songanddancegirl

INFINITE

THE UNIVERSE IS INFINITE

Tina Fontaine found in the Red River at 15

Today they will scatter her ashes across her

father’s grassy grave   Stephen Harper in all

of his glory believes:

The large number of missing+murdered native

women is not a sociological problem. It is about

crime. It’s that simple. (and it is a crime that he

thinks it is not a sociological problem)

Tina is as abandoned as the sky   on the bleakest

day    When it’s your turn at the open mic:

BELLOW HER NAME

Your name is the first poem +the last poem about

you   It is you against oblivion    When you forget

who you are   carry it around on a slip of paper

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Giordano Bruno 16^thC renegade philosopher was

burned at the stake for suggesting the universe is

infinite    Stephen Harper is still Prime Minister

August 24, 2014   RIP Tina Fontaine + Giordano Bruno

MAN

THE MAN WHO ALMOST DIED

looks so happy all the time  except for when

death tugs at his pant leg  panting    Then he

looks spectral   thin   grey skin   barely hugging

his chin

I saw him last night and it looked to me that all

of the levity among the men around him   The

back-slapping-beer-drinking crew   was just a

metaphor for: not yet being a member of the old

boys club  with one leg astride a man cave*

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Herr God, Herr Lucifer

Beware

Beware.

Out of the ash

I rise with my red hair

And I eat men like air.

(Sylvia Plath  Lady Lazarus  October 1962)

Last Day Spring 2015 *(bat-grave-caves reserved for those with capes)

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COURTESAN

YOUR MOTHER IS A COURTESAN   YOUR ANIMUS A PIMP

Bella has a glint in her eye  She is bigger than the other

kids   One might say  ungainly   +her choreography reeks

of  Lolita    She is a big-girl  twitching for Summer

Teacher is stocky   Eats snacks with a wild abandon   full of

dark-sarcasm   He eyes me suspiciously   Had a teacher once

young  + undone  by schoolgirl fantasies    stood way too close

Now 2 girls toss a rose-coloured ball   One shouts: MY BALL  DON’T

FUCK WITH ME   Chases the moist boys away    What is foretold?

Bella will have carnal knowledge quite early    Teacher holds her against

his snack-laden body    Seriously    Toronto park    waning Spring   2015

He may not have read the manual  with comprehension    Bella in

heart-shaped glasses  returns to her pimp in the Niagara Region as

often as possible    Young teacher the subject of  schoolgirl fantasies+

animus complexes

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*In its negative aspect, the animus constellates as the inner critic, judge, 


sadist, murderer, evil magician and the proverbial cad who constantly

informs the woman 
that she’s ugly, worthless, stupid, and unlovable. 

Animus = male aspect of a woman’s psyche shaped by her earliest male

encounters.   C.G. Jung

Last days Spring 2015    for C.S. Regent Park +Niagara

MYSTICAL

THERE’S SOMETHING A LITTLE TOO MYSTICAL ABOUT HER

He said to me    She is a shaman from Chomedey   has 4 kids  & is

Cherokee   Some say he has a 3rd eye so advanced  we might liken

it to an x-ray    He uses it for online dating  & necromancy

Yesterday  he spoke of the NAACP lady:  quite possibly black on the

inside & white on the outside   +if so why can’t they leave her alone?

Ditto for Caitlyn Jenner  a woman on the inside  + a man on the outside

Courageously  after multiple surgeries   living as what she has always been

It’s just that Humans see the world in  binary   Grey areas anathema to

biological imperatives   Everything must be defined  nailed down  especially

the cheetah in the bushes  or you become lunch    When more truthfully only

uncertainty is a certainty

Take the genetic mosaic  where individuals possess xx chromosomes in some

cells  & xy’s in others   How do you determine their gender?   Not by what the

majority of their cells are    Women with more than 90% xy’s  have given birth

We have probably outlived the biological necessity for binary  along with genocide

torture  +terrorism    Survival of the fittest may now be about compassion  kindness

+turning cheeks (yes this has been tried rather unsuccessfully)  Yet as we continue to

pursue genocide as a way of life  (*please see Yadhizis Spring 2015)   One  might say:

Embrace GREY  or perish  Upright Ape!

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All music uses the same notes whether classical, religious or funk. So I decided to

take my beatings until I could find a place where people said: Oh don’t beat him;

listen!    Ornette Coleman  Jazz legend  RIP  died Thursday June 12, 2015

Spring  final days  2015

desapar

desaparecidos

next to my park there is a patio where women

in fine clothes eat macarons  +sip $8 teas from

france   it is 3:15    this tiny enclave a decidedly

non-bohemian scene

then into the park’s deeps  to contemplate

another reality   one where prada+marc jacobs

have no currency    it is dark + green   psychiatric

patients slumber   +someone’s grandfather takes

a leak by an oak tree

spring turning to summer  2015   lilacs rotting

yesterday a woman said: i am good +sick   and as

i sat by her mother-of-pearl bed   i sniffed the scent

of a reaper   

you always smell so good    what do  i smell  like?   

