Popcorn Psalm
You free-standing
opportuned operatives
tree-huggers
sunsprung from real-time pastures
cybernian folk musicians
stutter-up downstep
porch-stoop-can’t-stop-card-flop
artists
heatproof ancient-of-days
grandees Sing!
Marylou an upstanding operative
all lined up swathed in ecru
says they
won’t up-stop her gilt popcorn poppers
head in
hands stands like a wheat farm lopper
dew-drop dainty vocalizer
glowing
brighter than an average diner saucer
or dawn-intruder derailed star-extruder
like an outstanding
bell sound in a popped open eyedropper
lax in lazy interfering signals of
indifferent style
as meanwhile
shoe science demigods droop tensile and prehensile
and teeny boppers’ hopes for happiness
dwindle in bottom landers
whose forebears
fall like freebies but superimpose astrologers
who spin elaborate fun dials to make
them register aces
as pop tops
shingle sunshine on windowpane ecstasies
and hodgepodge-mapped free-form
simulated cloudbursts
sprinkle cornpone
among carpenter fantasy scarecrows of ambush
like
standalone flea farms on loam lands sputter their disastrous verbosity
like candy pinwheel destiny inflames
a dying disk jockey
like
Dillinger’s derringer painted prism-cool radiating colors
to
involve linguine pilot voices of feral muskrat bamboozlement
to
hollow out unsavory haystacks pitched on Napoleon linoleum
and to casually
rub-a-dub-dub against sandbox steps with glib fingers
pan-dripping
isosceles puppet master dance routine triangles
handholding in petulant
know-nothing-ness where boats crisscross
and tonic-tangle
stealthy stonewash wranglers in flannel fog amend us
poshly regenerative
in stunned thought funnels
to strand
two skedaddling doctors in paellas of condescension
where
shallots and grits connote austere pattering cuisine
indiscriminate
to battered labor resisters
and
people paddle pottery wheels of velvet indifference on soft shoes
popping
flickering pot-whirls butting goatherd wineskin songs of experience
as
my indie minarets numinous diminish in baleful tortoise sense
they
contest upholstery grains and toe twist the caterer
to fenestrate
a panic of traditional Italian-joint formulae
as
blooper-reel family friends materialize by hokum amnesia
and
idle in hominid-free parking lots full of canine friends on parade
who
sit silvered on icy martian surfaces considered over slowly closing scenes
fishing holes for rich
intellectual masterminds of nothingness
where
strands of silk sink in recesses of their own atman of impossibility
as
in profusion coalescent snarling hep cats flatten ice soccer cities
that
didn’t illuminate any table-top masterpiece enigmas
that the mash of secret flowing
rationale transmits radioactively into space
that
the sea sun sat slowly surrounding sixteen sorrowful sisters
those
irregular beige compact bunk magic saturation shadows
in
holistic american nightfall train-whistle-soundscapes
bulletin-boarding
blasphemous blarney
surrounded where sylphs sit sadly
in
thin nightwind singsong
ancient robbers offer meal tickets
laid over the dewy clover
with mother
cardboard-boxing
memories sent endlessly to Spain
she
hovers over the hoovered monolithic braille interior
inside
long-suffering data stuffed with the (she smiled) mind-mirror
says holler if you hear a bear or
a big white bus driver critter
otherwise her gilt popcorn
poppers which won’t punch cards don’t matter to her
whether slowly overhead sundials
rotate rainbows of radical synergy
silver
threshing wheels intimidate warm sunshine weather
threading
fencepoles split-open with weed-wattled rusty wheels
and
chiming chaotic cherubim in massive chapels of recidivism
whose
sparkling bed-cubes stack apocryphal tube spaces within
kayak-coast
constant in satisfied seas of the spinning subconscious
promise to penetrate perpetual
pockets of penitence penury and complacence
prime pumpfuls of promise for
purposes plunged in pools of permanence
which
reprise sudden hope gulches the deposition split open
standstill
staccato switches pop up underneath archaic entryways
garden entry airways drill seed
corn above and beyond
drop down
shutters start upside down before smiling everydays youth
that won’t stop my poppers, says
Marylou, gilt-edged with truth
outstanding
and anodyne bathed in palest light
she gains
