Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Ahab doesn't fit in haikus
nor does a spinnaker,
Ishmael, sperm whales,
aleutian harpooners
or Nantucket preachers:
haikus are reserved
for like sake and plumtrees,
polite samurai scribblers
who would exchange
a greeting card image
for Shakespeare,
a watercolor for
the crystalline
massivity
of ocean

this minaret is like covered with icing
or syrup, chocolate covered mosque,
cone, maybe almond sherbert
or a magic minaret that flies,
hitches a ride on a carpet
to Italy and becomes just a tower,
campanile, yet i digress:
the muezzin yowling 5 times
a day we don't hear here,
we don't see the ...

A Mom, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hood!
Fie Fie! upon it I sayeth and then like
Bellerophon was steering trusty
Pegasus up towards the Golden Dawn,
out for a cruise among the cirrus,
seducer, joker, murder was
Bellerophon, liked to flirt
with the King's wife ...

Plectrum with the Spectrum--
Shimmer the Shindig glow:
hail one pleasing phase of Chaos,
Eris with a mayan banjo

Following the bloody denouement
the big crack up most would
prefer to Ahab than to Ishmael;
or that's the hierarchy
I choose. Chronicler-castaway
Ishmael has no abode
except perhaps the world
viewed from his Crow's Nest;
a Captain of perception
somewhat unsure that
the waves, the clouds
the ...

artist: AO Fischer


"The wnd howled on and the sea leaped and the ship groaned and dived." Moby Dick, Melville

Rain Belle, Rain Beau
hues glittering
as May's drops flow;
There's reds violets
blues and greens--
a bowl of chronic
and antihistamines

Baba Bin Hair
Don Juan That!

Indeedio and respect for you there is
my point really is I don"t know
whether politics even exists anymore
whether humans are not mostly phreaks
far closer to Steven King than Phreud
Tails from the Kryptonomicon,
uebermensch OD'ed on kryptonite--
cheesy horror show ...

Do you recall those old phreak books
Abbie Hoffman asked all to pilfer
he and da Yip-pays
(sort of the trotsky Hip-pays)
wanted, good american boys,
or mebbe just goys
to dripdrop
El
Ess
Dee
into various large municipal
aquifiers and fry da masses
into Ewe-topia;
a tres savvage to be sure
but not ...

Nero Osis
Nerd Roses
New Roid Is
Neuchatelrosis
NudeRisos
NewRopesus

Were a Pro Tag O'Nest to be surrounded
by mormonic and baptist towns,
papist , turkish, or muslim crowns
deathways, death waves,
flying fanged skulls
and NOT Nero-osis,
would not Pro Tag O Nest
thus be siding with Nero's ...

stretch marks, kvetch marks
some have 'em on their
chromosomes.........mood bally
mist wally she purr with a crawl
and what gone polly squeeze in
a sphere so clear: archimedes
knew more, his time less a zoo
than walmartolopolis and the latest
Louis Bourbon throwing up his
concubine's quarters in ...

its the close of another rerun
jehovah the 3 stooges
some broad satanica
pastelled azure verdant
mystery copse over
slutshacks and misery
to pretty to tell

x
scootski
ma
if
spam
this screams;
just a sequence
of pixelled sheen--


to see such a ball
would enthrall--
were a crystal sphere
to appear

verses should not be sung but moaned
in minor keys or more dissonant tones
and the painting works scandalously
sweet but not altogether wrong:
those forms sanguine and supine
do not without some craft unwind

(ya I did read too much Herrick at one point in this thing we call life)


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