Showing posts with label Alley Loo Yeah Chorus. Show all posts
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Monday, August 27, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part XVI (final)


J
errymemad sniffs phooey
    you z growed up topsywise turvey
        accept yr white-liveried n black moodz
            oh my-giddy-aunt fatalism
        accept yr tergiversatin n faint heartz
            lazydaisical-lacks-resolution
    yer breakin wind aint inspiration
        nor sweat on brow dew frum heaven

    piss alley rules y
    piss alley rules y
    piss alley rules y

    tad z taken shepherdz crook n bosunz starter
            fer granted
        aint that how yr state-f-art animal adapts
        aint that exactly where pragmatrix leads yr
        aint that tackin thru divers crowds f premisses
        aint that yr puretest enigma n variations
        aint that yr cock-n-bullier circumstances
            red rag-written-off by-n-large

    oh yeah    oh yeah    oh yeah

alley wit-in-residencez sees-n-saws
    wealth z
        coin f realmz half-arsed swollen model
            as fart is to shit
    wealth z
        bottle corked r pig bled
        after shit z forked n spread
        seed spilled nursed n fed

alley loo yeah chorus cries
    oh yeah    oh yeah    oh yeah


filosofusser will go a-musing:
    what fool will bravely naively disinfer
        originall bitterend
    where peacez stagnant regime
        warps across warz mayhembez regimen
    could be clockwise crack f cockalarum doom
        importunate knock on too-little-too-late door
    unimportant as lubricious peccadillo
        that lays to rest nightfall head on pillow

    lolloping waves
    tossed heads f trees
    tip-toeing clouds
        upsy-daisy downsy-daisy
            banality f words
        aint no revolution

    what suffices comes back to haunt y
    being lonely-onliest iz price paid
    eat
        drink
            be merry
                be wise
    return c.o.d.
    unless product satisfies

tadz soleloquy
    no sir    no sirrah        no sirree
        to be aint not-to-be
    even secondhand look
        on timez face
            can see
        more lies in wait
            than hourglass sand run out
    life z handheld candle
        meant to burn steadfastly
            till snuffed when infirm
        like fellow-de-se sun
            sheddin brightness on disarray
                to make sense of
                    day in    day out
            expirin when dayz work done

    cry amenity    cry alley-buddha-loud-yeah
    cry amen fr humanity


utter last by tad
    got mentors n tormentors
    taken hints n kicks
    licked sugared ifs n salty buts
    heard calliope round f blasphemies n tut-tuts
    goin out where i came in

    joy z efficacious
        dated anterior to dis-ease
            which sends contentment
                to its knees

    truthz bein antinomial
        doesn't matter
        like odd pairs of socks
            found in wash with fluffed curses
                that beg or borrow hysteria

    yeah        listen to tad    be aware
    bottom line by default z diaperin n spankin buttocks

blind alley filosofusserz paradiddle:
    serves no humane purpose
    this bein led up garden path
        or down
    by revolutions
        turns of juggernaut wheel
    to which we are hung
        as if buckets to scoop
            and fill with earthz richness
                pockets f plenty-plunderers
    mountebanks that exploit
        our weal and woe
            writin finis over our shed bodies
                in name of advantage
    oh whose
        no    not ours     nay
    cry out to toiling-wheel-year-by-yearz-turning    whoa
    cry woe to wheel


poetasterisk bids envoi

    cry qui vive
        looksee peoplehole
            knock on portal
                where revealed other eye     or i
                self beyond self
        terra incognita
            "here be strange misshapen beasts"
        ill-omened to deter seers n pilgrims
            from discovering wonders greater than allegory
        land with no tongue to praise

    take carnal oath
        cross boon-companion heart
        void phlegm
            cleansing fistula where sooth runneth
        question maudlin liver n sepulchrous spleen
            let intimate organs run together compliantly
                like sojourney moon and journeyman sun

    we be all seeded properties
        accommodated over noble celestial endowment
            to fare in singular animation
    aware and not aware according to lore
        in whose backyard we cant put ultimate shape to
        nor entertain in courtesy resident mage
            if such there be
            except to dream upon

    aint that yr daffy-down-dilly finderz-keepers
        gone to flinders upset revelation
    bless yr joie de vivre liver
    bless yr leapfrog kissin heart
        may that fire up engrams in yr corpus callusom
            till y forget who you are n find out what y iz

alley weal rule y
        alley weal rule y
            alley weal rule y
                oh yeah alley-wise weal rule y