assortative tandem cups heeding postwar peasant lingo
they
won’t shop these corn poppers mumbles Marylou
I can stop
nothing falling-down in out-leapt ineloquence
porchswing
hewn-gargoyle primeval unsalad days
o butterfinger jungle guns in bathwater
as blustery jingle bells labor in a stale
breeze
where purpling
garage eaves discharge a dying sun
and there
orbiting no-can-do fatalism day crashes over end
like golden
popcorn in proud gleaming Marylou poppers
where wall-papered
twitches of forgotten portals motion behind her
and regal
collections of riot barrels create ocular jocular sound signals
or maybe when nobody is a standout conspires
with nearby plight
and all my poppers says goldilocks-Marylou
shuttling corn from the conveyor
are sputtering into the inner lid
the butter injects blending tantalizing wonder
and
each kernel’s duplicate sun at the far end of creation is its own mirror
where
each kernel its sister its brother its cousin and cousins itself more
and
each kernel’s kernel the same inside gold inside gold
and
each kernel photocopy clasps its mother image inside
and
each kernel atomic structure finds inside a molecular stride
and
each kernel satisfied in endless traveling reinvention realizes
when
somehow chunky cultural clients climb down casement windows
and churlishly
insistent cranberry people smoke out of their ears
in the midnight hour when UFOs rule
darkened skies above them
whose tongs
coordinate shop-class-like who-men rising richly up the maypole
whose energy surges
granfalloon-ish-hued beams staging once and future instances
whose brain research happiness pines
for olden days with flying hokey lying pokes
whose
proud plaster trophies on foam fences collapse columnar and gnarly
whose
free pirates ching ripostes on tiny paper stickers laughing coolly
their long houses open
for business every holiday snow or not
in the
dingle dangle morning less one hour for friends only
they
won’t stop the gilt popcorn from popping
not
stop to stopping finagle clops to clopping
to
observe all oblong oblique oil spills
and carefully noted onion-semolina badges
who use serpents
to discriminate non-discriminant
sales of
shoes from the sublunary region of achalasia
water
wheels wobble quivering and bumping with malignant songs
show me heal
me where different parts of the towers touch the spirit
while cereal
gun competition serves corporations of foodists
and returns
to lamaist rotation in a formulaic way
like
Liberace overcome by psychic fears of Italy
whose
trip-hopping shoe shopping and flip-flopping
realizes
its own stipulated inner neolithic motionless levitation
the
of-which none such not much summers-ends imagine
start
again ends again when Marylou golden pop emboldens
steep against legionary fervor
fervidly fondly not enfolding inward
a warden
of loco thought in events unrealizes particularized what-ifs
and serf
genius actions become universally intuitive
measuring
the waltzing multitudes increasingly numeric and stitch-less
til Marylou’s golden basket
recirculates timeful enthrallments
mirthful myriad haphazard honest winter-ending
styles
to
see herself move finger-ward past slipshod champion hieroglyphs
whose
ancestors fly captive in flip-flop-and-fly attitudes laid-low
wilderness-lost-in-ed-ness guest
of nature-neutral queenly popcorn mosaic isms exuded
in
stone-engraved stopgap statute statues for students of staid stoogery
waylaid
by washerwomen woven into windsong wishful and watery
athwart similar civilizations apt to see godlily souls outspooked
in cool permeation
strewn by four-second diminished panics
ere reruns
reform from elation stairways
on ye stations of the subway
her
basket of popcorn kernels golden salted shining
yesterday
the same as everyday as neverday streaming
fossiliferous
formidable tattoos of totem time flashing
pinwheel
whirling whorlform inroads to mountain caverns
trot popular paths out on pioneer
burrows over flown
warpathic opus opinion neutron
person movers
in a heated air vortex swirl
cyclonic
a treadle springs music gaps in municipal
over-growers
who
would have us bereaved of general glee fastidiums
like
a bird chirp fence ruffles with life’s motions
like
a word weasel ripples below an ocean wish
like
the loose wheel despairs grease as it rolls offish
like
