WHERE DID IT COME FROM,

       THE DOUBLE HELIX, DROPPED

       INTO THE OOZE OF AMMONIA

       AND PRIMORDIAL COAGULATION?

       DOES CARBON EXISTENCE MAKE US

       DESCENDENTS OF GRAVITY’S WONDERS,

       DANGLING OUR TOES, SITTING, NOMINALLY

ABOVE THE BRIDGE?                                               (94)

               Bad poetry is a miasma of molten mulch,         91

               Making more muck grow in the dawn

               Of unrelenting reason and foregone promise.

               On the ocean, the waves should purify           91

               With wasteravenous fauna,

               In diamonds and froth

             Every night, a little more burned out,            92

             Sons of sex maniacs and whoremongers

             Sons of coming and going with booze

             Daughters of the milking breast

             Daughters of the hammered hemorrhoid

             Fathers of future disease

             Fathers of freedom

             Mothers of need and greed

             Mothers of the wash room

             Grandfathers of progress

             Grandfathers of mass production

             Grandmothers of silent watchfulness

             Your fame and glory

             Are candles without wax, (wicks floating in oil)

             On the nightclub scene

               Mourning eyes                                   91

               Make my memory

               Her tearstained dress

               Distresses my skipping

               Slows me like a silk kite

               Anchor

       SWATTING ASTEROIDS,

AERIAL                                                          (94)

       FLIES FLY

       IN THE FACE OF REALITY.

               Fatfaced editors consume your time             91

               With rejects, unmetered rhyme

               Your sage advice and printed slime

               My poetry, here, sits safe, sublime

           The young complexity                                93

           That never was me

           Jams my strawberry

           Memories

         I ride the jambiguity                                94

         Down the gullets of Ganymede

         Dressed in icy froth

         Along horsebrown paths

         Of panting

         Icecream saliva,

         Miraclewhipped

         To speed the dappled Sugar

         Homeward

           Until Winter Pops In For a Visit                    94

           He Reads

           A Postcard From Iraq for Christmas

           The people snub us

           But to surrender.  Send toothpaste.

           Met many terrible, smelly men  barracks crowded.

           Great to be on shore patrol, off the ship.

           It was a long four months at sea.

           I may be home after a second wave

           Of blood soaks the sand.  Baby’s due

           In July.  No contraceptives or abortions

           Available.  It won’t have your eyes.

                                    Your loving wife,

                                    Chastity

         Held up                                               94

         By the builder’s cement

         Stuck

         Together

         Up to our groins

         In love

             He has no bouquets, in pretty positions           92

             To sweeten the smell of putrefying thoughts

             Poverty has taken his indignation,

             He savages himself into submission

             Keeps fertilizing his dreams with manure

             To, maybe, grow a flower

             To place on her grave.

             Inside the camera,                                92

             We watch the shutter,

             Safe for emotion,

             Film touched by light,

             Briefly,

             But destroyed if drenched

             By the subject’s tears

               By Twit Nevershare                              91

               I am modeling myself in porcelain

               Halfbaked highlights, rerounded

               And rerouted in the runny clay,

               The glint of light does not enter me

               As I shape the outside of my poetry

         Grow only?                                            94

         Grow only to … (whatever)?

         Not my children

         They grow up

         Even if they smell

         Of fish

             Scumbled sky                                      92

             Steals the color

             From the room I love,

             Pasting rainbow reflections

             Upon the soaped stains,

             Browned against the yellow

             I wanted, now darker

             Graffiti in a wash

             Of orange and purple sunset,

             Dimming the yellowbrown

             Creation I paid for

             The dust of Summer filters over furniture         92

             And snows inside the house.  Baby cockroaches,

             Weighted down, can’t smell the manure

             Cruise the carpet and get their little feet wet.

             The brown on my rusting crack                     92

             Grows like a puckered wound

             To expand into meaning where Papa sat

             As Grandpa waits to unroll the paper

             Waits outside the door

             Waits, wincing, for me to hear him

             Porcelain yellows                                 92

             With the thinstreamed truth

             After the love juice

             What if he, like a flatulent hero                 92

             Blares in your face, his finepointed part

             “You’ve no violin, you petulant Nero!”

             Adding an F to destroy your verbal art?

         Hitting my flufilled head with the heel of my palm   94

         Moving my jaw to massage an itchy throat

         Trying to clear my ears to hear the sucking sounds

         Of Sucrets

       IN

         Speedy swallows                                       94

         Sneezing projectiles like darts in an ocean

         Of Rhinovirus

         I try to skew time

         To cure a radish nose

           Get up, do it again                                   94

           Don’t just douche it with your pen

           Sweat  the paper must be stained…

           And not with blood

AMICUS                                                          (94)

       BRIEFS

       BROWNED BY HOT AIR WITH PARTICLE JUICES

               Garbage glistened in the round receptacle       91

               Frost glazed the morning meadow

               Flies made babies, not knowing

               The trash men come at noon.