The End.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part XV


j
eremymad sez
    examine rough side f tongue
        loud-mouthing revolutions
            lasting as barleycorn brew fealty oath
    examine fine sadness
        when exhausted battalions died in van
            yr freebooter economix taint
            carried over into war
    examine exhumed etceteras
        don't need religious mirror fr hindsight
        look inside own eyes
            cleansing limbic foreshore
        exercising remedial franchise

    brainless conscienceless commensal would rule us
        virtue meanly becomes because
        spoilsport playing second fiddle
            reckons to oust first
        limning z detraction
        articulation z fits n start r petit mal

    tadz revally

        sing nonsuch song
    sully me none
        originall
    aint reciprocal

    portrait z not sitter
        diabolic tease n pucker lips aint master
    tad climbs out of consanguineous bed
        waking up topsywise turvy
    pinches self
    finds originall aint reciprocal

        sully me none
    sing nonsuch song
        originall aint reciprocal
    . . . wake up call!

tadz revalleyation
        we iz uz n we aint uz
    we z premissory notes
        thrown at in-f'r-penny infer-pound arena
    we z oracular crystal balls
        divided over divinin what iz n what ought to be
    we z shrove tuesday tops
        whipped into whizkid dizzyin transports
    we z cinctured catherine wheels
        explodin in demonstrative splendour
            over grand almighty firmament

    pledge yr carnivalleytory oath
        may alley weal rule y
        yeah    may alley-wise-we-all rule y

Friday, July 27, 2007

Allley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part XIV


w
elkin wonderer sez hi
    lookit thoroughfare
        there z shortcoming n shortcommons
        there z long suits n trumps
        there z shortfalls n longhauls
        there z speed bumps n traffic summons
    y takes y lumps
    pavement payment due y'all

wayside pulpit propheteer extolls
    lookit strait n arrow
        there z marbelous walks n fountains    no lack
        there z guilded halls n recitals by bach
        there z haloes n harps n angels in flock
        there z bullion vaults n arches by max

    o laud    sing amen you all

jeremymad sez nay
    second lookit thoroughfare
    direct route leads from what z lapsed
        to what z perhapsed
    turnpike avenue f revenue
        culled sacks by bushel
        cost f express or posthaste
    lookit crooked mile reward
        pecks f kisses from missus
            who z dandlin crooked kid on crooked knee
        halt cant leap crooked stile
    toll litters concourse
        idiots havenots simpletons loonies freaks
        derided scorned despised
        hated hounded abandoned
    hum-hum fall-out peradventure

    singular wail'll tell y
    cry ai ai ai amend y'all
        alack n woebegone y
            alley weal be on y

alley jest supposes:
    wish-on-a-star risk
        salvation by degree or decree
    aint no noble savage manimality to save us
    nor godlinexus tween earth n heaven
        pray for magnumanity
    we iz free to be what we iz to be
    free of our own apronstrings
        if to be human z inhuman
            n to go ape z divine
    alley wail rule y
    alley wail rule y

    godz chillun gotta sing fer breakfast
    godz chillun gotta sing fer fast break
        fulcrum z sprung on no arm-twisting
            bejesus submission-hold
                cryin uncle
        double fiddle-di-dee mooseracktangled knackeryard knot
            aint where it z at
        none f us need eat own shit
        however recipe got

resident alley filosopuss spits ox off tongue
        onto barrelhead
    given body z at odds
    survival-toolshaped n flawed
    tool must sharpen edge
    remove elder burr
    care for wits n senses

    alley-wort hooks alternative abode
        digs in discommodious niche
        flouts landlord with single-minded salute
        disrespectin    rite-n-propertied gallantry
    cross-purpose malefactoring
        later consummate address

    alley green thumb rules extend y
        chess knight moves bent like legs f athletes
        refractory can be canny advocacy

    examine limb as patent crook
        limited animal enjoys joint cooperation
        articulation tangential asset
            machine can wipe own arse
            peeper can fetch bum through looking glass
        limber coupling to strangerself
        schitzy split extended into
            by hook or by crook
        with the corollary: i'll be first in my book
            cutting off friendly hand in exchange for
                prosthetic gauntlet

    roses bred for comely face
        leads to ditto noses
    as inference perforce
        rounds off supposes

