O I DREAMED I SAW THE SILVER SPACE SHIPS
Flying in the yellow haze of the sun Except it wasn’t
a dream It was live on CNN A Sci-Fi scene?
Or was it Biblical? Our ancestors would have
climbed up up up to the toppermost & had a good
night’s sleep While we flee our manmade mountains
One with a flaccid penile crane flopping in the breeze
As the tourists scurry to find take-out and last minute deals at Barney’s
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Fall 2012 Frankenstorm NYC
REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG YOU SHONE LIKE THE SUN
I once worked with an elective mute
All of his art involved pieces of machines trucks and tubes
He had been psychotic and his art revealed the robot self
He was 19 and a deep rumble lived where his voice might
have been But it was unlikely that he would ever speak again
Welcome to the Machine this place where a boy had once been
Mother should I run for President?
Mother should I trust the Government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Oooh aah it’s just a waste of time –
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*inspired by Diego Rivera Detroit & Industry 1932-33 A.G.O.
& Pink Floyd
Fall 2012
MALCOLM X
I have a friend who quoted Woody one day
25 yrs. ago He said: 80% of life is just showing up
I answer now: And the remaining 20% involves:
kicking & screaming
scraping & purring
sturm & drang & goodbyes
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Fall 2012
MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The abattoir down the road is pumping out
pig smell today The air is heavy with a sweet
gone rancid stink from hell But this is West
Queen West The fabulous Art & Design District
So all the hipsters sublimate their shit and out the
other end comes beauty Personally I prefer breathing
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Fall 2012
DON’T LET THE CABRÓNES GET YOU DOWN
Frida glowering with flowers in her hair
Diego a shambling giant The woman
beside me at the A.G.O. leaned in and
whispered:
He had so many women! Must have been the charisma –
Frida’s mouth is just so fuck you –
Especially in front of the Rockefeller Mural
where Comrade Lenin features large
Did Mr. Rockefeller think he could buy
the giant sized Communist with mucho
gringo dineros? VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN
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*inspired by Frida And Diego Passion, Politics & Painting A.G.O.
Fall 2012
DON’T TELL ME WHAT THE POETS ARE SAYING
John Ashbery says: There are no rewards in this world for
pissing your life away even if it means you get to see forgotten
icebergs He has won the Pulitzer studied at Harvard & Columbia
That is a bit like The Hip crooning: No one’s interested in something
you didn’t do And since such sentiments make mere mortals feel like
has beens you would all be better off gazing at the moon or contemplating
the Aztecs who prophesy that the world will end unbelievably soon
So Come Poet Shut Up
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* inspired by John Ashbery The Tragically Hip Allen Ginsberg
Fall 2012
LET THERE BE
He is a 1 armed photographer He looks pretty
grizzled and 1/2 mad gazing at the sky as though
he can force the light to co-operate Or maybe a
wizened old magician who makes the light happen
One eye often closed Silverhaired cyclops carrying
his camera through the woods for 60 yrs.
He said: Either you see it or you don’t
I say: Either you hear it or you don’t
The sound of words falling from the tortured mouth of the muse
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Fall 2012 A.G.O. Joseph Sudek The Legacy Of A Deeper Vision
IF YOU DO NOT GO THERE FATE WILL TAKE YOU KICKING & SCREAMING*
It would be so much easier to take photographs
Capture the essence in a click There. Ah. Yes. Done.
My heart flutters with excitement I could put down this
wretched pen and not have to dredge up words ever again
O the pulling dragging wrenching digging clenching of teeth
Or perhaps I should just confine myself to appropriation?
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*C.G. Jung
Fall 2012
I SEE YOU’VE GOT A HUSBAND NOW
I call out her name but she does not answer
We stand 3 feet apart An exact replica of her
only frumpy & ill conceived 16yrs. ago gave me
the finger in an Indian resto I am still not certain
if it is her Have I fallen into a chasm between space & time?
Or does this confirm her as a borderline?
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Fall 2012
THE HANDRAIL PIERCED ME AS THE SWORD PIERCES THE BULL
Diego’s womb’s are full of plump babies & flowers The cornucopia
While Frida’s are showers of blood & empty He had abandoned
2 families before he wed her & was only able to conceive of the womb
theoretically And as for me I haven’t been reduced to keeping dolls
and monkeys yet
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*Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera A.G.O. Fall 2012
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