Status Updates From A Coney Island of the Mind

“I too have drunk and seen / the spider”

“‘I feel there is an angel in me’ she’d say / ‘whom I am constantly shocking’”

“I am a part / of the body’s long madness.”

“I see where Walden Pond has been drained / to make an amusement park. / I see they’re making Melville / eat his whale. / I see another war is coming / but I won’t be there to fight it. / I have read the writing / on the outhouse wall. / I helped Kilroy write it.”

“Where every coin is marked / In God We Trust / but the dollar bills do not have it / being gods unto themselves”

“It is a wild white nest in the true mad north / of introspection / where ‘falcons of the inner eye’ / dive and die / glimpsing in their dying fall / all life’s memory / of existence / and with grave chalk wing / draw upon the leaded sky / a thousand threaded images / of flight”

“But then this dame / comes up behind me see / and says / you and me could really exist / Wow I says / only the next day / she has bad teeth / and really hates / poetry”

“And all the other fatal shorn-up fragments / of the immigrant’s dream come too true / and mislaid / among the sunbathers”