TS #15 Logo By Haze McElhenny 2 Poems
by Dean Creighton


The Myth of Television

I run through the mythologies
on the satellite television.

The news shows have corporate monikers
and very nervous performing artists
reading what is not objective information.
The performing artists
are just throwing entrails
hoping to see their future.

John Wayne is yet alive
and suffering under the fear
that white people will be culturally obliterated
by "a hundred years" of divorce from the West
should the Indians consolidate that victory
on a Dakota hill.
The Indians, I guess, having a patent on Winchesters.

A girl has been kidnapped
by kindly seeming people
who want to abuse her
with
I don't know
some form of sexual abuse
but she doesn't want it
so I change the channel.

Some delightful kid is enraptured
by a hamburger-
shrill duck
fuck.

Particle beams and shit.
"Is the technology
that moves alien crafts
through interstellar space
actually in the government's possession"?
Fuck.

A machine
which pumps garlic butter
into bread.
better hot, mythology.

We need a mythology pump explosion.
Urgent, untraceable messages
from our television screens
leaving pieces of glass
hanging from flesh
from skull.

Meanwhile,
mythological
breath.



I'm a Steward at the PO

I'm like Billie the Kid
if he'd made his later years.

They keep sending managers at me
and they're toting psychological games
contractual & federal methodology
lug-headed stupidity
military officer time
although the latter two
are often
synonymous.

My backup
is mostly lapdogs
with scimitars
for cocks
who would fuck me
if they could
they surely wood.

Oh,
Billie has lived a life
of art & poetry
he tripped at 15,
in this version,
and he's been hiding out
under six-dollar an hour jobs
for 25 years
watching.

They haven't even nicked him yet
haven't creased the skin
though they've worn down the knees
the shoulder stiffens
hand goes numb
and they've insured his marriage
to 100 Proof Popov
proving that no man
is purely evil
though most of these fuckers
they send at him
have souls
like a black hole memory.


& ethically
in this town
there is a union bizness contract
which in this current string
of theory
is all the working man has-
other than the right to choose:

eat it
or starve.

Billie ain't moving
from the thick
fart stench
of mail
this day.




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