Mojo Infusion - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 4 – Yusuf to Nikos:
I have desires I could fan
to roaring passions, like you do.
I read your epic and your memoir, both.
When Booklist noted you were signing books
here in New York, I had to come.
I'm going to ask you if you'll write:
To Yusuf, my life force is your inheritance.
How loud it is in here! Who guessed
the St. Mark's was a magnet for you Greeks?
Am I the only one on line
who doesn't speak your mother tongue,
and doesn't trumpet every thought out loud?
My Aramaic legacy is reticence.
You're smart; you didn't procreate.
Your wife still hangs upon your words
as lovingly as if it was your second date.
A child's a Trojan horse. I know.
He slips a hand beneath your balls
and squeezes steadily until you cry,
I'll give my life! Just stop the pain!
And then he turns and walks away.
You faced down God and men
with entrails cold and hard as metal chains.
When these two hussies finish offering you their cunts,
I want to grip your virile wrist
and pray its lava seeps into my veins.
I simply want what's mine. I raised that boy,
I kept that women warm in bed at night
for twenty years, while Zeus just sat it out.
If it were you, you'd leap right up and do
something regretable, I have no doubt.
one of three nights at the cooper square - muse's advisory, sept. 5 – nikos, asleep:
a boy breathes lightly as a pine lizard
a cloudless sky above three continents
a pelican crawls under the sea-grapes to die
a pelican on an updraft sees how everything
floats on everything
a tsar collects his tax on nobles' beards
a child's go-cart lames the mayor's mare
a soldier learns why privies have to be inside
a pelican perforates the membrane of the sea
and gulps a struggling mullet
a jetliner plummets from the blue over sumatra
grandfather said it plainly
oxen, sheep and donkeys are men
who lost the faculty of speech
and olive trees and vines are men
who don't remember anything at all
except to set the richest fruit they can
at the first moment of creation
everything was human
even we humans were human
[Parts of S 5 drawn from Nikos Kazantzakis's
autobiography, Report to Greco]
The Towers - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 6 – Zeus:
Elytis wrote, The light never blended with their roof,
not even a bee was fooled into beginning the golden game,
not even a Zephyr into swelling the white aprons –
but they built it anyway, raised the iron up into the light.
30 pieces of silver was the price: trim, oxford-topped beige dresses
welcomed the aprons back at last, and the white made do with that.
Miriam purred, I'll wear whatever dress you buy me.
But while I was shopping in the Taisho-ya Kimono Store,
a damn gnome tried to jump me and I blew up
with unfortunate results for all of Nakajima:
Nakajima-honmachi and Motoyanagi-machi, Tenjin-machi, Kobiki-cho
and Zaimoku-cho, Nakajima-shinmachi, the Sekaikan Cinema,
the shrine, the brush-shop, the teahouse and the camphor trees.
She promised, I'll meet you in front of my cathedral.
As I exited the Michino-o train station, another gnome accosted me
but I kept my cool until I reached St. Mary's, where fumi-e agents
forced suspected Christians to crush the Virgin's icon or be banished.
When I saw she'd put the horns on me, I rose between the spires
and called destruction down on everyone and all.
[l. 2-4 O dysseas Elytis, trans. Keeley/Sherrard]
Voice Crying Out in the City - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 7 – John Cantell, outside Madison Square Garden:
Tom Cruise! Barack Obama!
.
Yoko Ono! Michael Jackson!
.
Tiger Woods! J. K. Row ling!
God says:
The fields are white.
Oh how sweet!
Do not drift
From the brightness,
From the glory!
Look to the Savior,
Come away to Jesus!
Oh turn ye, turn ye,
Out on the broad way.
I was a pilgrim bound
One cold winter's eve.
I was wandering,
Drifting away from
The gospel of grace,
I was journeying,
Passing onward,
And I heard my Savior:
Cheer up, my brother,
Man of sorrows,
We're going home.
God says:
Have you room for
Your blest Redeemer?
Don't you hear
My dying Jesus pleading?
There's a great day,
There is sunshine,
Come enter the gate,
Called to the feast!
[built mostly from hymn titles in Go-Preacher Hymn Book
www.tellingthetruth.info/brg_hymns/gopreacher.php]
Cuntagious - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 8 – Terpsichore:
A block downtown from the Israeli Consulate,
in Mimi's Nail Salon,
Millie and Tina debate
whether the evening's last two gals were lesbians.
“I never seen such fucked-up nails,” says Tina.
“Whatevuh them two girls is doin' is just nasty!”
“They both straight-up dykes if you ask me,”
says Millie. “You could tell it from them arms!
You seen those arms? Them girls is heavy duty
with the weights and shit. Know what I mean?”
