popular airs

 

1.  space cadet

 

the swansong sat on the shelves

just long enough to lose a dimension

the third to be precise yet I have

another

 

 

2. ka-ching

 

blunderbuss is me name I sing in the

wide mouth of the crooner

out in the backstops of the wild and

woolly

 

 

3. remix

 

synthetic goos in transparent plastic

I mean no disrespect

lie on the counter with drying spigots

some labeled and not all

 

 

4. hoochy-koochy

 

snake going downstairs a sort of

reflection

of the riser and molding

at the ideal moment of its most

significant impact

 

 

5. détournement

 

alas the conditions of art are such

that howsoever lyrical one expands

viz. waxes the carnauba nothing

hides