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part XIII


H
ow many fractured bits can brain juggle
    mind-boggling kaleidoscape gives us fits
    dismiss putative genius machine
    analytical engine cant handle contrary witz end
    logicz compulsion     versus compunctionz prick

take recess
    fork out excess from wallet
    looksee corny carnivalley routine
    whether you eye manna r elixir
        snake-oil mountebank
        gets famous two-cents worth leg-in-door

take yr shibboleth    truth
    other-worldly conception
    high-minded n high-handed
    takes pride in belonging
    implies diabolical opposite
    them n us scenario

summon alley law     yeah
    prima facie case
    synthetic origin

    birth n death
    nearest portals to herebeforeafter
    apposing miniscus in peristaltic tube
        whose orifaces
        neither unfriendly nor benign to lookers-on
    what z behind aint principals 'r participants
    not so z we can tell

comes consummate logic
        ulterior test
    logic z fabulous butcherz hook
        holds pertinent carcass up to light
        dwells at cutting edge
            molesting or unobserved as

maybe

alley pince-nex whiz sez
    use logix excruciating zeal
        as if own tippytoes were dancing
            on knockaway stool
    logix    antiscorbutic
        headhunter n torturer
    logix    occamatic doctor
        cuts afflatus
        sutures deflated windbags
    logix     private soldierz housewife
        kept in knapsack next futile baton
    logix     neat accomodation
        twixt jack sprat n spouse

resident alley pince-nex whiz sez 2
    logix    bullyboy rack f stag
        f'r browbeatin upstart tads
    logix     ebb n flood climacteric
        like doughty salomon salt n freshet battle
    logix     cartwheels denied necktied gantry birds
    logix     man-o-war walkin on air
        over chops n combers
    logix    triumph 'f mindin over matter
        transverse n logitudinal propagations
    cos matter rules mind    natch

    logix    object lesson in lab n lav
        ports n heads fr snoopin n poopin
    logix     poker-faced intro
            to wild cards n boneyard

hazards
        some tricks run tally-ho in packs
        some knaves grab tarts
            flee

    single-minded

        when logic fails
        dice n heads roll
        all bets off

alley bywords n o-biter dicta

    nix on strong medicine
    massive dose moral reason
    thrust holus bolus down gullet
        from pulpitz height
    as if prescription for what ails y

lookit cop-out nostrumdamnus
    heady spoonfulz dial-mass-f-pottage
        sorrel leaves for poets
        noun secateurs for philosofussers
        soupcons for garcons

lookit snakebitten victims f jacobz ladder salesmen
    dumped back on no-soon-tomorrow square zero
    waitin to throw fixit six
    chuckleheadz dice handicap

lookit turnagain worthy citizen
    pussyfootin-boots exemplar
        for mutinous subjects n refactory masses
    justifyin consignment f daffydowndillies
        to dark lordz dominion
    headstrongarmed    contingents f liabilities
    shepherded like vehicular particulars
        down gauntlet freeway to tomorrowyeah

    may alleyways rule y

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part XII


h
ey ninny ninny     artificial tongue
    hey nonny nonny    umbrageous folly
    hey ho    grind y'r calliope navel
        belly-got lingo n fulcrum
        you'll come to answer for boys n girls
    then make hey n alley hoopla
        you'll swing n hang together    ah

say nay    say nay
    universal rule z ululated out f court
    adjudged contemptible hoax by lore
    bought n sold as baggage at birth
        ain the ticket
    cry alley weal rule y
        alley weal rule y    yeah

