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'Street Eulogies'
1.
the crucifixions have moved from Palestine to Park Avenue
the high pagan altars where virgins were slaughtered have
left the pueblan plains and come to the city streets
demagogues bark from steelblue loudspeakers
cursing the gods that play in Central Park
augurous pyramids we scaled as stoneladen slaves
have crumbled under dizzying highrise tenements
the faithful bleed purple in pews while
the slavemaster cum broadcaster exalts the empty skies
but we cant fly with roughclipped wings and blinded eyes
and still we hide when the lightning strikes
smell the burnt bark inching closer to the caves
while we wait in the thickening mists
whimpering
for the rains to come.
2.
men raving madness at streetcorner signs
their stark ragged fists shake clutching
with bloodied hearts and cardboard cutouts
the bygone artists of a bygone age
the crowded marshmallow clouds
drift blue through gray cherry blossom heavens
while silent dawn denizens and
phrenetic taxicab cyclings
streak the petrol square below
monstrous glasseyed katydids
come rumbling to breed confusion
while hopheaded peddlers
with ounces of talent
brew black gold grooviness
for ten talents an ounce
3.
fatcats graze on forcefed goose livers
while rambling prophets tear their eyes out
underneath the 59th street bridge
fatted calves and bedraggled
blacktar junkies soothsay forest dreams
that bounce in echoes through
tangled jungles of concrete pyres
swaths of greencrowned arbors cut
paths down boulevards and battlements
termite drones strip sunsoaked husks
vomit their viscera
and brown bile animas
they rush to deliver a butterfat sow
to a butterfat Caesar
in a tengallon hat.
1.
the crucifixions have moved from Palestine to Park Avenue
the high pagan altars where virgins were slaughtered have
left the pueblan plains and come to the city streets
demagogues bark from steelblue loudspeakers
cursing the gods that play in Central Park
augurous pyramids we scaled as stoneladen slaves
have crumbled under dizzying highrise tenements
the faithful bleed purple in pews while
the slavemaster cum broadcaster exalts the empty skies
but we cant fly with roughclipped wings and blinded eyes
and still we hide when the lightning strikes
smell the burnt bark inching closer to the caves
while we wait in the thickening mists
whimpering
for the rains to come.
2.
men raving madness at streetcorner signs
their stark ragged fists shake clutching
with bloodied hearts and cardboard cutouts
the bygone artists of a bygone age
the crowded marshmallow clouds
drift blue through gray cherry blossom heavens
while silent dawn denizens and
phrenetic taxicab cyclings
streak the petrol square below
monstrous glasseyed katydids
come rumbling to breed confusion
while hopheaded peddlers
with ounces of talent
brew black gold grooviness
for ten talents an ounce
3.
fatcats graze on forcefed goose livers
while rambling prophets tear their eyes out
underneath the 59th street bridge
fatted calves and bedraggled
blacktar junkies soothsay forest dreams
that bounce in echoes through
tangled jungles of concrete pyres
swaths of greencrowned arbors cut
paths down boulevards and battlements
termite drones strip sunsoaked husks
vomit their viscera
and brown bile animas
they rush to deliver a butterfat sow
to a butterfat Caesar
in a tengallon hat.