OUT OF SERVICE
Elevator dreams Modern Jacob’s Ladder?
Elevator operator God-like Cables exposed
Swings wildly does not stop on your floor
May not stop at all May crash through glass
ceiling or plummet into underworld
Last night we recognized each other he smiled
a little too seductively But I checked the cables
through the gap & climbed aboard He cannot
frighten me anymore This mortal coil not his to
snap Flamboyant and greasy haired like husband #4
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SUMMER 2013
MAN O’ THE LAND
His 1st degree is in trees His 2nd in people
treehuggingbooklovingpeopleperson
There is more to him than meets the eye
Yesterday he carved a perfect square out of
his hair just before a meeting He looked as
forlorn as our bully before his urethra surgery
Now a bald square on paw post I.V.
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LATE FALL 2013
F**K THE F**KING F**KERS F**K
Northrop Frye
It’s the kind of selfish when you’re sitting there
and you don’t know what to do says the co-ed
She has been spewing 4 letter words brilliantly
as the very life-blood is sucked from my opus
Even Northrop Frye would be impressed with
the number of times she has used f**k in a sentence
Her raven hair parted a fraction from the middle
she eyes me with disdain She just walked to the
garbage bin and spat whereupon a hive of late Fall
wasps put an end to her ecstatic confessions
Beside me a young man reads Confucius
but his look screams Trotsky He says: It all turns on IF
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LATE FALL 2013
PEOPLE COME APART & SHIT HAPPENS
Nascent Spring Peaches Geldof died on
Monday Mother of 2 boys 24 mths. &
11mths. She was 25 In Kent bulbs are
pushing flowers through the soil Sir Bob
her dad said: She was the flower of our family
Her own mother died when she was 11
Bob ferried her to England I’m no Amy Winehouse
Peaches said Post-mortem on Wednesday
For many years now I have kept a small
whitebird in a gilded cage I let it out each
Spring It’s song is ½ Nightingale ½ 11 yr. old girl
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SPRING 2014
A STAR IS BORN
Taurus: A luminous source of beauty
is concealed from you To become
aware of it seek out a more profound
darkness
You know Rob Brezsny I expect more
from you than paradoxical psycho-tweets
The darkness that currently surrounds could
not be more profound
How about some HIGH BEAMS? A second SUN?
Flashlights in the night sky pointed down at us
Especially near rivers in basements with post &
beam ceilings
This darkness is in need of translation Rob T-R-A-N-S-L-A-T-I-O-N
Recently on a small moon of Saturn with a temperature
of -200 C one of the key conditions of LIFE has been
found: WATER We wish those on Enceladus much
good fortune in the hope that this water births a brighter Race
The prospect remains tantalizing
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SPRING 2014
CAN I GET A WITNESS?
She was 10 & called me from Aruba
A dog had been hit From the street
corner her parents dialed me in
He ran behind a building he’s bleeding
he’s dying Same girl who cried when my
blue rabbit collar morphed into little
rabbit foo foo It’s faux sweetie I lied
And now I lied again long-distance
Animals find caves dark & warm He’s in
shock He’ll sleep it off 2 yrs. earlier her
Grandfather died Now there’s another space
for the next new baby Little girls are taught to
love babies (biological imperative)
I ask you can all of those dead animals really be
at the Zoo? Is Satchmo on the farm with his friend
Brutus? Is the tadpole you flushed swimming in Lake
Ontario? You really want to hope so But uncle from
Buffalo disabuses you of this notion Was he just old?
tired? or wise?
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EPILOGUE
He pointed at each child in turn: Someday yer gonna die and
yer gonna die and yer gonna die Yer all gonna die
St. Agathe Des Mont 1972 (Uncle Cracker)
SPRING 2014
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