Abierto
at Casanova
the mask --- grrr! boo!
bring your aching demon
.
to baby judy!
to!
munksexrock. do you remember?
how Brian, greco-roman wrestlers, have
said yes and rocked?
go! go an!
the ritual abuse
that sent your bodyworking
released the demon to run
and hide in the corner
to find a new misery
(it did not rock).
Jerry the Marine said yes
and tonite
in a tanktop
he rocked.
whois
baby judy? the maypole!
please dance for your dead friends,
please love them before you sleep,
please, please yourself.
round around round.
the poet, the felon, (and, sigh, yes)
the very useless politician
who created the cop
who made the felon
from a seed --
he rocked too.
do you believe?
Me (it's me, J.)
(if not delete this poem now) so you?
had a flashback?
it was San Francisco.
in yes in time in fleeting
is this helping you? in
Buffalo? Portland?
i know you rocked baby judy
somewhere there (in lullabies, peace,
namaste, and
with a great disruption)
too.
i know
(i guessed) that you deserved to rock her
that's not even a question.
do you believe?
yes.
Diane,
i believe the fire is central.
SWEAT THE DUCKS!
(were you sure they were queer? mightn't
they just have been fashionable, Peter?)
i took the maypoll
60% said yes.
Fennel, who
wrote a play -- for Harry, drag queens,
and Pan whose phone number is
a molecule, be he
priest or
eunuch stud,
released a grey eminence
in the dance --
the rock is from your hip
cures your backache
the rock is the fire
it will burn the hair from your head
sacred the casebolt, illuminating
eunuchs
(not Neb from Nebraska
who is hung,
who is 28,
and who is losing his hair cause
well) he rocks!
he said yes too.
abierto, yes Diane
the fire is central
open burning tonite
baby judy -- it's not even a question!
Casanova, Harry Hays, a radical faery,
released the grey eminence from your hip when
you rocked
the dancers pulled the ribbons
round, around, you round Fennel
purple, red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
smile,
(is this helping you in Tulsa?
or Louisville?)
until Fennel feels the ribbons
on gold lame, on Doc Martens, up
against his tattoo is pressing
the bondage of love ( i asked him )
is the maypole
baby judy, diverse, munksexrock
theflashbackyerbaldheadnewwave
and the rainbow flag
yes!
Diane DiPrima!, the polis
is this fire
is central, yes John Donne,
yes Van Morrison- it IS one night,
(pray now for our lost mothers)
yes Mose Allison-- they'll still be dealing
against us, they'll still be abusing us
they WILL STILL open (nada
abierto)
the back room for shady deals!
the dance, of the maypole, itit
(init)
the highest ground
'til we reach it, (iation)
Jerry the Marine, Neb, J., Brian
Fennel and all the wrestlers
get healed, rock, and release the grey eminence
from their hips.
yes! abierto! (never closed, cerrado,
i can't contain
it any longer) think
the tragedy of the dream
if it stopped ---keep it
abierto
the mask is
Casanova's yer
fading i love you
baby judy rocks!
2 May 1996
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