HE AIN’T CHAUNCEY GARDINER HE’S MY BROTHER
I have a brother named Illinois and mostly he’s okay
Except for today when he waxed poetic on my proposed
tat site He suggested only flatbone surfaces or risk
wobbles later on So I ask you here Illinois: Has the
Rising Sun on your 6 pack begun to set yet? Because
that’s gonna be one sad day Et tu, Brute?
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Fall 2012 Illinois is named for Illinois Jacquet and known for his simple wisdom
HE’S NO JOHN F. KENNEDY*
Tonight is the 2nd Presidential debate & Obama
took a drubbing in #1 A Harvard pundit wondered
if he hadn’t received dire news just prior to appearing
live on the tube His face looked pale & his hound dog
eyes watery I wonder if maybe he was told when we’ll
be blown to oblivion by that tiny country run by Ahmadinejad
This news may have in fact dealt his bonhomie a blow –
So Good Luck Tonight Barak O
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*Globe & Mail pundit October 16, 2012
O THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING*
Mark Rothkowitz refused to hang his ART in the
temple of lunching & munching Instead they grace
a church in a suburb of Huston So I ask you what is
the magical number of loons for which I would write
a jingle? Or sell my soul to the Devil so I could play guitar?
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*Bob Zimmerman plugs BMO
Fall 2012
LAKE HURON RHAPSODY
Lap suck lap suck white gold blue Lap suck sizzle don’t fizzle – Come on –
Lap suck lap suck whew wow uh I could really get used to this By the
shores of Lake Huron I am made anew & know beyond a reasonable doubt
that I am hopelessly tangled up in blue Oh and by the way how is it
that I spring from a ravished Russian Jew ? Not Nabokov’s daughter or
the Tsar’s or even Akhmatova’s No just a little bluebell sprite born of a
Cossack kiss Lap suck lap suck lap suck Now I really got da blues
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Winter 2007
WE ARE STARDUST WE ARE GOLDEN
We all take prescription drugs to our
rock concerts now and believe me I’m
not complaining Many of them prolong
the human orgasm While others turn you
into a Buddhist in under 3 seconds *try the sub-lingual one
Who knew that the antidote to monkeymind
could be bought at my local grocery store
Where the pharmacist said it’s illegal to score
these substances for my friends
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Fall 2012
AND MAY YOU STAY FOREVER YOUNG
So how dead are the dead? Just a little
more so than us? When you consider the
lively conversations we are able to have with
a long dead Dad It makes sense that the angels
cannot tell the living from the departed
I have been visiting people in their 90’s lately
and don’t get me started but I am feeling like
this is all a big distraction from the only real
question Which is not: How long do they have
to live? But: Can someone arrange to turn the clock
back 40 yrs.?
Because that would be the only cure for what ails them
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*only 19% of the population believe in Hell 29% believe in Heaven & 52% believe they will never die
DIA DE LOS MUERTA FALL 2012
O I DREAMED I SAW THE SILVER SPACE SHIPS
Flying in the yellow haze of the sun Except it wasn’t
a dream It was live on CNN A Sci-Fi scene?
Or was it Biblical? Our ancestors would have
climbed up up up to the toppermost & had a good
night’s sleep While we flee our manmade mountains
One with a flaccid penile crane flopping in the breeze
As the tourists scurry to find take-out and last minute deals at Barney’s
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Fall 2012 Frankenstorm NYC
REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG YOU SHONE LIKE THE SUN
I once worked with an elective mute
All of his art involved pieces of machines trucks and tubes
He had been psychotic and his art revealed the robot self
He was 19 and a deep rumble lived where his voice might
have been But it was unlikely that he would ever speak again
Welcome to the Machine this place where a boy had once been
Mother should I run for President?
Mother should I trust the Government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Oooh aah it’s just a waste of time –
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*inspired by Diego Rivera Detroit & Industry 1932-33 A.G.O.
& Pink Floyd
Fall 2012
MALCOLM X
I have a friend who quoted Woody one day
25 yrs. ago He said: 80% of life is just showing up
I answer now: And the remaining 20% involves:
kicking & screaming
scraping & purring
sturm & drang & goodbyes
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Fall 2012
MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The abattoir down the road is pumping out
pig smell today The air is heavy with a sweet
gone rancid stink from hell But this is West
Queen West The fabulous Art & Design District
So all the hipsters sublimate their shit and out the
other end comes beauty Personally I prefer breathing
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Fall 2012
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