Poetry from Alan Catlin

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Jesus Lizard
Jesus Wept
Jesus’ Son
Judas Hole
Judas Tree
Jesus H Christ Attorney at Law
Judas Priest
Judas Door
Jesus Saves
Jesus Christ Foretopman
Jesus Christ and Jerry Cruncher Resurrection Man at Large
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Camp
Jesus of Montreal
Judas Kiss
 

				732-

100 word review challenge to Howie Good’s
Stick Figure Opera: 99 100-word Prose Poems.


Imagine word salads made of image
clusters leaking from holes in a canvas
by Dali. And one by Cocteau. With a
side of Bacon. Or shotgun art made by
someone like Burroughs at ten paces
with a pump action, shooting five-gallon 
paint cans, resulting impact something like
forensic evidence. Like blood splatters.
With a side of fileted Pollock. Like Dada
at the MAMA. I mean the MOMA.
Opening night Patrons of the arts dancing 
a Lobster Quadrille to a Resurrection Jazz 
Band. Dressed in top hats with pink boas
and Robante gowns. That’s a Stick
Figure Opera: 100 words exactly.


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The Eggplant That Ate Chicago or
The Ham Sandwich That Killed Mama 
Cass. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or
It Came from Schenectady. The Grilled
Cheese Sandwich with the Profile of
Jesus Christ or The Block That God Forgot.
The Thigh Bone Connected to the Hip
Bone or Zen Bones, Zen Bones.
 

734-

Exploding Trees
Frost Quakes
Arctic Sea Smoke
Fog Freeze
109 below
Climate Change
Weather events
or rock groups


740-

“When I make a film, it is a sleep.
I am dreaming.”

“Realism in unreality is a constant
pitfall.”

“He or she exists only if introduced
with events in a dream.”

“I have always liked the no man’s land
of twilight.”

“What are you trying to say?
I was trying to say what I said.”

Jean Cocteau, “On Orpheus
 

743-

Memory is what happens next.
“a memory is nothing/nothing is
a memory.” Bernadette Mayer.
“Just because something has never
happened before doesn’t mean it
can’t happen again.” (unknown)
(Sports Center? ESPN?) “I seem
to remember my future works although
I don’t even know what they will be.”
V. Nabokov, The Gift. 
“Shove a slogan down the throat
enough times I becomes an acquired taste.”
Jenny Xie. “I confess I don’t believe
in time.” V.N. “an image of the dead or
the fingernail/ of a new born child.” 
John Berryman


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You don’t know Jack(s)

Jack(ie) Kennedy
Jack(ie) Robinson
Jack(ie) Jensen
Jack Shit (e)
Jack Off
Jack Rabbit
Jack Tar
Jack Johnson
Jack Spicer
Jack beanstalk
Jack Kerouac

Jack Giant Killer
Jack(son) Polloc
Jack(b) Nimble
Jack (b) Quick
Jack Dempsey
Jack Micheline
Jack (a) Lope