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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Date: 3/27/2018 4:08:00 AM
You're amazing at writing.
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Date: 3/25/2018 8:27:00 PM
cool. LOVE ZAPPA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjPlhb4f9P8&list=PL8WvZFiJpAr0TnvF9lb_0MCCKY3oFghc4
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 3/25/2018 8:28:00 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
Date: 3/25/2018 10:29:00 AM
Great tribute to a great musician..
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Date: 3/24/2018 10:34:00 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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