Tag: Poetry

  • Mark Doty–School of the Arts


    School of the Arts is a great book of modern poetry. I saw Mark at the UCLA Festival of Books where I picked up this book. It has a lot of great stuff–including a meaningful cover–the dog image is Arden.

    Arden the dog figures very prominently in Stairs a great poem–and likely my favorite of the book–I liked is much more then the sex sequence “The Vault”. There are a lot of poems dedicated to other artists–mostly painters, but Lorca and some other poets show up. Aging and the changing nature of beauty are strong themes. All of this comes together in the Title piece which is largely about an art school for out of town suburbanites impact on Doty’s art community. Art Auction about trying to buy a small work which turns out to have a second artists hand on it, thus driving the price out of reach is great.

    A very good work of poetry and I will likely read more stuff from Mark.

  • BP :: PJ85

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    The poorest poetry that I creat
    are lines composed for myself
    not simply for pleasure masturbatorially
    rather to enlighten or educate myslef regarding some aspect of my behavior
    Poems on penmenship party perfomance weight
    Perhaps that is why my poem regarding
    my devotion to you has taken so long.
    It has no plot and is yet so crystal clear
    like venus in her shell – on roller skate in venice of course
    Damn I wish I could creat it but the pressure of perfection makes it impossible
    The anxiety of the past and Mr. Blooms description of it
    ti mc to the boat of failure
    metaphor, muse, and convention
    The idea is to creat a reality in which my vision exists.
    That has already been done. A reality in which we coexist together confronts me daily and I rejoice
    But of panthers and passion I fail in praising.
    The measuring stick for love is lust… the do not exist as one…god would need metaphor to measure the relative value of either
    But taken together the power becomes clear
    And with clever tongue to thee I am
    finally able to sing of visions of love
    and repition of stupidty cold hot dogs at the end of the walk of life
    complaints at millers outpost
    the evil medical meachine. the military
    in a dehumanized free verse love energies slowly
    action dictates creation
    axiom prefigures action
    desire is more then my favorite bob dylan record ask me
    you ask me to write..complain of the contents
    and fail to reply
    in your perfect, controlled prose
    to be critical without compassion would be most unkind…
    like shelly the hairdresser….I must
    Aim at the emotion which prefigures the axiom
    Define my love like melting wax
    slowly drying to th eside of an old wine bottle which
    we shared over cheese
    usury has drained my dgo whil you continue to fuel
    my libido even if from afar
    this pen is breaking up…
    mybe for is the problem
    by looking to image I deny meaning
    subject must be the iconographic representation or itself
    as it moves through time space mind
    subject as love pop
    your lips are like a recycled coke can
    Has promise but looks lacks the personal compassion I seek
    today I have honestly not spoken to anyone
    I got nervous in a video store
    “may I speak to the manager…”
    no change occurs
    but thoughts were expressed accross time
    always take cigerates it is agood way
    to communicat attitude without
    vocalization
    no need to ask for Gry Poupon buggle boy jeans will nt help
    Don ask accept
    guetamalon backpacks disolve no value
    but in emotinon the position of the thing is related
    take names orginize files creat confrontation.
    Bukowski hatred for the working world
    will not lend slavation to a
    collapsing S&L industry
    there is never any one more radical then you
    everyone is under appreciated
    Animal spirits exist
    People that do not have their books signed at poetry reading
    really really bother me…
    get the metamorposis
    and read catulus
    follow pound
    round and
    round
    Burrought mind is senly of tight
    don’t give up the fight.
    Simply write greeat poems the great lines will follow.
    where is the water
    going in a greenhouse
    should not the
    water be more
    obvious
    condensing on the windows
    take your time with a pen…the
    tree hook its time growing
    yet where did the ink develop
    in th eintestines of the octopi
    I doubt it beneath the bile bland of some
    ancient snake the tears of an
    asp perhaps
    why hid the meaning the joy of unlocked chests
    has always led to trouble
    pandora
    finding mom’s stuff – nothing but trouble
    theirs the witches pot ha no
    lid it is allows to boil
    and bullbe
    over
    the sides of a
    jar
    a bell jar into which great poets are cast
    sappho and erotic vases
    plath and corning ware
    grandma and the ornament over the mantle
    leaving grnadpa alone in his
    double decker ploy
    as if
    if osomeone had forgoet

