Electromagnetic Poetry (Frankensteined)***
1.
I search for you in waters I know.
Two sailboats cross the bay:
birds and fish in their pale-green dresses
have already traded places hearing the water roar.
They are acrobats.
If nothing happens
it is possible it is bread and butter.
A new aesthetic, asking nothing.
2.
You see eternity.
It so happens,
stars are not what they are,
and never quite as far away as when you kiss,
already a ghost.
3.
It’s a kick in the teeth. I just can’t stop crying.
Listen, I still can’t breathe.
I would have liked to have been a swan—
love cannot exist between people.
How wide-awake the frogs are! The zippy tang!
Assume identities. Take their places.
So help us all.
***Electromagnetic Poetry (Frankensteined) was stitched into life with body parts from Simon Armitage, Bill Brymer, Andrew Merton, Jack Spicer, Bert Meyers, Mary Oliver, Thomas Zemsky, Leah Tolle, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and Linda Bryant Davis.
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This is fantastic, Manny. I especially love the second section. This poem simultaneously haunts and heals. Brilliant write!
love # 2 as well. thank you for the zippy tang!
Wonderful !!!!!
Good Zippytang to you, sir.
I’m also partial to the frogs with their zippy tang! And “I would have liked to have been a swan —/love cannot exist between people.” Wow. Love this.
The swans are my favorite, they have great zippy tang!
love:
How wide-awake the frogs are! The zippy tang!
I love how you focus on what you like so much and quote it.
Zippy Tang! You’ll always be… home sweet home to me! Good old Zippy Tang… Zippytang, Tennessee— Zippytang, TN.
It’s ALIVE!
You’ve breathed new life into old parts.
Clever doctor!
Enjoyed this.
The second section is so touching
It is my favorite as well.
But perhaps it needed zippy tang.
This whole POMO thing needs 18 wheelers
carrying the Kool Aid and Zippy Tang.
I call for surrealism. Imperative we get it.
Cool! Except that I’m a bit pouty not to have been included. Feel free, next time you visit the laboratory, to strip off a piece of my skin for repurposing. 😏
Caveat emptor – assistant Marcos performs electrolysis on the skin while Ygor takes photographs. We will mail them to Czech Republic for wide dissemination.
I admit. I feel like a heel.
Such a great read! (as always!)
So cool!