Saturday, December 12, 2009

For the sake of idenity/this elemental life never happened

  • Over there at the Westbury Music Fair/ you had the distinct opportunity to smell Goldie Hawn /she was tall/you had a girlfriend who the guy who I dissed till he took a bride from the Harmon Family happened to be in love with her and he could not understand anything/how he coming from the Ted Mack Camp could be rejected by first me and then your girl. Some folks ju
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    want people who aren't attracted to them. And so the story goes that in the ghett where we reside/a parcel of words creates an identity all its' own/you find yourself uptight/a broke dick dog/ and the closest item to scratch your fancy and wail out at is an old matchbook with a few words on it in pencil/strong and defined like a treatises/and the the memory game/I'll play till the death/who do you remember my feathers perking uo at/a watchful eye/an inclement strike at identity without money/the kind where you have a penthouse on Park Avenue/with red velvet chairs and a piano in the dining room/overlooking Central Park. Our scratchpad overlooks Barnabas Hospital/the firewagons screetch beneath our window/and we bead rose petals before dawn with the black sky and a sliver of blue over Inwood,it is this crystal bead which feeds my day/Arthur Avenue with Gepetto standing on the corner in his fur hat shaking his head the way so many elders who have encountered the artists have in their glorydays.