i have no perfume  no cream   don’t worry  you smell

heavenly  

perhaps her scent will waft up next spring   2016    when

in uruguay the disappeared ones   buried in mass graves

or thrown into the ocean   the ones who are not quite dead

yet   will rise up  en masse

a woman in a black leather pantsuit  studded+spangly  walks

a bicycle through the park  it is 30 celsius   +she smells like the

cure for all evils

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Spring 2015

COME ON DOWN

COME ON DOWN FOR THE PINKENING

A friend who has named all of his cats Jimmy  said:

Why bleach the vagina? I can understand bleaching

the anus  but the vagina  why?   It makes one wonder

if vaginal pinkness+sexual interest are related

Flibanserin a.k.a. female Viagra  has had  very modest

results  says Dr. Julia Heiman (Kinsey Institute)  of this

latest effort to boost sexual arousal through brain chemistry

+address the sexual problems of women

Could the real problem with libido lie in the colour  PINK

for which the pornography industry has made the gold standard

of vaginal supremacy  Go Pink Or Go Home  Requests for pinkening

have increased 20 fold in the past year  +labiaplasty surgeries tripled

Are you: taut enough  smooth enough  young enough  pink enough?

Sounds like a Rolling Stone’s song   this version extolling the vaginal

beatification industry   Do-it-yourself kits   pinksturbation  by any other

name  include: Pink Privates  Pink Wink  +Pink Button

Elke Reissing  psychology professor U of Ottawa: How we groom+care

for our vulvas is another opportunity of choice   Imagine  equating pink-

ening with empowerment!  These may very well be the Dark Ages of self-

actualization   Was a time when en-soulment was the order of the day

But think of it this way  en-pinkment may lead us into yet another *garden

variety misogyny  where gloomy womb tombs +vagina dentata await men

with a penchant for   PINK      Register your disgust at #bitemegentlyplease

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*(in a special episode of the Kardashians  the highfalutin mooch Scott Disick

sheared the pubic hair of his 9 months pregnant baby mama Kourtney)

Am I hard enough
Am I rough enough
Am I rich enough
I’m not too blind to see
I’ll never be your beast of burden
So let’s go home and draw the curtains

(Beast Of Burden  The Rolling Stones  Some Girls  1978)

Spring 2015

A.I.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Man is A.I. to Nature   nature who created woeman

in her own image    Man’s push to consciousness

hubristic+gnashing as it is   made the soul wary +

not a little bitter  Nature God (dess) replaced by Homo

sapien   Two legged ape deeply enamoured of  Oblivion

We should have stayed hunched on the savannah   Now

the rough beast has killed it’s Gods  +finds itself  unholy

Consciencelessness is a messy business   As men +women

round up fresh victims to behead   some with short little knives

requiring a sawing motion

The boat with the fisherman went missing  What would Jesus say?

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I am a god
I am a god
I am a god

(Yeezus  Kanye West)

Deus EX MACHINA       Spring 2015

BALLS

IF THE BUBBA HAD BALLS

She monopolized my favourite author

like a shark in heat  as I circled the periphery

She a famous editress    I a stalker-amorus

My mother wrote re my defeat: Did you ever

hear of: EXCUSE ME SORRY TO INTERRUPT

MY NAME IS     (mud?)

If I had her chutzpah  I’d be Queen

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Colm Toibin   (woulda should coulda  didn’t)

Spring 2015

DADDY

MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY

Did you know that women are 2x more depressed

+ anxious than men   +10x more likely to admit it?

The newspaper asks: is it because women are actually

sicker?  Or go to the doctor more?

Maybe like Eurydice  the underworld beckons  +daddy

waits there ready to build you a room of string   Of all the

vagaries  saying goodbye to daddy  makes the blood grow

angry   + angry blood in women causes: infarction

Dear Deadwomen: if you were given the choice by Hades to

live your days across the Styx   with daddy   or  return to your

Orpheus-hubby   What would you do?   Only serious responses

will be considered   Write to HisDarkLord at: daddysgirlsrule.com

*winners will receive  a reprieve

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..through shallow water, through dustings of  snow, through

cloudy figures of fallen light. I cannot remember, but I think

you were there, whoever you are.  

(Mark Strand  Blizzard of One  Pulitzer 1999)

Spring 2015   for Michelle & Gregory  Soulpepper’s Eurydice+Orpheus

GRIFFINS

SEE YOU AT THE GRIFFINS

ultra-contemporary   a transcontinental rumba

of the global digital   This a description of the 5th

Canadian of colour to be nominated for a Griffin

Trinidadian-Peruvian   Shane Book    Shane says:

Poetry doesn’t get a lot of laughs

I wonder if there have been any invisible minorities

a.k.a. Jews  nominated    They might describe my

poems for instance as: a transcontinental hora of the

global digital   +funny  don’t ask!   

Seriously  I don’t care how they describe my poetry

$75,000 would give my dark+depressing stanzas a ring

of dybbukery     A  #sellmysoulatthecrossroads  infamy

And yes I would take the money   Though I cannot help but

wonder if the Muse could then be wrested from the front

row at CHANEL   #callmeshallow     Go ahead

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Spring 2015