tad    lotos-legged
    mistakin kaleidoscope toy
        f'r originall view of stars
    announces
            grab yr wrecker bars
            prise yr freedom
            bend yr prison bars
            hammer yr landlords
                tatterdemalions
                ragamuffins
            smash yr cages
                smithereenz ultimatum pattern

    best bet from gifthorsez mouth
    peopleholez aperture

take yr simple looksees n quaint saws
        hand-me-maidenly-down savvy views
    like whales wheezing bottom
        gotta break f'r air
        spout n aspirate

    mouth draws breath
    eyes swivel looksee
    apprehensive or proprietorial
    you can like it and you can lump it

shouldn't wonder if phases f moon
    states f mind to suit
        from rags f thought to velvet britches
        from silk purse to wild-oat-sowerz ear
    round n round n round again

say nay    say nay
    cry alley weal rule y
        alley weal rule y     yeah

    howl z bestial tongue
        n sting f bee z eloquent colloquy
    wail z primitive lingua franca
        venomous bite z comprehensive lexicon

alley caterwaul sez
    kiss off almighty liason
        too-too wholesome seminal integrity
            qualifications admit
        like roosterz definitive performance at dawn
            on tipheap
        while adjunct hen demonstrates lay f land

    kiss off citadel and temple
        stronghold or glamorous     makes no mind
        potentate on balcony acknowledging masses
        pulls bitter plum from pie with flourish

    kiss off history as looking up to looking back at lot
        slumdwellerz paradigm
        brick by brick pile nondescript class erect
        cause n effect monumental improvidence
        ripoff hi-rise particular people disown

say nay    say nay
    cry alley weal rule y
        alley weal rule y
        yeah

Monday, June 4, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part XI


p
ertinent: manifest sun
    sports yr necktied-party albatross
        called seasons
    browbeatin yr commoners and garden-fete variety
        upper-crusteans
    evisceratin yr stranded eremite
        an' frecklin yr freak albinos
    not to mention yr captive brown tropicals
        an' polar chillyuns
    ain that yr cockier n bullier circumstance
    ain that yr mythical marquee hero lit large

pertinent: vogue moon
    tackin through clouds f premises
        encroachin on tommerrymore
    take carneyvalley oath
        she z promissory notes
        she z enigmas n variations

    moon z yr snakeyes n black deuces
    moon z yr nomadic wild card turns up trumps
    moon z yr non sequitur steamed-up kettle
        squanders desprational particles
            in marry! hail-fellow-well-met
                tossed n caught kisses

dynasty sun z potable wine till sour grapes tipple-topple
moon z altar ego till eyebawlinful heads nod in succession

lookit sun
    yr goldenager touts seniority plus
    yr flagrant imaginable felo de se holycost

lookit moon
    femme fatale
        reflects upon yr boot'illfull headstones

Monday, May 21, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part X


A
lley lullaby lady

    wearied child
lies at feet
shy alleyway lady
unshouldering load
makes heart weep
    tears like petals fall
astrew on road
stars their loyal watch
brightly will keep
    shy 'f hullabaloo lady
mend in sleep

    prose hymn to alley yeahway

out of otherwhen came forth exultation ...
out of seminal egg came forth hatchling
out of cheeping chick came forth clucking hen
out of cackling hen came forth cocksure rooster
out of coxcomb rooster came forth flibbertigibbet hen
out of begats came forth lame egg rolling
out of lamentation came forth ugly duckling
out of puddling duck came forth swaddling cygnet
out of waddling cygnet came forth elegant swan
out of elegiac swansong came forth rapture
out of otherwhen came forth exultation ...

