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May 18, 2008 at 15:51:06

bushmen of the tidal basin

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long away
and
far ago
bushmen inhabited
areas surrounding the tidal basin

the tribal leader says
where are the twins
and
sancho
who could not pretend to give good heart
says
dont fight them
theyre just mills

oh
my
says the brave bushman
with will for wills
and
buried mills
i shall squeeze dorothy
neath her home

and the brave bushman
was slick as a sheen

sancho asks
did van gogh
or
hemingway hurt worse

the brave bushman
clicks his heals together
until the leather
was as light
as a feather

but sancho
reminds him
were not in
el rancho
anymore

summon me
a lad and
force his feet to feel the coals

sancho
thinking this is bazaar
sends saturday morning stars
to the round up

round up
stand up
fall down
leave town

again
sancho reminds the warrior
not to forget
yes
always remember
the pencil traditionally
handed down
from
warrior
two
warrior

yet
the warrior can only cogitate
about one object ate
eva
eva
eva
i shall die without
eva

perilous profitability
whispers sancho
so no ear can hear
embraces us
the great kingdom
soothes masters worried mindlessness

the kingdom of flare
the kingdom of hair
the kingdom of
kings
queens
and
a multitude of monarchy is there
sancho did blare

alas
when all
was done and said
and said and done
and undone
and unsaid
they were all just chasing mills
far
and
long
and
go
away

Song sample for October, 2008 Everybody Knows from the cd Flameland.

Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews.

Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.His CDs may be purchased at CD Baby.

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3 comments

Wolfie

ALAS POOR YORICK!, I KNEW HIM WELL

Just do not bother Wilbur Mills and , my adored, Fanne Fox. This Wolfie has

a soft spot in his heart for the working lady.

The Tidal Basin can cleanse us all!

Wolfie howls in delight.

by Wolfie (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 31 diaries, 1189 comments) on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 12:56:06 AM

Song sample for October, 2008 Everybody Knows from the cd Flameland. Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews. Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.His CDs m...

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Michael BonannoSong sample for October, 2008 Everybody Knows from the cd Flameland. Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews. Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.His CDs m...

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Corruption

goes marching on again,

hurrah, hurrah!

by Michael Bonanno (85 articles, 19 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 123 comments) on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 11:51:55 AM

Fulbright in 1966-67; Visiting Lecturer in American Literature with Baghdad University/Texas University Exchange Program. Guest Lecturer for the American Authors Lecture Series for the United States Information Service in Iraq.

Co-authored with Carole Chaney "Baghdad Letters" in 2003, a collection of letters and journals written in 1966-67 in Iraq.
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Jay FarringtonFulbright in 1966-67; Visiting Lecturer in American Literature with Baghdad University/Texas University Exchange Program. Guest Lecturer for the American Authors Lecture Series for the United States Information Service in Iraq.

Co-authored with Carole Chaney "Baghdad Letters" in 2003, a collection of letters and journals written in 1966-67 in Iraq.
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(expletive deleted)!

I won't blow smoke you-know-where, so just know this one is "outtasite" to revert to freak talk. In response, I only have a line I remember from a poet and banjo picker named Don Sanders in Houston in '73. He wrote four lines on a scrap of paper. It began: (paraphrasing) "...a caveman's bones are buried beneath the canned tomatoes..."

Sorry, Michael, that's all I can remember. That scrap of paper is like the white feather at the end of Forrest Gump: I just know I'll come across it again someday.

by Jay Farrington (13 articles, 2 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 155 comments) on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 12:59:27 PM