songanddancegirl

LUDICROSITIES

MAMMALIAN LUDICROSITIES

The people are panicked about the presence of

threatening  +aggressive clowns in France  their

National Police report    Whether brandishing a

rubber chicken  at a child’s birthday  or John Wayne

Gacy dressing up as Pogo  clowns entertain  +terrify

The fear of clowns is called: Coulrophobia     Such a

strange species are we

Jumping from balconies   stockpiling medications   starving

oneself to death     These are the current alternatives for

Canadians suffering unbearably   Currently assisting a suicide

is punishable by 14 yrs. in prison   Such an inhumane species

are we

In 1945 Alex Colville was a war artist & visited Bergen Belsen

He noted: You see one dead person and it is too bad, but seeing 

500 is not 500 times worse  There is a certain point at which you 

begin to feel nothing     Such an anesthetized species are we

Just recently a dinosaur was discovered in Mongolia  with a toothless

mouth  +massive tongue that functioned like a gigantic vacuum cleaner

Last night in a dream Deino- cherius lumbered along  sucking up Nazis

+serial killers with impunity  If you could have him suck away one event

from your life   what would it be?    Or similarly   have Deino undo the

trajectory of world history

Quantum physicists posit: Changing one past event would not result in

changing all past events, but in creating parallel lives for the same person

*imagine old Adolph in the bunker   *imagine fetal Adolf sucked out of his

mother’s womb  *imagine John Lennon on the ground  *imagine John Lennon

at 70     I think you can take it from here

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You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
 

RIP John Winston Lennon

October  2014

KICK

YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE ME TO KICK AROUND

The angry clerk 1/2 sneers 1/2 leers  as my book  7yrs.

in the making  is retrieved from the BACK of the shop

BOTTOM shelf   from BEHIND $300 jeans    Hip store

sells:   Canadiana   Fashion   Curiosities    +3 books

Madonna  Douglas Coupland    +me

So how did I become one of three?  No fame  No critical

acclaim  Chained self to chair in buyers office   works like

a charm   Then there is the so hip it hurts  little bookstore

where staff have perfected the dropdeadlittlenonamepoet

glare   Your glowy red hair makes us writhe with: KILL THE

FASHIONISTA BITCH  envy

The metallic pink brogues may have tricked the wraith-like

owner into buying your pretty tome  but you now must grovel

before  all of  US   Seems that US  have sold several of my books

+have lost the remaining copies  Poor little Song&Dancegirl

collects dust  & mouse matter  under a sink somewhere

But on the shelf where my books should rest   between Bukowski

+ e.e. cummings  I spy a few copies of a famous CanLit poet  shoved

in a corner  neglected+bent  +yellowing  Somehow this gives puny-poet

the courage to keep on going

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Winter  2014

C.I.A.

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE + THE CIA CLOSER

The horror is in the details   Take rectal feeding for

example    The CIA pureed food which they later

rectally infused into detainees    One prisoner was

thrown into a darkened cell  shackled to a wall  standing

& forgotten for 17 days

The CIA is under attack for acts of: mundane brutality +

day to day degradations  in a report released yesterday

One that is largely redacted    a.k.a. censored    Barak + other

American notables say CIA are patriots  though their methods

insult their country’s morality   High ground  slides to new lows

with these atrocities

When the good guys behave like depraved sociopaths  +the bad guys

are depraved psychopaths  it may in fact be time to re-evaluate the

thin veneer of civilization between humanity  & the animal kingdom

Senator John McCain  POW in Vietnam  tortured repeatedly  cannot as

a result raise his arms above waist-level  He said: Torture isn’t necessary

and it isn’t even helpful

Torture does not elicit co-operation  or produce accurate intelligence

Generally speaking the near dead tell their captors  what they want to

hear  or anything at all to  STOP THE TORTURE    The 2 psychologists

hired by the CIA to advise on + help run the torture program  billed the U.S.

government: $81 million

So  is this a tragedy  or a modern scourge?  Perhaps it reeks of cataclysm?

