songanddancegirl

ALL IN ALL

ALL  IN  ALL  IT’S  JUST  ANOTHER     BRICK  IN  THE  WALL

One day she

hurled the dog

over the tippy top

of the

spiral staircase

 

Her mother had hurled

her father

over the

top of the

stairwell

 

And his

wheelchair

went bump

in the night

 

It gave a great

fright to the 4

children hiding

under beds –

Help I need somebody!

 

Dial 911 little girl

and the cops will

come screeching

into the

war zone                                                                                           Not just anybody!

 

The ozone layer

has been

depleted

by the chemical haze

rising

rising

from your home

 

Rainbow colored pills & pipes and matches   but no safety latches  on wheelchairs

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Winter  2010

ALL I WANT TO DO

ALL  I  WANT  TO  DO  IS  DRINK  TEQUILA

If I didn’t buy the musky

perfume today

I could not face tomorrow

Orange blossoms & white iris

from Tuscany

 

Now there is a recipe   for Happiness

 

Better than a handful

of Prozac

Better than slathering oneself

with bio-identical

hormones                   *(you can rub them on your clit said the quack)

 

Have mercy on me

 

Send me more work

so I will be

too busy to care     what I smell like

 

The other day I read:

The great thing about Marilyn is that we didn’t have to watch her grow old

 

Moldering   yellow haired      &  fragrant

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Spring  2008

SAW YOU STRETCHED OUT

SAW  YOU  STRETCHED  OUT  IN  ROOM  TEN-O-NINE

Woke up sideways    Never a good omen   Last night  a

bunch of thugboys mugged my Mum  &  she disappeared

So I ate all her chocolates     scattered here & there

 

I had a small flashlight but traded it for my life     Jung said:

This little light is all we have in the long dark night

All that stands between you  &    the abyss

 

Released from the muggers  my Mother returned

and was not impressed that I had burned through

the chocolates   Though full points were given for vacuuming    her  abyss

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Well, you’re drunk in the alley, baby 
With your clothes all torn 
And your late night friends 
Leave you in the cold grey dawn 
Just seemed too many flies on you

My sweet honey love..Let the good  lord shine a light on you..

warm like the evening sun..

 

Spring  2013       Songanddancegirl      Rolling Stones     C.G. Jung

PLEASE HANG UP

PLEASE  HANG  UP            AND  TRY  THIS  CALL  AGAIN

The telephone and me    are foes   so thankfully

there is the  virtual  realm    Assagioli said:      Collaborate with the inevitable

And that is what I am doing     As human

communication grows more oblique

 

I am refusing to be hijacked by the  ringingmachine   

The droning voice that says:    Yah today is the worstday I’ve ever had in my life

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..Don’t use the telephone

People are never ready to answer it

Use poetry..     (Kerouac 1970)

 

Spring  2013     Songanddancegirl         Roberto  Assagioli

 

 

 

WHAT ROUGH BEAST

WHAT  ROUGH  BEAST    ON  SLOW  THIGHS ?

In the epic battle between  will & fate

will takes a shitkicking      everysingleday

Few are left standing   Many run for the hills

 

Some die a slow death       in their Mother-in-law’s basement

 

So if your choice is between: hovel or hobble

toward some  misguided  dream     What

difference does it make?    Since each of us

will die   mute on our mat    some day

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Spring  2013       Songanddancegirl          W.B. Yeats