Thursday, September 19, 2019

Ground Zero

Count Dracula spatula,
Wizard spine bath,
A black and brown bat,
Hula hoops dance
In ribbons like bake me
Wake me up before you go go
Because I don’t want to be stuck on this pogo
Stick-up, I just looked at the knife
Bringing a cow to a pig fight in soho
Whichever way the wind blow blow
Riding solo to the parapet
Beware the set sun para prete a porter
Tear the envelope open,
It will be a scorcher
I’ve never been to Guantanamo
Planted more than an orchard
It’s a mystery to me how you handle those
Tessa virtues found in the building of the panama
Canal fish, wait to the carnal bow, release the animals
A lion for your neck, the edges vanish
Like shells at periphery
Lodged in the Porphyry; channel
The bee-eyed vandal, dog drunk Daniels
Jack I presume, at the tomb, don the gold-veined mantle
Barking cocker spaniels
There’s a sandal-wearing heir apparent
Playing mandolin in the itinerant winds
The mocking-birds — I can hear them tittering
The mobs of revelers, I can hear the bitter swing
Creaking in the evening, heart speeding
I can hear pods of students shudder in spring
Recoil from the boil lanced, ding ding ding
Your time is up, I want to see you blubber for your life
Let alone be king of an abroad empire of sound
Ground up like fools gold into a powder
Swelling like the sea on the east coast hour by hour
Whether sweet or sour, eat that clam chowder
Some of the best rhymes of all time,
How could I be prouder down to hound
Down town of the tunic,
Roundabout the time of Punic Wars and more
Sliding down the parabola, four score
And three years ago I didn’t even exist
It was that way when love was kissed
And slipped away like the present, bliss.

Ground zero, deer in a grove, here where we hold
Together the steerage, is about to explode,
Known allies have survived the cold
Fold clothes, a sceptre sold to the highest bidder
The arbitrary litter, blowing across my blindfold;
Whoever said I was a quitter got what-for, a transmitter
Of sight sound and other