Let's see how long you can hold your tongue
after receiving the worst insults
ever
There will be occasions that you'll have to say something
Let's see how long you can restrict replies
to one word sentences.
A hundred times, I've tried and failed.
Familiarity has two sides.
Breeds contempt...may breed content
Sunday, September 27, 2009
The Urge to Breed (draft)
Perhaps Darwin explained
why when iguanas are struck
with the pressing urge to propagate,
they gallop blindly to a mystifying ritual
in the Galapagos in the equator
where the earth's midsection bulges
Iguanas in heat slide down volcanic slopes,
not directly into the lava pots,
but dangerously close
to have their young
Bombardment of boulders explode around them,
avalanches ignored, downward they spiral
to reachthe place that's choice
cold blooded reptilian desire
perhaps for vapors and sizzle
a need for ambiance
to have their young
why when iguanas are struck
with the pressing urge to propagate,
they gallop blindly to a mystifying ritual
in the Galapagos in the equator
where the earth's midsection bulges
Iguanas in heat slide down volcanic slopes,
not directly into the lava pots,
but dangerously close
to have their young
Bombardment of boulders explode around them,
avalanches ignored, downward they spiral
to reachthe place that's choice
cold blooded reptilian desire
perhaps for vapors and sizzle
a need for ambiance
to have their young
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Ash Wednesday
Jewish humor and Jewish pathos
that is written on my face
The wanderings of a restless people
that is written on my face
The Jesus incident
that, too, is written on my face
What I trust is not written on my face
is that I was Hitler's Czech Jewish astrologer,
the one who instructed the Fuhrer to find the mandrake
subsequently, shot dead in a Berlin park
that is written on my face
The wanderings of a restless people
that is written on my face
The Jesus incident
that, too, is written on my face
What I trust is not written on my face
is that I was Hitler's Czech Jewish astrologer,
the one who instructed the Fuhrer to find the mandrake
subsequently, shot dead in a Berlin park
Lady Hamil (draft)
A gardener who kills indiscriminately
every bug, every spider in her path
explain to her that God made them
explain to her a garden without bugs
would be no garden
I married a war criminal
every bug, every spider in her path
explain to her that God made them
explain to her a garden without bugs
would be no garden
I married a war criminal
The City Awashed (draft)
The architect is posted at four o'clock
in the long shadows of October
Seven months of utter silence,
and I think I could remember infancy
The sound of ships in the bay
the sound of rain in the streets
the green atmosphere which leaves a thunderstorm
the first recognition I existed
these never left me
in the long shadows of October
Seven months of utter silence,
and I think I could remember infancy
The sound of ships in the bay
the sound of rain in the streets
the green atmosphere which leaves a thunderstorm
the first recognition I existed
these never left me
Mixed Bag (draft)
I've survived long enough
to recognize turning points
nothing has yet exterminated me
to recognize turning points
nothing has yet exterminated me
Everything Fades (draft)
Spectacular sunsets fade
riots of spring have their moment
winter de-leafs them
summer returns
returns the falling
riots of spring have their moment
winter de-leafs them
summer returns
returns the falling
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