               His tush                                        91

               As good as gravy

               His lips

               Were wide awake

               Her tush

               As good as gravy

               Her lips

               Were wide awake

         Death spares nothing                                  94

         Entropy always

         Worms live within us

         Hope hangs in there

         Like red meat

             And the snores trumpet                            92

             Juice dreams of daring

             But you, with your legs

             Parted, are my fantasy

       WORN PATH

APPALACHIA                                                      (94)

       WILD TRAIL

       WITH TOILETS

               Sometime later, Grandmother’s wind spoke to me       91

         I remember waking up                                  94

         With a bad poem in my headache

         Coughing up cupie dolls

       ALA PRINE

             Their “brains thrown into a hurricane”            92

             The nipple will summit up

             The hair will enter a test tube

             The genitals will fall like baggy trousers

             Disengorged

             The soul/will

             Entering or exiting

             Must be resolute and pure

             Of this, at least, I think I am sure

               This toilet                                     91

               Has a stain

               I’ll call it

               “Brown throne”

               Never more

               When I notice

               The speckles on

               The door

         There is an hormonal haze                             94

         In his testosterone soul

         His heart a rutting beast,

         Over gonads, that searches

         For its next beat

       GLUTTONY

       OVERHANG HANGOVER

         Adult things you noticed as a child?                  94

       RUIN AND OUR LEDGE

       OVER AN EPINEPHRINE CLIFF

       HIS LEFT

BALL  SIDE O’ FRIES                                           (94)

           Up your ying/yang                                   93

       BROKEN OPEN

             And Dickie breaks, too                          92

             Telescope illusion

             Of coq au main

               Always something miniature                      91

               In the mind when a lover’s absent

         Sitting in froth                                      94

         On a cloud of sloth

         Floating,

         My mug is cracked

               The lost snail                                  91

               Slugging along the bricks

               Slime sister on concrete

       DOING THE MENTAL

   BENCH PRESS                                                 (92)

       THE PECK BUILDER

       NEEDS WEIGHT

BENEATH THE SURFACE                                             (94)

       UNDER TOADS

       UNDER MINING

       UNDERWEAR

       TO ELIMINATE

       ONE EXTRA STAIN

           Branflake farts and dirty dishes?                  93

       UPSET

         over the constipation                                 94

         boy, you are sure

         a pure

         asshole

         fusing modal patterns of solids and gas

         musical notes and all (analyzed)

         your tritone farts are melifluid

         your dissonance is divine

         (and a bit of a chuckle, too, mess pas?)

         I spit into the cold                                  94

         Dark corridors of your soul

         To lubricate the vamp you were

   BLUE GUITAR                                                 (92)

             Player with blue fingers                          92

             Plucks pensively, painted

             For effect, he watches t.v.

             Frets about t.b., drips

             Blood from his fingertips,

             Examines his sperm, his life,

             His worth during daytime.

         Gotta give you something to see?                      92

         The canoe glide describes the real me

         The gilded leaf my golden thoughts

         The creamcolored corn my segments

         The blue fetus, unborn, my past tense? (is that it?)

       CUDBALLS YELLOW

       THICK, GUMMY MUCUS GREEN

       LIKE BUBBLECUD BROWN

       THE NAMED

       COLORS

       SQUEEZE LIKE A

BOA                                                             (94)

         Sperm suspension                                      94

         Without suspense

     CALIFORNIA STATE                                         (91)

       WITH

               A film on your eyes                            91

               Like cataracts

         Watching My Father Piss                              94

         He, who tinkled tremendous

         Gushings beside me from eye

         Level and whipped it in after

         Shaking it off, made me linger

         Would I find a thick one, brown and long?

CANDLESTONES                                                   (94)

       (OR GALLSTONES),

       SELFISH LITTLE SURPRISES

         Freckled kisses?                                     94

         Spit reflections?

         Spider beside her?

           Lick a guava for luck                              93

         Melonmush                                         94

         Is the honeydew

         Green or orange?

         Is the daughter seed

         White inside?

         Is the poetry                                        94

         Lipid or water soluble?

         (entering the heart or the brain?)

CHANGING MEN

           Curry and oil?                                     93

           Farts and fellatio?

         They refuse to breed any more assholes               94

         On a theme of incest or not

         Being concerned about family planning

         His brother had to stop buggering him

             Perversions                                      92

             For

             Plantations

               Everything                                     91

               Progresses

               Better into

               Proud putrefaction

           Explode into soy sauce                             93

           Oh, my porkfried soul

           Explode into bowel movement,

           Into vomit, to exorcise

           Those nasty sin balls

             Smells of syntax                                 92

             The browncolored images

             Floating logs of imagined journeys

             The shiver and sweat, sometimes,

             When reading, the tingling

             Of fallenasleep thighs,

             The flush after rejection

             The fertilized mind, somewhere,

             Down the (sewer) line

               Orgy or children’s storybook                   91

               Puzzle with two pieces

               To piece and sheets

               To separate sweat dance

               Dribble from burning friction

               And overhead fiction, outside,

               Looking down, crispening sheets

               And smoky smells to stoke

               The fire of revision

         Blooddeep coke fish                                 94

         Down by the Colon                                    94

         by Cyan

         Here:

         Punks turn punctual

         In DADFAD tuning, slam dancing, loose teeth,

         Eye shadow dried, conceiving new hairstyles,

         Studs, safety pins, earwax, spit.

             Why not frame the remains?                       92

             Bronze the toothpick he used;

             Put the wine glass under glass

             With a touch of red wine and his dribble

             Still inside, vacuum seal it.

             He comes; he goes.

