11/16/12

El Stupido (for Margaret Pethick, and George, of course!)

(sleepwalking
with Uncle Emily
in the falling
rock zone)

they wanted to
sell us the truth
for free
but couldn't
get past
those stupid
(and costly) facts

the red walls sang
the blue you sang
the o.d. harmonic

the stupid old man he drank
barely eighty years old
and he drank
dribbled snoose
from both corners of his smile
and he drank
repeating himself
he loved you
over and over again
he loved you
and he drank
embarassing?
stupid to think
wisdom came from xperience
he knew enough to recruit a driver
and to love you
well deserved love
hard earned love

the log walls sang
the blue him sang
sank into drink
with the music lovers
Cinq Into Song
five stupid harmonizers

he dreamt
there were pumpkin seeds
in my maidenform bra
which ralph was wearing
his bald girlfriend
stupid adolphita
catching forty winks
beside the spotless
trident submarine

(Uncle Emily tiptoes off
to saw your violin
among the meteors)

the horse in the kitchen loved you
the donkey in the chair loved you
even the hairless bear
plinkin boogie woogie
stank with love

the bloomin japonic sang
the forsythia, the apple trees
beyond some stupid birds
the raw world sang.

                     Zpt5