#suede
When I first heard Elvis, I shivered.
Blue, blue, blue suede shoes, heartbreak hotel, you hound dog, you!
But when the Beatles came along, I left you behind.
Later when you came to Huntsville, you were fat, and then you went back to Memphis and killed yourself--- **** you!
Apr 22, 2016
Apr 22, 2016 at 8:34 AM UTC
two suede secrets
*a blue violin plays instrumental come-ons with flamenco hints,
various pleasures merge, a three lane highway becomes a
county road with slow and steady the unposted speed limit
I am well and full accompanied and accomplished*
and I am alone
*my hands laurel my temples, my head is crowning,
laughing from the pleasure given to me to give to me,
snare drum solitary keeps my time, my two palms say psalms,
guttural and cultural, my emissions, emptying my commissions,*
and I am alone
*a-poem came with this morn to mind, and pleasure me, it did;
music and flesh, words and tissue untested but harmonizing,
hands prancing on strings of sterling silvered guitar body mine,
shouting glory glory, am risen am fallen, salved, soothed,*
I am alone, refreshingly happy, my poem **********
*and and and
both of us will die in due course, dead unread, alone together*
3/17/18 9:05 AM
Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 9:46 AM UTC
Before me the monster grew
In the stippled light
Dappled blue
It was an interesting sight.
A wondrous uncompromising
Dark hue
Its features had a disconcerting
Temporary feel. Nose and ears fixed by glue
And where his mouth should have
Been was a blue suede shoe,
And in place of eyes grave-
Stones inscribed with the names of no one I knew.
Still, he was very polite
For such a badly-hewn
Creature of the night.
Crafted as if from ancient stone,
He quietly broke my neck
With a pleasant-enough smile
And I heard it crack
Dying, deeply impressed by his style.
May 16, 2018
May 16, 2018 at 11:05 AM UTC