MORTAL LAMENTS I WANT MORE MORE MORE
His feet are waxy white Golfer’s tan
he jokes I place my foot ontop of his
and try to pin him to the floor
We are entering the final 1/4
And in my mindseye I see us dance
the ghostly version of the great romance on the otherside
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Fall 2012
CH CH CH CH CHANGES
Have you ever wanted to unbegin something?
I desperately do Except that the
undoing would put me right back
to where things were before the doing
And this would not be good because
then I would have to live through
every second again every detail every smell
Only to be faced with having to do it again undone undoing undo me
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And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender
Winter 2013 Songanddancegirl David Bowie Jackson Browne
WRESTLE THE WORLD FROM FOOLS
Today had its highs and lows:
I smashed a bottle of Moscato
in line at the LCBO Rivers of
dessert wine coursed down my
leg And there was a sweet dampness
about me all through the day
But was I good enough to eat as
I beat a path to see Patti Smith ?
There she was 5ft. from me
tuning her guitar: Because The Night raspy voice soaring
beneath Gehry’s staircase
As A.G.O. bouncers boomed: You can’t look at her
The People Have Power Patti moaned –
No they don’t Not at the AGO
So piss on ’em Patti and have a great show
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Winter 2013 Songanddancegirl & Patti Smith Art Gallery Of Ontario Fiasco
ANIMUS-SY PUSSY
A crack in the earth up comes blue dinosaur
with feathers Stuck in Daddy’s
grave 2yrs. before It was a ritual
out of a voodoo manual: HOW TO BURY YOUR ANIMUS
Angry taskmaster fussy Queen
of mean & brittle talkback
Black earth muddy clumps It’s a messy business
rising out of a grave But it was
getting crowded down there
No nonsense father weary of the bullshit & constant tirade
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Winter 2013 * Animus Jung’s term for the masculine part of a woman’s personality
A MAN AND HIS SQUARE GOD
Inside the Frank temple inside Frank Lloyd Wright
Being inside the creator
100 years after creation
Here in a Chicago suburb inside a prairie temple
Do you have a temple inside?
Mine looks nothing like
this one
It’s more: Marie Antoinette meets Alice in Wonderland meets the Enchanted Forest
{DON’T DIS MY TEMPLE}
But back to Frank:
square boxes in square boxes
order repetition
elegant woodsy light
For a solid & sensible square male God
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Spring 2010
O SANDY THIS BOARDWALK LIFE IS THROUGH
Our park is dusky highborn dogs glance
at lowbrow hipsters with envy? 6 inch heels
on gravel paths Competing tats in ersatz bohemia I think I’ve lost my way
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..For me this carnival life’s through– you ought to quit this scene too..
.. I’m coming to liberate you confiscate you..
..Tell them they can kiss our asses good bye..
*Springsteen The Wild & The Innocent Nebraska
Winter 2013
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