3 times
I made her happy today
yet I know nothing of love
is love a conjunction a cataract a corollary
a crease
a circumference
if a conjunction, where does it join, what joins, what fastenments required
is it an illusion fueled by convention, by want ... an evolution refining
could it be storytelling ... a specialized fiction
a leap of faith
or
a frisky fetish event, an entertainment
is it a failing an achievement
a trophy
a form of self-abuse
is it a salutation, a sunrise, or an
err
a forfeiture
an inseam
a surcease an eruption a cavalry a stampede a mustang bathing in a pond of absinthe
a wreck a reconstitution an obeisance
a dramatic supersession
a pair of wet galoshes
a gulag
7 days in a week
times 3
I’ll go with that
- Heller Levinson
(featured in the poetry forum 11.04.09)
I WANT A WOMAN WHO COMES WHEN I PUT MY DICK IN HER
call me troglodyte, male chauvinist pig,
old, worn, used, lousy lover – you
wouldn’t be wrong. But, ... check it
out, I’m over fifty, time is
precious, spending an hour lapping
and licking between thighs, employing
fingers, -- frantically rubbing SOS pads
over dishes that just won’t come clean –
my neck gets stiff,
my wrist tires, my fingers cramp,
and, hell, I could be
reading Schopenhauer. Am I
being unreasonable? Look how easy
you’ve got it – a tickle here,
a squeeze there, a few choice words
and, ... Bazooka! Holy Holy Infantry! Hey,
don’t lay some poor technique trip
on me, at this point in my life
it’s like with money ...
I’ve got what I’ve got,
take it or leave it.
Relax ... forget about foreplay,
the art of sensual loving, all the
crap you’ve been reading, concentrate
all your powers on my dick,
rhapsodize about the tip
as it initiates into you, thrill
to all the flutter and foam
of my penetration, throb, bob, heat, to the
magnificence of my beat,
dick and pussy
maximize minimalism,
you’ll see,
it’ll work ... and,
if it doesn’t
we’ll go to
the movies
and hold hands.
- Heller Levinson
(added 07.20.09)
ISM ISMS
communism capitalism socialism fAasCH-
ism schisms mysticism dogmatism romanticism trash
shamanism
populism
technologism
occidentalism
orientalism
ism isms jism isms productionism bash
-- do you bathe in your ism,
do you confide in your ism, rely on your ism, spy on their ism while their ism decries your ism, have you determined the ism of your ism, are you or anyone you know a recipient of ismic welfare, at your earliest convenience please get your ism a chest x-ray,
& when you dare, beyond the blind foreswear
take a moment & query your ism –
catholocism protestantism judaism islamism hinduism gnosticism buddhism recidivism formalism surrealism protectionism liberalism parochialism ooh my we’ve got us a systematism ...
radicalism racism fanatacism isolationism syllogism neologism parallelism conservativism slash
ism ism schism ism schismism is-m
commune with your ism commerce with your ism
eroticism lesbianism homosexualism heterosexualism sodomism
alcoholism
consumerism
fetishism
ism ism ism too many isms
got those too many ism blues
gonna march on washington
with territorialism
with reactionism
protestin those anarchism anachronism industrialism hypnotism isms
- Heller Levinson
(featured in the poetry forum 07.20.09)
Color
Not in any formalized sense, no laconic breakdown, no tri-partite divisions of hue/luminosity/intensity, but color as activity & contagion, as arousal mannerisms & vowel sounds percolating pigment flirtation migratory bemusement ladder, color as jealousy & lachrymose, as cereal & crust, color building chordal blocks & agricultural progressions irrigation by-ways autumnal bridle paths Ferris wheels gypsy copulatives & bulldozer, color to sleep in to love in, to frost to suck, color as intimacy & reproach, as unreliable navigator & sleuth, a lexiconic hydra, a beetle, a moth, an invitation experiencing mechanical failure, & the call of color is to color where color fails, to uncover the undercover of cover, to reset the receptors, to board phantom wavelengths & establish cherish, to remonstrate the idolatrous zigzag of supra-retinal perceptual frolic ........... ------------- xxxxxxxxxxxx !!!!!!!!!!!
- Heller Levinson
(featured in the poetry forum 02.15.09)
ELVIN JONES JAZZ MACHINE
HELMS BAKERY 3/13/97 aaah-h lurch back
guttural recess first rivers and streams
un-concerned with passage ancient
jawbone conga/bongo teeth
kaleido-face-scope varia-ble
as rhythm gentle simian granite bison
overtowering lord smash ride
press roll pop-snap snare solar sizzle
ratatata Keiko’s Birthday March
cyclone center drove sheep
nip heels sidemen
s-h-i-n-e
glimmer cymbal razzle
mallet tomtoms spindrift rumble
rear dinosaur muscle tarantula
so much of that
perpetual
brush swizzle
- Heller Levinson
(added 02.15.09)
Toxicity Bummer
(for Elmar Lemes
ramped pile-upsxxxvampirish trash
pressed into netherworlds of clinch
embracexxxgarbage→collectivized→twined
→coveted courtedxxxcommingled –
xxx[mingling more intimate than their progenitors
xxx[slum intercourse
xxx[trash orgies
xxx[positional frenzy
shuttled through assorted destination(s) (‘holidays’) a trek the rubbish TripTik
charting course sleighing to the dumpyard sle(threa)dding through the dumpster to
Kingdoms of Junk scurrilous crud clumpery cesspools wrestling disarray
wrapped/packaged for Cerberic inspection – dressed for exterminationxxxhierarchical
omnivores glutted misfed & screen-fastened firing platitudinous dial-upsxxxcongealing
photovoltaic carcinogenic discardsxxxrat axles gibbering plantme(a)eteat grease
sunrise solder cereal cartons reeling sidereal
moundsxxxplateausxxxmountains of rubbish
refusexxxrefusalxxxthe dismissed
dismissing the dismal
xxxthat which
no longer matter-(s)
- Heller Levinson
(added 02.15.09) |