mmi

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part IX


I
dolatry-wise
    your true-blue believers
        resent nice exception
    prove lookalikes
        most hate least distortion
    funfair mirrors    fake capital horror

        caught redhanded
        pushing consorted angels off pinhead
    snakeeyes shakes in belly-laughter

take yr tatter f fact tramp gadfly
    yr commoner phenomenon
        waistcoat f stale fish n chip wrappers
            recyclin otiose newspaper
                promises n misgivins
    sleeps raggedy-ann under bridge
    builds cardboard palaces
        against witless hardihood
    walks á propos cloud f otherz apprehensions
    falls short
        has shortest fall
    heroes most dare
        invite most tumbledown
    unalike yr jack n jill
        booby hale fellow who cant hold water
    or yr double fiddle di dee scaredy crows
    or yr cracked egghead     aitch dee
        served up
            scrambled on toast
                for royal breakfast

alleyby sez
    who'z     squeaky clean
        no hazard dares
        shushes discomfort
        brooks no mean
    no wonder Christopher Robin
        without evil intent
        caught in middle
        dittoes his prayers

godz lucky chillun got eyes in head
    godz plucky chillun bite tongue
    some digs orizons fer breakfast
    some ill-defined get swung
    some fly bold
    some sail high
    some z lack o'pinioned
    some hide in closet from wind

tadz alleybylaw sez:
    'll gurgeon m'seln on fish    man
        like yer whale r salmon    m'lady
    coddle m'seln till'm full    ma'am
    do no harm to any but'n m' prey    sir
    ancient under oversee ritual bellyflung
        slaughter n prayer    m'dear
    tastes sweet to some
        to some dour
    albeit to lookers-on
    ain we bullygods b' rights    humble gentle person!

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part VIII


f
ishful gulls
    n deliberate bees
serial kicks by foetuses
    n bolivar-revolutionary waves
fistful 'f teat babies
    n ingratiatin disease
sorrowful
    we walk in carrion
alleylewdyeahway born
    toeholding on wastage
tuppenny blood n thunder degradations
    bred of these splendours

take carnal oath
    lend ears curses
    fist nose bloody
    bullybruise eyes black

sully me none with shibboleth
    yr teasy-pleasy hairshirts
    yr pins n needles
        'f hot-to-trot confessions
    yr journal distempered chatter
        roundelay 'f likeably bad news

disregard contretemps
    we z miscreants
    whilst heaven calls roll up yonder
        snakeeyes rubs bones to stop run
    pray motherhood may belly-up to womb
        lest foetus wants out before travail

    yr wholesale disaster
    yr lethal puckerlips kiss by judas
    yr cracks in kingdome come
        are yr worldz phantom contractions
        n gestation period
    princely vulcanic joke

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part VII


g
odz chillun got feet
        can choose
        even if godz chillun
        aint got shoes
    hammered thumbz expletive shout
        shatters natal assumptionz dearth f doubt
    where certainty meets nexus up
        threatening status quotas
        plushcan-o-crats sit on restive movements
        defyin alleloo lawz worshipful excremental duty

sully me none
            with yeahwayz initials
        supplicantz apostrophe n apochryphal spout
    alladinz lamp dont pour
        quick buff works miracles f genial light
    wicked snakeeyes stays mumchance
        strolling down storyroad finicky heroes abandon

    where upright n orizontal assemble
        there hunkers three-limbed animal
        wouldbecomehuman
        knotted before pelagian excursion

    dreadful crux is
            what z wisdom

Tad wonders
    wisdom z less-simple made plain, ain it
        not to multiply ignorance
    take good n bad
        polar opposites
    which iz antipodes
        depends whether view from pulpit or pew
        what to believe
    horsez mouth r horsez arse
        both iz equinoxious
    elision f virtues non pareil to non plus

Tad wonders
    readin providential palm
        crossed with silver
    like visage lined for laughter n care
        wearin veil
    bought to nod

imagine great screechin glass bowl f dome
    give me your huddled masses
        turntabled into proper howligans
    pristine maidens
        garden-grown in row
    cavort on artificial grass
        plump behinds
        becomin bosoms
        persecutionz witnesses
    striped umpire sets foxes on run
        hounds in pack pursue
    ballthrowin solution to salvation
    TV hall f fame passes
        modified coups de grace
        attenuated doses f harm by gridiron

