Come join us tonight people where the bright lights illumine.
Be sure to pick up a free multi-colored balloomin
While I showcase my special double self-lobotomy
Performed by just me in my new labero-totomy.
With a spoon, fork, and a knife - in full factuality,
I’ll cut out some noodle and some individ-ality -
And don’t forget to remember to gobble up your fill
At our fine and efficient, fresh fast-food hamburger grill!
Ever been down to “Nonsense Alley”?
It's an excellent place to dilly dally
You'll meet a fine fellow
A funny caballero
He certainly is clever with his witty verb-ality
Inestimable
Infinitesimal specks
ponder ensoulment
Have you ever been down to “Nonsense Alley”
It's an excellent place to dilly and dally
You'll meet a fine fellow
Some funny caballero
He certainly is clever with his witty verb-ality
his hair
blown
back
by
the
wind
section
which he
had
doubled
like all the
other sections
no mic
rophones
back in the
day but wood
made
strings
that would
abundantly
ring
ton
ality
sing
songs
from the
mad mind
though socially
refined and
an equally com
posed composure
defined as a conductor
conducting
electricity
from the
ether
sit in the center
of a cathedral as
his requiem mass
amasses as if from
a Tesla coil
not to be fooled
or foiled as the brass
north south east and west
in eighteen
thirty seven
Berlioz invent
ed quadrophonic
stereo
Life is not finite
We live to live
Not solely to find our place in the limelight
Be and Exist
A tryst must be made to come true
Do not evade and elude
Life is your chance to be you
Shudder at commonality
True vitality is found only in duality, or three-ality
Escape reality and exist where and how you wish
We can only BE
When we see the big picture
Do not accept fixture or fixation
Become a mixture of elation and excitement
Enlighten the mind so that life may not bind you
Instead, retread previous ground
Abound and rejoice in your choice to inspire
Revel in the muck and the mire
It may just wipe clean the stain of wasted time transpired
Have you ever been down to “Nonsense Alley”
It's an excellent place to dilly and dally
You'll meet a fine fellow
A funny caballero
He certainly is clever with his witty verb-ality
© Jack Ellison 2015
no more(ality)-
no respect, no shame,
no nice way to
challenge the defect-
& win. i've come so
close, so many times
before, to sucking
the knob off that
closed & locked door.
but i am intimidated,
overcome- to be
intimate without proper
welcome. my heart is
a nest of bees that
rests & sees (hungry
for flesh). no space,
no direction, no time
to erase the infection-
i have naughty dreams
of power, of loving
beasts & drinking their
sour sins.
there is no harm in
curiosity, so close
your eyes &
come to me.
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