songanddancegirl

WHERE’S YOUR MOSES

WHERE’S  YOUR  MOSES     NOW?

It has been an inferno   with fires & floods

19 elite firemen died in Arizona   It’s   Mid-Summer

here in the North   but my eyes are already

turned toward Fall    on the lookout for new

sentences   an epiphany or 2    and a breeze

Yesterday a man at  Canadian Tire  warned of

the  Apocalypse  & said he is preparing to flee

He encouraged me   to join him   Later my    husband

wondered if it is time to start worrying    about me

The Summer asks too much of us     and in the sky there

are clouds upon clouds       upon clouds

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*Humans happen to have a lot in common with many of

the species that have made it through mass extinctions    like sharks for example

Humans and sharks will eat garbage in order to survive  and humans will also eat

bugs and slimes.  

Mid-Summer  2013 

NEW BEGINNINGS

NEW  BEGINNINGS  MAY  BE    OVERRATED

Ultra Modern    It’s going to be   Ultra Modern

This phrase pierces the doom    Clean lines &

Ghost Louis’ materialize   I’m finished with URSA

he announces    Stars fall       The appearance of

Hale-Bopp in 1997  was seen as a cue for     mass suicide

by 39 members of  Heaven’s Gate         Omens are a dime a dozen

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Mid-Summer  2013

LET THE GOOD LORD

LET  THE  GOOD  LORD  SHINE  A  LIGHT  ON  YOU

There is a patch of light between couch   and wall

that keeps catching my eye   It is a nostalgic-light    late afternoon

Conjuring up rooms I have lived in & people I have

been linked to  before my  level of trust  plummeted

600 metres (in a single day)

And when I stop     mesmerized by the glimmering      it is as though a switch

has been thrown   The one marked:   Throwing this switch can prevent darkness

This would be a good time to end the story   while we

are all still alive  &  too big for our boots     I heard

on the  News  last night that there is a   1 in 3 chance

of a meteor crashing through Earth’s   atmosphere

(trust plummeted another 200 metres)                                  THROW  THE  SWITCH

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May the good Lord shine a light on you

Make every song you sing your favorite tune

May the good Lord shine a light on you

Warm like the evening sun, yeah     (The Rolling Stones)

Mid-Summer  2013

PLEASE USE

PLEASE  USE  YOUR  SPA     VOICES    LADIES

Why is it that lately    the people who sit

down beside me   fight mercilessly?

Yesterday  in the park  I carefully

spread writing tools across   picnic      table

Mother    & daughter with baby    arrive

& proceed to sit beside   procrastinating poet

Within 10 minutes they are seething

While I am seemingly   invisible    and begin to wonder      if perhaps I am

They soon scream insults  shamelessly

As baby sleeps through 2  generations

airing dirty laundry    And parkweary poet

waves earplugs    menacingly

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*as I scramble back to civilization  I see   little hairless one

beating clenched fists   against seething breasts   3rd generation

indoctrination    into family pastime

Mid-Summer  2013

FLYING TOO CLOSE

FLYING  TOO  CLOSE  TO    THE  SUN

The work was like appearing on  Broadway

Each hour a brand new  production   No script

a stand-up act   improv   dramacomedytragedy         remedy?

Often working harder than the  audience

Lives  marriages  futures  hanging in the balance

all for 175- an hour   bloodsweattears   boatloads

of fear     But maybe I was working too hard?

Leaning in    too close  to the:   pain loss trauma neurosis suicidal psychosis

Don’t look them in the eyes   my supervisor said

some 20 yrs. ago     But  I did    I have    I do

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Every shadow has a name

when I think of mine I moan  

Allen Ginsberg    1948

Mid-Summer  2013

WHAT ABOUT

WHAT  ABOUT  THE  K     WORD?

Too much water   summer Frankenstorm

Hemmed in   greyday   traffic lights out

Take your chances with monster trucks

& trains without handbrakes   on

Apocalyptic flashes over the      Chocolate Factory

Claustrophobia alights  during blackout

and beyond    Are you watching the Zimmerman trial?

they ask    Race riots  predicted    New show on CNN

(The N Word)  gets picked up for a 2nd season

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Hey  I’m not a Kike   I’m Greek

Girls  Season 2   HBO

Mid-Summer  2013

SHUT D FONK

SHUT  D  FONK    UP

trucks    jackhammers

Barenaked Ladies

Rush

crass cafe sitters

twitter-ers

newspapers

constant backyard dog

haters   naysayers

sat a.m. dad  braying   like a donkey

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Mid-Summer    2013

DON’T BOX ME

DON’T   BOX  ME    IN

Living in a 6,825 sq. ft.   HOUSE

What will I do with all of the     s   p   a   c      e

they  want to know   Well insulated

from them  I will open & close a multitude

of doors leading into the innermost sanctum

Like those gift boxes where the box keeps getting

smaller  as you search for the treasure   so shall

the rooms  until I am in a space not much bigger

than myself   And in this room I will make      preparations

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Summer  2013

AT LEAST

AT LEAST  HE  DIDN’T    SUFFA

Leafy cemetery  looks cool   shady     inviting?

Chiaroscuro coaxing me in    Funereal garden goads

I gave up memoir so that my   flights of baroque    should not

trouble my professors    However    Tony Soprano  died yesterday

Could this be the meaning of the prophesy?   You know   of those       ducks

The ones who landed in his pool      He is out of the game now

No longer paralyzed by the fear of death     No longer looking over his shoulder

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Summer  2013

DOCTOR HEAL

DOCTOR  HEAL      THYSELF

So did you skip out of there?   You know

the  specialist reprieve?   Not really  No

The doctor looked at me skeptically when

I said: I don’t take  street drugs    Ditto for:

Not depressed     He must have guessed that

I need street drugs to deal with all that I have    seen

What’s your work?    ChildPsychotherapy

Oh   what kinds of problems?     abuse  kidnapping  trauma  death

Then   he retracted his skepticism   and became  morose

Turns out his mother is happy   but losing her cognitive abilities

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Summer  2013