1. dec o6 poem 'to americanize the bowels ' £
like a creamy grub smeared across the author
life came a knocking
bobby bee and family -
they did the thinking, the cocking
and soon brilliant stars edged o'er giger scape cities
and they were planes, not space-gas, planes.
and each plane herd and cow container - protein meal musics,
i'll make my walls my walls and not county walls.
cause it's in the authors interest now to retard the metabolism,
to dream a dream and to get up later.
to befoul the presbytarian walls and edges
righteous hedges, hens and the like
silver spikes all dug in and delivery
ma men on the corner all latino and up-right,
hANGIN mistress and lady on the upper floor
make it look like suicide you dig?
to cock the ak-47 skyward and shoot 'em out of the sky, see?
to run into families , pedestrains and soul-foods,
to woman, to woman, to wotan and mt saint hellens,
to st kitts, to pakistan,
rival, revel, glues and boilers.
to divide and rule and grow fringes long and stained charcoal,
to tighten thy jeans and chide thy parent,
to skate, to pierce, to go thou to work,
to americanize thy bowels and chip off the old block
to make piece with piece
to lord it and own that chrysler building - to flip the bird to some AND love
the other
to walk straight, tall, angular, this is the new york smell.
to eat firey leaves , to ask for advice - to learn to tip.
usually %15, see?
any services rendered - especially taxis
always taxis
subway, all scratch and screech, all rat and roach , eyes and personal spaces
and mind reading and wall street , men and men ,
american bowels tight and perfect, holding the bagel smooth
buns tighter.
©matthew middleton online excreta 2006-2604
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