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.