Taste the Ooze



Speaking perfectly clear,
let’s be Frank:
Put the Zappa down — 
Don’t even remotely think
about changing the subject
Swapping, swabbing another
into your wax-filled ears
Why does your sleep-glazed eyes
love to eat the sliming ooze
coming from those iridescent screens?
Giving you doughnut hole imaginings,
turning your brain into Jell-o jelly ooze 
Propaganda bottled subliminal messages,
you guzzle every addled ad pitch drop
of this electromagnetic booze
And your blank mind
love every sound-byte swig
of the unfiltered, intoxicating ooze
You breath, eat and drink
the mind-numbing slather
of the fear-foaming blather
osmotically oozing 
from the nacreous screens
Narcotic mother’s milk
given freely 
to the baby innocence robbed zombies
Daily tabloid bread,
of which you love to be fetishly fed
Water from the gossip well,
every peek-and-tell,
your teased tongue love to swallow whole — 
corrupting your voyeuristic soul
Frankly speaking,
the last zapped transmission,
no doubt,
will be to you zero suspicious
So oozing Oz, 
slimy wizardry deadly delicious 


This poem is a tribute to the brilliant music poet Frank Zappa.
A poetic offspring of the song, "I'm the Slime."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRnNDkHb0MU
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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March 27, 2018 at 4:08 AM
You're amazing at writing.
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March 25, 2018 at 8:27 PM
cool. LOVE ZAPPA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjPlhb4f9P8&list=PL8WvZFiJpAr0TnvF9lb_0MCCKY3oFghc4
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March 25, 2018 at 8:28 PM
I can't help myself. lol...he's got such a devlish voice..."now what kind of a Guru are you anyway?" Forgot how brilliant this dude was and still is...fab poem, as always. I've decided it's a Zappa Day today. "MUFFIN MAN" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMwY49vTBk0
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March 25, 2018 at 10:29 AM
Great tribute to a great musician..
Allison Avatar
March 24, 2018 at 10:34 AM
what a fabulous tribute Freddie, and I love the clever humour and word play, thanks for sharing:-) hugs Jan xx
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