Manikins Poems

Barbaric Yawps

...My mind is tribal, I hunt in the mud and slurry,
I track the stars in a wooden chariot
made from the ribs of a blood-clan crib.

My thoughts are armored, yet as articulated
as any youthful flesh...

Ragged People

...the homeless people
alive in cracks we avoid.
each displays no grace nor glory.
We turn our backs, are so annoyed.
	
Worn overcoats over scrim pajamas,
angled hair and leather-ed skin,
bags an...

The Manikin

...So many manikins
In the store windows
Dressed in fashion clothes
What  does happen at night? 
When no one is around? 
I ponder this question

Do they come to life?
Walking on the floors?
Hav...

How the World Got Colorful

...Green was the theme, mainly green and blue
then came you
in your floral dance and open mouths,
red insect-eating lips. snaky tongues
big, bold, and subjectively pretty,
objectively fleshy,
lush...

Storm Clouds

...In the jumbled backyard of mind
they arrive in dark cowls,
gather behind an inverse eye,
wait there for the eyes themselves
to flip those images over into
a word chewing anger.

Manikins move ...

The Day They Destroyed a Carboard Family

...(Nevada Test Site 1951)


The house is ply-struts
not even particleboard.
Mom is cardboard,
dad and my little sister are manikins,
Older brother is a painted figure
of a younger brother’s ima...

A Fractured View

...Swans row the sky
just feet above the copper water.
Gulls twist their necks to watch 
a lone sailor on the prow
of a sludge-decked dredger.

On the slate thatched gambrels
of a lesser known ro...

Invasion of the Manikins

...Can you hear the hypnotic hum of the production line?
Education Rehabilitation factories rolling out images of humans made of plastic and wood.
Minds are erased of parental guidance.
Memory banks ...

Frenchman Flat

...Do I wake or dream?
Another one –
Life is a bowl of cherries.
One more –
Not with a whimper,
but with a bloody big bomb.

The house is ply-struts and particle composite.
Mum is cardboard,
bu...

A Notice To Our Customers

...Valued clients, we have listened,
and have taken on-board
your concerns and suggestions.

From now on, the display manikins will
be of a deep puce green color 
so as not to marginalize 
any et...

Los Angeles

...After we met
I thought we really had something,
Really hit it off.
It wasn’t the words we spoke,
The easy fluorescent trail they made.
Maybe it was the Japanese lantern
Glowing over your bare s...

The Fear of Growing Older

...there are places and people in America 
that are scared to death
of looking old and growing older 
where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing
a birthday is not celebrated but...

The Grey Man

...There were images the grey man could not see 
Did not want to see, in all probability

Walking by the glass doors and windows of modern stores
No warmth of being within their cold crisp alloy fra...

Antonin Artaud Theater of Cruelty Or Joie De Vivre Part 3

...He was sitting alone in the corner 
In a little cafe at the painting of Monet
And was talking to imaginary friend
About thinness opaqueness fear
Sensation of heat cold anger despair
Cruelty he c...

The Fear of Getting Older

...there are places and people in America that are scared to death
 of looking old and growing older 
where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing
a birthday is not celebrated but ...

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