Hermit d' Frag - For Don Van Vliet -
Im gonna make a gumbo
Then Im gonna lay low
might even make a sofa chair
from the purple plush of a merc montclair
going to drive up to palomar
going to lay low
jabber with sal mineo
make some righteous gumbo.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Stasiland confidential
Sunday, February 16, 2014
RENAISSANCE FUNNIES 1
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IN THE DAYS OF PIERRE DELLA FRANCESCA, SAYS THE TIMES, THE COSMOLOGIES OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION WERE STILL RECONCILABLE. A BIG LAND SUB LIKE A TROJAN HORSE OR A WIENER MOBILE WOULD TRAVERSE THE TOWNS DRIVEN BY SCIENTISTS AND PRIESTS BOTH.
Sunday, February 02, 2014
Hull Gumbo Variations at Kingston Gallery
Jeff Hull Gumbo variations | 450 Harrison Ave #43 Boston MA 02118 Kingston Gallery (call for times 617.423.4113) Click to access a brief film of Hull's drawings.
Now a message...
There were a couple of good 'poetry-inspired' commls a few years ago.. then it became a rote meme - blah and destroyer of poesy. I think with this Super Bowl Commercial, Great Muse Bob Dylan took back the metre! Yeah, again, Bob !
Elvis was riding his last summer
Elvis was riding his last summer
in limousine
through Madison Wisconsin
and on a corner
he saw two high school kids
fighting.
he said 'stop the car'
got out
put up his fists
threw some karate fakes
and he said c'mon
and he said c'mon
i'll take you both on.
they looked at him
a king robed in splendor
they couldn't consider it
they couldn't hit
Elvis.
so he says
see!
there's no need to fight!
now shake hands.
i got a show tonight.
-Jack Vaughan, 1977
When I was visiting my old home town of Racine, Wis. in the summer of 1977, I was standing on Main St one night with some friends, and one tells me the recent story of Elvis, in Madison, stopping a street fight. Maybe a month later on a similar summer night in Eureka Calif (Robert Cray and Albert Collins were playing), again with Wisconsin friends, there came the word that Elvis died. Somewhere along the way I started writing this poem. I was looking for a picture of Elvis in limo and actually found a reference to this incident, which, for all I knew, was urban myth. Pop culture and myth were what the poem was about. Elvis was bigger than Gilgamesh - and this story was a viral thing on a street corner to me.. Little did I know but it was to be 'retold many times' in multiple biographies. Anyway, it's out there now.
A superbowl half time dream I dreamed again
A superbowl half time dream I dreamed
Oh boy Lord buckeley
Horray for snodgrass
It was great!
Im doing a review
of the alternative super bowl
half time show
It dint happen
But god
There they were
The big rodeo cowboys came in
It was such a gas
There were the boggs
There was
The street singers rube wadell and Trudell pitched in too –
john trudell with the whole sick crew
With kevin costner
playing the part of rube
in a graveyard of odd shaped footballs
Hitting flyballs to britney spears
Where
Mouths were agape
How would they react
to leonard cohen
in fact?
When he started doing sail on ship of state america
And that world wearniness kicked in like a zamboni driver on a cake
It just grew and grew up from the lungs
And all the particpants were wondering some
Katos were flying and the holy modals sang ah lordy my
man
And then came the South Mississippi All Star Marching Band
With the North Mississipi All Stars too
Their knees pumping
Their heads rocking
In unison in lines doing
Alabama jubilee!
There was some heckofagood Advertisments
But we will never forget
John sinclair Paying tribute to houston stackhouse
Blind lemon jefferson played by refrigerator perry
At the super bowl half time show that I want to see
It was in a
hopper
and on the fence
Some may say director scorcese’s direction was
Over
tHe top
and too much
self
referential
but what
do
they know
I’d say nay
save for the segment with irish coffins
uploading at a civil war port
Yes that drew
A few Boos
Heck it was too frigging funny
But robert deniros apearance as the boxer jake la motta again with britany spears in tow
While the slim whitman (see below) float’s chorttle began to waft
The love song of the waterfall that beat the martians..
That stuff Qualmed the crowd
With
Eye candy for the ear
Beyonce upon
The genetic engineering float
With espn ticker playing infuries laterally
A sculpture of Rosalind frankilin
aboard as well Made completely
of tawainese styrofoam
Singing on the float
a message to you ruthie
the reconstituted specials fronted by shane macgown
and millie small
backed further by the horns
of the skatellites
Da-da-dat-da-dat-da
Da-da-dada-lat.
- Jack Vaughan 2005
Being at - the alternate superbowl halftime show
Being at - the alternate superbowl halftime show
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