Saturday, October 9, 2021

Red - today's poem

Red

I read a true account of subconscious lycanthropy

authored by a famous ex werewolf

somewhere in the future

who was cured by an android Druid (an Andruid)

 

The therapy required moonbeams, oak burrs, mistletoe, wolfbane, chants,

squirrel sacrifice, ventilators, and hyper-vectored digital graphics

-or some such thing

cleverly combining shtick and religion

 

No longer a werewolf I could enjoy non-homicidal pursuits like skiing

wrote the former wolf-man (a college drop-out and dog trainer)

matter-of-factly

furthermore, I could listen to Pink Floyd without reverting to bestiality

 

Uncle Red said That’s some dingleberry boo-shit, boy!

But I established it to be veritably verifiable

by conducting my own research (and such-like)

on the internet

 

but Red held that the Andruid would not be involved

and would instead lead world armies in vicious wars

and conduct pagan blood rituals beneath ruby beacons

in hyperpolysyllabicisquepedalianistic fashion

 

Well, fair enough

 

 


Friday, October 8, 2021

Microsuburbanism - today's poem

Microsuburbanism

 

Teeny bikini girls serve nano doctors booze

Bookkeepers crunch environmental impact numbers

Rubes gape at green stamp-size squares

 

Each microverse Golf Hamlet saves a million lives pronounces the billionaire philanthropist video

This is Country Club Living at its smallest!

 

Beautiful tree lined lots with golf course views        

are conveniently located in a City of Patriotism -

scientific capitalism fully realized and shrunken

 

Our park is a peaceful, rustic, and safe community

offering invisible golf course living

at a price point you can’t afford not to pay

 

Maximization via minimization diminishes souls

to create a reliquary milquetoasted to infinity

in green golf-tog amber lifelike dioramas

 

Although frolicsome sub-microscopic chipmunks

who chat in near-imperceptible hedges

relish their Lilliputian Rodentia

                           the future has collapsed

 


Thursday, October 7, 2021

Today's other poem is Category: Ballad

Category: Ballad

 

With flaming pumpkin moons risen

could we ever have dreamed  

inimitable is in I’m a table and visa versa

like an unknown Jeopardy category?

 

That’s enough smart aleck talk

for one not stuck in a ballad

and round we go the Ferris wheel spins

inspecting our hands before our eyes

 

A black cat in full screech pose’s  

latent beingness boilerplate

can’t tell us why we cringe  

like absent-of-thought wet hens

 

We felt our fall subside

at all angles

and against all our lost battles

time was the free train engineer

 

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Tomorrow's Poem is Transistor Radio

Transistor Radio

smaller and smaller

Independent and Governmental

tinnier and clearer

propaganda and truth

earphone and speaker

plastic and metal

9 volt and regular

lights and displays

holes and grids

Morning and Night

adult and teen

Military and Civilian

louder and louder

DJ and announcer

wires and transistors

pocket and hand

Country and Western

art and commerce

Pirate and Legal

Local and National

soldered and stamped

business and leisure

beauty and truth

live and recorded

classical and easy listening

jazz and pop

high and low watt

R and B  

Westinghouse and NBC

Philosophy and stocks

ads and content

Public and Private

in-between and surrounding

constant noise and perpetual silence

dials and levers

left and right

sun spots and signals

singers and songs

city and suburban

Japanese and American

reception and static

News and Weather

After School and After Dark

Today's Poem is "Bright Yellow"

Bright Yellow

 

reflective as the sun

when You wear bright yellow

I get all Coltrane

I bake a starfield confettied cake

on my trip to Saturn (object in the sky)

whose workings

giant visual diamond atom

brings a mind hope

and Saturn is nothing like the sun

moon stars and cosmic winds

blowing mustard seeds invisibly

 

in the melodical universe

are really woven delivered

sea stripes sky paisleys lemon plaids

that aren’t paths beyond

expanding like baked goods

meteoric cometic star-fueled

macaroni mind map of Mississippi

goldfinch sunflower perch

supersonic and upper register ultra

spheric dimensioning stellar engine

 

broadcast like fine sifted flour

constantly wildly radiant

lying beyond your smile in solar winds

as oblate spheroid as a baseball

to nominate a baking station alone

til crash bam boom rings my sunshine heart

3 hours or 3o minutes or 300 light years

flares and plumes blooms and sparks

endure sharply against night

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

today's poem is French Woman Convention 1940

French Woman Convention

1940

 

At the drugstore counter

I give my thuringer

and home fries

to a hungry cowhand

who needs a shave

 

A clutch of French women

smartly-tailored in suits

arrive tall and haughty

to meet and study

in parks and hotels

 

My hungry friend and I

get stiff suits and shave

and we grab up deals

for accommodating

these stately violets

 

Money cascades and we grab

the State Park lodge

to start booking

rooms and events

for French groups - bonanzas

 

In splendid new duds

we introduce

frozen French Fries

to the hungry millions

and cash in

 

Vive la France! 

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Duke of Dismal - today's poem

Duke of Dismal


His garage psychedelic hard rock

disco synth  polka punk house

alt country soul techno psychobilly

emo band was passively disgruntled

with a Status Quo that remained

constant through its iterations

 

The name stayed Dukes of Dismal

an accurate appellation of mental state

through 18 singers, 23 bassists,

87 guitarists, 59 keyboardists,

15 drummers and 44 horn players

of various stripes and attainments

 

A band grows a mania for guitars

amps and gear such collection that

strobe over the past and locales

to fill a floor of his ramshackle home

/ rehearsal space through

variably attuned or doubting friends

enemies 15 partners and wives

in better nights and worse

eking out inner museums of collision