Preop with Allen Ginsberg

horse and train 

on a collision course 

art stops time

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clouds 

erasing a motorcycle

notice what you notice

 

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bare tree top

stark yellow bottom 

observe what’s vivid

 

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wind swirls 

red electric leaves 

surprise mind

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doctor orders 

double knee replacement

catch yourself thinking

(Lines in italics are quotes from Allen Ginsberg’s Mind Writing Slogans)

                        

Blight

in the nightmare

the soil, rain soaked,

digging potatoes with a pitchfork 

i pierce a toad’s burrow

invade a mouse’s cave

up-earth muck that reeks

a vulture's shadow 

bigger than human

flicks over the garden  

riot police tear-gas protestors

a mob of haters with raised-fists

force open the Whitehouse door

another shooting at a march 

for Black Lives Matter 

George Floyd suffocates again

we can’t breathe

COVID feasts

even hardy geraniums rot in standing water

                        

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Date Published: May 1, 2021