             You don’t desperately need him

             He comes; he goes.

             You won’t leave up the toilet seat

             He comes; he goes.

               Why ream the rim                               91

               Before you get the ball in?

               Why play your first game

               In dirty socks?

         Finger, you “obscene” silly symbol, I watch          94

         Myself blaming you for this expression

         Now you won’t pick my nose or enter her crotch

         And my hand gets the blame for this digression

         “There is no wealth here!”                           94

         (Starchfat straining)

         Tinkle of spent beer

         Against asphalt and scuffed shoes

             Flowerless husband                               92

             Bearing bulbs

             Removes his wife’s leg

             From his flatulence.

             Outside, bed bugs

             Run to the warmth

             Of hot air

             Under satin sheets

CREATIVITY                                                     (94)

         Your fertilizer falls                                94

         Unto other people’s lawns

CUMBERLAND FARMS

         Bubbling udder juice                                 94

         Yellow, like me

             The red pen’s not the best                       92

             Tool

             If you want to draw

             Blood

             And we are happy                                 92

             With shitencrusted babies

             Sweatwet spades

             Spermdodging eggs

             Swollen malnutrition bellies

             And gravesites that make

             Life meaningful

           Every asshole                                      93

           Has an edge

             Donuts                                           92

             With words

             Slipping through

             The holes

             Soaking the edges,

             Brown, like coffee

         Adults stick their noses                             94

         Into the sweet smells

         Of child’s play

             If towns are born hookers                        92

             Then boats are born fleas

             On the sea and men born

             Sperm in doublehelix fury

             By The Rotten Eggs Man                           92

             Cave dweller

             Surrounded by perfect moisture

             And no new caverns

             To perfect the river’s burrowing inward

             To form tributaries

               Eating seeds                                   91

               Silent

               Falling eggs cushioned

               By crunchy snow

               Maiden form

               Frescos

               Your calamari living                           91

               Your scungilli life

               Your pasta vasule

               Your clam character

               Your fettuchini sex

               Your egg foo young legs

               And your mayo shark mentality

               Splat

               Against those same damp

               Dining room walls

               The catsup smells homey                        91

               The way Grandma did

         Mony, mony                                           94

         Baloney is bad

         Cus you have to chew it

         With those squishing sounds

         Summer                                               94

         Too full

         To stay cool

         Gargoyles                                            94

         Don’t grab

         At your gut

         But give

         You excuse

         For vomit

         Words and curses

       EVIDENCE ADRENALINE

EM SHOCK                                                       (94)

EN PASSANT                                                   (93)

             What you smell is sweat                          92

             Sweet sweat

             Slaves and workers

             Sweat the same

             But which one is sweeter?

         Yeah, right  all old men                           94

         With “spoiled milk” eyes

         Are beggars and drunks

         The Art of the Fart                                  94

         One blow like that

         Pushing you through the house

         Like a car that won’t go into gear

         So many sounds

         Your empty lips will vibrate the air

         Or release a whistle in cold harmony,

         Alone but not monotonous

             Pushings and pullings of pores,                  92

             Evacuations of follicles

             Love is puking out its guts                      92

             Over selfpity’s toilet

         Take me to bed                                       94

         I’ll give you a hickey

       AUTOMATED TEST TUBE TAKES THE JERK’S

       JERK OFF HIS HANDS, BECOMING “RECIPIENT”

       SOPPING UP

       SOT WEED FACTORS

           The baby vomited                                   93

           Giving life to lots of yogurt

             The soppy side                                   92

             Of a sloppy ride

           Her breath was heavy like death                    93

           Smelled, as well.

         Your big fucking words                               94

         That enfold mistaken meaning

         The detritus of premature ejaculation

               Gas                                            91

               Wheezes

               Armpit poops

               And raspberries

             Old connections                                  92

             Named monuments

             Pictures of fountain

             Crowds in pissy water

             Gigilo gentleman                                 92

             Gets his hands

             On a monkey’s mind

             Pops it open and probes

             With fleasearching fingers

             For hemorrhoids and any changes

             He can find with which to toy.

             Neither monkey nor minister

             Should ever forget that some

             Folks think of monkey brain

             As a consummate delicacy.

             They wait drooling with their

             Machetes.

             Over ambiguity?                                  92

             I’ll never get over ambiguity

             Or underpants

             Ascribing greatness                            92

             Like gifts  to the moon

             With a crack in the middle

             Piss poetry                                      92

             Effluence

             Yellow journalism

           One of my dumps is my dinner                       93

           One of my dumps is for reading maps

           One of my dumps is for trash the city won’t take

           One of my dumps is for pleasure

           Another is to avoid standing, remembering

                  what I look like in the mirror.

             Speckles in frigid nose hairs                    92

             Winter dusk and warm porch lights

             Glowing on the same old crozier

             St. Martin left behind

               And a puppy’s tongue                           91

               Doesn’t taste like dog or shit?

               And a cat’s tongue

               Doesn’t taste like canned cat food

               Grainy to the same touch you revel in?

         And now, years before, to precall dry dirt,

         the skinny, solid, darkness that stuck,

         that separated around she and me(I?)