    I must gegain the
    humor of a high octane
    asic high
    burning and scouring
    unaffraid to leave the last
    page blank

  • BP :: PJ84

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    I really think that no one is saything nothing
    in fact everyone is saying a great deal
    It simply means nothing.
    yes that is the problem
    the need to keep lines of
    communication constantly open
    has led to them being
    forcefully filled iwth cotton
    foolish fluffy filth thought
    to be mostly harmless however
    close exploration reveals
    this to be sodium
    clogging the arteries and
    destroying healthy circulations
    the slow down is
    caused by human iter
    facing with information
    maintance some computers
    are smarter then some
    men. And if we simply
    stood aside and let
    the blood pump
    We would not get our
    boots wet.
    To cleanse the cotton
    we need needles of
    decisive Action. Winos
    with fierce forcips willing
    to remove the clog
    and flush the system
    with out loosing htem
    selves in the fear that
    they foo will be
    flushed.

    This theory may not be unique – I may be able to base it
    on eternal thought of
    classic scholars, yogis, and
    gurus – yet that will
    give it no more
    merit – it shall meerly
    clog the system
    going the other way.
    the life you lead
    The job you perform
    shall alwys get done
    probably in less time if
    you were not there
    slowing down the flow
    of information by creating
    ripples – ripples formed by
    the force of your two
    cents.
    Wow when one tires
    of waiting on hold it
    generally means that one
    has it more minutes
    to hold – of course the
    realization that you
    will never catch your
    operators name or number
    when they come on the line
    further complicates the telesis
    of effective information
    flow the interface between
    you and the machine
    is being clogged by
    a rock wrapped in cotton
    a large rock chained to
    rules less changing then
    gravity pre einsteinian
    relativeless lumps of
    shit that thrivve on
    human anger and suffering
    wraith wraith wraith
    I name you Hold button
    sapper of wills!
    confustion prince!
    Diety of Decline!
    Forever challange the
    bounds of infinite patience
    prespective fast food
    Employee!
    Hold Line!
    Fear of Function!
    Eternal time gag!
    Easily excused, oft
    forgotten ne’er do
    well.
    Inventor be damned
    Grahm Bell I know
    thy name and shall
    soon seek thee out
    Bank pay pay pay
    As I call you prime
    time to insure that
    you pay the highest
    rates for my out of
    zone calls
    With 1/2 this book
    a filled I shall
    band up and try
    back back back
    #1 billing info
    1 current ballance
    2 billed
    #5

  • BP :: PJ83

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Today I purchased some stamps
    roses!
    roses?
    roses.

    my postal payment was beflowered in purity
    could anyting be much worse

    comedians

    I have not yet seen this
    but according to rumor
    Laural and Hardy will soon be paying their way
    through thte Tristerds

    Two mean… Alone… in a field of flowers and dinasaurs and presidents

    Charlie Chaplin – Alone. Again – fighting th efascists of beauracracy

    off the clocck we have no chance…

  • BP :: PJ82

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Per Po

    An historical recreation of the day
    of the past in the physiology of our creations

    The death of Perf Po

    No

    I think not when its mindless creations are still attacked
    by cognition rather then emotions

    release is more then cutting up credit cards

    more then copping a feel on a strangers heel
    mor then blasting the art of strangers
    And until you and yours understand that the time of
    Perf Po is now!

  • BP :: PJ81

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    My metaphores may offend
    Gestures may create distaste

    I don’t ask you to assume I have a brain

    In fact I am gald you do not!

    The time of perf po has passed you by

    And Derrida will not carry you through

    The death of Perf Po

    No
    NO
    NO

    I do not think so
    not while overread assholes compromise experience for part time jobs

    We must scream heckle bleed
    Bleed
    BLEED!

    can I get a witness

    I thought not

    An unblended puliate alway compromises
    The intrinsic colors of our nature

    Radio waves may penetrate our skulls only
    Because they carry no new informations
    Norman Mailer, Charles Olson, Ed Sanders, Ezra Pound

    To drop just a few of my fellow dreamers
    White men all
    Fasciest some
    Yet with mixed pallets of contemplation
    enabling them to create the
    untimate Art

