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Here is something that is and is not a work in progress. It is not good as is, but there is a revolutionary artwork implied in it; the trouble is that its proper expression would require about a month’s work. So here is yet another one waiting for me to retire . . .

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Words:

Born & bred in angry squalor/raised expecting even smaller /eking pennies on the dollar/acrimony–CHAOS too/turns into hullabaloo/hashtag [#] Welcometothezoo/if the outcome makes us scream/need a strong liaise ur-beam/get our selves a better dream

What could be revolutionary, and is implied, is the degree to which the.text may enhance the message. Note how one line “jumps ship” and usurps the end of the previous line. And with time and effort the words at the last of the poem may themselves give Breathing Room relief.

Will there ever be a 2.0? Time–and space–will tell.

And Fortune . . .

 

 

Chipfall

 

CAPER ye O clown O goof

Hmmph & squueeeze your doofy loofa

It’s just real life after all

PLAY! A Reaper’s come to call

 

There is a game called Candy Crush, available “free” on the smart phone I just acquired. It is not free. It cost me time.  It will cost you far more time than it did me, if you let it. Beware.

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slicing darkness we despoil
poison taints our alveoli
overcoats & furs & bling
tee times free of Vijay Singh
tame the land & blame the rest
yes, we flunk the Ethics tests

Questions? Comments? Requests to stop repeating myself?

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My Mom is in the hospital again. Probably OK, but they’ll keep her overnight for observation. Before I found out, I’d done a card called “two bodies” that began “GARY has two bodies/just as heather has two mommies . . .” and told about my flappy fleshy body being nothing special but my body of work being immortal and immense. It was typical self-aggrandizing crap, and it has now disappeared, and good riddance.

But I left Mom at her urging to go to work, and am now at the library, and, not finding the card I’d intended to post, whipped up this nearly-empty-headed one instead, just to keep every-day-in-March continuity going. I sort of like its clean near-emptiness.

Our poor feet step on the ground while the whole world steps on them. They are put in torture devices and their often-overweight owners demand they trudge all over Creation. Truly, it is They who are the Downtrodden.

“Tatum and Shea” is an intersection near where I had my taxes done. Perrier is a naturally effervescent water, which I imagine would at 104 degrees be a perfect dipping sauce for a pair of tortured feet.

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a smiley face, a manifesto,
doodles comic, deathscenes tragic,
a recipe for lime-green pesto,
you wielding Pencils make some magic.

Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Rios once pointed out that there were 35,000 words in a single pencil. Bless him!

Few of us use the word “wand” without front-loading it with “magic.” What wand isn’t?

Wabi-Sabi, Perfection through Imperfection, is everywhere in the Arizona desert. Dylan Thomas’s “Break in the sun till the sun breaks down/And death shall have no dominion.” comes to mind…

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The cacti are gouged into, pitted and marred,
They’re spiky and twisted and knobby.
It’s hardy survivors, so weathered, so scarred,
That demonstrate TRUE Wabi-Sabi.

judy and chicken

POP goes the culture

Prepare for Judgment Day sang Judy Garland
Onstage in fishnet, tux and tilted hat
Perhaps a southern gentleman named Harland

got bucketed with her & chicken fat
one never knows & that’s how rumors start
evangelizing scandal grists the mills
so Liz & Nicky/Eddie/Dick take part

take center stage take umbrage & take pills
how tragic for a Marilyn or Janis
eclipsed not just by death but also boredom

Comes Jerry Springer’s antics to unman us
until we’ve seen it all in all its whoredom
let’s
take
up
rumor-mangling and pray
elation puts the brakes on Judgment Day