The Last Word

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Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don’t know who would be worse, I don’t

            know, how could it be worse? But she was going to beat — she was favored to win — and she

            got schlonged, she lost, I mean she lost.  –Trump

 

A muscle of a thing, sends forth and sires

armies of them                        millions

shooters and looters and rulers.

 

Wants movement and darkness

the damp smell that will see it home.

 

shlonged: to whack with a penis

Hold the penis – blood-driven – with two hands

so that your hands are filled with yourself,

and then your body, filling with yourself,

until you’re finally full of yourself

so that there are armies, millions

and then whack her                             hard.

 

shlonged: to fuck with a penis

Push the penis – risen in a brouhaha –

into the whispers of her cave

where time sits and contemplates,

then make with the looting

and shooting and blast yourself

into her moon and slip out, spent                                                                    and sleep.

 

The muscle in instinct

 

of looting and siring

 

the armies of millions

 

wants darkness and damp

 

home and cave to contemplate

 

shambolically              then sleep

 

4.

Not tonight.

No.

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Moab

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We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we

            shouldn’t be involved with – Trump

 

Patti Smith read Footnote to Howl on our first night

at Blues Fest, threw the poem on the floor & spat –

holy punk & common cold thick with holy mucus

 

She didn’t sing People Have the Power

but recited it as a giant poem

Patti Smith was a giant poem

 

We screamed – everyone was screaming

like when Buddy Guy played guitar with his ass

& when Buffet came on, how we realised

that Parrot Heads are global

 

(my parents in Florida are Parrot Heads

we sent them a photo of the crowd)

 

Bonnie Raitt sang the night

Trump dropped the 21,000-pound bomb

she was sexy at seventy, smiled sideways

slid those strings

like they were broken hearts

having a hoedown at a bar & grill

 

She was mad as hell – everyone was

because the world had to bear witness

to Donald Trump, & after the bomb

there was no turning back

 

It was our fifteenth anniversary

we were babies though we sagged

& cracked, slept in our tent

touching through the cold night

holy snaking legs & arms

 

In the morning we woke to pounding propellers

aeroplanes dropping skydivers

parachutes disappearing behind tree-line

 

For breakfast we had egg & bacon rolls

at jacked-up festival prices

because we didn’t want to cook

 

& fair enough, it’d been a hard six months –

 

Bonnie Raitt could’ve written our soundtrack

Patti Smith could’ve written a poem

 

holy women of the word

 

Love chips away, but sometimes you wonder

how much of the chipping is us & how much

is the wearing down of the world

 

This was our time to mend

& when the Doobie Brothers

came on I kissed you after

every song

 

We were free, privilege so webbed

between our fingers we swam

through the audience

holy water holy waves

holy holy         

school of fish

 

Each time we found our perfect view

it felt like the universe was making room for us

& I think it happened in every tent

 

Who could blame us for being confused

thinking Afghanistan was so 2001, history the silence

after war, the contemplation we then turn into song

 

The night of the GBU-43 we were drunk on ten-dollar beer

Mavis Staples sang March Up Freedom Highway

2017 not ’63, still she’s rasping

 

whole world is wonderin

what’s wrong with the United States

 

Trump’s Mother of All Bombs

spent in an Afghan grave

 

We hated that they were calling it the MOAB

because we’ve camped in the thick

of Moab’s red-rocks, slipping each day

in heaven’s clay, washing it off in the Colorado

& when we laughed in the canyon, it echoed

Holy bliss, holy gladness

holy holy

joy

 

Moab demanded our respect, not the other way around

like Bonnie Raitt & Buddy Guy & Rhiannon Giddens

(I cried when she sang about flying away)

 

Music makes sense of our world

made better sense of our marriage

than we’d been doing since October’s election

 

& here it was April, in love again

so we talked about returning in another five years

 

swatted away what-ifs like we were doing the shag

 

death never an option.

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