WHAT I REMEMBER (1-4)

At some point in the mid '90s one experiment or exercise I did was to write four separate poems, all of which were entitled “What I Remember”.Why, I don't know. My record keeping is a little fuzzy, but from what I can tell no one ever ran these anywhere, so for better or worse you're probably seeing them here for the first time. Here they are, all four of them:

1

decried pain and

this piece of old

doddering spoonfed

lurched up and the

doctor

removed

a snapshot vague

old carousel melody

back lifetimes when

you and the haze

washed over like ether

squalled a malcontented

rage big baby

what it took

distant strains

saw pretty girls in

ribbons

and bows

skipping and leaping

over slopes in

verdant pastures---

2

you---

devolved from being

object abject w/functioning

orifices all too easy

self-destructive

prime directive

didn't have to be

didn't have to be

picture picture

lodged in stasis

you denied

ran ignorance is

bliss is blitz

rolled to see

meat exude

(lose me)

what it took

(lose you)

3

part was left

of this me

fragmented old

doddering fool

spoonfed restrained

took the buffer

hung on the

steadfast wall

looked for reason

decried pain and

the ongo hung

his head sad

prizes my entropy

4

hell give it a

name and a property

unto itself

i

go figure

it just

in a wash in a blur

frollicking they were

in meadows

green

the pollen

hung in the air

like butter

a shrill

across the room

a name at the

top of their lungs

woolen cling

smiles

denim well worn

clung hard to

a thigh shaken

trajectory

made me waver

heat that wells

shields past barriers

like a soldier

crawling

covered in dirt

she sauntered

in my direction

stood for the word

lines and curves

inquiring eye

my balance

was the

head hung

pushed

what it took i

she the fell i

black on white on

over over ribbons

sleight of hand of

mind of

took the

like ether

i abstained

ruefully

(in the corner the doctor shuffled his cards

circa mid-late 90s/copyright 2015 Molotov Editions

THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST:

FFS-FFS

THE HEARTBREAKERS-LAMF

BLACK SABBATH-Born Again (Yeah----that's right---it's the much-maligned Ian Gillan album---what the hell are you gonna do about it?)