Precious Cargo

 

Yellow Submarine

—Poetry and Visuals by Smith (Steven B. Smith), Cleveland, OH

 

 

 

GLOW GO MO-FO

My computer sound card died
the day Prince did
so I could sit in silence
and respect his sound.

That sexy mo-fo
could cream a kiss
blender bliss
excite this this
speed slo-mo
slow the go
and re-gender is.

 

 

 

Flight Plan

 

 

Womb-born
worm-worn
remnants of a while ago

 

 

 

Sunspot

 

 

DOGWALK MORNING

Big creek
small stream
size matter

Wind whisper
leaf in tree
lullaby to low

Crow calls
order from high
unaware of higher

Train in distance
meadow middle
mellow me

 

 

 

Exaward

 

 

FLESH WORSHIP

She's walking the golden calf
struttin' her stuff
mything muff

Leave it to beaver
but life will cleave her
heart to heat to hurt

 

 

 

Get Air

 

 

GOLDFINGER

My dead mom’s ring
on my live wife’s hand.

I’m wolfen to wifen
who keeps me off-grid and on the griddle.

We’re Potabella and the Beast,
she the pretty fungi, me a wary wild.

We are our only child,
walk the sunny side of the beat.

 

 

 

God’s Eyes

 

 

PABLO PICASSO, DIED

It pays to heed occasional squirrel whiles

Poor castle cast-off
My heart does not knead for you
Your warped eye whispering
Spawns demon shadows only
Alone
Within your hairy benobbed frame
Need not be
Repeat
Need not be

Red-naped realities abound
Need not abide
Squirrels imply

 

 

 

Bad Road Ahead

 

OLD FAN NOTES ON 1962 WCW

Leafing through 58-year-old copy
of William Carlos Williams'
Pictures from Brueghel and other poems
I rearrange the previous owner's margin notes:

Only if Amy & me lost everything separately
could we be useful together again

A stutter step from an MD
required to be as invasive as a priest no matter what

Medical report: She died of death
cross horse mucilage

Dance is the measure
the Sisypuss of fuck
female spiritual hand-off from the pagans
(any with a tan Mexican Barbie doll?}

If you say one can't go to the country
it's because you say he can't go anywhere

Roads don't grow like trees
holy communion hamburger
force that thru the green fuss pothead poets

Pictures of beauty are beautiful pictures
and not beauty or beautiful
the wholeness integrity to me's
from the coordination of all the fractured facets of a life

Pure whole design in your art if unaccompanied by
a coordinated correlative correlated private privacy
is scattered

Art is a symbol and thus partial
fractured art + ? kind of privacy can = wholeness oneness beauty

More terrified of women & thus a lover of many
WCW wz a fixer & a watchman
& mean

Walkin’ in Memphis
You a Christian?
Baby I am tonight

 

 

 

Motherwell

 

 

Bone gettin' weary
worry gettin' woke
but at least I'm in on the joke

 

 

 

USA Drugs

 

 

 

Today’s LittleNip:

Precious cargo
wife asleep
in passenger seat

—Smith

________________

The mighty Steven Smith is here today, clearing the smoke from our eyes and setting a few fires of his own. We’re mighty grateful for his visit to the Kitchen!

________________

—Medusa

 

 

 

Persephone's Dance

 

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