“Jews always pick those scary snake designs!
And did you see those fuckin' spike-toe shoes?
Them girls some mean-ass lesboes!” Tina says.
“$10 says they goin' at it right this very second!”
“All four of their tits is less than one of yours,”
Millie observes. “But lezzies love that kind of tit.
Know what I mean? Reminds them of a man's.”
“I wish my tits were more like yours,” says Tina.
“Not these huge balloons but not too little neither.”
“You do? You want to see? I'll show you them.
Slide down the shade. I want to see yours too.
I like 'em big–”
“As long as we ain't lookin' at our pussies.”
A block downtown from the Israeli Consulate,
in Mimi's Nail Salon,
Millie and Tina debate
what women can or cannot do and still be straight.
A loud knock on the locked and curtained door.
The two gals giggle, hold their breath,
and race to button up their shirts. Another knock, a cry.
"Is anybody still in there? I'm desperate!"
Millie opens the door a crack
and Tina sees her blush.
Amelia Earhart stands there naked as a robin,
right down to her reddish bush!
Rent Tomb
Polimnia con Fuoco Muse's Advisory, Sept. 9
On this day in 1965 Los Angeles a Japanese Navy E14Y Yokosuka
Dodger Sandy Koufax executed On this day in 1942 an Imperial
float plane dropped an incendiary history a tight 1-0 victory over the
bomb on an Oregon state forest the 8th perfect game in baseball
Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium long-ranged underwater aircraft
in Los Angeles Although Koufax Launched from the Japanese
carrier I-25 Fujita Nobuo piloted from 1955-1961 from 1962-1966
the light airplane to Oregon and won just games 36 to 51 losses
he put in the record books what Mount Emily alighting the state
are maybe the 5 greatest seasons fire bombed Wheeler Ridge on
forest and ensuring his place Koufax's fastballs seemed to rise
as the only combatant in U.S. by a pitcher in baseball history
as they reached home plate United States Washington quickly
blazing past batters His infamous history to bomb the continental
ordered a coast to coast news knees almost always crossing the
blackout for the sake of morale curve ball buckled at the hitter's
plate as a strike after following and Fujita eventually went home
a parabolic path as he amassed No long-term damage was done
as a hero and was reassigned to the middle of the Cubs order and
training kamikaze pilots After the perfect game Koufax faced
struck out Ron Santo and Ernie as peace gifts his family's 400
Banks in the 8th inning before the war he gave his former enemies
year old samurai sword and planted although the Cubs said afterward
a yew tree at the bombing site striking out the side in the 9th
they always knew what was coming where a daughter buried his ashes
[built from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Fujita &
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Koufax%27s_perfect_game]
between
two
minarets
muse's advisory sept 10
romanticism of the machine
high high time for
my grand gesture
the 400m mashrabiya minoruts high
on yamasaki's masjib al-haram
koenig's grosse kugelkaryatide
representing a ruptured kaaba
nagare's cloven cloud fortress
spreads thighs to the rapture
high
aesthetic planes
welded together
he assimilates it as he does volcanoes erupting
tsunamis & earthquakes welling inside his veins
high
a bearded bum a-glitter with fleas
in his Russian egg of flannel coats
roaring
roaring
10,000 life forms underneath his nails
a white-silver 18-wheeler pulled off
at the west street edge of the plaza
the driver's head thrown back & back
& back in the red blink of the hazards
high
5 port authority police
share predawn laughs
on
wet hands & knees
an old fiend crawls over
the flattened galaxy of the fountain's floor
high for coppered zinc and nickeled copper coin time
No - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 11 – unknown:
One thing I'll clarify.
I don't subscribe to Time
or Life or Christianity Today.
Your cries make less noise
in my ear than schoolchildren's
soap bubbles failing.
I don't smell anything:
I didn't smell your Auschwitz
or your Abel's offering.
Twin Dronings in the Hearing Room - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 12 – Urania:
"We looked at every possible thing we could think of that could happen
to the two towers, including an airplane hitting them," said lead structural
engineer John Skilling. “A B-25 bomber had once hit the Empire State Building.
Our analysis showed the buildings could withstand the impact of Boeing 707's.
There would be a horrendous fire but the building structures would survive."
“A trust exists between builders and occupants, and with firefighters,”
said forensic architect Roger Morse. “That trust was broken." The builder in
charge of structural fire-proofing, Louie 'the Bone' DiBono of the Gambino
family, was in St. Mary Cemetery in Queens on 9/11. He'd been found riddled
with bullets in the front seat of a Caddie in the WTC basement parking level.
