Until Her Tattoos Fall Off~

 —Poetry and Photos by Robert Lee Haycock,
Antioch, CA

 

 

MERDRE!

I awoke to a dream
of a missive from Dada
written automatically
to my exquisite corpse

 

 

 

 

SPOILER

Too many chiefs
and not enough cooks
to spare the rod
and the victor’s child
from the broth of war

 

 

 

 

LET US PRAY

God is great
but God’s a goof.
We are thankful for our roof.
Amen.

 

 

 

THE WILD WOOD

down the hill
from Villa Montalvo
and the carriage house
there’s a bench
in a little grotto
hung with ferns
where I first read
The Wind in the Willows
from cover to cover
and I never came back

 

 

 

DEAR BOBBY,

You’ve got to find
that thing you love to do
then do it harder
until Mama takes your car away
and even the dogs won’t have
anything to do with you.

And find that woman
you love to love
then love her longer
until her tattoos fall off
and she sings for your
supper door to door.

And don’t be afraid to
climb that pile of empty
crates you’ve stacked up
over all these years
then peek in the windows
and you’ll see me dancing.

And damn it Bobby
never forget to dream.

Love,
D.R.

 

 

 

 


Today’s LittleNip:


THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
—Robert Lee Haycock


Art is long and life is short?
I should hope to snicker and snort!

_____________________

—Medusa, with thanks to prodigal Robert Lee Haycock for his return to the Kitchen with his fine poems and pix! Robert Lee has visited the Kitchen off-and-on since 2010. He says these offerings are “written with invisible ink”, so I guess we’d better hurry up and read them!

 

 

 

 Robert Lee Haycock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A reminder that
Sacramento Poetry Center
will be at the
Oak Park Literacy Festival
today, 10am-1pm; then SPC
will feature Tom Crawford’s
Be Broken to be Whole
tonight, 6pm.
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