         Evenings (She and I evenings?) old times, overripe,

         sinking to the whore, neither being the last Eve,

         found or lost not to forget, to spit bitter bile, sperm

         Out of the hard void

         The air is full of birdshit                         94

           My piss is a poem                                  93

             I see her bend to smell                          92

             Crinkled nose

             A clipped Rain Lily

             Licking words like loins                         92

             Pushing nose closed

             Developing a brussels sprouts taste

             For the bitter side of the finger

             In a trash can not

             The Culinart

         Shock warriors shaking                               94

         With pyromania

         and Phlegm

           Pigeon                                             93

           Poetry

           Pecking

           The pavement

           (do they coo or only poo?)

             For widows                                     92

             I will kiss

             The walls of their

             Disappointment

             With yellow paint and

             A pleasant yellow smile

             In pregnant respite                              92

             She flows familial

             Spitting out words

             About selfishness

             About the bitter taste

             Our baby finds

             Antacid frustration

             And no Mozart

         Now, “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout”                    94

HUMAN                                                          (94)

     HUMMINGBIRD                                              (91)

               Living like there is no outer space            91

               Hovering around a landfill flowerpot

               Hummingbird gone

   HUMOR                                                      (92)

       INFECTS US WITH GOOD GERMS

         Pus                                                  94

         Under a pretty

         Protuberance

         Glorify weakness to feel fresh?                      94

         Canned ants                                          94

         Dipped in chocolate

         Canned aunts

         Served with sour cream

         Fanned “Can’t”s

         Brighten flames of alien

         Edibles

         Tighten my gullet

         Around a chirping

         Swallow

         Systems succumb

         To the hauntings

         Of hunger

           We would create “beauty”                           93

           In a box

           A dark box

           A cold dark box

           A closed dark box

           If it were all we had,

           We would create beauty in a box

             Anyone who likes Rilke                           92

             Can’t be all wrong

             Preoccupied with lightning thighs

             And swollen kisses

             Preparing for a little death

             That is not a sneeze

             Yes, I recognize                                 92

             The soft touch of your slipstream

             As we waft past each other

               Don’t lie to us                                91

               She pushed her finger

               Into something else

         House symbols                                        94

         More cracks

         To lick with love’s

         Psychodrama

         Painted with spittle

         Sinking into the soft foundation

         Of mortality

         The center sagging

         In a wide gaping smile

               Tangled genes (JAMA)                           91

               Are not the only truth

             Luminous after lactation,                        92

             We cycle recycled

             Knowledge

             On the ledge

             Of extinction

             Green tongue                                   92

             Ought to see a doctor                            93

         I’m underpaid                                        94

         Under wear

         Poetry to capture

         Smells

         And dribbles

         So street clothes

         Can stay clean

           Sniffing my spore                                  93

             Walking home in a blizzard                       92

             Tears got stuck in my eyes                       94

               Why My Brother Quit                            91

               Kids caressed cows

               On campouts

               Came back crappy

           My fastidious stomach                              93

           My illuminated belly button

           My interrogative woolybooger

           My forensic flea

               Umbilical Amniocentesis                        91

               So much poetry is from the belly

             Cocksucker poetry                               92

             Making sperm pretty

             Bitter about the bitterness

             Of beer and poisons

             But mentioning only oysters

             Not realizing the symmetry

         My unfriend                                          94

         Ununloads his

         Unununderbelly

         Unundulations

         Scraping sperm

         From unununununder

         The unununderbrush

         Unproductively

         Everything is everything?                            94

         In fantasy throes

         My lover want me to squeeze

         Out the milk that I can’t produce

         With her

             Pap                                              92

             Smear

             Finds junk

           My excrementation                                  93

           Is a kind of loving

           Being a generous soul

           I wish nutrients for plants

           And trees

             Mom                                              92

             Made music

             With her

             Flatulence

           “Dogshit?”                                         93

         A Brief History                                      94

         Got `em

         Wore `em

         Ripped `em with my teeth

         (Used `em to polish my shoes)

             Pooperscooper                                   92

             Carried for fun

             Calling for a “spot”

             That doesn’t exist

         Paint me a picture of a perfectly normal place           94

         Then throw up on it

               Yellow Journalism                              91

               Piss professor

               Calls himself “Urologist”

               Says, “According to my analysis

               Urinalysis is yellow”

         Eyes of ochre                                        94

         Sparkling shadows

         Skin, greenish

         Beauty over a bowl

         Barfing bitter

         Embarrassment

         Pretend emotion                                      94

         With a pseudo name

         “And away go troubles down the drain”

           Houses squat upon radon                            93

           Calling themselves Uranus

           Uranium

         Doodoo                                              94

         Dropped in the crack

         Between poetry and concrete

         Downstairs, in that tile kitchen                     94

         Young girls squealed with delight

         As cockroaches they’d found in the tuna

         Squished under their plasticgloved

         Fingers and young guys jerkedoff

         Into the scrambled eggs for fun

         Because they couldn’t hear the words

         Of the murmurous rich

             Sail away with me                                92

             Into a satire of wind

             And odor

             “But she loved me” he says                       92

             To himself, though destroyed

             Teeth, liver, mind, romance,

             As his body swells and he

             Loses control of his colon

             After questioning that lost

             Love for so long

         Sticky goo                                           94

         On his fat stomach,

         Oncetreasured sperm

               Eggbutt baby vacated eggs?                    91

         A Period of Faith                                    94

         Metaphor connection

         Of Blood communion

         And lips slippery with sperm

               Woman, buy your seeds in a Burpee Catalogue        91

               For all your fertile attempts to cultivate

               That belching, incontinent man

         Aliens crawling up the toilet bowl                   94

         And into your ….

