Sunday, January 29, 2017

Every Day is Like Doomsday (Morrissey Cover)

Trudging slowly by the thousands
Back to the town where our rights were stolen
This is the swampy town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!

Every day is like Doomsday
Every day is Trumpy and grey

Read on the Twitterverse
Etch a reply :
“How I Dearly Wish You Were Not Here”
In this swampy town
That the Chinese will soon bomb
Bigly nuclear bomb

Every day is like Doomsday
Every day is Fox News and grey

Turn back time with a Muslim ban
And conflicts of interest on your hands
(And on your face)
(On your face)
(On your face)
(On your face)

Every day is like Doomsday
“And soon Impeachment Day”
Share your taxes with me
Every day is Bannon and grey

Could Someone (or Morrissey) Please Record

a cover of "Every Day is Like Sunday" revamped as "Every Day is Like Doomsday" with new lyrics to match the Trump administration's daily abuses of power?


Saturday, January 28, 2017

"Your cooperation will ensure that peace and democracy are restored in the near future"

Grenada recording, 1983.

Should be playing over all loudspeakers in America, January, 2017.

Just so people realize that this is an invasion.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

(some computer-generated monoku)









seaweed green clock




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cat broken hands




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eat lunch     in cell of hospital        tangle seaweed green         feel curtain


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a see nothing        a sea moving


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end river dusk           aura towed


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towards love move to branch drooping flowering


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best use-by date         vultures R.S.V.P.







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I remember to tell spite






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3 river dusk tree










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cat a half-okay god










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cry behind the head taking you useless river










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fine by me though we lilacs will seek revenge






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the broken river dusk political










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a president on conscience      oh star      the privacy










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a cat cry behind the head taking you useless river










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flowering playpen






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an edgelessness of elevators






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that is some horse-out poetry










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a see nothing night people saunter along our river










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abusing the not really light






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before dawn burping bubbles










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will body yellow mine with scent










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went to see if lilacs in a cat cemetery are home










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flea restaurant the off-night goodbye









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mistakenly a ring of aura is it myself










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your abandoned baseball self went into not really a sensuality






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stay before dawn burping bubbles










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sleeping maps










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lit in my back life










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a cat quite believing










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down old crazy lamb










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I graph you in a useless window














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see nothing       the world closed






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good carpet of path        horse open ocean










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cat's never met nor lilacs will cat shutting space out










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lonesome grey restaurant      the violin no difference










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wild mayapples       broken        called










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the bright cat problem














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reflection of Mary's and we tangle seaweed green










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here is night my senses










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maps for windows










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face of love read plants










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it ran felt unwanted      by my fish










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dawn kiss       a 3 hospital problem










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magic in glass       broken neck of dark










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good cat cry behind the river night














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behind the t.v.      each wild meaningless door














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here towed river head a cemetery






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live way had blue tree sea betrothal












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unforetold riches under a blue sea a half-okay god










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the lonesome grey towards correctness of a scour










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lover the ocean and concrete










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through kisses you adopted an army










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no love      morning in the water














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I kiss my adopted army sensually














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cloud banks felt unwanted by move to blue sea














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in maps for flirtation   often mistakenly       a tag for night










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a show for witches in massachusetts














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see nothing       molten be










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Susquehanna late cloud banks of hospitals     some knees









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bright drawer       lonesome grey branches    










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R.S.V.P. by tangles seaweed green














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I saw a hand            because its world closed










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tingles in vultures     I know that kind of feel










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even mine with flowers that have a factory










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adults hemming witches a coming out space














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cat setting out at evening through abandoned baseball cemetery






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I waited so long     tangled seaweed       green spin










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some hands in pitbulls equally popular useful hard














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a poor so dark it called out ravens














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down old crazy words     embody you       dark woods










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spoiler alert a beach just keeps coming back alive



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ocean's       flowering physician




















After Marginalia (Frank Samperi)




curtain
pulled back
life


________________________


spigot
drip

answer

me

___________________________


sleeping tree
waking tree
touching
it

_____________________________________________


end 
date
no one
can read

______________________________________

plant
against window
the aureole

a next
best thing

____________________________________________


abandoned mall
the gulls
circle over

not quite
believing

_____________________________


read
some words
some space
out


_____________________________________________


I need
some lamb
someone
thinks
sadly

_________________________________________________


motherless
tree
pity
yourself

__________________________________________________

in 3 mo.
the lilacs
will scour
your conscience

oh threat
of scent

________________________________________

cat food
in sunlight
open
invitation

turkey vultures

R.S.V.P.
by staring

___________________________________

                       in the hospital

flashlight tag
night
for adults


_______________________________________

                        shaft

I love you
I went
into a mine
with you

______________________

                              in my bathroom

the reflection
of an unreal house
in real
tile

_______________________________


horse horse
run
be horse

ash
liquor

you are fine

by yourself

____________________________________


the president
on the t.v.

