The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 11/13/07

[BlueIris]

"american sonnet"

rejection can kill you.

it can force you to park outside neon-lit
liquor stores and finger the steel of
your contemplation. It can even make you
rob yourself.

(when does the veteran of one war fail to appreciate the vet of another?)

the ragged scarecrow lusts in the midst of
a fallow field.

and the lover who prances in circles envies me
my moves/has designs on my gizzard/ kicks shit.

this is the city we've come to
all the lights are red all the poets are dead
and there are no norths.

—wanda coleman

[BlueIris]

1. Kick.

[BlueIris]

2. Kick.

[Perseid]

3. talking to a salesman

and sounding out his soulless explanations
one by one
I wondered what I was doing
where I was walking
and why
I listen
to soulless, burnt out excuses for yesterdays misunderstandings that are now
30% off
and I
looked at the salesman with eyes
to be described
only as vacant
70% of me paid no attention

You live somewhere far away from where my heart resides
I'll see you
in the classifieds
mr salesman

...but, it does sound like a really good deal.......

[asdjrocky]

7. good. and ugly in a good way.

[BlueIris]

4. Kick.

[Perseid]

5. kick for artistry's sake

if for no other random reason.

[BlueIris]

6. One final kick before I adjourn to my sleep chamber.

[Perseid]

8. where are all the people?

I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied I'm on my way.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied I'm on my way.

Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life.
Make the white queen run so fast
She hasn't got time to make you a wife.

cause its time, its time in time
With your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Move me on to any black square,
Use me any time you want,
Just remember that the gold
is for us to capture all we want, anywhere,
Yea, yea, yea.

Don't surround yourself with yourself,
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant karma to me,
Initial it with loving care
Don't surround
Yourself.

cause its time, its time in time
With your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit dont surround
Didda. - yourself with yourself.
Don't surround yourself with yourself, don't surround yourself.
Move on back two squares,
Send an instant karma to me, send an instant
Initial it with loving care karma to me. don't surround yourself.

cause its time, its time in time
With your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda.

cause its time, its time in time
With your time and its news is captured.

Ii. all good people

Ive seen all good people turn their heads
Each day so satisfied I'm on my way.
Yea, yea.
Ive seen all good people turn their heads
Each day so satisfied I'm on my way.


Yes lyrics

[asdjrocky]

9. Should have known,

Saw 'em live in '75 with another band called Gentle Giant. Amazing show, and I didn't even like Yes, I was a Ramones fan.