         Poetry

             Peggy’s peonies in warming bathwater             92

             The sky should not leak watercolors              92

           Releasing a fart                                   93

           Into a night filled with

           Smokestack flares

         Can you talk to yourself and think something else?        94

             Wrong moon, right moon, it’s still the moon          92

             We fell in love under

             Ants in our underwear

NIHILISTIC PESSIMISM                                         (93)

           Charles Bukowski, eh?                              93

           I just ask, have I made it to the millennium yet?

           There may be flies on some guys and vultures eating

           Your udder disgust but there is/There has/Belong to there?

           But there are VYGERS on me. Not visual?  Not of the working

           Man?  But there are assholes sucking be back into them.

             Doubletalk doublestandard doubledipped dick        92

             He rubbed me with atomic balm                    92

             I blew up and hit the ceiling

         Stairs stares sinking in                           94

         Ah, what the fuck  looking up my dress

               So, I think I have your meaning              91

               You piss

               You sit

               You drink

               You piss

       HERE IT IS IN A

NUTSHELL                                                       (94)

       AN ASSHOLE FOR GAY GUYS

             The birthday boy on a Sopwith Camel              92

             (add blood somewhere)

             No insult intended, but                          92

             My mother’s breath wasn’t

             Exactly “inspiring”

             (It’s supposed to be a joke, mother)

         He dances like a plop of mashed potatoes             94

         Sometimes does a twostep dollop of cranberry sauce or

         The turkeywithahandupit assist

         As inspired by (my mother’s breath) by the guy

         With the parakeet on his violin bow

         During the “Flight of the Bumble Bee”

               Eggs on chair                                  91

               I sit

               Discover them

             Grungy leaps into a hole,                        92

             Not knowing how deep

             Boydirt goes  the glint

             On the string of spit and tears

             And snot on shadowed faces

PANCAKE

             I won’t keep a single one                        92

             Flat and burned

             Twisted

             Uncooked bubbles

             With liquid insides

         How nicely farted the moon an orange fog,             94

         But “poached” encroached

         On the Cutty Sark mist,

         Eggs running catsup,

         Wrecking the bouquet,

         Had him stumbling into a bloodshot day

         Road kill poetry                                     94

         The pus of squeezed pimples

       THEY SMELL YOU

       THEY SMELL

PASQUE PETALS                                                  (94)

         Dune cradles                                         94

         Sand cracks

         Under inverted

         Sky, dripping

         Foam

         “PACKING FOR PEKING”

         The crude statue, white,

         Keeps falling in my head

         The white of the suitcase

         Is not pure white like that,

         Under the tanks’ lights

         My underwear are not white like that.

         How can I travel?

           The steam in your moustache                        93

           Sticks to you like Winter love

           A steam that recycles and starts again.

       THAT’S WHAT THE

PECKERWOOD

       HAS TO SAY ABOUT REALITY;

       IT IS SO OFTEN EATEN

       AND RECYCLED OUT THE OTHER END

       FLYING AWAY

PEGASUS                                                        (94)

       ESCAPES THE ATMOSPHERE

       BEFORE PLOP DROPS

             Addicted, you can’t tell what’s enough           92

             From what’s snuff.

             “Snuff snot!  That’s snuff snot!”

             “It’s not!  It’s not snot.”

             “It’s snot.”

             “It’s not snuff snot; It’s not snot

             It’s not.  Now that’s enough.”

             “It’s not, that’s snuff.”

             “That’s enough!”

             “That’s snuff.  That’s snot so it’s snuff snot.”

             “It’s not  Well… It’s snot alright but it’s not

             Snuff snot.  There’s not enough snot for it to be

             Snuff snot, there’s not.”

             “That’s snuff, is it not?”

             “That’s enough, okay?  I’ll say it’s snuff,

             Even though it’s not snuff, if you’ll say it’s enough.”

             “It is enough snot to be snuff snot, so I don’t have to

             Say it’s enough of this because it’s not, it’s snot.”

             “That’s enough snuff stuff.”

             “No, it’s not.  It’s snot until you wipe it, so

             It’s not until you wipe it so that I don’t have to look

             At it.  Then I’ll say it’s enough, but now it’s snuff

             On the tip of your nose and snot on your lip.”

             “I’ll wipe the snot, but it’s not snuff.”

             “Okay, that’s enough.”

       I’M SO TIRED OF THESE “P” WORDS

       AND “P” POETRY, SO,

       TAKE A “P”.  GIVE A “P”

       WHAT’S A “P” BETWEEN FRIENDS?

       ON A

         Pep tide                                             94

         Pep toe

         Abysmal depth

         Of endless murky streams

         Clamped peptight

         At the feel of warm waves

         Peppy prep for evacuation

         Shrubbery verity                                     94

         “Ni!”

         And humming bird farts

         For a whiff of the arts

         “Ni!”

         Amherst is buried under snow

         But the pantyhose still come out

         To aim a dart

         In broccoli directions.