each morning
in a playpen

the adults
hemming him in

_________________________________________

good night
I tell the cat

shutting the door

on star maps

__________________________________


I feel love
like old Hollywood
star maps

for you

useless brochure

kept in a drawer

___________________________________________

                                dawn

kiss
the night
goodnight

_______________________________


he towed the dark
he was in love


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a tree's branch
drooping
flowering
how something
real dangles
feels
a flirtation
often
mistakenly
a world's fruit
even its flowers
have a
simple
means
of
gravity

_________________________________________

banks of

hospital windows
be molten

be the face
of river

dusk Susquehanna

late
clouds

banks of

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Tithonus
at morning
what a loser

______________________________


lover
loser
dawn


_____________________________

fermez
la bouche
I hear
in my dead father's
kindest
voice

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piece of blue
sea glass
on a window sill

what's your problem?

__________________________________________


"here in my branches"
I show
my lover


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unforetold
riches
under
a rock
sarcasm

_________________________________


I remember
we came upon
a magic carpet
of wild
mayapples
in the woods
behind
its abandoned
baseball field
where it
postured


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glass Avon
parrot
blue body
yellow head

taking the light
of a poor window

Egyptian 
flea market

bah

____________________________


a cat's 
cry
a violin

no
difference

no
human
difference

___________________________________


oh photo-
graph
I too 
love
edgelessness
of phenomena

______________________


                                 night river


head 
asleep
headless
asleep
this in
water


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these words
embody
you


________________________________________


a mild river
abusing
the night

____________________________________


high
and low
meet

where our dent

desire

lives

__________________________________


I put my hands
in wild water
you 
had better
not
be lying

________________________________________


words 
let out
words
let in

poetry

_________________________________

the meaningless
is what 
tingles

in love

_____________________________

he said
bumptiously

sexily

I live
way out
way off

the beaten path

I must
beat it

myself

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bright tangle
seaweed
green 
lonesome

grey beach
just before
dawn

burping

bubbles

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to go
to the open
ocean
we drive
through
the Amish

___________________________________


guilt in
guilt out

let's eat
lunch
in a cemetery

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how long
can 
the cat
cry
behind
the door

before I come

to my
senses

_________________________


we come to senses
they come
to us

no privacy
in sensuality

________________________

stay married
to me
though
we never
met
nor will
if there is
even a
half-okay
god

_____________________________________

the president
in his playpen
starts up
again

such
lungs

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we are
all spiritual
in elevators

___________________________


where I live
yard Marys
and pitbulls

equally
popular

useful

hard


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once

as a child
I adopted
an unwanted cat
we already
had one
so it felt
unwanted
by spite
so it
ran away
we looked
and called out
we pasted
and phoned
but she
never came
back

she

now
I think
about her

more 
and more

thirty-five

years 
later

she
surely

got home


_______________________________


a hunk
of broken concrete
where we sat
hanging
over the river

I meant
to say

"cantilevered"

no
it was

hanging

___________________________________________

I believe
in love
and I
believe

in knees

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                                     kids 

a ring
of glass
broken
neck
of a bottle

sparkling

placed on limb

branch
of a tree

betrothal

_______________________________


I saw
a u.f.o.
with you

when it
was so
dark

could see
nothing else

you took
my hand

because

it was early

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we will  move
to the ocean
and both
be witches

massachusetts

switches

_______________________


a tree 
managing
its aura

is not
really
a poem

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lit      towards the dark

a fish swims

___________________________


lover

the blinds

go

sensually

_______________________

a restaurant
the world
closed

________________________________

I pass
an apartment building
where you
were crazy
young

I'm walking

slow down

old
crazy people

saunter out

____________________________________

poetry
mostly
off the clock

_________________________

the political correctness
of water

__________________________

I waited
so long
to tell you

this

over there

that's the factory
there
they make doorknobs












Morning

a bird's cry
through the window
inquisitive
I don't know
this particular bird
the particular cry

can you re-enact it
Wait
let me stand
on the other side

of a pretend window

now be the bird
be the cry

and I will be

The Other Side