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Writer's pictureCharles Joseph Albert

FIVE BITS OF EMERSON-INDUCED INANITY




(So Don’t Blame Me, Blame Him)











1.

I hear from the yapping that pent dogs know infelicity,

I learn from the dreary May rains of ecologic fragility,

its drowsiness is a moribund reminder of mortality

the vortex of each shot-off star dreams a new reality.


2.

Datsuns break in brainlessness and belch in coal-fired stacks.

Caffeine’s a means of antsiness and minor heart-attacks.

Noisy aircraft above the park, and crawling bugs that bite

Imagine nations fool themselves to think that nothing’s right.


3.

In the dawn of the day of the world in its slumber

with the yawning and trudging and mindless anumber

the mind of the universe looks... and it blinks

and hopelessly heavily eyebally sinks

in tidepools and cesspools incessantly sucking

the masses all crassly and gaseously shucking

their selves from their souls and denying their oneness

in obdurate, blissful emissions of dumbness.


4.

The time has come, you Wal-Mart head, to sing of Manny Sphinx;

of shooting slips and scallywags and sailor dogs and skinks.

The tar-soaked docks are bountiful but cloying in their stinks

whose Carpenters sang “Sing A Song” without the sexy slinks.


5.

Where the beast shits, there slip I.

Too much cowbell? No, I lie.

Where’s my couch? The fouls do fly.

Watch the bats swing. I’ll sip rye.


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