1/2 MAN 1/2 MEPHISTOPHELES
All the women who had known him
were assassinated Some for their
beauty all for their stupidity They
had walked willingly into his lair
He did not order new ones
Now confined to a room with old
dementias & a Moloch or 2
He’d like to drive in his Jaguar
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Winter 2013 Songandancegirl Pink Floyd Rimbaud
DONALD AND JULIE SEETHE
Ah today $30 ticket Lost my velvet
gloves at Queen Video Dapper clerk
assures me that: Don’t Look Now has
the best sex scene ever All of dour
Toronto knows my Valentine secret
Nevermind I am about to have my mind blown
by Arthur Rimbaud So fuckoff bicycle
cop & enjoy my gloves girlinlinebesideme
Illumination(s) beckons –
Oh! the banner of raw meat against the silk
of seas and arctic flowers; (they do exist). – Bliss!
*(Rimbaud 1874)
Suck My Kiss
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Winter 2013 Songanddancegirl Rimbaud Red Hot Chili Peppers
I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet.
Rimbaud 1871
ENNUI UNCHAINED
The people in my local green
restaurant are so beautiful
I don’t know if I should be happy or sad
It’s like living on a perpetual
movie set where the lofters
perambulate around our park
with designer dogs on long
jewelled leashes
I for one am rooting for a happy ending
My hipsters deserve that at least
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Winter 2013
THIS TRAIN TAKES WHORES AND GAMBLERS
It was the Summer I ran off & joined the rodeo
Been watching too much Rifleman Fell hard
for Mark and on a lark jumped a train to San Antonio
This hobo life worked for Jack & Woody
But a girl from suburbia? Maybe stick to blue
mustangs and local buses ‘Cause Mark was a shit heel anyway –
Oh. Ah, Gold, Honey, I’ve lost my way.
225th Chorus Kerouac 1955
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Winter 2013
STRAP YOUR ARMS ‘ROUND MY ENGINE
I rode a dirt bike late lastnight behind a
biker named Mac He couldn’t believe I
was flying over the bumps riding high in the saddle
Like when I was 5 on Tex our lonely old horse
whose only companion was Billy He taught Illinois
a 2yr.old boy to climb fences and respect goats
Born fearless Born to run Born to die You and I
Let’s turn off the tv and go outside ride
the pygmy ponies to the Vieux Carre´
No No say No to the nihilists and to all burnt out blue-eyed cowboys
Winter 2013
COOL HAND LEE DID NOT SUFFER FOOLS
My father’s laugh was rare & that’s what
made it great A momentous occasion –
He was an intense no nonsense kind of guy
Not opposed to a well placed backhander
when the going got tough
Taught the boys to be men and the girl
to ride bareback by 5
He died the same day as Elvis & will
forever be known as the King of Alone
with a laugh that just won’t go away
IamarockIamanislandandarocknevercriesandanislandfeelsnopain
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Winter 2013 Songanddancegirl Simon & Garfunkel
MY HALO HAS BEEN CONFISCATED
When we finally met between the rutabagas
and the cold cream she gave me a big bear hug
But do not be fooled by this burst of affection
For seething underneath lay 16yrs. of rejection
Plus 8yrs. of relations so intense they left us
frothing and spent at The Bombay
How was I to know that this week’s meeting
would be so banal & so fleeting
there in the aisles of a Metro
*If she just accepted she’s a hick she’d be great
said her lover all those years ago
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Winter 2013
IT’S MY NEGATIVE SPACE MINE
Will they have an exhibit of my ephemera?
Not a hushed cloister like Patti Smith’s filled
with slippers, Rimbaud’s litter, and her dad’s
china cup No Mine will be empty filled with
suffering calamity loneliness beauty and ghosts fighting
Many will exclaim: She’s having us on
But there you will thoroughly find your own banished treasures
Perhaps a 5 star restaurant a motherlode of guilt and a rummaging rat or 2
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Winter 2013 A.G.O. Patti Smith Camera Solo
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