tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283037104055346662024-03-13T12:39:15.291-07:00poete mauditpatrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-41696067757450055192019-03-27T09:38:00.001-07:002019-03-27T09:40:01.639-07:00<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><b>i do not smoke</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">in the house, no,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i accommodate my wife’s wishes</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">by smoking in</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the filthy garage</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but looking around</span></div>
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<span class="s1">weed in hand</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">i see immeasurable</span></div>
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<span class="s1">clutter, the reader<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">may enumerate</span></div>
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<span class="s1">the reader’s own</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">affluent extravagance</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">everywhere i look<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and then i recall</span></div>
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<span class="s1">robin’s beloved</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">blue house</span></div>
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<span class="s1">observations</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">realizing her craft</span></div>
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<span class="s1">equals, maybe excels,</span></div>
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<span class="s1">that of her</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">noteworthy friends</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">living and gone</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">time to submit</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">copyright © 2019 by patrick o’hayer</span></div>
<br />patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-50253275771671523362018-07-28T09:08:00.003-07:002018-07-28T09:14:28.266-07:00<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><b>On <i>A Hunger:</i> At Bottaio</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">reading slowly, precisely, these</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">exquisite hyperreal sentences, images</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">like Dalí’s ink drawings found in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">that remote Catalan village</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">or dream paintings, dissolving</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">time, or an enlarged nightmare,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">story, all process and</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">excellence of materials, stories<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">about materials themselves</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">a joke on the expertise</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">as it were, yet moving</span></div>
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<span class="s1">into a thing indescribable</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and then I wake up</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
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<br />patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-18073692322968755882018-07-22T08:41:00.001-07:002019-01-07T17:32:58.685-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">(for clancy sigal)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">my ex-cop brother screws me over, so i go to his saloon, at foster and oakley, to have it out - we exchange words - i decide to punch him in the head, and start to walk around the bar to do so - his goons (regular customers) grab me and spread-eagle me on the pool table<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">should we fuck him up, danny?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">they throw me into the yard behind the joint, a weed patch filled with bricks, broken glass, and dog shit - i pick up a brick and walk around, planning to break his storefront window - i change my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">instead i stop in the joint across the street and within 30 seconds i'm slugging it out with the asshole owner and land out on foster ave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">i head home, foster ave bus to the L train - i wake up at the end on the line, at howard st, and start insulting two<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="background-color: white; color: #366388; font-family: "times";">chicago<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">cops, there on anti-mugging duty - i am taken into custody and deposited in the drunk tank at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="background-color: white; color: #366388; font-family: "times";">summerdale</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">station, down the street from the saloons - i use my phone call to contact my asshole saloon-keeper brother, home asleep after closing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times";">he arrives in a cab, which waits, dukes the watch sergeant (whom he knows, or knows how to talk to), and i'm released into the night (no arrest record, no bail, nuttin') - big brother sends me home in the cab after he gets dropped off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>WHAT'S HER NAME?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span>
<span class="s1">the barista sports some<br />
extravagant get-ups<br />
but best is her<br />
black chunky boots, torn<br />
fishnets with black<br />
micro-mini skirt, usually<br />
under a flowy large sweater<br />
leaving much to the drinker's<br />
imagination--yes!<br />
a public service!</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span>
<span class="s1">copyright © 2018 by patrick o'hayer</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>SMALL PLEASURES</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">a night cool, crisp<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">cloudless</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">tomorrow a full moon but</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">tonight my beloved</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">egg shaped<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">moon returns, severe</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">dazzling and white-silver</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">it obscures the half-dozen</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">brightish points<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">cosmologists call</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">stars, cosmology<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">my weakest suit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">no stargazing here</span></div>
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<span class="s1">in a suburb of the great</span></div>
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<span class="s1">american city, no<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">only swirls</span></div>
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<span class="s1">of smoke from my</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">unfiltered american cigaret</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">if i relax my gaze</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the antique streetlamp</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">at the foot of my driveway</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">comes out of focus</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and light swirls</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">as in a later van gogh</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">small pleasures</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">they . . . sustain</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1">copyright © 2018 by patrick o'hayer</span></div>
<br />patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-16432229533431227302017-07-24T05:01:00.001-07:002017-07-24T05:01:19.297-07:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>SUMMER 2017</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">cicadas chorus in waves, soft,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">then loud then louder still</span></div>
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<span class="s1">cho-weet, cho-weet, CHO-WEET</span></div>
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<span class="s1">then soft, then softer still then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">quiet until the next round</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the neighbors' elegant detritus</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">fills the parkway since the deluge</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the YOOGE inundation, their new digs</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">drowned by rain penetration in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">summer of Trump, sideshow</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">for the yahoos and greed mongers</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">oh, yes, we deserve his worst</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">as the soft yellow-green</span></div>
