No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I

Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu 
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School 
   (situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary a clue
prevails today of such pristine farm country due
to undergo radical urbanization during my boyhood edu
cay ting this sensitive kid asper flora and fauna drastically became few,
but  primary aim of poem intent to focus 
   on grievous sobbing from lifelike goo goo
doll (cries and whispers ken still be heard within beef jerky 
   ladder day grown man body electric) hoo
vividly recollects scathing stabbing, torquing twerking, 
   survey monkey wrenching “IDO
NOT WANT TO BE ALIVE” reaction from manifold factors, 
   which exponentially increased goy tar attacks 
   targeting thine mideastern suffer tick Jew
such baiting (though nary a hint 
   how mean neighborhood kids gleaned this information), 
   since not one kewpie doll, 
   nor telltale Star of David dead giveaway, no one knew
   such sacred symbols never adorned, deployed gripped ourselves, 
   (Unitarians encompassed family of origin), which credo Matthew 
best describes as a hodgepodge, pastiche, ragbag, et cetera of pew 
pills amassed from a gamut of disparate Parochial spew 
wing litany trouncing as heresy 
   any diametrically opposed sanctified religious treatises
   secular regents questioned plants seeds of white lily 
   germinating, sprouting and teasing out through
logical, oratorical, rational invocations such a heretical view
which synoptic backstory of mine, now allows, 
   enables and provides an opportunity for you
to read what I intended to be main essence 
   of this notion communicated 
   from one to another primate within the human zoo.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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