paradise posing
photographer’s pictures painting
peak perfection
uninhabited
having the beach to ourselves
no one can build here
her will giving birds
the sands next door forever
beautiful conch shells
mile of ecstasy
no one in each other’s way
quiet roominess
birds in the trees
whispering thank-yous while egret
poses elation
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(thinking they’re egret
walking like an egyptian
steve martin king tut)
tell your doctor if
there’s a change in body hair
as opposed to what
can you do the math
five am trying to sleep
commercial appears
if you take this pill, this is what the doctor needs to know? first of all the expression body hair is so annoying.where else would someone have hair if not on their body ? and second, that’s what’s important to tell the dr? i don’t think so, but okay dr, i took this pill & my mexican hairless grew an updo last night.or i was getting ready to open this coconut after i took this pill & he acquired a blue mustache.it scared me so badly, i had to take another pill, a purple pill for heartburn, which then gave me leaky gut syndrom, another horrible name & hey they don’t list that for side effects in the purple commercial,or what it means in layman’s terms,losing ability to absorb vitamins from vegetables, but that’s another story.
perhaps this would happen & then i would be thrilled to tell the dr.hey doc i have had curly hair all my life but i took this pill & awoke with straight hair. in this case she would be thrilled & buy stock in the company. i would too.this would be important.we would market the pill and put the crazy kiosk girl at the mall out of business.
what would george carlin say to this girl.one day you walk by this hair straightening device & they put the business in a place where you have to pass it ten times…the owner will not leave you alone.please, please let me show you how beautiful your hair would be….(oh i know i spent two hours at graham webb international ,with 1 person on each side & then an hour at the chiropractor across the street many, many days. people say my hair is beautiful , even when you fall down the stairs & it’s taped to the ems board at the hospital & i say are you kidding me).okay just be quiet already.have your fun,but i don’t want turbo silk.then he tapped his magic wand & i became cinderella.how can you resist when he tells you the price is $1 & guarantees a new one if it breaks.you think oh sure ,you will still be in business & at tyson’s mall.
a year goes by & he is still there,and you can’t go without straightening your hair, to make him happy.
on the lower level, in the new addition, there is another kiosk in a bad place. bad , because you have to keep walking by devices to CURL your hair.you walk as far away as possible , because the girl keeps trying to grab you. i will not look at you. why do they always think i am their mark.i try to look mean & think mean to myself . you are an idiot if you are too dumb to see i just spent thirty minutes straightening my hair with turbo silk from the guy upstairs and have the nerve to ask me if i would love to have curly hair and not two minutes ago , a woman on the escalator in bloomingdale’s said your hair is beautiful.and if you dare to ask , you will be leaving through the window , also.and she did, but i didn’t.
*only the $1 was changed to protect his true price,which is different for every person.
why is it quiet
i didn’t have to do math
because it’s raining
i didn’t have to
wake at five to count how many
hours til eight
i can take a pill
a tranquilizer to sleep
wake and tell doctor
if my hair is straight
or curly when i wake up
it’s so important
what would we do without
commercials telling us
what is important
as far as you can
see hundreds on sand waiting
for citizenship
what country please
we swam a very long way
eye of the storm
jellies everywhere
translucent hot pink ribbons
each different motif
one tiny bubble
shaped like baby octopus
totally clear
giant pink hearts
sporting two long tentacles
twelve inches long
circular brown
triangular his outer
different from others
floating butterfly
saltwater in your veins
one in every crowd
finally got it up
troubles with his blue kite
flying in the sky
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” Bodies in the sand
to get away from it all = beach boys / kokomo
where we wanna go ”
saxophone stops
that’s not country music
chef proposes
have some chicken
it’s vegetarian
“this out to gamecocks.
georgia on my mind”
vegetarian chicken
you guys crack me up.
“this song is called Sugar
Sugar is hard
and so am i”.
mullet are jumping
seriously liking song
much more than i do.
where did all the jazz go?
cartwheels around mullet
DOLPHIN ARE JUMPING!
undulating beams
watching dazzling creatures
twenty feet high.
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“Kokomo” The Beach Boys
“We’ll Go Out to Sea
We’ll PERFECT our CHEMISTRY
Defy Gravity”
“Bodies in the SAND
We’ll Be Falling In Love
Down in Kokomo”.
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(quotes are actual
haiku comments from
saxophone player .
my Mother and my Sister
are Georgia Bulldogs
i’m a paladin.
no one knows what
that is but it’s purple
like the pill nexium).
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