POEM

Re

-pea                                    ting
                                    things

as if to be a parrot is to claw the abominable cage
                                                          
                                                            earthian DNA        dia
-chronous phrases?

Re

                                                      -pea
                                                                                    ter

preacher-like 
                     St. Peter

        the
                         demand
                                      for
                                            i
-dent

                                       -ity                         ten

-sion                               points of                            

mirrors                  [ ]                 srorrim

                     I                                ’ve

seen the drunkard
drunk on tiny morsels of the only power that they have

                                           I                                ’ve

seen all of these things

                a
                  petulant   
                                                 man
                                                          says to me

 
So, what?

& I could say       What else is new?
                                                      but still a sad eye

eye of trouble                    trouble
-some gulp                         glint                          flint
in my stomach       

            My dear frend

you see            he puts out advertisements
to visit the theatre        but no one bites
no one responds when you want them to

laying down large sums of money
                                                 to people
                                                               that are
                                  ungrateful
ungrateful
unappreciative                   Let’s become

POP ARTISTS                          Oprah O-mouths

couch-jumpers                  from town-to-town

pop artists              I mean

         
                                                             so
-da
                   soda
                             sticky

                                                 sod
-a

in
                                                          -corp
-orated             ratted on

    I mean like a Philharmonic
that

may or may as well
spray an audience with liquid monikers

                                what are they?

Another friend is sad & lonely
               not weeping
                        but
                           sobbing
she says
& she says

that she wants to get her life back
                        on

-track                     the world tells her
that
                      “money is the only way to do that”

                                           which
                                                  makes
                                                         me
                                                               want
                                                                        to
                                                                           strike
                                                                        currency
                                                                     down
                                                                 down
                                                              down
                                                         with
                                                       an
                                                   ax
                                                of
                                           shat
-tered                     
            passion

to get off
                     of the grid
                                                             start a group
                                      of helpbodies

let us re

-consider the belief
                                   in the glorious
                                   dream

I close my eyes & become a stranger to myself