Featured Selection of the Month:
February 2003

We love the hole. We named it. Live it.
Think you haven’t thought it through.
We think your lack your grackle you are
raven-ous for detail, lack the general sweep.
It's irksome. Hole without a pigeon? Sparrow us.
Nothing but the best for pigeons. Politics
is for the bludgeon burgeon badger wager
widget widgeon, well, you get our draft. Our drift.
Pick pick. Or would you rather pudgy budgy
budgetary flaps? A squab a candelabra
scandal squabble? No? Here here. Your signet
signature below. Now take a candid gander
candidate. A look: a four-year tern in office
will not solve the mallard ballad ballot malady!
The house of cads of cardinal of congress, cards,
The House is petrified by pigeon agency! See, we
we we we we’re breaking down the bridge with sambo
dodo bobolink with sabotage. That’s poop. To pulverize
the gal the gull the galvanized, to throw a wren
a friendship in the works. No mustard. No regrets.
Nor egrets. The we we we wind is picking up.
And population’s on the lam, the scam, the rise. And Jesus!
Trash collection’s in decline. That’s Calvin to you
you you think we haven’t noticed you’ve been
shirking civic duties—but we’re watching, undercover
agents pageants pagers peckers every place
in over plover coats, galoshes. Rubber boots.
Beneath the bantam bunting babies in their prams.
The carriages of justice. Cell phones. Chew-toys!
Everywhere we Walden Pond and congregate!
Now don’t jump to conclude allude concuss collusion
conch shell fish what? We are not the dove,
the darling, stern stork starling, watch your lingo. We
we find your blunders galling. Dirtier than doves?
We we we’re all dolled up! Alfalfa, alpha, albacore,
and all but dross! Respectable in white-tipped shoes
and waistcoat. Throw your bread your crumbs
your crummy hard-head hat into the ring. Your retched
refuse. Teeming wings. And don’t be osprey
ostrich ostracized by bittern enemies, the hawk
the awkward warbling of incumbent so-called “landed eagles.”
Gentry. It won’t be a gentle re-entry. Join us: learn to toe
our party, panty waistline, not just partly, wholesale. Lovely.
Bingo. Call it toeing in. We’ll find a place for you..

performed live at the
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
December 16, 2002

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