children
hum your organs sad song to sleep
you play
your sad
song
on that cheap
old
organ
the sad organ
and one day
mothers will hum that same
sad
song
to their children
at bedtime
until they sleep
(mothers hum
to put the children to sleep)
standing, still
and you stand there
there
you stood
standing with your hand in
your pocket
the pocket of your shirt
full
full of cigarettes and exertia
full like your pockets with your hands
you stand there
with your pockets in your hands
and you whistle out loud
standing against the sidewalk
leaning against a light pole
whistling
with your pockets in your hands
and your pocket full of cigarettes
and ya whistle
cuzz its all God damned
but it ain’t so bad
cuzz we all got it God damned
and we all know it
and if we don’t know it
we’re the more of the God damned
than anyone else
so it ain’t so bad
we all got it good
and we’re all God damned
whistling
with our pockets in our hands
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Hot outside, cold down here, where I write, where I write my words, words and nonsense, nonsense and words, nonwords, wordsense, I write purely for profit, purely for the profit of my limbic system a thing they sometimes confuse for the soul, I write for the profit of one or two good eyes to chuckle once or twice from what the see, I profit from making someone think once, I profit from giving someone an idea if only briefly and if only for the etch a sketch, I profit from disturbing the uninitiated.
I forget my age when I write, I forget Im a man, I forget Im a human, I am just a device that batters together strange symbols that someone told me is a word, a sentence, a paragraph.
I don't care for rules or oppression, I don't care for the unscrupulous that flock about me or for the places they eat and swim.
I am just another thing this universe shat out as it did all things and one day it will swallow me back up as it does all things and when this happens I will again be gone.
scott draGOO, marco maisto and
BC aka Paul Gidding participate
in readings regularly in Iowa City.
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October 2002
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Scott C. Dragoo
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