         Asparagus takes years

         To root and settle

         While Carol contrives herself

         As a hummingbird feeder

         “Ni!”

         Between two of them

         Grateful

         Cheese

         Licking up dew

         Sentences.

         Verbs have or do

         Dart up

         Dart up!

         Down boy.

         Climb a tree.

               Naaaaannncy!                                   91

               How many times do I have to tell you

               You don’t have to leave open the bathroom door

               To swim through it?

         I spit on the wand                                   94

         Of the blonde

           The Grumbler                                        93

           Sweat crack

           Texas chapped

           Dick

           To Withstand                                        93

           Sliding dew

           Darkest stars touch

           Mooneyed crescent hill

           An endless girl

           On couldnot nights

           Of a gentle hand

PIE POETRY IMAGERY AND EXPRESSION                            (93)

       PISSED INTERCOURSE EXPULSION

       WHO CARES ABOUT INTERCOURSE?

         You bust the hymen                                    94

         Of your children’s minds

         “Null brown … cellulose…

         Reclaiming” yourself.

             What’s hard to accept                             92

             Is the gums giving up

     A PLACE FOR POETS                                         (91)

       BETWEEN TEETH, TO BE FLOSSED.

         The large curd of her anxiety                         94

         Bubbles the surface of the skin.

           I reach for her nippled flares,                     93

           Burn my fingers on the yellowed skin

PLANTAGENET                                                     (94)

       THROWING HAIR EXTENSIONS OUT

       OF THE

PLASTIC TOWER                                                   (94)

         After Children’s Day

         I am stuffed turkey on token gifts

         Candycaned into a corner

         Eggnogged out of excitement

         Tinselled to the tonsils

         Mulled by makebelieve smiles

         Fruitcake filled

         Tied up to my neck

         In Christmas credit

           Early October in Intercourse                        93

           MidMay in Maggie’s Nipple

           Breaking wind in Barcelona

           Did you go there for the foottar?

           How sweet is a Pennsylvania memory?

           It is

           Monday in Montauk

           And why did I come here?

             I’m uncertain about the expenditure               92

             Of all this time taken to make up

             Smooth and rhythmic internal rhyme without

             Enjambment, cliché, or sentiment,

             About all this time spent, words worked at hard

             To appear simply worked out, having, as I do,

             So little, of substance, to talk about

             And, feigning distress, no one to address.

             Oh me, oh my! It’s time now to say goodbye,

             But let me take this opportunity to end on a sour note

             And not the kind I make, sucking lemons.

         Fickle musiclover                                    94

         Haunted by the ghosts

         Of one note after another

         Haunted, exorcised, haunted, exorcised

         Because there has to be something

         To fill the silences

             Warm dark                                         92

             Worm dark

             Warm dirk

             Worm dirt

             Wart worm

             Dark work

           Mud stygma, moss sygmata                            93

           Mystic sty in the eye

           Astigmatism of sunshine

           Water

             Butt on                                           92

             Button

             Not tub,

             But ton

             On Butt.

             Butt on

             Button

               Men                                             91

               To smell you is to

               Want to sneeze and cough,

               Hold perfumed fingers

               Under my nose, while

               Escaping

           If I were the tampon inside you                     93

           I would suck your insides dry

           And cause those intense looks of nearpain on your face

           As I entered and exited you

           Dueling scars                                       93

           Are no longer

           In fashion

           Nor shorter

           Naked

           (And new knitted flesh

           Doesn’t put up much

           Of a fight anyway)

POETRY NIPPON                                                   (94)

       THE BUTT (OF WHAT JOKE?)

           Cocaine stapled                                     93

           There’s snot

           Much in

           The baby face

               Selfinflicted, perfect lips                    91

               Hard tunnel for my choo chew

               Tooth impressions, scrape marks

               Balloon lips bought

               Deflated

           Wiz  ards                                           93

           Wizz

           Whiz

         Zapper bulldogs                                       94

         A mucuswet sky

         Won’t release the harvest moon

             Braless                                           92

             Does the best poetry

             Speak “best

             With its body?”

               Almost Obscenity                                91

               Scythes lopping

               Dancing Jersey

               Udders

               Milking girls

               Hey, shit wit, if the shoe fits, poop in it         91

             If I wanted to cater                              92

             To the highest common

             Denominator of humanity

             What would that be?

             Contradiction                                     92

             Too wide to admit

             Darkness

             He’s an economysized

             Asshole

         Apocalyptic Entrails                                  94

         Cryptic conclusions

         Trypticfolded illusions

         Chipped dick delusions

         Endtrail conclusions

               That smell was deodorant                        91

               Pheromone

               And the genius of the balls

         With not always tongue in cheek                       94

         But, at least, tongue in twat poetry

             A collector’s journal?                          92

             Fat collector’s propaganda?

             Do they have diet bubblegum cards?

             Liposuction leftovers in sealed jars?

             I admit that I am an asshole                    92

             But I don’t dwell on the thought,

             Just write poetry about it

             We tear at the scabs                            92

             Weave word butterfly

             Bandages

             To seal the wounds

               They dump their waste on us                   91

               Saying, “you want the good life?”

