A Free jazz poem for Joan Baez
It Feels as If I knew You
In a Past Life,
You Could have Been My Sister,
Enemy, Lover, MOTHER, Girlfriend,
Ruler or Wife!
All I know is That Your Definitely
A Kindred Spirit?
But I can't remember Us & Our Families
Dying From the Plague,
Us Being Crucified upon the Most
Crooked-est of Crosses,
Whoring Ourselves on the Cobblestone
Streets of Mala Strana, Prague,
I can't Remember 0,1,2,3,5,8,13 ~?
or 9,7,1,9,4,9,3 ~!
I don't Remember The LOVE &
Stimulating PAIN,
That We Experienced outside The
Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain!
Witnessing the Tomato & Bullfights
Through the Eyes of a Drugged
& Drunken Babys Brain? Clayey
Labyrinthian Coffin GREEN Chrysalis
BLACK,
The Mysteries at Eleusis,
Facing the Firing Squad on a warm
Summer Night walking A Radio
around a Strangled
Stick!
The Garden of Eden!
The Black Hooded Executioners
Shiney Axe!
At the Haunted Tower of London,
Concretizing Liquid?
WET LEATHER!
Our Katabasis-
......Wordless Poems!
Us Having Blonde Hair & Blue Eyes,
While Living In Helsingborg, SWEDEN!
The Torture Chambers of Venice?
& The Middle East!
Us Devouring Bootlegged Liquor,
Gnawing Hallucinogenic Roots, & Berries!
Beaming Up
To an Inaccessible Land of Bergelmirs, Asuras,
Oceanids & Fairys!
While Picnic-ing in Central Park New York,
In the 1320's,
Hiding From The 'Pork',
Moments of Realization,
Really Divining
What's on the Other end of That Fork!
Me telling You
'If Anything Were to Happen To Me
Or If I was to Go!
Don't Forget Me! Joan Baez,
Because Even If I was Trapped in
The Advanced Stages of Alzheimers,
There's No way
I could Ever Forget about You'
& Our Time as
Dinosaurs! Leopards! Insects! Snakes! Birds!
Monkeys,
Pandas,
Foxes,
Sloths,
Elephants,
Butterflies! Penguins, Neanderthals,
Bacteria, Trees, & Fish! ? ? !
& The Extended Time we Spent,
As a Dying Kids
Wish..
You can't even Remember Rogue Zoo Keepers
& Auschwitz! Mesopatamia!
The Floating World of Japan,
......When The 'Black Ships ' Came!
The Rue Git Le Couer,
Mist Invading Our Ravaged Forests,
& ' The Exploding Plastic Inevitable',
You can't Even Remember Red Clouds! Orange
Skies! Silver Waters, Black Sand,
....Gold Moons!
Us Being Lynched By the Klan,
Crossing the Bering Strait!
Walking the Plank, the Basement of Studio 54,
African Tribal Drums Whipping Us
& Our Now Extinct Tribe
Into Shamanic Ecstasy!
At Celebrations of Pre-logical Existence,
Thelonious Monk, Schubert, Brian wilson, Louis Armstrong,
The Stooges, The Doors, & Sonic Youth
Live in the Flesh,
Brandon Pitts!
Nik Beat!
Susan Munro!
Reg Hartt!
& The Renaissance of The 2200's,
The Resistance!
The Human Be-in of 1967,
Pink Floyd's 'Games for May',
& That Awkward Life when I was
The Woman! & You Were
The MAN -
We've Existed as Casualties of the Subhuman
Psyche since the Very Beginning of The Idea
Of Time!
I have Already Squandered the Platinum
Of Our Youth in THIS Life,
What Do You Think I'm Going to Do
To the Blood Diamonds of Our Future?
Ah, I can Clearly Remember The
Nebulous Vistas of Our Lunar Earth!
Us
Self Exiling Ourselves along the
Seashores of That OTHER World,
Studying The Heraldry of 'Finfolk'?
David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails Touring
Together in 1995,
The St. John, St. Vitus Dancing Mania
Of 1518,
You Dating Steve Jobs? & Bob Dylan,
& You Locking arms with Me,
After
Your Performance, at Roy Thomson HALL.
Conjured By Stedmond Pardy November 2011
re-shaped from a poem written by Me in 2008
poem by Stedmond M. Pardy
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