On the Air - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 13 – Day 3 broadcast:
...Windows on the World waitress, whose white apron flew up, blinding her
as she fell, told Sky News correspondent Eric Blair that Jackie O. had been
at brunch with God's mother Mary, sipping demitasses reeking of Sambuca,
when legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart emerged from the oncoming jet's
port cockpit window wearing nothing but...
...a red-eyed truck driver from Tennessee claims a large, bearded, vagrant
man climbed atop the sculpture known as 'The Sphere' and raised his arms
toward the sky, as two slinky and well-accoutred young women ran up,
brandishing what looked like eerie rays of greenish light...
...visibly shaken spokesman said that the substitution of Martin Scorsese’s
1976 Oscar-nominated 'Taxi Driver' for Ang Lee's 2000 Oscar-nominated
'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' as inflight movie for the Boston-to-L.A.
flight had been requested by passenger David Angell, creator of the sitcom
'Frasier,' but had not yet been OK'd by the flight crew...
...47-year-old Jackson 5 fan and street-corner evangelist John Cantell of Noel,
Missouri, had appeared suddenly, attempting to intervene on behalf of an elder,
possibly Arab man scuffling with guards in the North Tower entry foyer
following a routine request for identification, to which he replied, quote,
'Yeshua and Kazantakis would never demean themselves and produce id's!'
...Buckingham Palace Correspondent says the Queen is pulling in all the laundry
and dispatching her firstborn His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur
George Prince of Wales Knight of the Garter Knight of the Thistle Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of Bath Knight of the Order of Australia Companion of the
Queen's Service Order Privy Counsellor Earl of Chester Duke of Cornwall Duke
of Rothesay Earl of Carrick Baron of Renfrew Lord of the Isles and Prince and
Great Steward of Scotland, in the company of Lady Camilla Parker Bowles,
great-granddaughter of Alice of Pleasure House in East Sutton in Kent, chief
mistress of King Edward VII from 1898-1910, to fly to New York City as soon as
airports there opened, to convey the Royal Family's deep condolences after...
...PM Tony Blair deplored 'absolutely shocking events taking place in America'...
Muse's Advisory - Sept. 14 – Euterpe to Tom:
Just stop. Don't take another step.
Who is answerable, except yourself,
for this unfolding lapse in judgment?
Stop in mid-air. In mid-sentence.
That prince chained to an iron ring–
in agony of fleas, lice and incontinence–
knows all too well what happens when
you bite off more than you can chew.
Sure, I got to meet my mythic dad.
You had your bit of fun with God,
the Blessed Mother and their Son.
But now you're sketching out a soaring,
grand, love-conquers-all finale?
How Titanically boring.
Don't do it. Let furled canvas lie,
let time and mold and wind-salt worry it
to shreds, text messages and tweets.
30 centuries of puffing hot air into sails,
and aren't we still row ing the galley?
Instead, turn hands and lips to me,
Euterpe. Plain Jane with a flute,
who sees a future on dry land.
My urgent, fond and desperate advice:
this dimmed poem's wick is burning low,
and when it finally splits–
one wisp of cursed black smoke,
one specklike eye in clear hot wax–
fly fast and take me with you!
No luscious dish,
no leather dominatrix bent to kinky sex,
I'm just a chubby, whistling waitress,
moonlighting on Sunday as a ticket-taker
on the slow train into Minneapolis,
and animated by the simple wish
to sing a human child to sleep at night.
Please.
Take me with yo u when you go.
Ill-Conceived - Muse's Advisory, Sept. 15 - Yeshua to Hephaistos:
When the day comes
that we take these hardhats off,
surrender the tiny bits of bone of Zeus
to the tiny bits of bone of Miriam
and bid them both a happy ever-after—
requiescatis in pace,
as the pater prays—
when we've sifted every inch of rubble,
cheese-clothed out the last remaining mote
of the prick whose sown oats gave us life,
what then?
It's me and you I'm worried about, my friend.
Nobody's ever going to let me live or die
in peace, and you're inhumed in such obscurity,
it's death in life, as if you never lived at all—
not heir but minor actor in your sire's bio-pic.
We might as well go have a drink.
I'll try to love you all I can,
but how exuberantly can you feast
on hearty lentil soup from me
who wears the mantle of your birthright,
though unwillingly?
The whole thing is distasteful, I agree.
Why did he have us
if our patrimony's only
gravel-speckled, lygus-stunted pulse
steeped thirteen days
in rancid misery?
He left us better-heeled
if he had sheathed his wooden phallus
swollen with its hidden load of offspring—
cooped that god-sized cock
inside a £1 Trojan magnum.
Was it your countryman who said,
Mὴ βλάπτειν?
First do no harm?
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