Monday, February 21, 2011

8 Birds on the Wire -James Babbs

 
eight birds on the wire
out behind my house
I see them
when I’m drinking my coffee
watching bird number six
move away from seven
and scoot closer to number five
then number five flies away
and bird number six waits
then moves back over to seven
they stay that way
for a little while
then both seven and eight
fly off together
I freshen up
my cup of coffee
the morning full of
fog and rain

Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Rear End of Truth- Peter Magliocco

 
 
To think it all boils down
to how big your hindquarters are
cutting down fatty tissue
from girth of butt-bulbous cheek
she winks, scalping away pretense
in fashion flaky hot pants
embroidered with a MTV logo
 
to reveal her corrupt flesh-
essence of pimpled red scratches
extensively grid-locked
by a rife effusion
of strangely abstruse tattoos.
The food vendor nearby smirks
at me for using my camera phone
to capture Loretta mooning us
from the street corner where she
impersonates a crack-addled vixen
during her elongated promenading.
She declines taking food for sex,
thus grossly insulting the vendor
who debates calling the police
& reporting her for indecent X-posing,
but refrains -- he's had a good eyeful;
black dudes nod appreciatively too,
from the downtown Vegas motels
Loretta claims to be fortuneteller at.
 
"To think it all boils down to baring booty,"
the vendor sighs. I immediately send
Loretta's picture to a hungry sex fiend I know.
Dumb ass cookies feed you shit, I caption it.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Cutlass - Ed Makowski


In the classifieds.
too good to be true
but was:

1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass
2 door. 69,000 miles.
Bought new by my
mother-in-law. 350 Rocket.
Runs good. No rust.
$1,200 obo

Called my uncle-
the kind of guy
who used to
wrench his own
cars and motorcycles,
but now had a TV
next to the Keg-o-Rater
in his garage.

I'd been learning
on our Ford mini-van
and had 2 grand saved
from dishwashing.


During the test-drive
my uncle uncle bemoaned
Oldsmobile's 1969 Cutlass.

The brakes, the gas mileage,
the tires, rear wheel drive,
rear wheel drive in winter,
poor oil filter placement, his
Oldsmobile Bravada, American cars,
modern cars, cars as a whole,
buses, the bus that cut him off,
the Blacks taking buses out
to the country by his house, Yeah-
This car and

everything isn't worth it!

A week later I told him
that Cutlass we test-drove
was no longer parked
with a FOR SALE sign
on highway Q.
What Cutlass? he asked

At 15 I didn't realize
when test-driving
he'd been drunk
and depressed
about
the Green Bay Packers
losing the noon game.