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Fernando Passoa Modern Dance Studio.
Do you pony. Like hony maroni. Night
of a thousand dancers. Rumba. Tango.
vodka and orange premix cocktails.
Worst drunk ever. The Beauty of the
Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos.
Dance script with electric ballerinas.
Not PK Dick. Fulton. Not the NY gov.
Alice. Not the one who descends into
rabbit holes. Of disinformation.
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The Madwoman in the Attic. Jane Eyre
or Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys or
Charlotte Bronte. The one who actually got
laid. Dominica or Haworth. Don’t drink
the water. Hochmeister. Corpse water.
The Blue Hour. After Leaving Mr. McKenzie.
Good Morning Midnight. Voyage in the Dark.
Smile Please. Difficult women. The end of
the novel of love. Tigers were better looking.
304-
Talking to frogs in boiling
water. Lobsters on a leash.
Sunday in the Park with.
George. William or Mary.
Who’s your Dada.
305-
Now out of the blue, out of the black,
a number caller-id’d from Hades.”
Stephen Bett. Not the exchange. Rate.
That’s bothersome. The caller id.
What’s your area. Code. Zip. Code. Bar.
Code. Navajo code talker anonymous.
The answer (s), my friend, are blowing
in the wind.
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“Modern historical reality has greatly
enlarged the imagination of disaster.”
Said Susan Sontag. All too accurately.
The beginning of the end. Them! The Hulk.
Spiderman. Radioactive spiders from Mars.
The Atomic Cafe. The sheep look up.
Not Biblical. Though it could be. Was.
Is. Not science fiction. Fallout. Illness
as metaphor.
5 thoughts on “Poetry from Alan Catlin”
Fascinating!
beatnik idiom culture pop culture kultura rap — poetic dada — poetic satori in poetry plaster of paris — Alan Catlin is pretty awesome.
I love the structure of Alan’s poems. That is one of the fascinating features of poetry – structure can be everything when blended with the words and ideas. Makes them very powerful. Great poems, Alan.
Great rhythms to these poems. My favorite was “304”.
That vodka and orange premix WAS awful. Egad. What a fun series of linked memories, flashbacks with a sense of humor. I assume due to the numbering there are many more in this terrific series.
Fascinating!
beatnik idiom culture pop culture kultura rap — poetic dada — poetic satori in poetry plaster of paris — Alan Catlin is pretty awesome.
I love the structure of Alan’s poems. That is one of the fascinating features of poetry – structure can be everything when blended with the words and ideas. Makes them very powerful. Great poems, Alan.
Great rhythms to these poems. My favorite was “304”.
That vodka and orange premix WAS awful. Egad. What a fun series of linked memories, flashbacks with a sense of humor. I assume due to the numbering there are many more in this terrific series.