Friday, 2 October 2020

#284 - four poems -- two trumperies + call and response + pillow talk

 






3.x.20

284

four poems

(including two trumperies)

 

 

 

call and response

 

moon takes the roofs

and Mars behind

most stars dim to the fullness

 

not even a little misted

but here-and-there glint

shone tin

night’s clear

 

rabbit, Old Man, cheese, Chang E

and must we moon for?

 

Jupiter crowned with its own

no naked eye from here will find

little Saturn has a few

run rings

 

everyone’s looking up to see

does this moon of ours have a ding in?

 

bats wings it

with a little whoosh

 

are we pondshone bright to be?

every frog says so

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

pillow talk

 

and this one snores

one lulls

another is for lewd suggestion

 

the pillows talk!

have a whole range

 

will you be first for the fable?

 

between the pillow and the slip

gossamer – you decide

 

here lay a head

and thought wash

 

nothings are sweet

but we have as well

vistas collected from back in the day

dream suggestions

deeps of meaning

 

some pillows talk the thing up

do an anxious agitation

 

we have for doom

and fits of dark

this one’s presage

roll over

 

who will make the first leap?

or trampoline this

all for one

and me for you

 

a special erogenous zoned model

with Aphrodite’s nightie
and a flying Spaniard flew

 

one will pleasantly support

and does a lovely groan

 

we go by Agra to it

Taj me a mahal –

(but that’s too expensive)

 

prop you up

no, not the elbows

 

say also

bring a stethoscope

trick wits

part with grammar

 

and swallow this

it’s mechanical

with haunches

and all pride

 

jazz pillow

classical with storms

 

nobody wants the poetry pillow

won’t let you think

would you rather Jung’s or Freud’s?

 

my side or yours?

smooth for the dying

 

here we have predictions

there’s ticker tape as well

contemporary account I mean

though much is punk

bid and offer

given voice

the market on its bell

get set

bulls, bears

and you go hunting up

 

here’s one wept for grief

self-sobbing

 

crick in yours

tingle too

everyone has a story

 

famous places

flowers remembered

everyone put to their own private shame

 

 

and we’ll sing

 

of course the pillow is recording too

there will be a DNA trace

and we know who you are

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

two trumperies

to celebrate the corona-potus’ triumphant entry

into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre

(Cretan Liar Series)

 

 

he gives himself an excuse to lose

 

privilege to breathe the very air

sent

out of an abundance of caution

 

in good spirits and mercy mild

still might yet smite

 

it’s a beat up

fakes his own

why should we believe it?

 

does a catastrophe end?

can we cram all into a single skin?

this one has its own hospital cocktail

sweet suite

 

remember decency?

 

everyone – even his vilest foe –

is praying hard for him

 

I feel great again

don’t you?

 

 

 

 

after Trump

 

nothing ever the same

 

a hunger of bridesmaids

 

here at them

octopus Houdini

the greatest con artist of the century so far

 

insult to the species (among all others)

he is a one man extinction

 

after Trump

(so aptly named)

 

what can be done to tweet?

 

the clown pope

the queen cross dressed, done up in tatts

the Virgin Whoring Mary

there’ll be Justices of War not peace

manic Buddha

Jesus on the make

Confucius say what the fuck

ride a rocket cowboy

 

from now on it’s all tripping up cripples

poking the blind in the eye

 

feed the bubbas stolen candy

grow up smug like Him  

 

this is how time there will be measured

before and after Trump

 

compare him with God the Father

old Testament time

spiteful and vengeful and jealous and numb

 

the happy bomb

the darling bullet

these will save your life

 

here, have some animal rage

there isn’t a compass at all

 

after and because of

shake your hand

and shake you you down

 

none dare say there’s no conspiracy

 

tongue down your throat

and a grope

it’s like this

it’s a pussy grab

 

after Trump

nothing ever the same




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