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<span class="s1">fireflies, the females, settle</span></div>
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<span class="s1">in the grass awaiting copulation</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">after which they devour the mate</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">or so i read, incorrectly i hope,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">nature red in tooth and claw</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">as alfred the lord tennyson had it</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">when his young friend died young</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">death is in the air one way<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">and another - my wife's demented</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">mother delusionally says her dead</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">husband is alive but missing</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">then she reverses herself and says</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">it's all made up, she was just fooling</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and apologizes deeply until 2 minutes</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">later when she says it all again, then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">again, then again, almost cicada-like:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1">oh, yeah, my beloved clancy is dead</span></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-60807191837537982017-07-13T03:31:00.002-07:002017-07-13T03:31:40.367-07:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>THIRTY-SEVEN</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">even true love</span></div>
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<span class="s1">encounters bumps</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">here and there</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">broken promises</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">pet peeves</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">disappointments</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">imperfections</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">unmet demands</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">even so, even so</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">true love persists</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">strengthens</span></div>
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<span class="s1">mysteriously</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">some promises</span></div>
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<span class="s1">are kept, some loving</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and then the </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">grand surprises</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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Empire poolroom opens at 9, so i'm<br />
killing time at the Merc, deluxe<br />
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goddess--LA ain't got nuttin' on lawrence, kansas</div>
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at 71 little elvis sings rarely,<br />
half time, half mast, so no old<br />
fashioned cavorting, the biology<br />
running low but the mind<br />
annoyingly<br />
like Yeats in the LAST POEMS<br />
buzzing but athwart time,<br />
he tried the questionable<br />
steinach surgical fix<br />
to get back into the game<br />
but i remain a natural<br />
accepting proper reductions<br />
memory loss, sore knees, nouns<br />
and names disappearing<br />
day by day, nature's design<br />
perhaps even though<br />
the mind always disobeys</div>
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<span class="s1"><b>SONNET FOR ELLEN</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I've trapped you in the Bouncy Chair. You just </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">complain, you won't accept your precious need</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">for sleep, mine for rest. Sometimes, oh sometimes</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">I recall you will not be for long be my</span></div>
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<span class="s1">"Potatoes Maroo," not for too long, no,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">no; soon you're a woman with a woman's</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">prerogatives; and I'm, I'm not your old</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Pops, but something like your Parent, lucky</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to be a consultant. And then you're, oh,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">hauling your own oats, you won't need old Pops</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to warm and grind your lunch. Like for me now</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">living will be your problem. If I'm still </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">in town, I'll help; I'll miss not lifting you</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">off an edge, rocking toward the sleepy deeps.</span></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-55357752106448813622017-06-06T18:04:00.001-07:002017-06-06T18:04:59.958-07:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>AFTERNOON</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">cleared 2 drains today</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">do-it-your-self-er</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">pal charlie built a new bathroom</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">while siring sons</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and longing for cute-guy assholes</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the marriage broke up</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but he remains an icon</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">of home repair</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">some cliches are pretty weak</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-884868976482723532017-05-21T03:46:00.002-07:002017-05-21T20:39:06.592-07:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>SATURDAY IN MANHATTANVILLE</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">getting bagged, gorked</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">daughter's tears</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">wifely protests</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">condemned to ego</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">pursue altered </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">states at all costs</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">altered states</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">familial oblivion</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">heroic acts demurred</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">often enough</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to make a cocoon</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">self-immolation</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">for ignoble causes</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">of self love/loss</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-57164412759112567322017-04-29T08:22:00.002-07:002017-04-29T08:22:19.689-07:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>TEETER TOTTER MOURNING</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">"All poets are manic depressive." ~Donald Hall</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">fall deaths tripped a switch, then</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">too busy, too excited, inspired</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">too many easy poems</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">quieter now, is melancholy</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">descending, again? at my age?</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but in fragrant spring</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">for the first time?