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The acrobats are back—riding bareback and backwards on
Donkeys! They’re back juggling hocus-pocus focus groups;
Justice was served
sweet and sour in pepper spray soup—tear-
gas gumbo—tears mixed with milk and milk
We play America’s longest running game,
Trauma Trivia—gambling blue—
Daily, weekly, monthly, annually—decades,
Salute to City of Angels’ son!
He wrote, he wrote, he wrote
And he wrote…
Ramparts, The Progressive, The
Northeast, midwest, southwest, south,
down south, up south, out south—south
of the Canadian border—Slouched down
$13 billion aircraft carriers, $10 pencils
and $500 hammers, renamed “portable
hand-held transcribing devices” and
“…he said if you can enjoy
A real nice affair
(Over at Mary's place—oh)
Then you'll make it
Ferlinghetti might have been
God ‘cause he almost lived forever;
and Jersey Boys—Allen and Amiri—
The rioters all knew him—
it had to be an inside job—
‘cause to a man they spoke
to him by name as they
Liars, liars your loaded dice/tilted table theater’s
on fire—
But prosecutors and gas-lighting lawyers concur on
Empire…
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