--Chris, couldn't resist typing this up and sending it along. First published ten years ago in
the Georgia Straight in Vancouver. It will never go out of date ---------
Poll indicates desire for stronger defensive
capabilities. More destroyers,
bombers, missiles needed.
Me, I wonder who's buried beneath
soldiers' bones in Flanders Field
Quick: Who fought the Hundred Years War?
Was the War of the Roses anything
but a bad movie? What the hell
was that Franco-Prussian thing about?
Ten thousand buddhists
with begging bowls
on the moonlight road
of 1310.
Which was the first to rise
and flourish
and expire? Olmec,
Toltec or Aztec?
Did Etruscans have insomnia
same as me?
The lives of entire generations
of women and men make up
but a few lines in the palimpsest
of the Great Spirit.
From tree tops and belfries
through the skies of my dreams,
falling ass over tea kettle,
all the snipers of history.
What constituted paleolithic
pillow talk?
Into the Stein River Valley cave.
we tumbled eager for our love
and loved, and only then,
sated, saw three deer on the wall.
Who drew the deer family?
You who are
in charge: stick your
stealth bombers up your ass
Go fuck yourself with your polls
and politics.
That's you and me, my sweet,
spooning skeletons of Nagasaki.
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Ed Baker has left a new comment on your post "'spooning skeletons of Nagasaki': Jim Christy poem...":
WOWOW !
and now as then or is "it"
then as now and we who are
in the now here continue
the seemingly useless thrusting:
the writing down of our own-ed bones
write on .... Mother !
Posted by Ed Baker to Riffs & Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens at 10 November 2012 09:02
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Conrad DiDiodato has left a new comment on your post "'spooning skeletons of Nagasaki': Jim Christy poem...":
"You who are
in charge: stick your
stealth bombers up your ass
Go fuck yourself with your polls
and politics.
That's you and me, my sweet,
spooning skeletons of Nagasaki"
Love this poet!
Posted by Conrad DiDiodato to Riffs & Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens at 10 November 2012 09:14
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Ed Baker has left a new comment on your post "'spooning skeletons of Nagasaki': Jim Christy poem...":
just thought of something phunnie
re: the drawing ...
all that is left
two lovers' skeletons
who from here can tell
which one has the boner
Posted by Ed Baker to Riffs & Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens at 10 November 2012 09:21
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haiku/senryu for JC
gold tooth glint
enters the room:
Jim Christy
- Chris/cricket
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the Georgia Straight in Vancouver. It will never go out of date ---------
Poll indicates desire for stronger defensive
capabilities. More destroyers,
bombers, missiles needed.
Me, I wonder who's buried beneath
soldiers' bones in Flanders Field
Quick: Who fought the Hundred Years War?
Was the War of the Roses anything
but a bad movie? What the hell
was that Franco-Prussian thing about?
Ten thousand buddhists
with begging bowls
on the moonlight road
of 1310.
Which was the first to rise
and flourish
and expire? Olmec,
Toltec or Aztec?
Did Etruscans have insomnia
same as me?
The lives of entire generations
of women and men make up
but a few lines in the palimpsest
of the Great Spirit.
From tree tops and belfries
through the skies of my dreams,
falling ass over tea kettle,
all the snipers of history.
What constituted paleolithic
pillow talk?
Into the Stein River Valley cave.
we tumbled eager for our love
and loved, and only then,
sated, saw three deer on the wall.
Who drew the deer family?
You who are
in charge: stick your
stealth bombers up your ass
Go fuck yourself with your polls
and politics.
That's you and me, my sweet,
spooning skeletons of Nagasaki.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Ed Baker has left a new comment on your post "'spooning skeletons of Nagasaki': Jim Christy poem...":
WOWOW !
and now as then or is "it"
then as now and we who are
in the now here continue
the seemingly useless thrusting:
the writing down of our own-ed bones
write on .... Mother !
Posted by Ed Baker to Riffs & Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens at 10 November 2012 09:02
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Conrad DiDiodato has left a new comment on your post "'spooning skeletons of Nagasaki': Jim Christy poem...":
"You who are
in charge: stick your
stealth bombers up your ass
Go fuck yourself with your polls
and politics.
That's you and me, my sweet,
spooning skeletons of Nagasaki"
Love this poet!
Posted by Conrad DiDiodato to Riffs & Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens at 10 November 2012 09:14
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Ed Baker has left a new comment on your post "'spooning skeletons of Nagasaki': Jim Christy poem...":
just thought of something phunnie
re: the drawing ...
all that is left
two lovers' skeletons
who from here can tell
which one has the boner
Posted by Ed Baker to Riffs & Ripples from ZenRiver Gardens at 10 November 2012 09:21
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haiku/senryu for JC
gold tooth glint
enters the room:
Jim Christy
- Chris/cricket
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
3 comments:
WOWOW !
and now as then or is "it"
then as now and we who are
in the now here continue
the seemingly useless thrusting:
the writing down of our own-ed bones
write on .... Mother !
"You who are
in charge: stick your
stealth bombers up your ass
Go fuck yourself with your polls
and politics.
That's you and me, my sweet,
spooning skeletons of Nagasaki"
Love this poet!
just thought of something phunnie
re: the drawing ...
all that is left
two lovers' skeletons
who from here can tell
which one has the boner
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