a chimp in a clown suit screeches hard in a chapel
like
a bullmoose bottle hangs in an angry oak
like
a dancing parrot whistles on the green stirs
all
things at once one at a time over a thousand years
like
a crated poultry wagon down empty sky roads bounces
like
poor folks holler in the mansion at a crater of lime balloons
like
Orion in a sky boat his belt a lasso he starts the golden corn popper
where the desert meets the upland
and golden eagles calling above soar
Marylou
mops up golden spatters of popcorn butter grease and salt
her
heart in her hands her heart on her sleeve heart in her mouth
all
is well lights out radio silence and wait not want not watching
the world will rise up before her
a triple peppermint mist dream in frozen overdrive
a fairway
where runts perform election follies
a mycological
station of wayward fungus
she plants
kernels like Johnny Appleseed
leaves
kernels golden shining earth borne
radiating far flung planets of
nosegays
freeform runes
in rare elfin rituals
ply garage
rocking leaves all marble-undefined
new originals
copycat the jones crusher tempo rushing
an ingot gold cover of Let a Man Come in
and Do the Popcorn
gestates passionate
pretend possibilities in snarling riffs
aboard
the toe-in-water Argo to test for bathtub golden fleece afterworlds
chiming
climbing walls of involuntary daydreams and mirrors and ceilings
await golden dawn creatures who
search on point-to-point shuttles
crumble pie-crust customers who
arrive waitress-wide side-walking
their nutrient-starved particles
disambiguating at the lunch counter
in a modicum of intangibility
they upswirl each outward breeze within
as
downstreet a music vacuum reverberates
as
daytime hunger sound-mixers sculpt oscillations
as
the hunched-over guitarists emote histrionically
as Lester
less loudly lashes longitudes of lackluster lyrics
as billowy chords and
feedback tornado the block
as
Let a man come in and do the Popcorn! is implored
as
the smartest thing to do
as
popcorn dance instructors grow on trees
as
they fall down before you on luxuriant knees
imploring
you with please please please pleas
airstreams populous with ululations
popped from hammer-gold stars
tendering
richly jewel inlaid head rest baroque stand pipe flippers
and roughshod
knock-off necessities for present day flappers
in hillbilly suede
saddleshoe propper-uppers
fleet-footed
footwear to trip the light impossible
O, the pop-top
box-top Botox fettle-tinged tincture
hedgehops blip
stormtrooper tagalong sidekicks
riding along
beams to goof up chancy grant benefactors
who least-unplanned
in instant rigor of old timey park path routes
can utter
the muster up of down-under stern wheels
Marylou does not say you may
spurn an optimal prefab
as when matter folds in upon
itself in protean waves
and
the surgeon confers with the zealot the shaman
and
nutrients neutralize neural communities
and
legless angels road-race on wheels of fire
and
confoundationalism rises high above the congregants
and
flying fish flop faster in furrows of flatwater
and
greedy thrill-seeking bastards flail away
and
seedy mountaineers rappel into camp
and
fingernail forests fill firestorm-fast with fly swatters
and
nations are risen like bread dough squatters
and
dooms to crashing space alien universes are communicated
to submicroscopic galaxies to clot
with unremitting gloom and dullness
above
the fruitful plain of lettuce-green sprouts untwirling in horizon-
to-horizon
dark brown and fertile soil beneath chintz-blue sky
puffing happily above preparing
nourishing rain for later today
and though
Marylou’s popcorn cloud straddles luminous
these golden
tornadoes we won’t arrest her corn-from-popping
misunderstanding her glad-handing
upstanding pals
these
hand-stand fortunate few foolish fast steppers
daily
original daddy dew-drop dinosaur herders
cloudseeding hippies and
Hittite revival onomatopoeias
crystalized
in free-floating canalsful of encyclopedias
pop tops for
tree-huggers in glassy glens above
edge-tripper
troop-schlepper hog-slopper moor-moaners
paint shadows
on sunbeams upside rusty atomic chain reactors
I won’t quit
my popcorn popping Marylou says against onrushing fate
imagine
glitter imps who leap up as though down from a gold edge
just
imagine them
popcornless she says