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part VI


s
torm flaunts big innings
    comes to terms with commoner front
    swollen colon vents anarchic fart
    aplomb settles on virtual stool
        negating momentum
    pendulum swings alley oop to hail mary
    tadz hung-up exemplar
        providentially stalled en route to pandemonium

    frugal aint hairshirt
    exhilaration aint prodigal
    ice warms up to fluid
    lets off steam without losing composure
        in free state
    yr model     ebb n tide alley hoopla
        or vices versa

carnivalley pitch
    cry up yr bigtop gala n fete
        strawberry tea to follow
    galaxy z newfun coney island
    arcade f follies n spoils ultraglobetheatre
come see comme ça simulacrum f what y dare

    galaxy z untethered cow
        pluckin lazily on tongue-length grasses
        danglin new-fangled tits f'r breakfast
    galaxy z coded missal f orizons thrown
        hail mary parabolayeah across blue yonder basilica
    galaxy z astronomers rubberneckin
        cadaverz freak oversize orifice with speculum

carnivalley sirens call
        yo ho heave ho
        m' tads n bullyboyz
        row milky main
        beat across bar
        graspin telescope nelson-wise
        ridin rods upstairs
            on backs f curiouser bods

alley chorus sighs
    stars z us'n prison shroud r caul

jeremymad replies
    stars z immaculate bowery
        n we z unteaseled weedy mockery f eden

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part V


w
hat wakes do cost-so-dearly dead prefer
    not mawkish crying over spilt milk
    feral cats can lap up    and proliferate

who z watchin over
    yr poached deserts
    yr admonitory plagues
    yr inimitable wilderness wasted

what avail yer sacrifices n monuments
    what suffices
        not stilted billboard atlas world-on-shoulders muscle-flexing
            gone to head

what fork-branched lightning blasts three o-pinioned stool
            into tyburn tree
    snakeeyes n black deuces     never thrown for loss
            take credit
        while flush-in-hand cardinal sinners
            ladling brimstone-n-treacle to yr reproachable innocents
            refuse own medicine
        and human predators exhibit ancestral bones
            as honourable obits    proof  f profession
    will indignant dna exercise tangential option
            reject gimmekrieg mission
        scatter wild cards in retaliation

    saints n sinners
        both cocksure
        in deal with nemesis
        would turn up trumps from own marked deck

our prodigy Tad
        stoolbound
        squats
        pantomime  f puckered irony
        ogling likewise bivouacked bunkers
        recollects dynasties turn sour
        erasing bets
    what suffices
        when wars  f roses smell like bookend latrines
        touché eliminating unpaid last respects

cry we alley loo inspectorz chorus
    cry we ebb n flow lavages
        flesh n blood cant stand
    cry we flushing beaches
        janitorial Job-job
            sand-n-water cleansing formula
            hasn't got in hand
    cry we alleyloud: 'ware!

    cry we bareheaded
    cry we bootless
    cry we salt tears
    cry we grains  f sand

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part VI


c
ums end
    granted no life f riley
    granted no regression to womb
    granted tombz stony finger z no headrest
    who looks to directions from whom

cums end
    granted wars supposed good for survivors
    granted desert z lucked-out hitchhiker
        taken fr ride
    granted sneakyeye z heavenly throwback
    whoz left to pull out apocalyptic plum

no cloud sheds tears over rude beginning
    no storm hoists thumb to beg ride
    no continent sewer empties guts uphill
    no millennium arrives c.o.d.
    when pissed-off moles reign warren as midden
    there ll be rakehay in hell to pay
    good bye common sun
    hello lackaday

composing lens f scrutinizing telescope
        tippled bottlez lookalike
    wondering eye at both ends
    mouth to neck f insight behold:
        graspin palm z match fr brandished fist
    wars gross out in subliminal averages
    n punytive peace selects havenots n kings

cums genuine halo-collared oracle
    seers hello thru peoplehole
    bringeth forth undergladtidings:
        puckerlips yields outlandish eclipse
    after crackle-n-pop doom fr breakfast
    crumbs f comfort to regale rumblin stomachs
        stockpilerz f proverbs n gunz
    tighten slack in apronstrings

cums down to what z up
    granted goateed n cloven-hooved one z out to pasture
    granted cinderella shoe-in fr princess
    granted infant millennium z no victim f lewd origin
        if alley z mooted pathway to salvation
    when firestormz brutal affront z brushwarred
        to cosy warm hearth
    'who z who' wont read 'o to whom' nah

