This Poem was Submitted By: David S Harewood On Date: 2000-09-06 14:39:36 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Eulogy (tent.)

Briton’s ducal heir made Oklahoma’s air-boy raised, at  summer’s humidity transmuted into(listless) artists, I lusted after your wingy ears as a platonic thank-you-Allen, sat in REM and blasted your  conservative banner as a neuveau-riche corporation,  speculated you in newspeak & tried to blend it with science,  disengaged! How was Hong Kong’s ambiguity affected into you? Baby-faced (or eyed) at Larry’s disposal for scripts, tattoos, promises, couches, & heterosexuality  (assumed,) an aloof, mad genius walked underneath them. . .  “Hello, how are you?” “Mom, this long hair, this kid—“ came to find a forced reserve midwestern dynasty conned, descended and sent your heart to kama sutra Marlboro’s sucked to filters, thru cotton at ol’ 48— I cried, you said  “need to call him” an’ I asked you to ask me, i cried too, at London (& Chicago since; i’ve seen her too, her breasts amazed me too, had I ever asked her) & i saw joy’s recklessness in your  palm one Sunday --a Kubrick film, a toy, Cleveland & schools  (trying to forget the silver  dress, ‘k?)— both disillusioned, watched you say the same (insert up arrow here) paternally set you aside from Them and still my MercutioCerebrus came to curse you, set the landscape as a sketchy (she lied; thought that  I was an easier hole to peg—less phallic, yes)  and my-speak was born that night at Epworth, (four years, love—four and I only bummed twothousandnicotines&grass; i thought of anna and  blessed Krishna anew, found your forest green still packed away) back to Union Jack’s hymnal book, pretended thrones & all that  dispassionate excrement, another, maybe Special K this time— your remembering-on, zip-the- pressing-eh’s? all brought to you bacon-wrapped— “like I like to be tickled,”    and you let her slip to sleep, away to penal colonies to find that G-O-D spelled Julia! -- have you reached Her with how many chords?3. & the other half of what you  said  bears meaning, I swear— L’engle might’ve had a point,  but explain Magdalene to me: she grates, assumes as I to  you—“I’m sorry, but you dropped Special as a substitute & rabbitted your way in2 her; ??????????”— explain the lizard/goose,  (dissociate yourself from paranoia for a minute and read America--) tear down colonization’s exploits & there’s the bliss you lost; the lizard skinned herself,  you ate the goose & told her the truth: her feathers are purple. So bring the play to bear and listen a(gain) to “cha!”

Copyright © September 2000 David S Harewood

Additional Notes:
Possible misunderstanding #1: re: dischordance: This piece is possible the silliest for me to submit to a group who doesn't know me. The piece jumps around contextually, as it's a hypo-manic summation of an ongoing relationship: the innate rhythms and silly wordplay go through this piece as I remembered them in said relationship. #2: I'd just gotten through a binge of reading Becket poetry when I started this, and continually have a copy of Ginsberg's Kaddish around. This exxplains the boscure references, and I hope I'll never have to emburden anyone with some sort of Eliot manuscript. Ever. Hopefully, I can get away from the obscurity without making pieces less personal. Any suggestions are implored! Thanks!


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