Ode to Liza Minnelli
I spray Paint Your Image on The
Graffiti Mural'd Walls
Between Dundas West & Keele
Subway Stations, As a
'Red Headed Beggar Girl'
Crawling Towards Me on Your Knees,
Against the Backdropp of The
Copper
Metal
Chasm?
With My Black Eye Liner I Draw You
As a Crude Stick Figure on The
Smudged Up Mirror, of a
Filthy Public Washroom,
I Finger Paint You as The
Forbidden Modern Primitive!
Wintering a Tropical Soundscape of My Heart,
I Scribble You In Gold & Silver & Violet Crayon
On a Pink Piece of Construction
Paper,
& Magnet it on My Parents Refridgerator,
& Wonder if They REALLY
Like it?
'There is No Chosen Race in Nature'
….The Droppings of Last Weeks Trip out
are Still Scattered upon our Floor,
You Stand, Sandwhiched Alone Here, WHOLE!
In a Divided Kingdom Between
Heaven & Earth! Death,
& Re-birth!
Ready to Flee away from Me
With Shelley's 'West Wind', You Stand!
Knowing
That 'The Elements in Modern Society
Destructive of The Best Qualities
Of Human Nature'
Have Been Laid out Mercilessly
For our Insatiable Eyes
Countless Times, You Stand!
Hands on Hip, Knowing that The Wise
Words
Of the Greatest Souls who have passed
Through this Terrifying
Place
Have Fallen Upon Deaf Ears,
You Stand for 30 Years! Where only The
Holy Ghost Shall
Shall Come upon Thee,
All the Infinite Beasts of the Bitter Fields
Yield to Ye!
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poem by Stedmond M. Pardy
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