Surely a convulsion of depravity   Or is it simply the new-normal in our

21st Century?   Gird yourselves.

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Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are

almost always bad men.”

Winter 2014

GOOD

WAR   WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

The mean streets are buzzing today

with a breed of wasp which cannot

be shooed away (reminiscent of

almost husband #2)  And the man

who would be V.P. of the free-est

country in the world believes:

Rape survivors automatically

abort their would be progeny by

some miracle of divine intervention

If this were true   how then can you

account for  the soaring birth rate

after the rape & pillage of war ?  So I

ask you Mr. Prospective V.P.   What are

you good for ?   Absolutely nothing

Say it again

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August  2012

SAY

DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO

I don’t know why I   punched

cancer girl   said my   12:45

A child so down & out that

there is some doubt   about

the presence of a conscience

I thanked her for her honesty

and encouraged her to think of

me   the next time she is angry

And like a snake charmer I gazed

into her dangerous   green eyes

I hoped that my conscience would

seep through the cracks of girlskin

Now like well worn leather from

proximity to Daddy’s sins

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April  2012

BEAR

DOES  A  BEAR?

Every cliché you have ever heard   is true

Grief is dulled by time   but then so are you

though you may still walk sprightly & sing

the odd tune   The searing will have come to

an end  especially from when  they wrenched

your bulldog away   You will become part of the

landscape   Your sighs quieter than the wind

Take the path you never saw before   and run

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August  2013

ELEVEN

11  11    11

Four WWI bombers flew low over

my house  at the 11th hr. of the 11th day

of the 11th month   The newspapers rifled

off numbers of dead in the millions  at places

like Vimy Ridge   +Juno Beach

The bombers were small   smaller than the

stealths that fly over at the Air Show   Killing

machines have grown since the Great War

These pale yellow planes flew in formation

buzzing ominously  heading to a glitzy ceremony

A repairman on the roof across the way dove

down to his hands+knees    Maybe he didn’t know

it was Remembrance Day    As Halloween decorations

blew in the breeze  & the first few Xmas lights blinked

I couldn’t help but think about the 3or4 wars +at least 2

genocides in my lifetime

Later one stray yellow bomber made it’s way to the festivities

as a giant Peregrine eyed me malevolently   The repairman now

on his belly  crawling over bloody bodies  to safety

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And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes

Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devils bargain
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Joni Mitchell   Woodstock  1970

November 11, 2013

SOUP

GOAT’S HEAD   SOUP

Picasso’s goat has a swollen vulva

fallen udders & a splayed buttocks

The distended belly smacks not of

fertility but of Bangladeshi bloat

Twinges of repulsion  & visions of

fornication  prick   for this stunted

little she goat   standing all alone  at the A.G.O.

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May  2012  *(this from a man who reportedly loved women)

SISSIES

*VACATIONS ARE NOT FOR     SISSIES

It is my duty to comment on mundanities

because I have just been   perhaps for too

long in the city that never sleeps   I returned

to lilac laden parks  & an unmade bed   And the

dread of another holiday growing by the minute

Please   don’t make me have so much fun

$200 dinners & a roaring surf have made my life

a purgatory    A desert so real  I will likely die of

thirst    That is  if my life doesn’t kill me  first

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May 2012   *12 days in NYC

BREAK UPS

GIRLFRIEND   BREAK-UPS   OCCUR   EVERY 3.5 SECONDS

We had past our best before date  probably

by year 3   But continued to flog the carcass

with a combination of sexual repression &

ennui    After year 8   over a plate of garlic

nan   Your middle finger flapped close to

my left eye   You dropped a 20 on the table

and left without   saying  goodbye

3 years later you called during a snowstorm

and thought that a celebratory reunion was

in order    O my long lost lovely    I seriously

wonder if you are not a borderline personality

gone berserk  at the Indian Rice Factory

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*girlfriend break ups cause 26.5 % of heart attacks in women

June  2012