THREE DEFACED BANKNOTES

 

I

 

IN THE BLUE ROOM

 

Sullen, silken sulks,

we drink the same rain,

spit is clean

and so is dirt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

II

 

AN INWARD PRAYER

 

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NOTE ON THE BAND NAME “OEDIPUS WRECKS”

 

My friend Dr. Calculator Ptom named the band upon hearing my songs. He used to say gnomic things like “the universe is a projection of the mind.” “The G note is green on the guitar fretboard.” “The song ‘Born Slippy’ is evidence dance can have a soul.” “Poetry is untranslatable because of the music.” “Death is God.” “Early Oasis is good for bitterswee...

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SKUNKFOOT

 

Portability still seems the Apotheosis of Form: sometimes I can be walking along on a sunny day when I jump from the jungle to the Arctic to the Sahara. Mutation in consciousness itself, truth too simple to understand, these are gesture-without-motion-bones, like sadness gene and dreaming gland. It's not impossible to write an anti-poem. Love is not a mechanistic set of rules. Lo...

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INFANT JAZZ POEM

 

Sometimes perhaps 

down opening quiet

I am drawn down 

long and alone

and my friend and 

my foe recede 

into deep sleep

sudden and still 

like a dawn behind a 

screaming veil 

where silence

is born and all that's 

loose and tight and 

all that's light is light 

like first morning 

with no night

and wend my way 

so slow to ...

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POEM

 

Sullen, silken sulks,

we drink the same rain,

spit is clean

and so is dirt.

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FOUR POEMS FROM THE SUNSET CHILD

 

I

 

TUM TUMPTY TUM

 

Tum tumpty tum 

The cat is playing the drum

Four little mice

Are shaking the ground

Dancing merrily around

Tum- tumpty- tum

The cat is playing the drum

Three little mice are dancing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SAFE FROM HARM

 

Fleeing the scene of the smoking crime

my shadow legs were failing falling

decided to run forever but fell

the cops were swift on my slow back

& slow to follow my swift soul

which grinning escaped through some hole

& down a road safe from

Ignorance perfectly un-noticed and perfect

 

The cell was hard like white bone

& naked like someth...

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THE FIRE-DANCE

 

The fire-dance dwelled in electric drums

where ecstasy fell soft fathoms to clap

and bells let peace form in blue notes

and peered at deer in the wood and ate of it

and wet let excellence sound out its criticism

and dawn let sting its unsheathed sting

and chloroform in the heart let see

if only Game Over was seen in nights.

 

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HAIKU

 

There is joy in things

and smiles not grins like butter

but like butterflies. 

 

 

 

 

 

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THE BET

 

Blessed may be the end at last,

under the sea,

below the soul,

in the upside-down

Oceans above us

 

(all that Heaven sends is rain.)

 

 

 

 

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THAT BLACK NATURAL E

 

Where once I wandered far and wide 

on a field-file, a file-field, 

a fenceless farm without 

security alarm where

all hearts bleed and all arts breed,

now Hell is very quiet, unadvertised.

 

McBreastmilk, 

McBreastmilk, 

don’t feed your kids.

 

Gentle face erasing cream,

smear it in and let it sink

down through the pores of you...

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I KNEW THAT SHE LOVED ME

 

I escaped last night

into a heightened dream

from a dull and longing sleep

 

and the stars murmured

their cool ballad

to the approaching sky.

 

Secrets hung like ghosts

in the corner of my wanton world

all blurred and drugged too deep

 

and I knew that she loved me

from her invisible motions

and the dagger in her so...

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