               Hide maps of contaminated areas

               Like they hide their combination safes

               Inland revenue (for the children)

               Pay tax

               To play clean

               They dump their waste on us

               Saying, “The reason it smells funny, like that,

               Is because it’s art”

         Pinched nose                                        94

         Between his crack

         Two birds with one

         Asshole

             Bodyfluid poetry                               92

             Spurts

             Into empty space

         Rowing into Summer darkness                         94

         In only briefs,

         He calls himself, “Poet”

         Perhaps, it’s a ball game                           94

         The sun is out

         He scratches balls, rolls bat in fingers

             Sometimes I stand on my bed                     92

             And try to piss into the lake

             Does that make sleepy sense

             To you, watching me,

             My belly protruding,

             Hips tilted like a man

         Buttefirst                                         94

         Echoes

             Sometimes, I pass                               92

             Words

             In thick chunks

           Bone dirt                                         93

             Gas                                             92

             From dead body

             Yellow cardboard

             That plastic smell

             Of old photos

             You offend the way                              92

             Vomit offends the willow

             Like they say,                                  92

             Bullshit walks,

             But they don’t mean

             The kind that just sits there,

             Steaming

         Charles should write as                             94

         Charles more slowly

         Squeeze his effusions

         Into a tight stream

             The memory                                      92

             A million mouths

             Salivating over me

             And now I call myself woman,

             Know how few men there are

             I need a gas mask for so gassy a poem           92

             Icarus Hiccups                                  92

             Dad’s hot air

             And sporatic spasms

             Are killing me

             Cramped smile                                   92

             Is like a

             Cramped simile

         Paint pretty pictures in my brain                   94

         And then snap small bones

         In the “snowy field of foxtracks”

         Dripping blood fluids, all about

       BUT, BUT, AT LEAST……..

       THE BEAUTY OF SHAKESPEARE

       OVERCAME BODY SMELLS, STILL DOES.

       TODAY’S POETRY IS SO FRAGILE THAT

       IT CAN NOT STAND TO BE PISSED ON.

       TODAY’S DELICATE POETRY

       DOESN’T DARE EVEN TWEAK

       THE NOSES OF UNDERGROUND MONARCHY

               Sweating and spitting                         91

               Pages out of you

           Your poetry is soggy                              93

           With the sotweed factor

               Blood rains and tears rain                    91

               And coffee rains down drains

               And love juice rains

               And we dance in the rain

               Milking poetry’s shriveled breasts            91

               The poem does not know

               It’s sucking on a wetnurse

               While its mother is full,

               Ripe, exploding,

               But too busy

         The spirit of her tits                              94

         Took

         A rest

         Bitter about the bitterness?                        94

         But you don’t feed your man on the right diet

         Of love and exercise and tenderness

         Ah, well, who needs sugar?  You can always buy it.

               In toilet tissue details                      91

               The big black boot

               Of injustice is spared

               A forest review

               At my poetry readings                         91

               I do a table dance to pronounce

               The beauty of the line

               Of my legs and hips

               To accentuate the body of my work,

               Because men (and most women) will listen to nipples

               Stuck out in the middle of a teeshirt

         Let me blow my hot air                              94

         Over your

         Conifers

             What people do you remember?                    92

             The ones who slurped and burped?

             Or the weird ones that they wanted to be?

             I don’t even see                                92

             Yesterday

             Though these tears

         Amazing                                           94

         How the architect of your house

         Assumes

         That you are not butter

             Living on the faultline                         92

             Of a fart

             Roses, Rues, and Ruses                          92

             Bouquet in arms in crinkly paper

             We wind our way down French boulevards

             With names like Sacre CWWWWWWHIC!

             ………… Cwwwwwwwwwwwhic! ….

             CWWWWWWWHHHIC!!!! (Sorry  hairballs)

             When the horizon is bigger than the moon        92

             Can you see the crack

             In the atmosphere?

             Can you see

             The brown asshole of fluorocarbons?

             Scat John!                                      92

             I’ve had men like you, John.

             I usually stick your faces

             In it

             Then say, “Bad boy!”

             And make you clean up your mess

             Before I kick you out the door

               Hey, Norma, dear,                             91

               I see you there,

               Sitting on your ample

               Peripheries

         In Another Mist, and Not a Missed Mist              94

         I’m sitting

         Disturbed

         Pressure against

         My buttocks

         And I’d be happy

         To pinch a loaf

         But don’t

             He looks like a zootsuiter                     92

             Spinning keys on a chain,

             That precocious little baby of mine,

             Playing jump rope with our umbilical cord

         SeaSick Fishing Chum                               94

         Fishing for poetry,

         He vomits imagery,

         Bait

             Puke, puke, puke                                92

             You don’t have to puke

             Up poetry

           Hey, icehole                                     93

           That’s some bitchin’ lichen

             Copper grows from our mother’s ass              92

         Brimstone dream invasions                         94

         Is it the city or some asshole?

             Nan’s Last Sneeze                               92

             Blew her brains out

             Busted a blood vessel

             The ears go first….

             ….eh?

