Friday, May 7, 2010

Salt and Pepper

(a)
You took me
Taught me when I was young and eager and you were mellow and dark
You raised me
From a small seedling in the marketplace
To a tree made soap and sickly hands

Fed me

Your invisible meals cooked in
Love me deeply
And spread with Nothings
Bringing
Your mother's words and your father's wits
To my ligaments and bones
You left me
In the blackest place, mellow and dark and eaten.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Voila, c'est un... Sonnet?

(a)
She is of rare complexion and is rarer of mind,
She is of snowy white skin and of sphinxish thought,
And has piercing blue eyes, those of the kind
That a Duchess or Lady or Queenly one ought.

In lieu of her beauty she impresses insight
Upon friend or neighbor or man with a grin
In concepts and notions, she always is right
Though they not revolve 'round frivolity or gin.

Alas, this fair woman, warmed by life,
Smiling and chuckling, her feet on the ground
Alas, this fair woman be cold as a knife,
Whene'er the subject d'amour comes around.

Sadly, this madamoiselle sets upon with glee,
The unfortunate task of not loving me.

(b) Sonnet? Sonnet.

Monday, April 19, 2010

A May Day


(a)

A may day, it is a soundless space where cadavers unravel
And where the soil and grass eat up sunrays
Sunrays and footsteps-Hurrah, hurrah
And vines grow out of rigid navy pockets
Winding up through earth and old shoes
And the stiffs in their graves whisper
"I think I should break into blossom
Any day now, any day now," a may day.

(b)

*War references, anyone?

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

To eat moon dances

(a)
Black night upon people stopping monstrous throat,
Threatening to eat, to eat, to eat moon dances

Mommies and daddies and babies choke a tune
Out of gruesome mouth and some chime
Silent melody on xylophone teeth

And the black night upon people
In the monstrous throat
Strangulates monstrous throat
Garroted, monstrous throat cries.
And dies.

And stilled children in the mound go
To dance, to dance, to dance moon dances
In the black night upon them.

(b) Syntax is for losers.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Frenzie'd

(a) And in a mad dash of literary achievement, I have tripped and fell down the stairs of plot, I have been strangled by a rope made of dialogue and I have been shot in the leg (and have since died of blood loss) by character development.







I have written a happy five pages.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Where I am going

(a) Am I busy writing a play? Yes, yes I am.

(b) http://scriptfrenzy.org/

Monday, March 29, 2010

Cheveaux

(a) Is this poetry? No. This is my own personal epiphany. Decipher it if you will.

(b)

Hair
Is a lie
Because it pretends

To die when it is sabotaged by razor
And red-rusty scissor
Except no,
No.

It was never alive to begin with.