no better beginning than feelin fit to bust
     getting leg off three o'pinioned stool
        thumb n tongue unstuck
    kiss off incidental luck n fly-by-night lottery folly
    kiss off glamour-spangled limousine lust
    kiss off primetime religious vaudeville
     song n dance fr god and begging bowl routine
kiss off beggarly dole fr havenots
        or toughtitty on saint anthonyz own
        runts o litter
    kiss off bouquet garni:
        raw malice green envy dried greed
        ground all-spite n crushed bitterroot f blame
     flavouring in transglobal stew
     pressure-cooker we lit fire under
    kiss off with alley loud:
        yeah amen n good riddance

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part V


p
arsimonious mind picks over ruined feast
    leftover cornucopia
    sneaks off with crumbz comfort
    what z devoured joins incremental midden

hyenaz shit wormz titbits
    least averages most
    posthumous dance f musical chairs

who z kidding whom
    remonstrance about proprietary rights f critical telescope

terminal questions split tongue
    hyenaz slit tomorrowz exit fer patent scavenger
    anticipates wormz diet

questions terminate in ready-reckoning
    "cripples are fated"
    "fate cripples"
    become toothsome sops thrown to contentious workus packs

cums judgment
    weve worriedly worn record thin
    trumpet voluntary
    supposed to bring on cavalry
    conceal disappointment
    disguise chagrin
    heaven hath no brimstone fury
    like angel in sinbin

cums alley rhubarb chorus
    nyeah!     nyeah!    nyeah!
    heavenly brew-ha-ha first forswore us

run agony thoroughly
        round n round
    until we get dolour n sense
    record z worn us thin
    love aint grand
    love aint worth twocents
        cept when dollarz held in hand
    love z undressed mannequin
        upon crosstrees
    granted artless rejoinder:
        we are bigger than this

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part IV


w
ho z nasty wiseacre politico
    flowery-bold
    advocating nuclear bloomstorm
    in gestalt amphoric cup
        alley-wise
    we beware
    greeks bearing gifts

sunscorched miracles beyond mention
    suborn deserts
    decorate walls f monumental tombs
        surefire exclamation period

tonguetied recite no proverbs
    when doom becomes rule f thumb
        who holds record up to light f day
    tallyhoing score as foxes begin their run

heart cant compass proliferation
    nor hanged body avoid jounces t taut halter
    tethered camel cant enter eye f portal
    ruminating scientific telescope notwithstanding

such good beginning
    dark clouds don't believe in rain
    proverbs hang on crosstrees
    pluckable as ears f grain
    luck n desire twine as synonyms
    snow falls at Xmas on schedule
    gods content themselves with fun and games

such good beginning
    joyful voyage swung in salty waterz warm habitat
    through eras recapitulated
    importunate disjunction prompts laboured howl
    met with cosy teatz divine succulence

such good beginning
    prompts coup de scapegrace
    Tad throws snakeeyes with namesake
    maladroitz forfeit justifies usurperz omnipotence
    though how is not plain

such good beginning
    after promise of rosemarie dawn
    we'd leap helter skelter over himalayas
    instead sour losers debate wrathful wine
    eden honeymooners dispossessed
    opt for modicum f eternity in vain

behold    hotline protagonist
    cauliflower ear fer euphonious rhythms
    teaching deucedly dunces
    who squat hangdog
    like round pegs in four-cornered circle
    performing wrongheaded penances
    come on with crossed-up mating signals
    pugilists bound for fisticuffs
    as if taking "gotta eat own cadillac" concerns
        at plus literal value
    gets m squared off in frame for fame

