April 30th - Conks

Four of Diamonds - Conks
7 - Craigslist Missed Connection

A nod to "Invitation to the Blues".
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http://memphis.craigslist.org/mis/2355857382.html

Rita Hayworth at the Register - m4w - 37

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You work at a certain restaurant
Most weeknights and on Sundays
I admire the way you pour coffee
From my table by the window
I've been in every night this week
And it's not for the bacon
You're a moving violation -
From your conk down to your shoes

Linger at my table next time
Or come bring your dodge to the filling station
Tell me how I like my eggs

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April 29th - Before Pictures

Four of Clubs - Before Pictures
7 - Craigslist Missed Connection


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Beauty of the Before Photo - w4w - 35 (Midtown East)

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Is it crazy to fall in love with a photo?
a little maybe but
how could I not
be moved by
your bemused lips
your lotus shoulders
how you cradle your belly
as if it were in swaddling clothes


You are the height of loveliness
in a captured memory
in green bra and leopard print panties
you shouldn't let any man
or any woman say otherwise


This woman certainly won't:
she'll be wearing a golden cicada brooch
on Wednesdays and Sundays
at front desk of the 77th street Jenny Craig -
come and cancel your membership and
she'll take you out for Lobster





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In the meantime, check out April 29th's poem from last year.

April 28th - Potential Energy

Two of Diamonds - Potential Energy
13 - Dialogue


Tension

Now pull it back
I know it's hard just
     "It's hard Dad"
I know
Just pull
Good and
Steady
Keep your eye on
Steady
Keep
Straighten your shoulder for Chris-
Okay
Just keep your eye on the blue
  
    "What makes the arrow fly Dad?"
You don't need to know that
You just need to know
Where to put your feet




Check for a new poem here later today...
In the meantime, check out April 28th's poem from last year.

April 27th - The Scott Kazmir Trade

Seven of Hearts - The Scott Kazmir Trade
10 - Free Verse

June In Sunset Park


Two faded, fitted caps worn inside
Two Brooklyn Summers sipped slowly
The men say little to each other
Accustomed to years of calm fellowship
Or perhaps not to jinx the Mets' 2-1 lead
In the bottom of the sixth

The picture cuts to the Angel's dugout and
Both balding brothers bristle
Still raw about the Kazmir deal


Check for a new poem here later today...
In the meantime, check out April 27th's poem from last year.

April 26th - Sudden Enlightenment

Ace of Spades - Sudden Enlightenment
4 - Ruba'i


Fill My Cup To Overflow

My body like an empty bowl

I tug upon your camisole

And tongue across your salty sweet

Then pause for you to seize control

With legs enwreathed and twisted feet

Gateless in the rising heat

Giving way to muffled cries

We savor and suffer beat by beat

No Zazen brings me to these highs

Zealously we claim our prize

You strike at me for keenness sake

I see colors when I close my eyes

And the whole living univerese shakes

A thunderclap, a tree branch breaks

While here a subtle shift of weight

Prepares me finally to wake

With palms upon your tender pate

Two entities at last conflate

Take in a single inward breath

And quaking die a tiny death

Omnipresent yelling "God is Great!"

Check for a new poem here tomorrow...
In the meantime, check out April 26th's poem from last year.

April 25th - My Girlfriend's Toothbrush

Jack of Diamonds - My Girlfriend's Toothbrush
12 - Limerick

Whoa. No Kids Allowed into this poem.


My Girlfriend's Toothbrush

My girl has an electric toothbrush
In discussing it she is known to gush
When her roommates are gone
We switch it to "on"
And do things that would make a whore blush


Check for a new poem here tomorrow...
In the meantime, check out April 25th's poem from last year.

April 24th - Apocalyptic Dreams

Ace of Clubs - Apocalyptic Dreams
3 - Shakespearean Sonnet




Prescience/Collapse

One summer night I fell into a dream:
My friends and I meander through the mall
And suddenly a man lets out a scream
As pieces of the ceiling start to fall
The burden-bearing cable swiftly snaps,
Foundations shake as crossbeams bend and roar
The total structure threatens to collapse
We link our arms and make it to the door
Outside the air is black as buildings burn
Just noise: a siren's blare, a woman's cry
Amid cacophony one can discern
The crunch of bodies falling from the sky
      And yes it was a dream, but when I woke
      My eyes beheld a skyline filled with smoke


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April 23rd - Two Brains, One Skull

Six 0f Diamonds - Two Brains, One Skull
9 - Hip-Hopera


Well, dear readers, I'm going to have to invoke a get-out-of-jail-free card  on this one - or power of attorney or something.  I hate to cop-out tonight, especially since I dropped the ball on the last hip-hopera, but frankly didn't have the time today. It was worth it, however: thanks to R. and R. and K. and UNIS for a great afternoon/evening/night.


I basically got as far as I did last time.


Songs used:
David Bowie - No Control
Thom Yorke - Black Swan
Thom Yorke - The Drunkk Machine
Micheal Jackson - Remember the Time (that animated sequence at the beginning looked so great in 1992)


(All times listed refer to clips above)


The driving force of the song is the intro to "No Control" layered over the first 0:04 of "Black Swan." Since the percussion on both is very similar, I hope to create a disconcerting echo effect. The verses would consist of "No Control" 0:00 - 0:19 looped, while the choruses would be 0:20 - 0:38 looped. There would be a bridge - and drastic change in tone - that fades in at around "Drunkk Machine" 1:00 (after a fadeout of "No Contol," over "Black Swan" at first) in time to hear "Talking in tongues" and out around "Drunkk Machine" 1:20. This will also serve as the song's outro.


The additional vocal samples would be:
"All deranged. No control."
"No Control." (2:22)
and of course, "Do you remember?"


"Black Swan," "Remember the Time," "Permafrost," and others are meant to thread through the entirety of this hip-hopera.


This movement would be a schizophrenic number about how fame breeds paranoia and regret, the key line being "I'm of two minds." It would ideally be performed by someone who sounds a lot like RZA.




Check for a new poem here tomorrow, I swear...
In the meantime, check out April 23rd's poem from last year.

April 22nd - Victories (small)

Ace of Hearts - Victories (small)
11 - Petrarchan Sonnet

Another Poem About Kissing an Ear

Impossible too over-reassert

The lustrousness of her effulgent ear

And laid inticing on its pale fronteir

A marked scar from some mysterious hurt

I keep this ear in mind each time we flirt

And though I try to act most cavalier

Because of my compulsion I do fear,

We've crafted a relationship inert

Months travel by but I never forget

My longing for what lays beside her head

Through providence one evening, tete-a-tete

We find ourselves together on my bed

   Approaching breathlessly with open lip

   I finally carress its petal tip

Poem coming here later today...
In the meantime, check out April 22nd's poem from last year.

Shout Out #2

Jon Berger is the man who first exposed me to the idea of National Poetry Month - in fact he is who first exposed me to poetry I had any interest in (Jon is often exposing himself). If you ever have a chance to see him perform live dont pass it up; he is one of the most talented and certainly the most prolific poet I know.

Check out his stuff
His NPM blog
Buy his poems (on cd)
Listen to his band