  • BP :: PJ80

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Kll me
    kastrate me
    vot for me
    well…
    sacrafice river butcher bald eagles…

    but but but

    this

    the death of per po no!
    I think not.

    endless Jim morrisona esque ahem esquires
    in eithty dollar boots can reise before the masses spouting
    trochaic hexameter out dated eliot

    the deth of per po

    no

    to his him and his applauding audience
    All that is seen to crotch grabbing compromishg
    well if that is all he and his see
    so be it that must be it

    The death of Perf po

    no

    my metaphores my offend
    gestures may create distaste

    I don’t ask you to assume I have a brain

    In fact I am glad you do not

    the time of perf po has passed you by

    and derrida will not carry you through

    the death of perf p

    no
    no no

  • BP :: PJ79

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    I sit shrouded in smoke
    reflecting
    contemplating
    experiencing
    the eternal dream dance of my occupation
    Jumping cars…
    stealing books…
    pimping beer for bucks…
    david lee rothing
    for this art
    the line the fire
    the ternity
    Remeber me…please

    for I meant to suffer… for my suffering to be understood by humainty…
    but when my art is misunderstood
    me my art my suffering
    condemned my art profaned my heart
    I was ok I could take it I had cappicino for comfort…

    I was okay…

    The death of per for mance pe ah try

    WHAT!!

  • BP :: PJ78

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Oh how truly truly pretty
    rasselus reborn a jim morrison
    whith mindful meter and harmonic spondees a bouunding
    and oh oh oh
    the hip expresso lounge
    refernece to employs and princes or pretenion
    with godly stance and oration from heavan and ahen and hell
    capturing the entirety of the middle class malehood so very well.
    Destroying others art to laughs of joy
    prpnecising true goals with internal prossidy
    The diction defines the dynamics as a chalk board screech
    fill the air – my mind…

    the past is just that influence is fine funny, at times.
    Yer the soup kitchen only serves once…
    and the time for perf-po is now!

    Electrocute for elucidation flapping genetal to capitalism
    glory peace beams
    enlighten the doubters
    no one worth saving suffers

    The time for perf-po is now!
    slice out your heart to model for s clay wilson
    spray banana joy form buttocks
    splatter earth worm full of garlic from the podium
    per po prer po perf po

    Sing in the twelve tone trochaics
    fear the fear of fear itself
    video taped nocturnal emissions!
    Bovine historical drama
    Review Renew and investigate
    forget the debate
    so the Darby Crash Live Live LIve!
    Yell into pianos
    scream at fire hydrants
    unscrew streeet signs
    maintain the b glat!
    perf po perf po pfer po

    Die Drunk
    Die Drunk

    no fear of beazuladd
    you are it on that stage
    ignore simplitons

    look beyond leconstrution beyond convention

    Fear Fear Fear the repear
    the eternal hookman

    Shoot smak dream away
    drool drool drool
    per po perf po perf po

    No explanations

    Not with a bang or a whimper
    screw Dat tapes fornicate with hard drives
    rewind your midn live david cassidy the time
    for perf po is now!

    Never forget the Mayonaise!

    Do it all get a job!
    per po perf po perf po

    champaign kisses with chimpazees Don’t forget minerals!
    Screw mother earht
    dedlete the ozone personlly melt friend kiss records on new age
    tantvic ritualists!
    turn on juke boxes live elvis live elvies
    live live live
    the time for per po is now!

    cut your hair
    screw your cup be like me be be

    be like him
    this time for perfomance poetry is in fact now

  • BP :: PJ77

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Reflecctions on Ron’s play, I say play the hot spot osoundtracke : eulogize the epic verse shall not relate
    the cat the purse
    the turtle pouch
    Here name was CC
    sans music factory
    with purpose pants and minight glee
    she this tale did unwind a thread
    so ddep vulcan did fear to hear the attitude after eleven beers
    Ron – chosen cloven heai sobright – naval ring
    tatoos
    primate
    asleep with spins and cat named goo
    cigerates did bequeth tso joy may issue
    I hate man his promiscous pecker tale did
    start
    budwiser
    silence and her legs apart
    You now I sing the morning after
    In paisley boxer the dawn I do freet
    fair eos and her
    sleeps so quickly do retreat
    leaving me with patters and visions and burns
    ths song changes leu and I turn the page
    unfinished and ending like the vision.