         He farts in perfect pitch                           94

         Arthritic fingers tap the table

         Music comes from the strangest depths

         Prune juice adjusts timbre

         Chair cushion controls amplitude and duration

         In old age, he has developed

         A new music of all the senses

             Kleenex bubbled a bit green                     92

             Three large specks, greybrown

             Two little ones

             Four specs had nosehairs sticking out

             Nothing happened                                92

             Didn’t cut my finger

             There’s no way around it,

             Three bottles

             left

       SHOCKSILLY

       SCATOLOGY

         In The Louvre, I Remember “The Orange Show”,        94

         Houston, Texas

         Or

         DuckPucky Synecdoche

         (Not

         Get married so they’ll think better of you

         But

         Akin to seem good)

         As the smiling duck for duckpucky

         As we looked for fifty duckpucky landmines

                      for we looked for fifty ducks

         As birdpucky for duckpucky

         As duckhouse droppings for aviary ambiance

         As food (exfood) for duckpucky

         As duckpucky for duck feed

         But not as duckjoy for duckpucky

         That would be sarcastic synecdoche

         And something completely different.

               You know how to waste lines of verse          91

               And the trash can colludes

         Beware the epigram                                  94

         It makes everything average

         While life is both boiled and coldslawed cabbage

         (And farts, and potato salad

         and baked beans and burps)

         Sometimes my pen is full of shit                    94

         Sometimes words leak out

         And dysentery becomes brown scribbles

         For/Of smelly expression for me to tout??????

             Tramp tree                                      92

             Out of mythology

             Pulls up its roots

             And leaves

             Flight Path: A Villanelle                       92

             Ah, Well, What the Hell?

             Flight Path: Free Verse

             Dark light

             Images images

             Moon vector

             Cloud blur

             Rimjets

             (With little rusttrails

             In suggested spirals)

             Dark light

             I still can’t seem to get it

             Right

         Haha  Single raindrop                            94

         Maybe it was bird shit

           Don’t sit on my pewend                           93

           or gooend or spewend

             Electromagnetic                                 92

             Speedoflight

             Shitburgers

               Face in hand…………..                    91

               I’m an old fart

               Publish me!

             Never forget……                              92

             Shit!

             ….. I forgot what.

         Fastfood buffet reminds me                         94

         Of the day I was born and wasn’t

         Scooped like a Csection

         Into shallow plates

         At a good foodcost percentage,

         Delivered,

         All prepped,

         By the truckload

             The algebra                                     92

             Of a soggy

             Greening brassiere

           Disgust                                           93

           Courses through me

           Building pressure

           And the only escape

           I have is the written turd

             Short Title                                     92

             Shit poem (shorter)

         Some people                                         94

         Need to crack

         Their knuckles

         Some people

         Need to knuckle

         Their cracks

             Listening to the pitterpatter                  92

             Of tiny

             Eggs going to ground

             Stinking verandah                               92

             Vowelsong breeze

             In French farts

       FIGHTING

       FUCKFUCKFUCK WORDS

       SCREAMING

       “WHO GIVES A SHIT?”

       “WHO WANTS ONE?”

         Don’t tell me  you’re gifted!                    94

         So,

         Don’t tell me that the bloodstain covered your heart  yuck,

         The bile made you smile,

         The urine puckered your pussy,

         The mucus made you remember,

         The sperm made you cut yourself.

         Don’t you tell me that, if you’re gifted.

         Clearer Than                                        94

         The moon roamed even these landscapes

         Of flying haystacks

         And the pond’s hot buttresses, thunder colors,

         Mysterious wind of scummed peonies,

         And magenta poplars.

         Bleeding blossoms bloomed

         Like there were clouds

         And won’t stop

           It is October                                     93

           Everything is

           Cool, smells of wholes,

           Concrete blisters,

           Ice to fill them

           Soon.

           (And then, of course, it’s going to twist and turn them,

           make them swell out of shape and break through their

           boundaries and have holey babies so that soon there’ll be

           more holes to fill and then leaves will leave, it will

           leave and be a different season)

         Even the toilet’s scrubbed and foreign.

         Someone made the water blue

         Domino effect with falling towels

         In Lightning colors of hauberked nakedness

         Like stiff cotten

         And there were flying mistresses of furballs

         Against the wall by the spiget

             Scrubbing the dirty bottom                      92

             Of the twoheaded baby

             You bore and called Poetry

             Already stinging it sightless with soap

             Putting screams in its burbling mouths

             Considering murder vicariously

             You say they say “Stop, you’re killing me!”

         Fourteenandathird (14 1/3) HalfPoems            94

         Wart physiognomy

         Viral cystosis on the probascus

         Mapping of mavens

         To maul the mentality

         To make plain topography

         For the map of the mind

         Lamentation: Limerick Lamentation                   94

         A writer who courts lamentation

         With grief as the seed of gestation

         If pumping the pud

         Of a world full of crud

         And fucking all cause for elation

             Let your tongue                                 92

             Swim through the sunken portholes

             Of my clichés, my hackknees,

             My dog growls,

             My dog ma is the bitch

             That torpedoed the best of my days

                   Imagery                                   94

         Rose               Blood

         Wilting            Yellow crud

         Green              Bile

         Part strong        Some sperm

         Some roots         In fresh feces

         Survive            In plastic

                Gay Green Piece

               Beauty heaped upon beauty                     91

               Pinkly profligate

               Mulch pile with carrot peels, broccoli and beets

           Here I Sit, All BrokenHearted                    93

           The editor

           Wants

           Only

           “Garde”

           or

           “ApresGarde”

           Poetry

           In a sort

           Of

           Right

           Guard

           Anti

           Perspirent

           Mode