Muffin
A jog & a blink
Run from terminal to treatable
1 ½ hour to “Love Shack”
In
Home of Reading Railroad?
A resort during the Revolutionary War
Free Time.
Scrapple?
Some kind of Oriental frijoles and carrot juice
Goat cheese on English muffin
She chews gum
Pumps throttle
White sari, rose-colored glasses and adhesive third eye
Ganesh Baba breathes down her neck
The spine must be straight or the head will wobble
Prescription:
Vitamins
Vegetables, no beef or chicken
Yoga
Pansies bloom too fast in Spring rain
Bed of Iris
Running three hours late...
In
Drum circle orientalists read cards:
“I am the center of the universe
Washed in a wave of bliss
Seeking puja
Under guidance of Lord Ganesh.. .
Rush to meet lawyer and photographer friend
at sweaty breakfast joint
Gulp down food then take garden tour
Fallen honeysuckle blossoms
Stone benches carved with Shakespearean epigrams
Hot house neoregelia in passionate heat
We have a display of public affection
But before the poetry reading begins:
“My Dear, please don’t eat the muffin. You will ruin your appetite.
Please honey, don’t slam the door. Why are you running to the bathroom
all the time? Don’t you love me? It looks like bran but it’s loaded
with sugar. Please don’t throw the muffin on the floor, honey. We can have it
later for dessert.”
Then, conflicted peacocks court on the tin roof
Honk!
Honk!
Da,
Datta, Damyatta, Davayadam, Hail!
May 23–June 11, 2001
Ekleksographia #1
January 2009
Poems
Michael Rothenberg
Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, and editor of Big Bridge magazine online at www.bigbridge.org. His poetry books include Man/Woman, a collaboration with Joanne Kyger, Favorite Songs, The Paris Journals, Monk Daddy, and Unhurried Vision. His poems have been published widely in small press publications. His novel Punk Rockwell
was published by Tropical Press. Rothenberg's 2005 CD collaboration
with singer Elya Finn, was praised by poet David Meltzer as
"fabulous-all [the] songs sound like Weimar Lenya & postwar Nico,
lushly affirmative at the same time being edged w/ cosmic weltschmertz.
An immensely tasty production." He is also editor for the Penguin Poet
series, which includes selected works of Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger,
David Meltzer and Ed Dorn. He has recently completed the Collected Poems of Philip Whalen for Wesleyan University Press.