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus, Part III (Tuesday Blogging)


w
hy does hell befriend fear
   yellow delight mucked up by dearie-me
   yelp tail-tucked between loins
   sliding away from afraidz welcoming charm
   resisting abrading miracle
   of being washed up with aphroditez foam

furrow ploughed ad lib
   greek-fustianed
   share rotating determinate earth
   oxen stubbing hooves on precursory marbles
   writing is writ
   informing terra firma

great gas oven sun eyeballs horizon
   sugar-coated pasteldrawing job f nemesis
   moon twilights earth
   deaf eardrum f star
   paying dues in peripheral dalliance
   circumspect marriage avoiding crunch

touch n go catastrophes happen
   plague f hunches leapfrog to armageddon
   clearsighted window
   gazing out
   reminds us of eye f gods
   looking on from idle end of telescope

if pleading-dumb philosophers re-script no proverbs
   who stands holding oracular telescope
   does watchdog science own no mortal provenance
   is classical clearsightedness looking-glass
   whoz watching whom
   must we solipsize with yeahway:
      “i am what i am”
   and p.s. with popeye:
      “that’s all that i yam!”?

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus (Tuesday Blogging)

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus
   or Sane Tongue Worth Thousand Manners

Fickle fingers at point
   seeking out Tad
      who would stand for Simple Simon yearnings
      stoolbound in corner
      dunce cap anointed

Tad, we proclaim,
   though greater machinations get abroad
   over dead bodies
   than ABC’s abrogated

Oyez   Oyez   Oyez
   Hey man   Hey man   Hey man
   O yeah   O yeah   Oyeah

Thumbstruck Tad
   fundament three o-pinioned
   R for rogue
   R for rebel
   R for refractory

      alley will lull y
      alley will fool y
      alley will school y
      sully me none
      heads will nod
      t’others will roll
      hey ho me hardhearties n bullyboyz
      alley lullaby ‘ll rule y!

Tad, one ear bugged by radio hot line wiseacre
   whoz tossin stone with malapropos zeal
   t’other boxed by Salomez head-on-platter song

      let’s all sing Salome’s song
      let’s all sing Salome’s song
      let’s all sing Salome’s song
         sin, gentlefolk, please!

      if’n everybodyz victim
      all hands turn up clean
      whoz to blame?
      let’s all play hide-n-go-seek-‘m-out:
      anomalees, if you please … first!

If’n everybodyz victim
then everybody can be predator
But top must be on bottom
   bottom must be on top
That’s the rules of the game!

babe in manger
   idiot on stool
   what do they have in common
   when one was born to rule?

tother was not meant for throne or parliament
   he was taught misbegotten role:
   how to play the fool

shapes!   we come born in shapes
   some shapely, some misshapen
   by whose standards?
   critical eye! prejudicial I!

exception to rule of order
   Tad by election
   posted kittycorner to schoolroom
   pilloried figure of shun
      for pointed sniggers and gibes

here he reigns
   anointed with generation’s dust
   dunce’s cone for crown
   he shall moan
   he shall whimper
   he shall not cry uncle
   with temper main gauge and helpmeet:
   to hot blood and cold circumstance
      he shall knuckle down

come! sez alley-loud-yeah prophet
   i’ll spin you tuppeny dream
   i’ll box you shadow play
   i’ll sing you te deum
   i’ll hymn you alley-loud-yeah anthem
   yeah

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Alley Loo Yeah Chorus (Tuesday Blogging)

(Note: this is a long poem, in 50 sections plus prologue. I will be posting one section per week, on Tuesdays. The cumulative sections to date will be posted in the sidebar, under "Alley Loo Yeah Chorus".)

Prologue to Alley Loo Yeah Chorus

i laurie fond old man
    eking allotment of sand in hourglass
    reminded of surplus
    how soon permission for astonishment
      diminishes
    search for foot-on-neck remedy

big z wunderful
    infra dig z mean
    big z little hierarchy
      writ large on silhouette screen

when bottom line
    reads in red
    “bottoms spanked”
    arent further bottoms
    with common weals striped?

peckin order scores big
    among mates
    who figger to rate higher
    on richter scale
    attendant fallout from causalties
        discounted
    by rogues, bullies n ingrates

i fond old man
    exchanging baton
    meant for play or war
    hand down to successor
    soldiering on
    in fellowship anon

this my prologue
    this my witness
  written under rubric
    of westering sun

mcmdcccviii rev. mm