[New-Poetry] Galactic antiPoetry halfMonth

[Anny Ballardini]

Yup!

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:11 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> Love this.
>
> David Graham wrote:
>
>>  One of mine, from a few years back.
>> About the "I, too, dislike it" mood that many of us get into from time to
>> time-- most of these effusions are really part of Frost's "lover's quarrel,"
>> don't you think?
>>
>>
>> *
>> *
>> *Against Whitman*
>>  /      --// I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me? /
>>   Today I woke without a hero
>> in my head, not even Whitman
>> who usually brims my pockets
>> with jingly treasures, sweet breath
>> swelling laundry on the line,
>> but today just seems a big gasbag
>> heard at a distance on a tinny
>> carnival P.A., drifting in and out
>> with summer's sourest breeze.
>>  /Contains multitudes/, yeah yeah yeah;
>> /sings the body electric/, sure,
>> whatever;/ /hears /America/
>> /singing/, well, duh!  Walt, we just
>> don't need you anymore, now
>> we've got cable, we've got
>> radial tires, we've got Google.
>>  But thanks anyway for your
>> transcendental cloud-puffy beard,
>> your Jesus eyes and too-friendly arm
>> draped over my shoulder
>> up and down the Broadway bus line.
>> I really do appreciate your
>> Wal-Mart vastness, it's just that
>> we have Instant Messenger now;
>> we have reality TV, Disneyworld,
>> the Apollo moon photographs
>> of our great rolling earth
>> postering our living room walls.
>>  We have laser-guided missiles,
>> email, disposable diapers,
>> electric wrenches, Valium,
>> closed captioning, adhesive tape,
>> time zones crossed by jumbo jets
>> filled with businessmen with
>> cell phones and laptop computers;
>> we have the interstate highway
>> system and grocery aisles thick
>> with kiwis, curry, and arugula.
>>  What could you possibly add to that?
>>  Or to the kid in Sunday school
>> who gives his Christ a posse
>> of gangsta disciples to guide
>> the ascent from emptied tomb
>> to graffiti-tagged heaven,
>> all of those Bible boyz packing
>> serious heat and draped
>> like Christmas trees in bling,
>> all rising, democratically,
>> toward the great big satellite
>> in the vanished sky, Walt,
>> and who could stray from that?
>>
>> ========================================
>> David Graham
>> grahamd at ripon.edu <mailto:grahamd at ripon.edu>
>>
>> Home Page:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz
>>
>> Poetry Library:
>> http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html
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>>
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