A Good Beginning

We called him "Ernest," we boys who ran around the marina on
Key West.

"Hey Mr. Hemingway! Hey Ernest!"

He hated this name, and if one of us cranked it up to "Ernestine!"
he would get so sputtery and distracted that another of us could
sneak up behind him and steal the glasses off his face.

Cats

Most people don't take me seriously,
because I'm a cat.

Cat-a-rat-a-rat-cat!
Cat-a-rat-a-rat-cat!

You can't taste water in your mouth!
We never take a bath!

Cat-a-rat-a-rat-cat!
Cat-a-rat-a-rat-cat!

Were you ever a were-cat?
Can you hear them laughing?

Laugh like the water in your mouth!
Laugh like a jungle!

Elvis on Easter Island - Ritratto monumentale di Joseph Michael Reynolds

 
 

Banana

Monkey-face on the sidewalk
cracks under the leaves
I see you monkey-face

I'm the man from Amalgamated Marmalade!
Life is my banana

Life is my banana banana banana

Are you underwhelmed by my arm-hole?
Are there yodelers in your back yard?
Shall I eat my grandma?

I'm the man from Amalgamated Marmalade!
Life is my banana banana banana

A Wrong-Colored Sky

You wanted a wrong-colored sky

sky as seen from
inside a peach

sky as seen from inside a plum

"No, you don't want a
wrong-colored sky," they told you,
"Try to look at it our way."

"First close one eye."

"Then poke out the other."
 
 

New York, 2013 - Spencer Platt

This is one of those too-good-to-be-true photo ops that nobody can pass up,
like a sousaphone/kazoo of meta-photography, honk if you hate the rich, honk
if you hate the poor, just fucking honk and keep on honking!

Rainy Nights in Hollywood

I looked up, and
suddenly the stars were
bright enough to light the world premiere of
SPIDERMAN
SPIDERMAN
SPIDERMAN
SPIDERMAN