</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">in the past dread winter</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">would bring me low, almost below</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">ground--this is, as wallace stevens</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">had it, a new knowledge of reality</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the neighboring leafless red</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">bud trees fill me with hope</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i clip by hand the flattened weed</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">grasses skipped by my soundless bird</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">inviting reel mower and i feel well</span></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-59251951785773607132017-04-24T04:38:00.001-07:002017-04-24T04:38:09.534-07:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>SPRING AND ALL</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">"They enter the new world naked,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">cold, uncertain of all</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">save that they enter." ~William Carlos Williams</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">absinthe saturday grass cutting</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">with quiet reel-type mower</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">robins alighting silently</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">eat the bugs thus disturbed</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">by my work cannot spray </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the blooming creeping charlie</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">because wind buddha garden</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">perennials, st. francis garden</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">tender veg crops</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">awaiting mother's day sale</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">my blades of grass</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">mere ground cover struggling</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">with goosegrass yellow foxtail</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">nimbleweed plantains</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the demented neighbor's forest</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">of indestructibly prolific dandelions</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">thistle henbit nutsedge</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">fall panicum bermudagrass</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">my limp whitmanesque blades</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">half green destroyed</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">by neighbor's brand new </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">blindingly green sod</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">again absinthe saturday </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">all day spring and all</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>GONE</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">danny boy, king</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">of the family</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">jobs at 12</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">car at 16</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">married at 19</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">dead much too soon</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">sweet maureen</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">young foe </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">of housework then</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">many many many</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">babies</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">traveler, reveler</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">also dead too soon</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">lives unknown</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">in the great world</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">without celebrity</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but family stars</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">shooting stars</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">falling stars</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">make a wish</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>HOSPITALITY: NOUVELLE HAIKU</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">barman bonhomie loves us</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">all barflies behave</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">blather stay sane pay the tab</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">barmaid short skirt smile flirty</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but take it easy</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">men are dogs nuts but generous</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">busman quiet thorough all</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but invisible </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">backbone of every restaurant</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">diners divine impossi-</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">ble facing food trau-</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">ma in the wrongest venue</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">hostess congenial glamor</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">alert friendly wise</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">first impression best always</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">owners lean mean investment</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">shrewd bottomline love</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">sly worker burden heroes</span></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-4829326835624211442017-03-29T02:12:00.001-07:002017-03-29T02:12:20.851-07:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>TITANIC: JIMMY BRESLIN, RIP</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i was not gifted with good hair</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Ma sent me to the local discount</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">barber, who would mutilate my cowlick</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">making me look even worse</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">if i walked past the shop</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">on Addison Street</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">in summertime he would</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">wave me in, give me a buck and send</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">me to the Southport L station</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to pick up the Green</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Sheet, the tout sheet of the day</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">so that he could phone his </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">picks into the bookie</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i managed classroom boredom by</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">reading Damon Runyon stories,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Guys and Dolls, Blue Plate</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Special and such, which led</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to my college years horse playing</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and academic underachievement</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">when they weren't running locally i'd bet</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">two bucks across the board</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">at New York City tracks</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the race results were on page 1 </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">every day beneath the fold</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">on the Herald American, the first edition</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">hit the news stands at 2PM</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">almost instant gratification</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">in those glorious years</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i met Ralph the Bookie</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and Vic the Druggist's nephew</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">a clerk at the neighborhood downtown</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">stationery store who</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">also took bets - my school work suffered</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but having become a reader i </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">discovered the Daily Racing Form</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">--one immortal headline: FINISHED FULL OF RUN--</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">purchased at Chicago and Michigan</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">which none of my Loyola classmates</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">appreciated or wished to borrow</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i'd think of the barber and his Green Sheet</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">when i'd visit the south loop warehouse</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">where Ralph the Bookie </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">operated the freight elevator </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to place my bet</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">or in the Eye-talian grocery