Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Poem

Clickity-clack
And a pound-pound
As the fist, like honeybaked ham slams down on particle-board top
More...I mean less, and buy buy sell sell!
Words shuddering down drywall and vibrating across fiber-optics information stream.

Where did that go, and who put that what where?
While jobs lost families broken
Yellows and greens
On the Bloomberg Machine.
If money is love, call me Don Juan
Whiles fingers blush and faces bleed
Yellows and greens on the bloomberg machine.

Ring ring ring
Ain't nothing happening but out and way-out
Scott-Heron said, he, years before on 125th and Lenox
And bombs fall on tent-cities in hovel-world
Bentleys parked out on high-rise shuddering drywall
Breeze tipping, topping
Bombs dropping.
All for yellows and greens on the bloomberg machine.

Photons sizzle on underground lines
The rest of it sits
It's moving and still there.
Assistant licking up stained-coffee mess
And all of it sits.
The bombs dropping
On the Bentleys now.
We wore cardboard eyeglasses so we couldn't see
All for yellows and greens on the bloomberg machine.

5 comments:

Jack Reynolds said...

i think it needs a significant amount of work, oren. in my opinion you need to focus less on rhyme and repetition and more on the clarity and rigour of your images. it's all a bit disconnected, and i don't get a sense of where you - or anyone for that matter - fit in. bloomberg machine line is good, but i think you need to place both yourself and your reader in a relationship with it.

sandini said...

This sucks.

Jason Gusmann said...

oren, i did what you told me and came and read your blog. now, please, do me the same favor: fictionalmixtape.blogspot.com. thanks, jason

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Col said...

Thansk for the visit and comment on my blog, Oren! Always nice to welcome sisters and brothers from overseas.