The Penguin

Unlike
most Batman
villains,
the penguin
was not
insane.

He
just had
a flare
about things.

3 to 4 feet of
pudgy
ladies man.
Tuxedos,
Suits,
Umbrellas,
Lavenders,
Purples,
an extension for his
cigarette
Chaps on his shoes
a Monocle
and Top Hat.
motherfucker looked like Dick Cheney.

Not insane,
but close.

08'

baby cult

did you hear
about those
teenager girls
having babies.

about 16 of them
all at once.

they made a pact to raise their children together.

they
got pregnant together,
as if
getting
matching tatoos,
was no longer
cool.

sixteen teenagers decided to create life,
children making children.

I heard the school was now gonna hand out condoms, without parent consent.
as to suggest,
better late than never.

One pregnant
teenager is an independent film.

but
sixteen...
sixteen is a cult.

a baby cult.

giving pause to the western world.
giving pause to parents,
entertaining thoughts of
religion and
chastity belts.

They made the evening news.
but
It is not the end of the world.

when humanity first crawled from the mud,
it had food,
water,
and
the comfort of shade.

before
satellites, leases, fast food,
kings, and the english language,

before the male god,
when
god was a woman

before
Interwebs
drivers licences,
and hip hop

before
clocks,
the roman calander,
and
gasoline.

before god hated
the poor and loved
the rich.

making life was sacred.

it was god's will,
when god
was a woman.

It is not the
end of the world,
however should
anyone survive the end,
should
the female god make good
on her promise
this would be
a good begining.

08'

C word.

He tried to make me feel bad by calling me a clown.

I thought about it while we were talking, wondering if it was true.

It stung for a second because maybe he was right that i was.

Maybe that was who i was, maybe everyone agreed.
Maybe it was time to go. Leave the microphone.

Is it because i do my elvis impressions, the penguin poems, is it the jokes was it because i dressed up like a pirate once, it was just once.

I started to laugh at myself. I laughed good. I felt better, I felt good. It was healing.
I like laughing,

I love to hear it from others, it is the gift i try to give. it is medicine for our times.

Clown? Maybe?
There are worse things to be than a clown.


08'

N.A.S.T.A

I started to think about
that one,
astronaut lady-

The one that was
all crazy,
and shit.

she was apparently
a sex fiend.

The US of A
blastn her sex fiend ass into
space-

millions of dollars
to blast her ass into space,
and it wasn't enough.

She
finally she was undone
by jealousy.
broke in
and attempted to kidnap
somebody's girlfriend.

they say she had pampers
In her car trunk
when they busted her.
they say she liked to
wear them-

the news said that NASA
would test for
shit like this.

they said that NASA would test for
that kind of thing-

i think they will ask
what kind
of sex you have-
before they blast your ass
into space-

diagnosis it like a mental illness-

i've had good sex before,
and i can confirm...
that shit was crazy!

08'

She said, it was dedicated to me....

She said,
it was dedicated to me....
then went off
with her poem.
went off
on some low life scum
and the bums that
her friends
had fallen for.

she might have been kidding,
she might not have,
either way,
in L.A.
there's no such thing as bad
publicity

08

our song

it was
probably
96,
second half of
freshman year.

it
was everywhere,
there was no
escaping it.

so i believed fate wanted it to
be our song.

our song reminds
me
of you, then, there,
so far away
from home.

I loved you because you reminded me of home.

it played when
we'd drive down
from school,
for winter break...
on our first date.
on the television when i'd wait up late at night.

"I don't believe that anybody
feels the way i feels the
way i do about you now..."

It was true, then.

You didn't stick around long
enough to disappoint me.

Its been a long time,
i heard you moved to
new york, or something.

we don't speak,
but you visit me in dreams,
in photos,
and that song.

i hit play, rewind, repeat.

"cause maybe your gonna be the one that saves me..."

You didn't,
but that's ok,
I didn't know what the fuck i was doing either......

there should be
no apologies,
for being teenagers.

07'

Amusement Park

I've waited
in this line before...
I've ridden this ride
before.

It goes
round and round,
up and down.
ending as quickly
as it began.

I've yelled,
screamed,
and
gotten sick
on this ride before.

I can't believe
you find this fun.
back again.
to take that ride again.

you were
immature,
but still tall enough
to ride.

i was
still young
for my age.

lookin for amusement in an amusment park.

As I recall,
I didn't want you to
think I was chicken,
but I was.

Not cause i didn't see the drops
coming,
but because
i did...

It was a chance
to let go of the bar
and put my arms in the air...
and surrender.

but for your amusement.

Back again,
to take that ride again.
Time to wait again
Time to feel sick again
Time to get off...

Yeah
I wanna get off,
just... how badly
this time?


07'

Don Knotts

My generation,
for what it is worth,
is the last to know
the past.

Like
the sweet sound of the type writer.
as it stabs the clean white paper,
with its inky
chaos.

Each generation
arriving at the same conclusion
as each
generation before them has:

That
some things will be lost,
from a time when
the past was in black and white.

The sounds of big bands,
The innocent laughter of
of a world
without
the f word in its comedy.

Sex was to be
insinuated,
suggested,
let them figure it out.

The past
true genius lost,
names no longer
mentioned,

footnotes.

Danny Kay,
Don Knotts,
Even,
that punk,
ol' Milton Burell.

Don Knotts was
genius.
whether you, realize it or not.

He is the reluctant astronaut,
the incredible mr. Limpet,
the ghost and mr. chicken.

He was a mad man,
genius,
and simply funny.

He will be lost in cyber streams and reruns,
known as that old guy trying to find out if Jack was gay on threes company.
If even that.



07'