store </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">with the steam table where the</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">B&O railroad workers lunched</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">along with Ralph, Tony, and so many others</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i learned how to appear circumspect</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">these days when i mention Damon Runyon</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to the smarties at morning coffee i get</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">a blank look, even from the guy with</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the j-school diploma from an elite venue</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">among his countless excellencies</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Jimmy Breslin wrote Runyon's</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">biography, as well as many other </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">books and countless newspaper columns,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">second in the trade only to Mike Royko</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">during my elective absence from the Vietnam war,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the summer of 1969, when Breslin</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">was on the mayoral ticket with</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Norman Mailer--Vote the Bastards IN--</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i thought to volunteer</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">in some meager capacity but decided</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">my escape to Canada was more urgent</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">as luck would have it the Great White North</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">found me unsuitable for landed immigrant status</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">O they're all dead by now, Ralph, Royko, Vic's </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">nephew, Vic himself, Damon Runyon </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">decades ago, then Mailer, in 2007--</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and yesterday Jimmy Breslin</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">there's no finish to this meager</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">remembrance</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">nothing, nothing at all, except for</span></div>
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<span class="s1">FINISHED FULL OF RUN</span></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-89137871688538680132017-03-08T06:28:00.002-08:002017-03-08T06:28:50.574-08:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>MR MOM: SURROUNDED</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">by fashionable enticement</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">at the library, the supermarket,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the drivers license renewal counter</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">yoga pants, distressed</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">bluejeans showing a little thigh</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">skin, dramatic lipstick</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">heels that cant the pelvis</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">appealingly, sort of a public service,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">sophisticated suburban hairdo</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">highlights, gym figures</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">displayed assuredly, </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">almost boldly</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">my chubby toddler oblivious</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">to one of her futures</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the new feminism, </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">almost equal pay, </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">equal bedroom rights</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">equal pain</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i hold</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the at-home moms</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">at arm's length</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">no hug-hello at library</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">story hour, at music and movement,</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the playground swings</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">at the mall admiring</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">hand-woven carpets </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">with my perfect daughter</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">who says, let's go, dad</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">perfect daughter turning 34 this year</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">good job, dad!</span></div>
<div class="p2">
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-36568352958225646612017-02-28T00:54:00.000-08:002017-02-28T00:54:09.503-08:00<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><b>IN THE BEDROOM COMMUNITY</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"><b></b></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">cold and crisp, the neighbor </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">dog's barking for no reason</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">bronchitis making the day's</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">first cigaret go down hard</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">today's espresso, not</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">a god shot but entirely satisfactory</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">some of the family golden-years</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">elders are improving, some</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">shut in, no visitors </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">until further notice</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">facebook bristles with the usual</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">political squabbles and excellent food pics</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">my relatives all have</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">employment except maybe for</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">one--my great-uncles were career </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">housemen, at great-grandma's</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">boarding house, didn't work </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">for wages even during the greatest generation war</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the great war disabled some permanently</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">even with the brilliant bannered welcomes</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">even with total victory, the bomb, beaten </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">wives and small children, total silence, victory</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>WELLNESS</b></span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">been hocking </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">loogies</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">for three weeks</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i'm dying</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">until i see </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">the neighbor's</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">dog, he does </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">his business</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">on the parkway</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">and meeting</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">anybody on the </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">sidewalk wags</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">his tail using his </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">entire body joyously</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">infectiously, brilliantly</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">he suffers from</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">numerous ailments </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">so that his</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">scrumptious owner</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">forbids my giving</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">him treats </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">bought especially</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">for the purpose</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">which saddens me</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">enormously</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">but with his epilepsy</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">his social anxiety</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">so she says</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">i honor her </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">wishes, look on</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><br /></span>
