A Wake
Take screams from my brain
My kewpie doll, my special one
Choose your way and choose what more you will say
Insane divinity
What do you see?
A large empty stage in a hot stuffy hall
Soon they enter and see a small wooden coffin
They cry and cackle like old mad whores
Lost in the thought of their own cold dark death
The overpowering smell soon surrounds us
Fat angry bitches & cruel
tattooed goons. Dead puppet lies
in the casket as the people cry &
we stare like lost, sad children,
drugged like our past cotton candied
lost delinquency
Choose the moon, the Ancient One
Inside this ancient egg
Choose now, they sigh,
a time to lie
Beneath the hollow earth.
Enter again this sweet comedy
Enter the solemn death tragedy, come join us.
Everything is in riddles
& dies
(An audience breaks up into laughter & applauds)
Me and my mother and father
and grandmother and grandfather
were driving through the desert, at dawn,
and a bus load of Clowns
had either hit another car, or just
I don't know what happened...
but there were clowns scattered all over the highway,
bleeding to death.
So the car pulls up and stops.
That was the first time I tasted comedy.
I must have been about four...
like a child with a squirting flower, just smiling in the breeze, man.
The reaction I get now thinking about it, looking back
is that the souls of the ghosts of those dead Clowns...
maybe one or two of them...
were just running around & jumping about,
and just leaped into my soul.
And they're still in there.
(a baby giggles)
Rubber chickens scattered on the highway bleeding
Clowns crowd the young child's fragile egghead mind.
(sounds of chickens cackling)
Rubber Chicken
Rubber Chicken
what did you die for?
Rubber Chicken says nothing at all.
About the Creator
Joe King
"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities." - Jim Morrison
These poems are from my book An American Parody, which is a tribute to the writings and poetry of Jim Morrison.
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