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Thank you, JC.
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JC, I just listen. It is easy to hear poetry when in good company.
11 out of 10 - love to hear this as an audioYOUNG LOVE WITH INTIMATIONS OF LUBRICITY
By JCStreet © 2018
We set out at midnight
to spread the word
to cover the earth with poetry
to cover the earth like
Sherwin-Williams paint with the colour of it the
textures and tapestries that we wove
Susan was laughing and
kicking up her runners as she ran
capering with delight
her pigtails
bouncing in a rare way that I liked, we
set out at midnight
a warm night
a moonful night but
not quite full yet
glinting on the telegraph poles where we
slathered sonnets
We stuck an emended elegy on the window
of Joe’s Bar the
patrons stared dully
through the glass darkly, those who
were dyslexic
read perfectly in reverse
(we had used transparent paper)
ah yes, the dyslexics, they
read perfectly in reverse, that’s
why they were in Joe’s Bar, they
never learned to read the right way, they
couldn’t get uptown jobs, teachers
back then were lazy with dyslexics, they
just threw them out of school or
promoted them inchoately
but they learned to read STOP at the corners
along Main Street, learned
to read STOP so they
didn’t kill as many people on their drunken wends
home
they learned to read BAR
“just away down to s’eoj RAB”
they’d say to their wives and sweethearts
who didn’t wait up, we
plastered a villonelle on Vivian’s boutique it
sold lingerie . . . garter belts sexy
shimmies, camisoles and stockings,
waspies, corsets and
open girdles you
wore those to the drive-in, panties under
so guys could finger-fuck you while you
stroked them but
couldn’t quite get it in, we were
always scared that a guy might actually
get it in, after midnight
we dangled a dreary dirge
from a moonbeam
outside Daniel’s Donuts the
antidotes
to the pillaging of donut holes
by nationwide chains, at Daniels
you got the hole too
(though in a separate box)
when the moon rose higher we
hired a rickshaw
making all speed to Gary’s Garage
glomming ghastly gothic free-form
poems on the pumps
which read
REGULAR – an elbow
SUPER -- a knee
HI-TEST -- your Blackberry
that was fun
Susan jumped up in the air
clicked the heels of her US Keds together like
a circus performer, she had
already published in the Antioch Review
Susan wore an Old Navy top with that
wide cut
that shows the collar bone, no bra
they bounced and flounced, I was
quite taken with them and
grey sweatpant shorts
cut off with scissors and
nothing underneath, our
rickshaw ran us back to Main Street where we
offered an ode out loud
to Sheriff Serendipity
who smiled indulgently and said:
“Hope youse kids ain’t gettin’ up to no mischief the law should know about.”
I said no
I was 20 and had
plenty of perfectly
lawful plans for the evening
hoping Susan would concur, she was
labile that way
mood swinging from
moonstruck to fucked up but
we were drug free at least, could feast
soberly on reality
when
Dick Cheney raced past in a motorcade we knew
it had to stop at the big STOP sign
at Main and Maple, we
ran and ran and ran till we could
plaster a potent panegyric
on the fender of his big black limo
dealing lightly with the
old lawyer he peppered
down on the quail range we
wondered if he thought it was Dan Quayle he was
shootin’ at, and if
in the event
he was sneaking the guy
Wild Turkey miniatures in the ICU
Secret Service men
rushed at us from all directions, one had
a Beretta 9000S – a good sidearm, another
a Glock 31 then
a more menacing man with a
Heckler & Koch UMP sub-gun
scary weapon that but
when they read the poem they just laughed
waved us away
and the motorcade
sped on
to unknown destinations, unknown
rendezvouses
with other feckless poets who
fearing not for life and limb licked
gum-backed limericks and
slathered them on the windows
of the big black limos we
got the shakes after
thinking that
Cheney himself might have
jumped out and mowed us down
mowed us down with a Federal Arms
slug gun, we
needed a drink
We headed back to Joe’s RAB
where the inmates
were still reading
the backward poem on the window
all lined up
holding their drinks, Joe
looked at us darkly, he said
“these guys are so busy dyslexing they ain’t buyin’
rounds no more”, so we
bought a round for the house
told the story of the motorcade, how we
almost took a few rounds ourselves
all the dyslexics turned around and laughed and
drank up
and bought us a round back, Joe laughed
Joe laughed and shook his head and said “kids today . . .
what canya do?”
Back at Susan’s dorm we hugged close for a moment, I
kissed her on the forehead and
told her I loved her
“Me too,”
she said ambiguously, but I
ran home
light as a feather and
free as a bird
-30-
Damn.
Just... Damn.
I agree. Wow. I am enjoying. Backstroking this thread. I believe this comment was on the Katie Jones poem One of a Kind. Quite powerful.
Adorable.
(blush)