<span class="s1">from afar, from </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">across the street</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">oh, that he </span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">were mine</span></div>
<div class="p2">
<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">oh, that he</span></div>
<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">were mine</span></div>
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<b>METEMPSYCHOSIS?</b></div>
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fresh and fluent, fabulous<br />a diamond in the rough<br />diamond dave</div>
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but a fidgety ladies man<br />fraught with love need<br />conquistador-ing<br />handsome dave</div>
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but as well a trickster in pursuit<br />prevaricator, poetic inventor<br />dave the liar</div>
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but huge flightiness<br />this, that, this, then back to double this<br />so he went to portlandia to stabilize</div>
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returning sometime later<br />somewhat recognizable<br />added pounds of text</div>
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mathematician, logician, weighted<br />with quick-fire words on<br />multiple new subjects</div>
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but the labia minora now foregone<br />neo-monkitude<br />neo-celibacy</div>
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in my ending is my<br />beginning, or words<br />to that effect</div>
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<b>WHY I HATE SPORTS BALL</b></div>
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cowboy's come-back<br />most stirring in decades<br />against pretty boy aaron rogers<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />--that ill-natured lucky putz--<br />most stirring maybe in all<br />sports ball history<br />but the pack's<br />flock of angels intervened<br />one blown pass coverage<br />one sideline hail mary grab<br />and then a long field goal<br />swooshes the uprights<br />nothing but net<br />but<br />the cowboys' tying<br />field goal misses by a foot<br />blown left by the pack's<br />guardian angels'<br />intense wing beats<br />can't wait<br />for the pack to encounter<br />Gisele Caroline Bündchen's Brazilian<br />Victoria's Secret mojo<br />good luck to the pack's angels<br />but i'm betting gisele's<br />pure macumba<br />cleavage<br />--deflated pigskin reminds tom of those heavenly girls--<br />and you should too</span></div>
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patrick o'hayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10514596222671210915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428303710405534666.post-67512219065632916452017-02-09T12:41:00.001-08:002017-02-28T02:38:36.651-08:00<div class="_1dwg _1w_m _2ph_" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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<b>THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT FROM YOU AND ME</b></div>
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“Yeah, they have more money” ~Papa Hemingway</div>
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Bill Clinton screwed everybody he could<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />from Hope, Arkansas, to Timbuktu</span></div>
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the Dems said what’s the big deal!<br />
Monica Shmonica!</div>
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but Donaldo’s infamous “locker room talk”<br />
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when he cagily triumphed,<br />
then the Dems' youge double-standard,</div>
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and then embarrassingly<br />
the sour grapes, shockingly sore</div>
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losers almost beyond measure then suddenly<br />
the US Constitution has it backwards! ahem</div>
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Gore Vidal said that<br />
he and JFK each had at least 500</div>
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sex partners over their lives<br />
and JFK died young: celebrity sex</div>
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but Gore’s Malibu housemate Paul Newman<br />
when queried about Hollywood sex said</div>
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When you have steak at home<br />
you don’t go looking for hamburger</div>
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Alexander Hamilton was murdered by Aaron Burr<br />
over St. Alexander’s infidelity</div>
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celebrity philandering can have<br />
its price but it can yield 16 Tony</div>
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nominations and win eleven<br />
who’s kidding who?</div>
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<b>ON THE MEND</b></div>
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been croupy for 10 days<br />not helped by tobacco addiction<br />camels-luckies-menthols</div>
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growing up was always seriously<br />anti-smoking, nagged my mom<br />a passionate smoker since her early teens</div>
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yet, like all antis, i yenned<br />to experience the poison, finally started<br />in boot camp to avoid policing</div>
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the area during smoke breaks<br />--chose camels to honor kramer-o'grady<br />only pals who then puffed--</div>
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visiting the daughter to recover,<br />always straighten out here,<br />lose weight, re-connect</div>
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having absinthe with my coffee<br />to honor van gogh, who enjoyed<br />immensely his pipe, his hallucinogenics</div>
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lethal tobacco has anxiolitic<br />qualities and dampens appetite<br />big plusses in my current state</div>
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daughter suggested taking<br />a sick day today, no cavorting<br />no pool hall, no museums, no baking</div>
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just curling up with the dogs<br />and HBO Now, sr. avila<br />GoT, sex in the city</div>
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deadwood, wired, the young pope,<br />roommates, insecure,<br />deadwood, louis ck,</div>
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will report<br />positive outcomes<br />presently</div>
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<span class="s1"><b>GRATITUDE</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>RIP</i> MR, JP</span></div>
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<span class="s1">madonna's dad joe got mugged and i was pissed</span></div>
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<span class="s1">i phoned the daily news and asked for mike royko</span></div>
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<span class="s1">one ring: "royko"</span></div>
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<span class="s1">i told him the story and the backstory</span></div>
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<span class="s1">"i'll check it out"</span></div>
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<span class="s1">a few days later he did a column*</span></div>
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<span class="s1">i went to the billy goat for a beer, the bar was crowded, i sat next to royko</span></div>
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<span class="s1">though tempted to say hello</span></div>
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<span class="s1">reading the paper</span></div>
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<span class="s1">chain smoking pall malls </span></div>
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<span class="s1">"where particular people congregate" 's their motto</span></div>
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<span class="s1">he slammed shots of christian brothers brandy</span></div>
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<span class="s1">one after the other</span></div>
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<span class="s1">where particular people congregate</span></div>
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*04/03/1972 chicago daily news<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>BLOOD BROTHERS</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i>for noam chomsky</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1">the barkeep's satanic wisdom</span></div>
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<span class="s1">the existential madness of the clientele</span></div>
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<span class="s1">mentor, mentee</span></div>
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